I legit agree, the stuff you could get hit by already did barely any damage so having the platforming get overridden by the game felt like it was taking food away before I even started to eat. There was no challenge or fun this chapter, just quirky dialogue with characters that you're not supposed to give a fuck about long term.
I've seen videos of people doing it (and presumably non-cheated), so I don't think so.
I don't think I've even used pacify past chapter 1. It's just never come up.
What was the point of choosing now to give Susie Scythemare? Did Chapter 5 have any tired enemies? I didn’t even consider using it once.
I actually did use Pacify a couple times on my (Aborted) Weird Route file where I sometimes use violence because I smacked the Terakota enemies around since it would be faster than mercy-ing them, but it turned out they got into Tired range before I could kill them so I just used Pacify to end the fight. That's a pretty specific scenario though. The introduction of Scythemare is quite puzzling, like you don't generally have multiple Tired enemies at once, and especially not in this chapter, and they even offer you armor that halves its TP cost. The only thing that comes to mind is that this is another case of Susie getting an ability someone else has so she can do everything.
I got it after like 7 tries but I had to reload my save every 2 attempts. You need precise timing but it's not rocket science by any means.
Honestly Scythemare would've been more useful if it had come into play in Chapter 4 instead of 5
Every character has to be able to do everything such that you're barely debilitated if one happens to go down, because we're balancing this around tumblroids who can't handle bad things happening to their wholesome 100 blorbos. These two things are true unless it's the blue cuck boy, because fuck him in particular.
Any bets on XSlash never appearing again after Chapter 2?
Yep, likely not going to happen. Speaking of which, it's impressive that Spamton is still one of the most interesting characters come Chapter 5, despite not being present at all there. Being chased by FRIENDs and figuring out multiple ways to divert them is more appealing to me than waddling around in some toothless Japanese place where every other character is some variety of LGBTV+.
Inclined to agree because they didn't react this way to other bad moments in previous chapters.
Toby just plans his game's acts badly. Back then he tried to cram a lot in 4 hours, now he has more time but keeps coming up with things on the fly (Which makes it impossible to make the game progress organically).
Our game wasn't designed pozzed, doebeit.
I think a big reason why the core gameplay keeps getting more watered down is because you can start the game from any chapter without a save. It's designed so that streamers and tourists can just buy the game and get straight to the new seasonal drop, without actually playing the rest of the game or building up their party and inventory.
>sending ralsei to hang himself
I'd like to add to this: One of the points of difficulty within games is to force the player to engage with the mechanics that the author placed there as part of the vision for the game. If you have every character able to do everything at once, you lose a great amount of strategy within the game. The same goes if you have the difficulty be as trivial as most of Deltarune. I'd say that this detracts from the experience.
Germanic.