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I didn't end up bothering with those since I'd only found five naturally and would've definitely had to use a guide to get the rest, which sorta defeats the purpose.

Just a heads up that one of them is not possible to get on your own: The mural

Male: Amir
Female: Priya
Last: Patel, Kim

The 5 cat item was actually the last item I found. Just could not find those codes.

The item was fine, but I felt like it was a little limited in terms of applications.

I thought so too but I actually grabbed a different match that's a little bit after that one and backtracked.

Yeah I had the same feeling when I realized. Fortunately it's apparently just a bonus and not anything important.

If you are missing a match, there's one near the very beginning that's easy to miss. It's right above the platform that you have to raise with a crank.

Depends on what you mean by full

Kenri posted...

ESA is really good but if you want to 100% it without using guides, good luck. Some of the latter parts of that game are incredibly obtuse.

Yeah, Animal Well is kinda like this which is why I'm not gonna 100% it. Some of the "layer 3" puzzles are set up so that you don't even realize they're puzzles, and I expect ESA is probably the same way.

Whatever brewed coffee they have available with no cream or sugar

I've never known it to mean specifically dark roast

foolm0r0n posted...

it's the Baba Is You guy

Ok now I'm intrigued

If anyone is still reading this:

Has anyone played Environmental Station Alpha? I'm seeing people compare Animal Well to it, but this is literally the first I'm hearing of it.

Used a guide to find the last six eggs and got the second ending.

There's still more to do (I apparently need 15 more rabbits), but I think that stuff is probably deeper than I want to delve in this game.

Might just read about what I'm missing.

More post credits stuff

Wheel get. I guess I just need to finish my egg collection now.

I played it on Switch which has the benefit of switching to touchscreen as needed

I don't think precision was super necessary but might make for a more enjoyable experience

I do not think it is worth going that way (and I also tried).

I ended up coming from the other direction and it also wasn't helpful, but I have a hunch as to why.

foolm0r0n posted...

Just got here lol. Gonna try it later but it doesn't seem too bad.

And I got the 32 egg item and also don't know where to use it. There was one place that I thought made a lot of sense but it did nothing. Those cubes with a face on them in the water area

Yeah, it wound up not being so bad. My main issue was that I thought I had to disc jump climb, which is unnecessarily difficult. Don't ask why I thought that was the right approach.

For the 32 egg item, there's one room near the bottom left of the map where it's important and will allow you to figure out where to use it.

More progress. Got tired of looking for the final match and looked it up, only to find out I missed the very first one in the game.

Got the UV Lantern and the B. Ball. I hate the B. Ball.

Post-credits progress

51/64 eggs
8/9 candles lit
4/??? rabbits
3/5? cats

I have the Remote, B.B. Wand, S. Medallion (used), and one K. Fragment (used)

azuarc posted...

If the worst part to a game that has weapon durability somehow isn't the weapon durability, you've done something horribly, horribly wrong

Not really sure what you mean by this.

Anyway Animal Well is good. I honestly don't want to say too much about it because there's some fun surprises. As I mentioned before, there's no real combat, so that's something to consider-- it is mostly puzzles and platforming.

Bane_Of_Despair posted...

Dunkey is cringe but also why are yall getting all "Well actually" on some indie game getting acclaim when stuff like BotW and TotK get 10/10s heaved onto them and nobody bats an eye lol

This has just become a topic of people hating on games I loved

(Well, BotW, not TotK)

I've been doing some post-credits stuff and I don't know what I'm doing any more

I've gotten two rabbits, I guess? I also clearly need to find the last match and light the last candle to open a door...though I no longer have any idea where that candle is.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e46eebaa.jpg
lmao ok fuck you game

Wanglicious posted...

the praise is coming because of who the publisher is.
big mode is dunkey's project of going from youtuber to gaming publisher and this is their first game released. basically he made a promise that games released here would be of a certain quality and he's living up to his standards.

I saw this at Day of the Devs before Dunkey launched his publisher business, so that really doesn't have anything to do with it for me.

MacArrowny posted...

some people thought Tunic was a 10/10 too. I don't get it

Tunic is probably a 10/10 game for me, but I love meta-puzzlers like that, and I have very fond memories of the Zelda 1 instruction manual.

NBIceman posted...

Platforming, puzzles, and Metroidvania? I know nothing about this game - any similarity to La-Mulana?

It is much more forgiving than La Mulana. The puzzles are also less obtuse, and there's not really any combat. There are some similarities in that the game does not explicitly tell you how items and other stuff works.

WazzupGenius00 posted...

Got about 25 eggs so far and cleared two of the icons from the map

I went about half the game not realizing what the Stamp did so I might end up having to backtrack all over the place

Yeah I am regretting not marking the locations of certain things

If you platforming, puzzles, and Metroidvania, it does all of these pretty well

I'm very much enjoying it

Cockatoo, maybe

Although there is that sidequest in Disco Elysium

foolm0r0n posted...

There's a bunch of types of black coffee. Pretty much everyone likes french press.

