#and I've been playing rain world as monk recently

[cinnamon-flame]

These guys killed me a couple of times but I can't possibly be mad at them, just look at them, scavs are so adorable.

[gynandromorph]

You like rainworld :o !? I recently got into the game and i am struggling as the monk. How far have you gotten? Do you have any tips?

oh yeah, i'm not a diehard fan making fan content, but the procedurally generated animation has honestly been formative for me (as formative as something can be for someone in their later 20s). my friend recommended it to me in 2019, so that is when i picked it up. i've even referenced rain world with a lookalike game in a side comic about sugar:

the game that i was working on earlier this year also had a similar tunnel crawling mechanic inspired in large part by rain world. they are obviously way above any level i'll ever be with programming, but they did easily evade the wall i hit by making the tunnels straight lines instead of lumpy diagonals.

i've beaten rain world once as the survivor -- didn't like where they spawn the hunter, so i never progressed very far (it doesn't help that i'm mostly a "play games with friends" type of person and once the novelty of a game wears off i have very little motivation to play it solo). i was doing another run with the survivor where i transport all of the colored pearls to Moon, but i set it aside to work on idletry. i also started a run as the gourmand and the explodey one i can't remember the name of, but for similar reasons, i haven't picked it up again. it's really a game i only like to play with a large block of time because i know it will take a long time to make progress even if i'm playing well and rarely die due to the convoluted map. i REALLY want to be able to play as the axolotl, though, which requires you to beat the game more times to unlock.

i'm no expert at the game by any means (as a reference, my first run of the game took 11 hours and had 155 cycles), but i'm not uncertain about if i could complete a run or not anymore... my tips would be don't play it on console, keep jumping when you're running from something, look up an advanced movement tutorial because the amount of minute controls you have at your disposal that are never explained to you is disgusting, learn how to kill lizards with a single rubbish + a spear and you'll become infinitely more confident, befriending lizards is worth more than befriending scavengers (but don't piss off the scavengers), and learn to love death because it's most of your run. there really are some cycles that are just unfair, as the whole game is unfair, and i felt better when i would sometimes kill myself intentionally if i, say, had an axolotl spawn directly above the exit to my burrow and camp there until the rain came, rather than trying to get around it. just left me in a better mood

[nok-joke]

So I've been playing a lot of Rain World with my friends recently

The blue one is my beast, I was survivor in one run, monk in the other,

The playthrough where I became a single father and met god is the monk play through where we were speedrunning the game to try and unlock more slugcats

I love this family

The void colored one is mines ex-husband, never married, 3 times divorced

My beast is very stupid. The eye scar is from a vulture and the rest are from his own fumbles

[joowee-feftynn]

i haven't really mentioned it here but I've been playing rain world recently! I'm first gonna complete the monk campaign because I'm a little baby who's bad at videogames i want to go around and properly check and know my surroundings before doing a survivor run. Overall it's been fun !!!