>>1214469 I really could not get into the habit of the counter after parrying.

I've been meaning to play Taiwan Knight for years, but it never hit a steep enough discount for me to bother. Is it anything more than a HK/SotN clone beyond the story? I have my sympathies for the devs after CDPR bent the knee to the chinks, but I need more than sympathies to actually try putting my time in this.

>>1214469 >If you've played, how hard did you rage at the final boss before you finally began to flow like water and master it? I didn't, I figured out how to consistently get to the final phase and then gave up. When I found out the other ending doesn't even have to fight that phase I lost all ambition to put up with it. Just can't give a shit anymore, like Nightmare Grimm in Hollow Knight. I beat Sword Saint in Sekiro multiple times and I've decided that's the most my old brain can handle.

>>1214469 I bought it because of the hype, then ended up never playing it. I really should stop buying too many games.

>>1214533 My go-to jade was the one that gave you stronger charge attacks, so I'd charge it, parry and release the attack button just as I parried, and they'd just explode the moment I was out of my parry frames. Another neat trick they don't tell you is that you can parry and hold the parry button to immediately transition into the unbounded parry, which comes in handy for a few attacks, and if you're using divine hand jade to chain unbounded parries. >>1214561 It's Taiwanese so it's based chinkshit

>>1214551 I'd say it's the only good "Hollow Knight clone" so far but it's because it doesn't share many similarities other than good 2D art. It's fairly linear with a big focus on combat. The combat is inventive and satisfying, it's doing stuff the genre hasn't really done before. If you're more in Metroidvanias for the open exploration, there's some of that, but it's not a focus- more like Metroid Fusion or Iconoclasts in terms of pacing/freedom.

>>1214469 Eigong only gave me trouble for an hour or two before I pushed her back into the dirt where she belongs Which is helpful because I missed several requirements for the true ending and immediately started a second run. Now I can chain unbound counters and make her look old AND stupid Heng is best girl, obviously. The only true winner of the Yibowl

>>>1214469 >you have no more unread messages from penglai I fucking hated the unskippable 10 minutes of dialogue and intro when I first played the demo then the game. I thought I would not care about this chink story with names I initially couldn't remember. A fucking brown jeet shota is the character we have to protect? Not a cute loli? I stuck around because I liked the hand-drawn art and the gameplay. But then, around the mid-game, I found myself really invested in Yi's past, the flashbacks with Heng, making Shuanshuan happy, the villagers, the fate of the Solarians on new-kunlun and so on and so forth. Yi listening to Heng's final message made me drop a tear. It was so fucking unfair. FUCK EIGONG The credits song cemented Nine Sols as my GOTY 2024. I really didn't expect to feel the feels for those cats. https://youtu.be/EMMBWExAh0Q And fuck Ji too, no homo btw

Prequel comic set during the Turbulent Era just dropped: https://mojoin.tw/aeobe

It's wild seeing how big of a file you can add to a single post here.

Heng sex

>>1221876 Jiequan looks great here

>>1214469 Sorry for all the poor chinese who happens to be genuinely good people. BUT China/CCP sucks. Big time. And thus, I won't touch anything tainted with their shitty subculture. Not even with a 10-feet pole.

>>1224881 It's made by the Taiwanese you retard, not the Chinese Besides, that's the dumbest, flimsiest, hand-wringingest pearl-clutchingest most pretentious reason I've heard to swear off anything this side of >b-but if you patronize a dev/artist who's russian, you're basically helping the kremlin shoot ukrainian babies

>>1224881 Taiwan isn't mainland China, anon. Two completely different countries, one is a nice island country that does chip manufacturing and one is a shithole of corruption that steals like a kleptomaniac gypsy.

>>1221876 >prequel nah

>>1221876 Lear's mom makes me think of an AU Heng if she wasn't a hippy.

What was his fucking problem

>>1226031 Remember when those retards ruined Blasphemous 2 that way?

>>1227780 Heroes are forged in agony. Cowards need not apply.

>>1228573 >Jiequan cheated by using radioactive steroids How disappointed would Jietong be

>>1214469 Just beat it a couple days ago and loved it. Was a little upset that I had nowhere to discuss it. Heng was best girl and watching Yi be a total dickhead to her in every flashback pissed me off. Especially the last one. I know it wasn't his fault for never coming back, but he really could not have had worse last words. At first I thought Ji was her, then the Guru, then the person Shanhai was looking for. To realize she was long gone the whole time was a big punch in the gut. Is the artbook online anywhere? >>1221581 Very happy to get this right after too. Lear wasn't said to be from Xia in game, was he? I assumed each "breed" was from a different kingdom, but his parents look normal. Does Yi genuinely just come from a bloodline of midgets?

>>1231267 I'm glad the devs had the balls to make the protag the second antagonist in retrospect. Yi's not Eigong bad but he got close. For me, it's Fudie.

>>1231267 >is Yi a manlet by genetics Nah, the installation of the Jade Ring stopped him from growing any more, IIRC But here, have some of the other wincestuous couple.

>The Artbook just released Scans when?

>>1230822 Extremely I think, though Jietong could be just as much of a hypocrite. He did turn his army into zombies after all. >>1239955 Hoping someone will share it soon. Lear's cripple mom erotic btw >>1239955

>Eigong I expected something closer to Isshin Not a boss made out of paper mache, where the difficulty is jank as fuck hitboxes, weird spacing of all her attacks with even weirder movement, and a grab that isn't unbound parriable. Or the stage turning making your perception of your movement a lot worse than it is. >>1214551 Its 2D sekiro. With a very janky upgrade tree, weird choices for what upgrades you get when, and not that polished The reason its not more popular, is that its not more polished than it is. And that means the skill ceiling caps out due jank, not hardness. Like Do you even remember you have skilled Skull Bash, by the point Unbound Counter has made it completely irrelevant?

