#for interested parties. : D in the game i try to deliver information naturally as the narrative progresses

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MEUR TYPES: A PRIMER

Meur (or magic) is a natural force in Vestur. Since the invention of the Andimeur Synthesizer (a device that converts it into a form usable by man), Vestur’s aristocracy has continually found new uses for it. From homes heated by red meur to nutritionally dense food aided by green meur, the Tri-Kingdom has gained the distinction of most scientifically advanced country in the known world.

Children in Vestur sometimes play a clapping game that goes as such:

“Green’s for the beans on my supper plate, Blue’s for the clean water enjoyed while I ate, Red warms my toes when there’s snow on the ground, Yellow’s how a Southern fellow steers his ship around, And if he crashes it upon the shore The Architect alone will decide his score: Black, White, Black, White, Black, White, Black If the man is slack, it’s the work of Black If he avoids the light-- Then thank goodness, it’s White!”

Like all good children’s songs, it ends in giggles about dying a horrible death. But it effectively teaches every child in the Tri-Kingdom about what each of the six meur types, or colors are, and their most common use cases.

Green meur affects the botanical world. While plants cannot be summoned into existence through green meur alone, it can be used to grow plants in conditions that shouldn’t be able to foster them. It may also alter their growth trajectory or physical properties. Almost none the of the plants grown in the Northern Kingdom could survive the nutrient-poor, hard soil without green meur. Specializing in green meur may sound tame or perhaps boring at first (and green meur users are stereotyped as such), but bring domesticated thorny vine seeds onto the battlefield and a competent green meur user will be sending barbed tendrils through an enemy’s torso in seconds.

Blue meur pertains to water. The ability to command water’s flow has several use cases in itself: powering water wheels, irrigation for agriculture, maintenance of sewerways. But this meur type takes on new complexities when you consider water’s other states. Ice can be easily weaponized, and some innovative meur scientists have been doing research into engines powered by steam. Even more mysterious, it seems water’s omnipresence on earth has lent blue meur some properties related to the flow of time. There’s more to blue meur than is currently understood.

Red meur is pure energy in the form of heat. When wielded by man, It’s most commonly seen as fire. Heat is useful for everything from keeping a forge running to warming air in houses. Red meur is (sadly) not a free energy buffet though, and has some major downsides: it’s inherently tiring and energy-intensive on the user. In addition, fine control is difficult. Red meur users have something of a reputation for being none too bright, but many of said users would rebuff this with “easy to use, difficult to master”.

Yellow meur affects air. It’s mainly used to influence wind direction and speed, leading to some of the fastest trade ships in the known world. As a result, yellow meur is an eclectic choice for anyone to specialize in besides Southerners. The current use cases are narrow... but this might be more due to lack of interest in the field than anything else. Who knows, perhaps some sort of yellow meur related discovery is around the corner....?

Green, blue, red, and yellow are the standard meur colors. Upwards of 95% of Vestur's nobility have their specialty in these four. There are two less common meur types though, and they have a lot of mythologizing around them, as well as being less understood.

White meur is usually described by laymen as “the healing one”. Say that to any white practitioner and watch him start pulling his hair out in frustration and screeching through gritted teeth, “its so much deeper than that!”. Those who use white meur must, in addition to finishing standard meur education at Vestur Royal Military Academy, score well on the White College Aptitude Test and be accepted to the College of Divine Healing, where they’ll learn about the human body, pathology, and advanced white meur for an additional two years. Only then can one be certified as a white practitioner. Without knowing what you’re putting back into place and why, it’s horrendously easy to do more harm than good when mending the human body.

All this said, white meur can’t do miracle work. Wound closure or bone refusing is one thing – regrowing a whole arm or bringing someone back from the dead is strictly in the realm of fantasy.

Black meur inflicts death, plain and simple. It is unilaterally outlawed. Its only practical use is in combat, but black meur is considered a dishonorable way to inflict suffering. Any of the standard colors can just as easily be used to kill. Only one nobleman in all of Vestur is registered as a black meur user, and the designation was given as a soft way to say, “you are disallowed from wielding meur of any color”. Though... he really is quite talented at it, as circumstance will soon reveal.

