Mewgenics - Edmund McMillen's biggest game yet

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Will it be better or worse than The Binding of Isaac?


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is there a fur mutation that lets you inherit necro stuff
I've seen that mutation for the base classes, and I've seen it for Thief, which implies it would also exist for the other "extended" classes. Someone mentioned it comes from inbreeding, which I haven't been able to contradict as I haven't seen a cat get it from anywhere else.
 
I bought this game at release on a whim, completely blind about what it was about beyond "cat breeding", because I had a free week with little to do.
What a pleasant surprise. It's refreshing to be reminded that games are supposed to be fun every now and then. Bonus points for the game (and its creators) surviving a dumb controversy unscathed by not giving a single fuck. Some pussies just can't handle the silly cat game. Ironic.
I now have a room exclusively for breeding diabetic cats and a renewed optimism about videogames.
 
I bought this game at release on a whim, completely blind about what it was about beyond "cat breeding", because I had a free week with little to do.
What a pleasant surprise. It's refreshing to be reminded that games are supposed to be fun every now and then. Bonus points for the game (and its creators) surviving a dumb controversy unscathed by not giving a single fuck. Some pussies just can't handle the silly cat game. Ironic.
I now have a room exclusively for breeding diabetic cats and a renewed optimism about videogames.
I think it's without question the Most Video Game that's come out in a while. Very refreshing to finally see something that's not just a worse version of something else.
 
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This is the second time I bought a class I want to unlock to the Caves, only for them to be insta-gibbed at the spider boss because they got targeted disproportionately.
Are they getting targetted 'cause of being webbed? I got the impression that the boss did the same "target webbed guys to exclusion of anything else, even if the other guy is adjacent" thing that the little spiders do.
 
Are they getting targetted 'cause of being webbed? I got the impression that the boss did the same "target webbed guys to exclusion of anything else, even if the other guy is adjacent" thing that the little spiders do.
No idea. He was squishy because "haha druid -2 con because fuck you", but he was sitting pretty in his flower field before the spider boss just bull-rushed him through my tank.

EDIT: Okay this next run looks promising. Tinker that has the ITS ALIVE perk but also somehow inherited Zap from a mage parent. Never seen a skill so perfectly paired.
 
So far I think the AI's combat math in a vacuum is mostly pretty standard SRPG fare, where setting aside explicit patterns (like Boris, move move move dash, every turn, or the rat, or etc,) and unique parameters for individual units (things that focus on healing, things that need to move into water to attack, cultists looking for helmet, etc) its checklist is something like:
1) Can I kill something, or set an ally up to kill something?
2) If no, what's the most damage I can deal to the closest target?
3) If that's zero, is there otherwise anything useful I can do? (buff heal etc)
4) If no, move as far as I can towards closest target and end turn.
Most "wtf why did it do that" behaviour can probably be explained that way.
 
Should I buy it or pirate it like a good boy?
It's like, $30 with more content and passion than most AAA (or """AAAA"") games offer, by a respected indie developer. I don't normally give a shit about piracy but like... if there was ever a game to support with money, it's probably this one.
 
It's like, $30 with more content and passion than most AAA (or """AAAA"") games offer, by a respected indie developer. I don't normally give a shit about piracy but like... if there was ever a game to support with money, it's probably this one.
It's a self-published game made by two guys that's sold over a million copies at 30 bucks a pop. Even after Steam takes their 30% cut, both of the devs have made over $10.5 million each, and they'll rake in even more when they release on consoles. It's actually one of the few indie titles that really doesn't need more financial support.
 
It's a self-published game made by two guys that's sold over a million copies at 30 bucks a pop. Even after Steam takes their 30% cut, both of the devs have made over $10.5 million each, and they'll rake in even more when they release on consoles. It's actually one of the few indie titles that really doesn't need more financial support.
Needs it?
No.
Deserves it?
Yes.
 
Some pussies just can't handle the silly cat game.
Pussies, you say?
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Favorite basic Tinkerer build so far:
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Smash (active): Smashes equipped weapon into an adjacent tile, deals double damage, and destroys it
Booby Trap (passive): When an equipped item breaks, it explodes
Mr. Mega (passive): Explosions are bigger and do +1 damage
So he just spawns sticks and logs, then either smashes them over the enemy's head, or throws them to blow up like a missile
 
I just beat the 3rd Guilliotina fight with no casualties, her theme is my personal favorite of the game so far. The house bosses are an amazing way to reuse your retired cats. Seeing a grandma fighter cat kick Guilliotina's ass on the first fight while her grandchildren and the next generations of the tard fighter bloodline take care of the second and third fight is amazing to see. The family tree is a lovely feature. God I love this game.
If you're about to start this game, get the first upgrades across the board. After that focus on Tink's upgrades (information about the cats is very important) and make sure the house has two rooms below the attic. Get furniture with the Appeal (strays with better stats, genetic diversity) and Comfort (pumping out kittens to quickly get the Tink upgrades) stats first. If you have a solid base, you can go for Stimulation for passing on skills to your new kittens. Go for Sewers->Caves first, then Junkyard->Boneyard.

