20th September 2023, 1:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 20th September 2023, 1:28 AM by Sacred Jellybean.)
As an addendum, I was pretty drunk when I wrote the above (but it was very much sincere and didn't take much proofreading to make it legible and retain the original spirit). So, 4 days removed, I'm still grudgingly coming back to Echoes. I have no idea why. The game is annoying as fuck. I just had to fight a boss where the little scan info said "WHEN YOU STUN THIS ENEMY, SHOOT ITS FOUR WEAK SPOTS".
Okay, cool. Hey, why isn't it working? My beam won't target that. Damn it. Can I hit it manually? No. Will my seeker missiles recognize it? No. Dark Beam, Light Beam? No and no. Yup, back to YouTube to figure out what the fuck I'm doing wrong. It took me a minute, but I figured out that you have to be behind the damn thing to get it to work.
Okay, here's an even worse mistake. In Torvus Bog, the game literally tells you the opposite of what you need to do. "Hey beanjo, shoot the bottom of this platform with a dark beam to get it to flip over!" Okay. Um. It's not doing anything. Do I need to use the charge dark beam? Nope. What??? Back to YouTube. Nope, it's actually the light beam that does it. What in the flying fuck, how did this get past QA??
"Hey, here's a white crystal on the side of a platform, shoot it to activate it. lol nah, it's actually the dark beam that energizes it." Why would you create a white receptacle that requires a dark beam? Don't the light and dark elementals mix together like oil and water? What the HELL are you talking about, Retro? This is entirely implausible. I know engineers aren't always the best with UX design, but come on! Get your shit together, Ing and Luminoth.
Okay, cool. Hey, why isn't it working? My beam won't target that. Damn it. Can I hit it manually? No. Will my seeker missiles recognize it? No. Dark Beam, Light Beam? No and no. Yup, back to YouTube to figure out what the fuck I'm doing wrong. It took me a minute, but I figured out that you have to be behind the damn thing to get it to work.
Okay, here's an even worse mistake. In Torvus Bog, the game literally tells you the opposite of what you need to do. "Hey beanjo, shoot the bottom of this platform with a dark beam to get it to flip over!" Okay. Um. It's not doing anything. Do I need to use the charge dark beam? Nope. What??? Back to YouTube. Nope, it's actually the light beam that does it. What in the flying fuck, how did this get past QA??
"Hey, here's a white crystal on the side of a platform, shoot it to activate it. lol nah, it's actually the dark beam that energizes it." Why would you create a white receptacle that requires a dark beam? Don't the light and dark elementals mix together like oil and water? What the HELL are you talking about, Retro? This is entirely implausible. I know engineers aren't always the best with UX design, but come on! Get your shit together, Ing and Luminoth.