And those are the meur colors! Every noble child in Vestur goes to VRMA and gets educated on the principles of wielding each, but as a graduated nobleman in the service of your community, a person may only specialize in one.

Any given two blue meur users likely have their in very different applications: one might maintain a city’s sewerways, and another might work to provide potable water in an area where there is none. There is a lot of variation and opportunity within any given color.

(The little emblems for the meur types, as with all of Forever Gold's more graphic design-y work, were done by LSDolphin!)

[eponymous-rose]

Talks Machina Highlights - Critical Role Highlights C2E36 (October 2, 2018)

Tonight’s guests are Travis Willingham and Matt Mercer!

Announcements:

The NYC show on Thursday still has tickets! 

The latest episode of Between the Sheets, featuring Laura Bailey, is now available on the Critical Role Twitch channel for subscribers! The VOD will be released on YouTube tomorrow.

The second episode of All Work No Play will air on the Twitch channel on Friday at 7 PM! There will be tapdancing involved.

@critrolestats​ for this week’s episode:

With four games in, the Dallas Cowboys are at a 50%-- wait, wrong stat.

The M9 got their 140th kill in this episode: Nott against the fourth harpy.

This is the third time Fjord has used the dodecahedron, and the second time he’s put a fragment of possibility to use.

DMing when PCs are on the ocean involves trying to figure out what interesting things can be found along the journey. Matt made a small chart to roll on to see what might possibly happen. "It’s a lot of not forcing events, necessarily, every single day, because otherwise nobody would ever fucking be on a boat in a fantasy world.” He wants it to be an adventurous, freeing sensation, and he wants it to be a bit of a sandbox for the players. (The map finally arrived!) “It’s allowing enough intrigue and possibility out there where the players can utilize the ship at their disposal, and coming up with interesting encounters that capitalize on the region and capitalize on the limitations of the ship as well.”

Travis has been on (non-sailing) boats most of his life, so he knows the terminology. “But when it comes to fuckin’ pirate ships...” He wrote Fjord’s backstory with “sailor” in it, but didn’t get a chance to research it at all. Matt was so intimidated by the (three) sailing terms Fjord included in his backstory that he’s been intently studying up on nautical stuff ever since. There are graphs behind his DM screen. Matt: “I was just trying to keep up with him!” 

But Travis has been doing research since then. He’d just never thought about the fact that he might be the only one who knew how to sail a ship. Matt: “It might not have been a major issue if you guys had booked passage...” Travis: “I should have done a moderate level of research just to be more familiar with it, so it’s causing me now to catch up to the homework that you did. We’ll see how this week goes, being that it’s in front of a live crowd...” 

Brian: “This is such a weird metaphor for you guys’ friendship.”

Matt expected Orly was going to be an information source while the group was in Nicodranas. After the M9 stole the ship so unexpectedly, it turned out Orly was the only other person they knew who had the skills they needed. Brian knows it’s a big ask, but he’d love to see amazing cosplay of Orly.

Fjord is definitely wondering whether the sword will react in some way with the water---just touching it in didn’t make a difference, but he’s wondering whether practicing his sword exercises on the ship might’ve had an effect. Travis: “Until now, it’s been a pretty one-sided avenue of communication. I don’t know if there’s any way to *69 that motherfucker.”

Gif of the Week: Caduceus’ “Hello darkness my old friend” moment.

The jellyfish bloom was a random encounter Matt rolled on his table: he has assorted natural sights on the list to add atmosphere. “It was an improvised part of the narrative based on a few rolls.” Brian wants to insure Matt’s brain.

For the map that came out last session, Travis got a quick sneak peek at it. “I love reefs, just from scuba diving, so I memorized those. Most of the trade routes didn’t go over reefs, so if we hit one of those, it would be immediately dangerous.” If people’s backgrounds tie into certain areas, Matt e-mails them summaries as needed so that the players can deliver the information and it’s not just a DM info dump.