>>1257112 Skull bash is useful to extend your three hit combo in the air. I think the only skills I have an issue with is the ones that give you health/arrows when you pick up your souls after dying since it depends on you failing basically.

>>1258531 Waterflow is a trap over Full Control All the QoL is in tier 2, meaning the skill tree stops at tier 2. I get its there to tick a box, but its so not needed. Even more so when the Tao seeds already give you +attack.

>>1258964 Water flow is definitely a crutch skill, getting 5 charge full control is so satisfying and efficient.

>>1260171 Since 8kun has now served its purpose Shit board And Nine Sols isn't bad, its just under polished. Not as bad as something like Thymesia, but Thymesia has the advantage of being a lot more barebone. I honestly think the game peaked on Lady Eternal, and the lack of polish is more and more evident from there on.

I played the game the first time fully; reading every word and going to ever corner of the map. I played the game again for the sole purpose of destroying the pot and one of the fishbowl guys. During that second play through, Heng's intermission about the starlight from long ago made everything she had ever said hit me succinctly all at once. It was an enjoyable experience. >>1264319 Nothing in the game made me feel like it was under polished. A skill rarely being used can just be glossed over and ignored. The pink goo enemies' animations felt like a flaw to me, but since it was implemented in every one of them the same way I gave it some slack as "a choice of style that I understand the point of". Lady Etheral's section as a whole is, definitely, a high point of the game. >>1214551 I have never played either of those games, but I think that the parry is the main difference from how it affects the tempo of combat. The story is great, but you asked for game play differences so I won't say anything about it.

>>1214469 I 100%ed it but I'm gonna have to be honest only thing I can remember was that it was good, besides that I can't really remember all that much

>>1214469 Best game of 2024.

>>1221581 I ripped the two parts of the comic that are currently available in case anyone wanted to save a copy. 8chan doesn't support zip files, so I uploaded it to catbox instead. https://files.catbox.moe/xj0uqy.cbz I can't beat Eigong but at least I could do this.

>>1302176 git good

>>1302176 You will win eventually anon

>>1302359 Bottom left is me in phase 1, top right is me in phase 2 -I still haven't seen phase 3.

>>1309762 Woooh, I finally passed phase 2! WHAT IN THE ACTUAL NAME OF FUCK IS PHASE 3???? No, seriously, they didn't even show anything, there are just lines everywhere and you're immediately dead lmao, what the fuck? I'm going to pretend that I told the fat guy that we had to save the other cats, fuck the humans, this counts as finishing the game.

>of the year Nine sols came out in 2024, it cannot be the Metroidvania of the year.

>>1315073 >I'm going to pretend that I told the fat guy that we had to save the other cats, fuck the humans, this counts as finishing the game. If you're gonna be a bitch be the whole bitch and cheat the true end fight, I did with pause buffering the everloving fuck out of it

>>1321746 Nah I will stick with calling it shit and stop playing.

>>1315073 Resuming my attempts after taking a break. I'm getting a bit better on phase 2, still couldn't get too far in phase 3, but at least I didn't die immediately, this is my personal record right now. >>1321746 I mean, I can always enable the easy mode if it comes to that.

Been playing through it for the first time since it was on sale recently. Very very good so far - just beat Lady E. 9/10 so far

>>1342337 Not that anyone asked, but here's the last update on this series about the excruciatingly slow improvement from the World's Worst Nine Sols Player. With 3/4 of phase 3 complete, today was the first time I really thought I could actually win.

>>1342624 I've now reached Eigong (been playing a shit ton) She's tough but do-able. I'd say the game ranks at a 9/10 - liked the story more than I thought I would, but I can imagine going through the cutscenes would be really annoying on repeat playthroughs.

>>1348329 Installed OBS Studio just for this. >>1350976 >liked the story more than I thought I would Same. I really surprised me, and I think it's been one of the things that kept me playing even though the game was clearly made for people who aren't as clumsy as I am. Good look with Eigong if you haven't defeated her yet in the last 20 minutes.

>>1351113 Damn, you were playing very close to the edge for one with 3 heals remaining. Still, good win Got her to Phase 3 for the first time earlier and quickly died. Getting her to late phase 2 somewhat consistently though - I'll win in due time once my I can get through the fight without nerves taking over

>>1351299 Got her ass. 10/10 final boss - whole game is at least a solid 9. Only big complaint is that the cutscenes would get quite annoying for repeat playthroughs (unless there's a skip option on repeat playthroughs), and that exploration could've maybe been a bit better. But damn the combat feels pretty pristine. And unlocking a boss rush right after is nice - though I wish it were all the minibosses instead of just the main ones.

>>1351481 Congratulations! Aw man, looking at this I realize that for some reason I not even once thought of using the Unbounded Counter on that crimson attack from above when she does the new triple jump thingy, I simply dodged it every time. No wonder why I was having so much trouble, I suck even more that I thought if I was missing obvious like this. Oh well, at least I finally finished.

it's okay, didn't finish it though

>>1214469 This game is fucking hard. And I thought HK was hard.

>>1377723 it's not that hard, you just parry good

>>1351481 Not that I think anyone gives much of a shit, but after finding Eigong so fun I've been fighting her on and off for shits and giggles since I beat the game. Just got my first no-damage run in today - feels good enough that I wanted to brag on this chinese ship building forum

>>1413975 Amazing. I don't want to imagine how many million tries I'd need to do this, just finishing the first phase without taking damage took me a lot of retries already.