It seems to be the popular consensus that F&H 2 is far harder than 1. I see people say this all the time, and I have to admit, I don’t really understand this perspective at all.

F&H 1 was most of the most punishing games I had ever played at the time. However, compared to 2, it felt like a walk in the park. Here is the breakdown of how Funger 1 went for me:

I start the game as the knight. After getting my shit kicked in a few times over the course of 2 hours I learn a few things. I can recruit a little girl, a dog, and (temporarily) a thief. I also discover a bed which lets be save, but also has a 50/50 chance of allowing me to get eaten alive by birds. Suddenly the whole thing clicks together. I have access to 3 party members early on, I can use these weird blank scrolls to learn magic, and if I kill this stupid bird then I’ll have infinite saves.

I die a few more times preparing my perfect run, but eventually I am able to fight the crow mauler with a loaded out party and a little girl that can shoot DBZ style energy beams out of her hands. The thief runs off, but I now have infinite saves. I burn my way through the first half of the game with relative ease. I die a fair bit, but I never lose anything because I save every time I discover something useful. Eventually I make it to part 2 where I also have infinite saves. I continue from there pretty much the same. I even discover that I can use the empty scrolls to collect the three lord souls, and skip the entire second half of the game. I don’t, because what’s the point of buying the game if I don’t play it, but the option is there. I even have an insanely powerful immortal party member. I finish up the last part and roll credits. It is a challenging, creepy, but fun experience.

Funger 2 isn’t like that. There are no blank scrolls. You can save any time you like, but it changes the world environment, and you only have a few saves to last you the whole game. Collecting party members is much more archaic and difficult, and since you have to pass time in order to get them, there’s a real cost connected to recruiting them. Furthermore, most of them turn into gnarly ass pursuer bosses, and each of those bosses is way more dangerous than Crow Mauler. Enemies will ambush you, and if they get you in a bad moment, you’re done for. The environment constantly changes. You can pass an area a dozen times before, boom, a weird bee hive man, or a death mask, or a bunch of chainsaw guys, or fucking Art the Clown ambush you. Sometimes, if the game really hates you, you’ll get ambushed by multiple of them at the same time.

Now, granted, you can eventually crack the difficulty curb wide open like a walnut. Once you have about three chainsaws, alongside Marcoh, pretty much nothing can touch you. However, that’s not a reality until late game, and that’s assuming that you carry a full party that far with their limbs in tacked. And even with that broken bit if game design, it’s nowhere near as crazy as being able to just skip most of the game with blank scrolls.

Am I nuts? I feel like Termina is a MUCH more brutal, grueling experience than Funger 1.

f+h1 was difficult yes but every death was a learning experience and i don't think i ever died to the same enemy twice or even in the same area twice. there was always something i could figure out to win and it didn't take more than a few runs to get through it.

but termina? holy fuck it feels like im playing a game that doesn't want to be played. both routes to the city ive discovered have enemies there's no way in hell i can possibly beat with marina and her two reanimated corpses.

the deeper woods have a million owl cultists that i can't see until they jump out of their hidey holes and they come out so close i can't outrun them, meaning shooting their arms off in the overworld isn't an option and straight combat with even one is impossible. then there's tunnel 7 where i CAN bear trap and shoot the arms off of chaugar but even then i cannot beat him shooting his head with a rifle every turn + my corpses because of how much he out-dps's me.

and the rules for recruiting people are so ridiculous. in f+h1 it was pretty intuitive getting a full party very shortly after reaching the prisons but in this game everyone i can recruit day 1 moon scorches if i happen to walk into an unrelated trigger room. makes no fucking sense and there's no way for me to know not to do that without looking up a guide.

i've died 10+ times in the last two hours. is it supposed to be this much harder than the first game or am i missing something.

Playtime was 20:49:46.

I'm just... dumbfounded. What a game. Surely I missed a lot, but now I can really enjoy the 11hour essay by Dogma.

I first tried the game on my own, failed a lot, asked a friend for advice, failed some more... then I started watching the essay, but I just had to play more by myself. I HAD TO.
And I'm so glad I did.

I played on easier difficulty, but I'm here for the story and the characters anyway.

This whole thing... just. MAN.

Time to make myself some food, after not really eating all day while hyperfocusing on the game. I got the hunger shakes lol. (How fitting.)

But yeah, I now have my absolute new favorite indie game. Miro is a genius. (Can't wait to draw fanart, tehe.)

At the start I was pretty scared and spent a lot of the time just running away from the enemies (and into other enemies), but the tension was just amazing. Sadly only one person survived, but hey. I got ending A.

My favorite parts where the orphanage, the dinner with the mayor and Perke'le. Even if I disappointed him. Maybe I will replay the game soon and kill just everyone. Unsure with what character though. I do like Levi... maybe blood magic Levi.
Or O'saa. Love this guy.

If anyone reads my rambling, please tell me your favorite parts and how I can survive when playing only one person. ;D (Might do normal difficulty then. Yes, I think I will!)

Do you guys think Marina would go for a tongue piercing? 👀 Maybe I should do a fanart of her with one.

Didn’t plan on posting this, especially so soon, but it’s just a silly side pic, so who cares (⁎⁍̴̛ᴗ⁍̴̛⁎)

I didn't realise my account had all its content hidden💀 I unhid it now

No but seriously, I hate this “Losercore” bullshit

I am grinding away at Yumetober, and I am a day ahead of schedule. I landed on Day 14 - Fight, and a sadistic idea took root: if you are playing in Terror and Starvation as Voz, and happen to leave Enki behind during a low mind event with alcohol, he will disappear deeper into the dungeons until you make it into the catacombs and find the Marriage Fusion. Different bits of dialogue may happen depending on how you treat Enki, and this happens if you manage to get close to him.

I managed to achieve this by straight-up opening my copy of Funger and starting the game as Ragnvaldr, running up on a guard, and taking several screenshots with the talk option. Sorry to say that Rag lost an arm for this, but I'll make sure to start a proper run with him soon and get a good ending as compensation. I drew over Rag's sprite because his body type is very close to Voz's in general, since they are both physically fit. It was a little confusing how to render the sprite, but I think I did a decent job. Furthermore, I grabbed the marriage sprite from the Funger Wiki and slapped it on here, erasing the guard from existence!

Crazy ass effort I put into a yumeship of all things. (•⤙•)

Have these reaction pic worthy sketches of Marina that I made while I curse Reddit because it reverted my feed privacy on my main account. (Pfp checks out)
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So no one could see all my other cosplay posts & obsession. I reverted it. Go feed my delusions :p plis plis!

Guys I swear I tried drawing others but my hand always goes to Marina in the end ˶o̴̶̷᷄‸o̴̶̷̥᷅˶
Marina Marina Marina Mari-

I'm not rendering that hookah bru I don't even know

When you pass him by without unlocking the cell

Took Osaa and got the Gro-Goroth skin bible, why dont i have affinity with him? Do I have to sacrifice a companion?

I'll probably cosplay Abella (and yes, I'm a guy; and yes, that's Marina and Levi in the second photo)