Caduceus’ super high perception is opening up a lot of interesting stuff for the party; there were a lot of situations that flew under the radar before, and Matt’s looking forward to finding more moments like that. “You want to reward a player for their strengths.”

Matt mentions that, in all the games he’s played with Taliesin, he’s always played very high-intelligence characters. He’s fascinated to see him play a low-INT high-WIS character with Caduceus.

Travis: “I don’t typically like to give people orders? Fjord was a first mate on the ship, that’s as high as he rose. In my mind, those were people that he had worked with for years. He was receiving orders and then dispersing them, not coming up with the ideas himself. For me, as a player, I enjoyed the luxury of an idiot for the first campaign, because I got to be reactionary. It is an entirely, entirely different thing, and it’s been kind of weird, being responsible for everybody, having to make quick decisions when no one else has any input.” He found himself looking for the bench in the last couple episodes. 

On the clusterfuck at the docks, Travis: “I had gone far below zero hit points in player.” He was so off-balance and nothing seemed to be working. “You can’t always bench yourself. You gotta keep fuckin’ playing.” Matt points out that it’s common to have an off session: “The fact that you’ve finally had a couple is reassuring to the rest of us mortals in your presence.” It’s tough to be the character who has such a major impact on the course of events, and Travis has been learning how to deal with that pressure (after being able to just shrug it off as Grog) and make sure it doesn’t happen again. Travis: “I had a totally different idea of what my participation in the group would be.” He wasn’t expecting to be the face of the group.

Matt mentions that there are sessions where the group has had fun but he goes home “feeling like shit” over some series of mistakes (which often gets reinforced online), but he emphasizes that it’s totally okay to have off nights, and that it’s important to talk it out with players or other DM friends if you’re still feeling upset about it.

Fanart of the Week: Nott and Caduceus having their bonding moment at sea.

Matt: “There was a whole bunch of shit in Nicodranas you could have explored.” Travis: “I love how he gave us a fuckin’ wizard tower.” Matt pointed out that Algar had an employee who ran off during their first attack. “There’s a lot of adventure in Nicodranas still when you return.” Matt points out that sometimes the story you have prepared isn’t as exciting as what the players stumble into on their own. The ramifications when they come back could be a lot of fun, as well. 

Travis on the pressure he’s under for this arc: “The rest of the group is fuckin’ loving it, like a bunch of assholes. They are eating up my panic with spoons and forks.” Matt points out that the tables have turned after the first campaign.

Fjord’s whole backstory was based on trying to disappear; he was just glad to have a role that didn’t require a spotlight. “He just wanted to live a life and have a role and have an existence.” He feels like his unique looks and abilities fit in with the M9, but being put in charge of that, especially in the wake of the massive confidence shake that came with the Lorenzo kidnapping and Molly’s death, he’s still reeling. It’s only been a few weeks since Lorenzo. 

It’s been especially terrifying to realize this Fjord-centric arc is going to be such a big part of the New York live show. Travis: “I was so crestfallen. That was the moment I was like, ‘Fuck.’” Matt, happily: “It’s going to be fun.” Travis, strained and yelling: “IT’S GOING TO BE GREAT.”

Jester’s mom hadn’t heard the rumors of a blue tiefling dying at the docks, so fortunately that information hadn’t gotten to her before Jester sent her message. Matt breaks down the bizarre mystery the guards are dealing with right now: it could have had much, much more serious consequences. “They’re not completely fucked. There’s just some threads of fuckery out there.” Avoiding the patrol ships and being able to disguise themselves has been key. Matt points out that a lot of the Nein have had really skittish, mistrustful backgrounds; over time, they might be more likely to try to interface with the guards in a scenario like that, but they’re not there yet.

Travis on the jellyfish conversation: “I was kind of in awe of my wife at that moment. Her emotional availability is second to none. And then to take that beautiful moment and be so introspective about that character. I was trying to ask her questions, and then she pointed it dead on at me. I was like, oh god, I don’t know. I was trying to be sensitive and do something that would make her feel better, but man, it left both of us---Fjord and me---shook. I interpreted it one way. There had been gentle teasings. But man, when the emotions are real...” 

