Seems like the Switch version of this suffers from a bit of āSkyrim PS3ā syndrome, in that the longer you play on the one save file, the worse the performance and more frequent the crashes get. I guess thatās to be expected since the game has to keep track of an exponentially greater number of variables the further you go.
Iām up to the part where you build a giant golem mech that you can pilot, and the first time I tried to go into the cockpit, an interdimensional Glittermensch was in there, occupying the pilot seat for some reason. So I had to stand there for a long time holding the attack button to gradually chip away itās HP until it died, then destroy all the boulders it left behind so I could access the seats.
Then apparently the 1000 drams of blood and other liquids sloshing around in there meant that the golem was overburdened by over 10k lbs and couldnāt move. That somehow fixed itself so now Iām trying to get around the Moon Stair with an Apple Farmerās Daughter (who I had hanging around the Grit Gate base and somehow survived the big event there despite being in the middle of all the chaos) in the passenger seat for that OutRun feel.
Speaking of Grit Gate, I made the mistake of bringing my Snail Mother friend back there, and now the place is full of slime and baby slugs
Damn and I can barely get to the rusted archway
I switched to roleplay mode so I could see a bit more of the game than just the first few quests. The furthest I had gotten on classic mode was Golgotha, which is kind of a nightmare zone if youāre not prepared.
I think a lot of the crazier fun stuff is more common the further you go into the game, like just yesterday I finally found a nano-neuro animator so I could bring the Chair Bear in the Grit Gate to life
Classic mode would probably still be my preferred method of playing in the long run though
I finished Caves of Qud
The big final battle in this game is pretty crazy and I was woefully underprepared for it. I basically had to brute force it just using whatever skills and items I had on hand and keep going back to the settlement to trigger the autosave whenever Iād managed to kill any of the quest relevant enemies. I managed it eventually though, at the expense of every companion that I had brought along, including a major plot relevant one who would have explained everything to me on the trip up the spindle if theyād survived.
Because I now had a free seat for the end trip, I decided to bring Tirashrower, the apple farmerās daughter I had hanging around at Grit Gate. At the top of the Spindle, after learning the horrible truth of the world and how I pretty much had no way to fix it, and also how I had made a huge mess of things down below (left most towns without wardens, got many of my buddies killed) I figured I couldnāt really show my face down there again. So I decided to leave Tirashrower in a place called the Star Orchid where she would probably be better off, and then jetted off into the endless cosmos on a starship. I figured my character was the type to try his best, fuck it up royally and then just slink away and hope nobody noticed, so it all seemed to fit.
In the epilogue 1000 years later in a long abandoned village, I was a giant amoeba, who I think were now most likely the dominant species on the planet
Hell yeah. Iāve never beaten it myself, but I have a plan where Iāll become the Slog of Cloaca and make an entire build around that. I think itāll have the juice.
I feel like I missed out on a whole lot of stuff, since I donāt really know what the Slog of Cloaca is. I never found any Girsh Nephilim lairs either or did any of the crazier things in the trailer like becoming a door and dying from being slammed too hard etc.
Might have to go back and plumb the depths some more later, although I should really give it a break since I think this game was giving me some bad RSI
Also I missed the opportunity to say I Beat COQ
My current run has been insanely lucky and I have a ton of great gear and I was level 19 by the time I reached the barathumites at the grit gate (which I had actually never made it to before)
Iām doing a multiweapon fighting build with Chimera and have gotten two wild mutations, both of which gave me extra hands 
Unfortunately I have really bad rep with some apparently important factions, oops
Welp, I got two-shotted by the first troll in bethesda suda, despite being massively over-leveled
iāve played like 200 hours of this game and this is absolutely inscrutable. wonderful work.
YESSSSS, welcome.
I got a little betterā¦ that troll that two-shot me before? This time I one-shot him. And his brother. And his other brother (without even being able to see him, just guessing based on the trail of goo).
I am a horrible slug monster with six arms, seven hands, two sets of fangs, and two sets of tails that charges with an axe from half a screen away and hacks limbs off constantly