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Phoenotopia: Awakening is a gosh darn delight
- Thread starter narcodis
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I've been addicted to the soundtrack of this game.
It's worth a solid listen all the way through, but if you're intimidated by its length, the Overworld Castella tracks are great, and the boss battle is A+.
It's worth a solid listen all the way through, but if you're intimidated by its length, the Overworld Castella tracks are great, and the boss battle is A+.
Still playin this! Going thru and doing a lot of sidequests and exploring some of the areas beyond the wall I had mostly skipped past. I got myself some Dream Ore, which got me the best bat weapon in the game. Turns out it was at the end of a big long fetch-quest sorta thing, which included using a robot dog to sniff out criminals, playing another game of hide and seek, and getting an advance copy of a thrilling fantasy novel. Fun! I also found two antique pins, one from the original GEO base (which had a segment that required me to maneuver past a Wendigo in dark close-quarters hallway, jesus that was scary). I was able to exchange them for a heart ruby and some lucky earrings that apparently increase drop rates from monsters. Haven't really tried em out much yet though, but I also never felt like monsters weren't dropping stuff enough. Pretty fun stuff.
There's so many more moonstones I want to get. The only normal item I haven't upgraded yet is the Lamp, but I also just found an old busted up Blaster gun, during a revisit of Daea castle. I took it over to Thomas' lab, and turns out that's gonna cost me another 10 moonstones. Also I have the option to give Fran 10 more moonstones, not sure what that will do though since I've already got all the teleporters active, but who knows! I'm sure SOMETHING will happen, because that's just typical Phoenotopia to have an endless amount of stuff!!
Lots of puzzling stuff, still, too. There's a harpy who wants something super shiny, like the shiniest human thing possible, which I am clueless about, and there's still a bunch of lunar artifacts to collect I assume, or at least there's a frying pan there at the museum that seems like something I want to have, not sure how to get it.
There's a few things I'm pretty sure I'll never collect. Like the Archery game in Daea... I don't even understand how it's possible. Maybe having the triple-slingshot helps, or maybe you're supposed to be swapping back and forth between projectiles. I dont know. It's just really hard, and the targets disappear too damn fast to make sense of it.
There's so many more moonstones I want to get. The only normal item I haven't upgraded yet is the Lamp, but I also just found an old busted up Blaster gun, during a revisit of Daea castle. I took it over to Thomas' lab, and turns out that's gonna cost me another 10 moonstones. Also I have the option to give Fran 10 more moonstones, not sure what that will do though since I've already got all the teleporters active, but who knows! I'm sure SOMETHING will happen, because that's just typical Phoenotopia to have an endless amount of stuff!!
Lots of puzzling stuff, still, too. There's a harpy who wants something super shiny, like the shiniest human thing possible, which I am clueless about, and there's still a bunch of lunar artifacts to collect I assume, or at least there's a frying pan there at the museum that seems like something I want to have, not sure how to get it.
There's a few things I'm pretty sure I'll never collect. Like the Archery game in Daea... I don't even understand how it's possible. Maybe having the triple-slingshot helps, or maybe you're supposed to be swapping back and forth between projectiles. I dont know. It's just really hard, and the targets disappear too damn fast to make sense of it.
I think I'm done for the moment, I ended up with 82% of hearts and energy gems and somewhere in the 60s with moonstones. But what a journey! I never would have guessed that this game would pull me in like it did. If you want to know about those last two items:
Super shiny - Give Fran another 10 moonstones. I'd prioritize this, there's a suuuper helpful item in the area the harpy will bring you to.
Cast Iron Pan - More artifacts! Slows the clock on cooking stuff.
Super shiny - Give Fran another 10 moonstones. I'd prioritize this, there's a suuuper helpful item in the area the harpy will bring you to.
Cast Iron Pan - More artifacts! Slows the clock on cooking stuff.
I’m getting very bad frameskips and hangs where there wasn’t before. Eg. The artillery arboars on the way to the fishing spot at the End of the World.
Even fishing spots are having issues due to the number of sprites. I dunno how to flag the dev team to let them know or how to downgrade my version.
Tested the game again in docked and handheld more, and no issues. Whether it's due to the patch or not, I don't know but it seems fine now.
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Hm. I'm curious what might've caused this. I've heard that sometimes fully closing the game and re-opening it can clear up some issues (it helped with a hardlock I encountered at the literal ending of the game), and beyond that doing a full power cycle of the Switch could also help.
In any case, I'm glad the framerate issues appear to be gone for you! Reading your post had me really gun-shy about applying the update since this is a game I've thought about revisiting, but now I feel better about going ahead and doing so.
What does the patch do, anyway?
It’s strange cos after those issues, I not only restarted the game but I also power cycled the Switch and it was reoccurring. And then it just stopped happening.
madhair60
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FWIW this has happened to me before with a different game. I think it just... can happen, very rarely.
Hey, bumping this thread because I started playing this game and it's rad! I'm really surprised that "indie Zelda 2" hasn't been mined more thoroughly, because this is really fun!
The MC's very tiny reach was frustrating at first (although I got the slime boss on my second try, and I've seen people say it was supposed to be hard, so either they've adjusted it since then or I'm doing better than I thought), but I'm finally starting to vibe with the combat (I recently got the bombs & flute, to give an idea of where I'm at progression-wise), and the puzzles have all been really good. A lot of environmental puzzle design (especially with the flute) that trusts the player to fuck around and figure things out on their own, which is extremely my jam. Also, I feel like there are tiny sequence breaks basically everywhere and there's all sorts of things I've done that I'm genuinely unsure if I was intended to do now or come back for later with different abilities.
The MC's very tiny reach was frustrating at first (although I got the slime boss on my second try, and I've seen people say it was supposed to be hard, so either they've adjusted it since then or I'm doing better than I thought), but I'm finally starting to vibe with the combat (I recently got the bombs & flute, to give an idea of where I'm at progression-wise), and the puzzles have all been really good. A lot of environmental puzzle design (especially with the flute) that trusts the player to fuck around and figure things out on their own, which is extremely my jam. Also, I feel like there are tiny sequence breaks basically everywhere and there's all sorts of things I've done that I'm genuinely unsure if I was intended to do now or come back for later with different abilities.