Matt’s been finding it interesting that Fjord and Caleb have been taking on leadership roles in a non-competitive, please-take-this way, and he’s excited to see how the roles are distributed moving forward. “I fuckin’ love D&D. Oh my god.”

Matt points out that the M9 is a different kind of found family than VM. “All of Vox Machina seemed pretty confident of who they were and what they wanted to be in the world. This group is very different; they’re these lost souls who, through their connections to each other, are trying to find a purpose and keep each other safe.” He likes the natural pace of that development and is happy that themes of change and redemption are so prominent in their character arcs. “As the kids on the internet say, ‘I’m here for it.’”

Travis: “I had to ask Liam this week what ‘stan’ meant. I thought they left the ‘d’ off it.”

Hats appear.

Talks Machina: Is It the Same Channel?

Brian, on the perfect burrito: “Skittles. Starburst bites. Jujubes. Wrapped in a fruit roll-up.” That is a little too close to my actual dinner tonight and I may have to reevaluate some of my life choices.

Their favorite thing about the live show is the energy. Matt: “It’s one thing to be playing together as friends, but once every now and then, being able to share it live there with so many people who are as excited as we are to be there. Of all the years I’ve done theatre and that high I’ve had on stage, this is even better for me.” Much as the heart of the show is its intimate nature, they love having the live show as a change of pace a couple of times a year. Matt points out that the weirdness of live D&D is that the audience there is as knowledgeable and invested. “It’s not like there’s a barrier and you’re here to entertain, you’re all just here in this moment.”

Travis mentions that alignment’s been more important at the start of the game when they’ve been trying to establish their character, just to keep from veering off into random stabs at action. Matt: “I think alignment’s a great guide if you’re unfamiliar with the process of realizing a personality that’s different from yours and stepping into their shoes. I prefer to think that characters’ actions drive alignment, rather than alignment driving characters’ actions. I don’t feel like you should use alignment as a way of excluding yourselves from making those choices that otherwise a character would never make.”

Matt: “Don’t google ‘burrito train’.”

It takes like ten minutes to Brian’s nipple rings.

Dani, being shipped to New York.

[pixelpoppers]

Lessons Learned Watching Allie Play Dragon Age

Allie doesn't play many action games. Her PS4 is mostly for Rock Band 4, though she also enjoyed Until Dawn. She's now trying Dragon Age: Inquisition after hearing a lot of good things about its characters. Watching her play has been instructive. Here are some of the lessons I've taken away just from her first hour.

Oh, right, EA are assholes

The first fifteen minutes or so of Allie's experience with the game was spent wrestling with her EA account. Despite the fact that she's done nothing online or multiplayer with the game, she was funneled into logging in before it would let her play. This involved resetting her long-forgotten password and - for some reason - picking a unique display name which the account had not previously needed. Finding one that wasn't taken took so many tries that we thought it might be broken and just reporting everything as already in use.

This is a terrible first impression and completely unnecessary. She was already logged in to her PSN account and if any online features specifically needed an EA account that couldn't just be tied to her PSN account the game should have waited until she was actually ready to use them before making her jump through those hoops.

Every game should have a No Fail mode

Rock Band games eject you from a song if you make too many mistakes performing it. You can optionally turn on a "No Fail" mode which prevents this. You still won't get a great score of course, but the song will at least let you finish. If you're just trying to enjoy the music, this is a better option (and I think a case can be made it should be the default behavior).

BioWare games are known for their worlds and stories and especially the companion characters and the choices the player makes in interacting with them. They have combat, but people don't play BioWare games for the combat. The combat is there to add pacing, stakes, tension and relief to the story. The combat is in service of the story - and yet it's the only part of the game that can actually prevent you from experiencing the story. (It's similar to the platforming challenges in Wandersong in this way.) It's the only part of the game that you can really fail in the same sense as the Rock Band songs. It's the only part of the game where a basically able-bodied and able-minded person might still not be able to progress if their skill level isn't high enough. Consequently, it's the only part of the game with multiple difficulty levels - you choose a difficulty at the beginning, but it's explicitly only for combat.