It was definitely worth the money and you'll spend a lot of hours in this game.
 
This demented rotting corpse motherfucker be dissing my MAMA?!

I'm sending my crippled blind fighter cat to slice a bitch!:jaceknife:

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Brought these fuckers through hell even after the stupid asshole Cerberus crippled half of them something fierce (and then I got a super bandaid so it stopped being a problem but still), I love them so much
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Except Orange, he would not shut the fuck up and sounded like an attention-starved VTuber. Stellar healer, though

For an idea of their average fight, observe their showdown against Jimmy:
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I also just love them for the retarded team name they ended up rolling:
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(That quote is especially ironic given that this fucker pumped out familiars like nobody's business and barely ever used his arrows)

I would've used this exact team against Guillotina's third fight, but the tinkerer fucking died like two days after returning home. She somehow got into a fight with someone else and just croaked it immediately, which was an extra shame because she actually had a cool mutation I wanted her to pass down (the one that turns your tail into another cat and spawns a familiar after you're downed). Therefore, I had to swap in my even more busted Druid:
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Here, have this explanation I wrote at like 12am when I was wiping the floor with her enemies. (Note: I gave her a Human Head, so she also had an omniboost on top of the base stats I posted above. I forgot to clarify that here because I couldn't remember whether I'd given that omniboost to her or the Cleric I brought along.)

so, this is Pinkie
she is the first Druid I ever got
ironically I was very worried about her sucking because of the substantial stat decreases that Druid forces
(there was no need to worry about this)
her Feral passive (upgraded) gives her three substantial, permanent stat boosts
her elk form gives her crazy stat boosts, specifically oriented towards speed and taking away from Pinkie's best and worst stats respectively (intelligence and constitution)
the Invert ability she inherited allows her to swap the stat boosts she was already given, specifically her weakest and strongest
her strongest stat in this form is generally Speed, so good that it lets her cover the entire map
her weakest stat is constitution
:)
so when she goes to elk form and swaps her stats, she basically becomes an unkillable monster
and because the rest of her stats are still fucking stellar, she just becomes able to cover half the map instead of all of it
for reference, her current stats in elk form (post-inversion) are:
13 strength
8 dexterity
20 constitution
11 speed
13 intelligence
12 charisma
8 luck
she is simultaneously shitting all over mama maggot and guillotina without taking any damage save for that incurred by her tripled health bar
god I love her so much

Took some pictures of it, too:
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These maybe highlight the game's visibility issues more than anything, but I can assure you I had (some) idea of what I was doing while playing.

Anyways, I finally got more than two rooms... and it didn't help at all, everyone is still fighting even with the extra furniture I bought. God damn me and my relentless cat hoarding, it's crippling my guys and driving me nuts. At least strays aren't doing too terribly now, though, and I am no longer drowning in gay cats.
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25 fucking cats for this, though. That's insane. And I think the next milestone is 50?? How the hell am I going to manage that in less than 20 hours when this asshole wants retired cats?

Anyways, is tinkerer supposed to be really bad or am I just getting shitty luck? The first one I used was during that run when every upgrade was randomized, so it doesn't count, but the second one I got (Jamakea here) only became vaguely, slightly useful halfway through the third area before promptly biting it upon arriving home. Not even sure I should try a third run, because I keep rolling self-harm abilities and I really don't want to lose any of the decently-bred cats I have left for runs.
 
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everyone is still fighting even with the extra furniture I bought
If you pick hard mode every time when going through either Act 1 route, you can get 2 pieces of free furniture every single time, I think it's how you're actually supposed to get off the ground that way.
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25 fucking cats for this, though. That's insane. And I think the next milestone is 50?? How the hell am I going to manage that in less than 20 hours when this asshole wants retired cats?
Just spam cats to alley and feed him the retirees from there. You don't actually need to play out every run (I still do because it's fun, but from a grinding perspective, getting strays and bad kittens to feed to the house guy is the way to go).
 
If you pick hard mode every time when going through either Act 1 route, you can get 2 pieces of free furniture every single time, I think it's how you're actually supposed to get off the ground that way.
Ugh, that makes sense. I've been avoiding that since I started doing it and promptly lost an entire team to a range-boosted Daddy Shark (fuck that thing btw) and I guess it makes sense that I'm struggling now. Still sucks, though. I don't want to do more Act I runs. I want to get through Act II. I only have The Moon left to clear. But I really fucking need some furniture, or another room, and one of these is far less expensive than the other...
Oh well. Off to the grind mines I go, I guess.

Just spam cats to alley and feed him the retirees from there. You don't actually need to play out every run (I still do because it's fun, but from a grinding perspective, getting strays and bad kittens to feed to the house guy is the way to go).
Yeah, seems like it. The Crater is a pain in the ass (ONLY due to the boss, really); I don't want to imagine how much worse The Moon might get. It'd probably be wise to take a grinding break. :/

Thank you both for the tips.
 
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