Cold brew is probably what I would choose as a black coffee for non-coffee drinkers

Although diluted or served in a smaller portion

This is a game that I've been thinking about playing for a while, but I've never been sure if I would love it or hate it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_horn

I guess I'll tag this

I think the S23 and S24 are pretty similar from what I've seen

Not quite the same, but I have an S23 Ultra and I'm pretty happy with it

Less than 4,000 have been delivered...I figured it was low, but not that low

Crows should be separated out

Where are the oppossums

This seems like an ad rev/monetization decision. Advertisers tend to be a bit iffy about user-generated content, so this is the heavy-handed approach to appeal to them. It's easier to guarantee your advertisers won't risk their ads appearing next to a psychotic political post if you just don't allow politics at all (or "hornyposting" lol).

GameFAQs likely drives so little revenue compared to the rest of their content that it's more of a liability than anything else to Fandom.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/add6701c.jpg

As someone who might be visiting Albuquerque and Santa Fe in a few weeks, what should I do there

Besides Meow Wolf

Your loss; Valentina's was amazing

I have to say that paying mortgage for a portion of a building as your home definitely complicates things

But the standard deduction still ended up being better so not sure it even mattered in the end

Both the BBQ and Tex-Mex in Austin is very good

Especially Valentina's, which is both

I don't have any issues with Austin food-wise

I've only been to Austin but I was unimpressed

And it sounds like that was the "good" part of Texas

Just tried the infamous $22 birria burrito

It was very good, though so rich that I probably should have saved half for later. I'm not normally the sort of person who shares burritos but I actually think it would be warranted in this case.

foolm0r0n posted...

Those aren't the best examples. Wagyu sandwiches do typically get into the $30-40 range, same with lobster rolls. You should suspect ones that don't since they are probably fake and bad. Banh mi is supposed to be $4 for the same reason, since the $10-15 ones typically taste worse with a bunch of extra crap.

Complaining about a birria burrito for $22 is different though. Birria is a super premium food that should be expensive, but burritos and Mexican food in general are seen as cheap crap food in the US. So that one is more about racism than actual value judgment.

To be clear, I wasn't directly comparing the banh mi and a wagyu sandwich, but rather just sandwiches in general. I will say there's a lot of stuff that's advertised as "wagyu" without any real connection to Japanese wagyu.

Disagree with the idea that more expensive banh mis are necessarily worse, and this is kinda my point-- other sandwiches are allowed to experiment with more expensive ingredients (or alternatively claim cost of labor, but that's another thing), but if you do something similar with a banh mi then people object.

XIII_Rocks posted...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/21/harrods-28-sandwich-we-find-out-if-the-taste-matches-the-price-tag

Reminds me of this article I remember reading last year

Oh hey, that is pretty much exactly my hypothetical haha. Though apparently more expensive since that'd work out to a but over $35.

Something I find interesting is how people view different types of food and how much they "should" cost.

I keep seeing a bunch of posts about a $22 birria burrito in SF. When I see how many people are outraged about it, I wonder if they would be similarly outraged by a $22 sandwich that advertised itself as a wagyu brisket sandwich with an artisan bun baked in-house. I also wonder how many of those same people would say that a banh mi should be no more than $3.50, while not applying the same standards to other sandwiches.

Wanglicious posted...

this honestly doesn't surprise me. i mean i'm always down to try places and have had my share of 'good but not great' types. biggest issue i've found with any "top bar" is that there's always something they claim to be good at but aren't really. in the case of Dante, i wouldn't bother with the Negroni personally. the signature stuff is consistently great but that category of drinks, even the bartenders are aware isn't their best offering.

Well if you want to try some other cocktail bars in NYC:

Mace
Amor y Amargo
PDT

These are all pretty great cocktail bars that are among some of the best I've been to. Although that's also assuming none of them went downhill since I last was in NYC. I've also heard a lot of good things about Double Chicken Please, and Death & Co is a classic. People also love Attaboy, but I had a pretty underwhelming experience there.

iiaattgg posted...

I dont think theres ever been a time where I regret spending some absurd amount of money on a dish. Its always been worth the price. Of course, this only applies to when money was not a big factor. I would certainly have regrets it I bought a 200 dollar steak and I was late on rent or something

I don't know if regret is the right word, but I've definitely had some high-priced meals that were kinda forgettable overall (aside from like one or two dishes). Others were so good that I still think about them. I feel like it can kinda be hard to tell which of the two you're gonna get, and it's a little disappointing when a meal is closer to the former.

...I know what a Grasshopper is

But yeah 50 Best Bars tends to be very weird in their selections, and it seems like it is highly influenced by money/connections from I've heard (just like everything else, I guess).

I remember their top pick for SF was ABV, a bar that is just "fine". They also had the Camparino in Milan on a recent list, and that bar is pretty mediocre despite the fact that I really enjoy Campari.

I'll give it a try next time I'm in NYC, but I kinda doubt it's top 5 in Manhattan, let alone the country

Although this did get me curious about the prices of some of my favorite NYC cocktail bars since I haven't been there since 2019, and yeah they're all $18+ now

Sorry Wang but I looked at the menu of that place and

COSMOGRONI
grey goose l'citron. noilly dry luxardo. bitter bianco rose & cranberry 19

Yeah that's not worth $19, and I highly question their ability when I see "noilly dry luxardo".