Allie wasn't drawn to Dragon Age: Inquisition for the combat. She came for the characters and relationships. She has no interest in its approach to action-flavored D&D-inspired speed chess or whatever. She was displeased when the game introduced the paused tactical view, when she had to assign skill points to combat abilities, and when she encountered the equipment shop. She's okay with hitting R2 until the enemies are dead and combat is over, but that's about as far as she wants to invest in this part of the game. So she used the one tool available to her to decrease the game's mechanical focus on combat - she picked the lowest available combat difficulty, "Casual." She did this so she could enjoy the characters and story that are the game's unique selling points and what brought her to the game in the first place.

But even on "Casual" difficulty, it's possible to get blocked off from enjoying those best parts of the game. Allie probably won't fail a combat encounter, but if she does, I'd argue that the game has failed her and not the other way around. If the game presented a "No Fail" option like Rock Band, this bait-and-switch wouldn't be an issue. Players who came for the story would get to experience it without needing to worry about a complex and uninteresting mechanical system getting in the way.

Standard game UIs are too complex for beginners

Dragon Age: Inquisition's basic interface is quite familiar to veteran players like myself. Simultaneously walking with the left stick, looking around with the right stick, keeping an eye on the enemy radar in the corner, and reading the tutorial messages that pop up is something I've been doing for close to two decades at this point. It comes naturally to me and I know where to look and how to respond. But that's because of years and years of practice, not because it's inherently simple or easy. It's analogous to driving a car - handling the steering wheel, the gas and brake pedals, keeping an eye on your mirrors, all while watching the road in front of you and staying in your lane. This multitasking becomes second-nature, but it sure doesn't start that way.

Allie's one of the most skilled drivers I've ever met, but she has a lot more practice driving than playing 3D console games. When she started playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, the amount of information thrown at her and multitasking expected of her was not realistic. She moved around with the left stick but didn't touch the right stick much and the camera dutifully maintained an increasingly-useless angle - in the first boss fight, it ended up behind a green cloud of magical energy and made it hard for her to see her party and the enemies, resulting in her losing about half her health. I don't think she noticed the enemy radar, and any tutorial message that popped up while she was doing anything else might as well not have been shown at all.

To me, the screen was dense with useful information; to Allie, it was noisy. Novice and expert users have different needs. Allie had put the game on the lowest available difficulty, but that just changed combat damage. It did nothing for the complexity of the interface. Ideally there'd also be a "Casual" setting for the UI, which would do things like keep the camera behind the player character, highlight enemies more clearly, and pause the action to deliver necessary tutorials.

[magicarasa]

CFAC 03 Season 2 Entries -- Part 1

Dirty Paws by Tess Garman

I asked you for mono-colored designs this week and you are delivering. Under the cut we have two white designs, two green designs, and a black design. One of all the white designs I get this week will get a bonus point. Same for the green designs. While it won’t be shown today, I do currently have another mono black submission so one of all the black designs will get a bonus point when the week is over. I have yet to receive any red or blue designs.

@amtgplayer

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This is a cool bit of removal that almost skirts the edge of what could be green removal. Green does get one-sided fighting sometimes and while I don’t think it would get it at 1 CMC like this, I could totally see this design being bent into green in the right environment. But in black it absolutely works as is.

Two points!

@gitblog-monster

This art really looks like some kind of Giant Growth to me. I also wanted to capture the look of fear on the mouse’s face through the unblockable clause

This is pretty solid. Looking at Kaseto and Korozda Guildmage, I think this may be every so slightly overpriced. Those aren’t perfect correlations but they do show similar boosts and unblockability that’s repeatable and cheaper. As is I think this could be bumped to an instant to provide a little extra utility for the cost.

Two points!

@sphinxs-revelation

Ever wondered how a squirrel with a knife can outmaneuver a dragon? This fantasy game obviously defies common sense, let’s fix that. The effect looks rather simple, but wording it without breaking the game in corner cases proved a bit tricky. The current wording is supposed to mean “skip +N/+N and -N/-N effects” (or skip Layer 7c&d for the rules savvy). While green is probably second in providing pump effects, it’s also the color of the natural state and fighting with what you’ve got, so the effect seems fine in this colour.

I love that flavor text! I love his name! Great job there!

This design is incredibly unique and since I saw it I have been trying to think of those corner cases but haven’t come up with anything myself. So at least on this initial pass it seems you’ve come up with some solid rules text. My second thought was “Does a color with so many pump effects really want this?” I tried to think of another color that would (perhaps blue? but that undermines some of its combat tricks that reduce power) and ultimately decided that yeah, the color that also gets the most efficient creatures as far as mana-to-size goes would enjoy a card like this, so good choice there.

Barring those weird corner cases coming to light, there’s a lot to like here.

Two points!

@rafiqueofthemany

I keep meaning to get in on this, and now I finally have. A simple little combat trick with a restrictive cost.

Woo! Welcome to the party! This is perfect for the army color. This combination of abilities has actually never been done before in mono white which seems absolutely crazy to me. They don’t have a huge amount of mechanical overlap that causes them to make sense together, but they are both in white’s wheelhouse and applied like this, can tilt the crux of a game in the right direction. It’s deceptively powerful and I think costed close to appropriately. The +3/+0 is my only real hang up. Even just +1/+0 would work (and doesn’t make your meek creature much less meek) at the same cost.

Two points!

@thanatyr

A hard to pin down informant helps with training the troops. One that can tell you troop movements, even more so. Before the mentors can train their soldiers, even they need intel. And so this informant of the Meek, an inverse Mentor of the Meek in his own fashion.

This is an interesting head game card. You opponent has to choose to give you a chance to find an answer when they play big stuff. This is essentially a white weenie deck saying “meet me in a fair fight.” This really depends on the environment it’s in as to whether it will do a lot of work for you or not--and I’m cool with that.

More from a flavor perspective, I kind of want this mouse to be a 1/1 and also for it to actually be a Rat on the type line. Magic has had rats before and mice are similar enough that I wouldn’t split the tribe by printing mice. As for the P/T, that’s more derived from how I feel about the art, but isn’t necessarily a hard constraint you’d have to deal with if this were actually seeing print--meaning the design would come first and then art that might depict a more appropriate creature to be a 2/2.

Two points!

[entergamingxp]

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon DX review

I am trying to think of what game it was that Pokmon Mystery Dungeon DX reminds me of and honestly, I just cannot remember. Which is apt! Or we’ll make it apt anyway, if you’ll bear with me. It’s apt because Mystery Dungeon is one of those dreamy, trancelike, somewhat transient games. A playable hypnagogia daydream: all quite pleasant while you’re there but then as soon as you leave: poof! It’s gone from memory.

Pokmon Mystery Dungeon DX review

Developer: Spike Chunsoft

Publisher: Nintendo

Platform: Reviewed on Switch

Availability: Out March 6th on Switch

Much of that dreaminess comes from a fairly obvious source. Mystery Dungeon DX is a remaster of the Pokmon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue team games that came out in the early noughties, and one if DX’s headline revisions is how it looks. The pixel art is gone, replaced with a kind of watercolour splash, and as such you’re reminded, a bit, of that classic quest in Oblivion (no that’s not the game I was thinking of) where you’re stuck inside a painting. Then there’s the fact you are literally a human trapped inside the body of a Pokmon, and that you keep having these rather disturbing dreams, and all the contrast and saturation seems to be dialled-up beyond the natural average, and yes. A dream. Slightly magical, slightly unsettling, a tiny bit forgettable, and at the same time a tiny bit of it will be burned into your mind’s eye.

The setup is all very typical for the mystery dungeon crawler. There’s a central town hub, which is small but full of endearing Pokmon roaming around or managing one of a handful of important shops, and then there are the dungeons that you visit for the actual quests. These dungeons have random layouts each time you visit, with wild Pokmon that attack, various traps and obstacles, items to collect, and a friendly Pokmon in need of rescue. The nuance comes in how you manoeuvre your party of Pokmon through the dungeons, ordering them in specific ways for specific circumstances, and in how you manage your inventory, trading off between items you want to keep with you and space for picking up more.

It’s a departure from the main Pokmon games, of course, but there are actually more similarities there than you’d think. The combat is turn-based and quite strategic, a mixture of the four-move, rock-paper-scissors familiarity of the main games and a bit of XCOM, if anything, in the importance of positioning and range. Your inherent knowledge of type matchups, utility moves, status effects and all of that will remain incredibly useful – although Mystery Dungeon kindly indicates what moves are super effective and what aren’t through its UI – but you’ll need to think further ahead and in a greater number of dimensions for success. Everything in the dungeon moves when you move, so while it feels real-time it’s really turn-based through and through, and as you get further into the game, where the puzzles get more elaborate and the enemies tougher, plotting your way through can become a genuinely interesting challenge.

You’ll also still be collecting Pokmon as you go, although there’s a twist to how that works, too. If you beat a Pokmon in a dungeon there’s a random chance they’ll want to join you, tagging along for the rest of the quest and, at the end of it, being able to join you as a squad option permanently – likewise for those issuing the quests too. But for them to join you, you need to have unlocked the right “camp”, which costs coins, which you need to visit more dungeons to earn, where you’ll meet more Pokmon that need you to have unlocked other camps, and so on. The salient point really, though, is that you are just a bunch of swell guys and everyone wants to hang out with you.

This also amounts to most of Mystery Dungeon DX’s plot. Your pal – who you choose at the start but obviously it’s Psyduck – knows you’re a human but still wants to help you out. There are rival rescue teams, that often face off in these sort of West Side Story diss battles (you don’t actually battle them that often), and there are legendaries, which seem to be pulling the strings in their classic mortals-caught-amongst-quarries-of-the-gods fashion. It’s delivered with genuine warmth and abundance of heart, and actually does a better job of staving off the excessive tweeness than the recent mainline Pokmon games.

The problem, though, is that above the warm and fuzzy feeling it might give you, there isn’t a huge amount more that Pokmon Mystery Dungeon DX has to offer. The complexity of its dungeon crawling is undoubtedly the big selling point but there’s as much frustration to be had there as there is depth. The movement with the analog stick of the Switch is incredibly clumsy – you’ll often overshoot steps or go slightly either side of diagonal, if you’re anything like me, which is a real problem as you progress to more complex dungeons where precision counts – and with the D-pad, which it was originally built around, it can be painfully finickity. There’s no way to know your enemy’s stats – even their current or maximum HP – as far as I can tell, which makes advanced planning and strategy almost impossible. And the constant depositing and withdrawing of items and money combined with the blind chance of which Pokmon might want to join you – and which camps you need to unlock in advance for them to do so – inevitably leads to frustration. It’s no fun to find a cool, rare Pokmon that wants to join you, but have no way for them to do so because you didn’t spend your paltry coin on the right one of several dozen camps ahead of time.

Along with that, there’s just the sheer repetition of the dungeons and the moment-to-moment grind that gets a bit much. Although the dungeons change each time you enter, you’re fundamentally doing the exact same thing each time you go in, and without those necessary bits of information about enemies and the like it can become an incredibly passive experience – exemplified by the addition of an “auto mode”, where your team runs around looking for the next item without you even needing to do anything. There’s absolutely an endearing charm to the characters – Pokmon’s had that locked down for decades – and the cutesy town will scratch the Animal Crossing itch for a short while, but it will only be for a short while. And although the crawling combat is undeniably moreish, the patterns of play lining your mind like a novel sort of Tetris effect, it doesn’t seem moreish for any good reason. It’s busywork, really, for idle thumbs and idle minds. Pleasant enough as a daydream, but not one I’d love to be stuck in for any great length of time.

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