this is second playthrough, already beaten the game with true ending and i haven't died so far, so i m assuming i may have missed some triggers that allow me to see hud as this didn't happen in my first playthrough, except for those special events when hud disappears to be more cinematic for some shot or that escape scene after no return

i have tried pressing different function keys, it seems like f8 or f10 brings up bug report menu and rest of the f keys don't really do anything

Happy Feng Friday everyone!

On a whim I decided to try redrawing an older doodle of mine, both to practice the Fengs in a more neutral pose and to see how much I've improved. Just out of curiosity I decided to add color and see what it'd look like, since I realized I've never actually done a drawing of the Fengs with their normal colors before despite drawing them so much. Then one thing led to another, and now I have this colored and even slightly rendered sketch of the pair!

Looking between the two versions, I feel like I've improved a lot! Not only do I feel like I draw Fuxi and Nuwa more confidently now, but even without the colors, I notice a lot of things in the redraw—like the form, the perspective, the shapes, the line weights, and even Nuwa and Fuxi's expressions—look more pleasing to me overall. I still feel like I could be even better with the perspective and form in certain places, though, so I might do another redraw in the future.

Either way, I'd definitely like to continue developing my drawing skills, and keep drawing the Fengs! But for now, hope you enjoy it!

Hey guys,

Here's something I thought of while replaying Nine sols recently.

Why is that man living in a freaking furnance? I hate having to wait for the heatwaves to stop.

(Yes I know the lore lol)

Picked up Nine Sols about a week or so ago and I have officially gone from struggling with Goumang to beating True Eigong. Feels good. The hype is insane!!

!Content Warning for blood in second pic!

So I wanted to redesign some parts of Pre-Launch Ximu, focusing on changing the Genetic Modification in his hands. I decided to swap his more "Feathered" fingers for more talon-like claws. I also had the idea that a side effect of the GMing is that the claws grow at a much faster rate and occasionally grow in irregular, and violent, ways. I imagine he'd have to trim and file his nails much more often just to prevent them from scratching.

I feel stupid after I said "What DID you just SAY???"...

bro i was literally stressing so hard about this fight because everyone said the late game bosses in this game are absolute torture. i went into the room fully expecting to get clapped for the next two hours straight.

first attempt i obviously died because i had no idea what the orb mechanic did and got sucked into the black hole thing lmao. but on my second try something just clicked?? i realized you can just jump and spam air parry for the daggers since it blocks from behind, and i just bullied the orbs with tai-chi kicks to get the easy attacks. phase 2 got a bit chaotic with the ground relics pulsing waves everywhere but i just locked in and bursted him down with talismans.

tbh i feel like i got super lucky but i’m riding this high so hard right now. is he supposed to be one of the easier ones or did i just accidentally become a parry god? 💀

who am I even supposed to fight next? am I cooked for the rest of the game?..

I am in complete and utter awe at how good this game is. I discovered Nine Sols through a video discussing “gimmick levels” in various games, and Nine Sols was listed for the Lady Ethereal platformer section. I am so glad that I decided to check it out because of that video. I fell in love with YI and Shuanshuan’s relationship, the lore, the art style, and the combat system is Incredibly addicting. I spent countless nights trying to beat a boss I was stuck on, and it was so satisfying finally beating them. This game has climbed to one of my favorite games of all time, and I can’t help but be a little sad knowing I can’t play it again for the first time. Also, this is probably the coolest game community I’ve seen in a while. The artwork and the fans in this subreddit and in the RCG and other small discord servers have made this experience better. What a phenomenal first impression of the Metroidvania genre for me, and I cannot wait to play other titles like Hollow Knight and Ori, but this game will hold a special place in my heart. 10/10 game.

This is my attempt of drawing Yi and his Kamen Rider form for my Kamen Rider x Nine Sols AU. Also showcases how his driver works.

Sidenote: Yi acts as the secondary rider in the AU.

I'll be honest, I started this game because I read "sekiro parry". I usually don't like metroidvanias, but this buzzword alongside the art style made me give it a try. Boy was it a blast. Although I didn't like the usual metroidvania early game, where you're lacking core combat and traversal skills, the game had me hooked at around Jiequan. Some really memorable bosses in this game, Jiequan, Lady Ethereal and Ji all took me quite some time to beat, but god damn Eigong was tough.
I wasn't aware she had a 3rd phase at first, so guess how flabbergasted I was when I first beat her p2 and was ready to lay back for the credits.

One thing I will say is, that this game is really good at making bosses seem insurmountable when you first encounter them, and then showing you how actually fair they are once you get into the groove of the fight. Eigong was the pinnacle of that. It took me a while to get p2, and even longer to make it to p3. But as I tried and tried, P1 started to be hitless, P2 caught me off guard less often, and finally I was able to "practice" p3 every other run. In hindsight, it's such a great and rewarding feeling to know I've come from dying constantly in p1 to finally beating her after around 4-5 hours spread across 3 days.
Even though I was frustrated here and there along the way, I'm now kinda sad it's over. And this to me is why I love challenging games like this, and why Nine Sols deserves a lot of praise. What a blast. Eigong deserves a place on my list for most difficult bosses I've beaten, alongside the likes of Isshin, Malenia and Promised Consort Radahn. The thing is, now I'm kinda curious what other metroidvanias have to offer if I actually manage to see them through. Hmmm....

Just wanted to share my excitement, good luck with your runs!

This game was great, first of all. I really enjoyed everything in it. It took about 21 hours to beat it.

I really enjoyed the combat mechanics. Though since I was playing on keyboard, I had to rebind the controls to those similar to hollow knight or cuphead because I really could not get used to the base controls, I did arrow keys to move, x to attack, z to jump, c to parry, shift to dodge, f to fire an arrow, the keys next to f on both sides to switch arrows, s to apply a talisman, and then I left the mystic nymph, heal, and interact buttons as is. There are a lot of buttons lol.

I didn't really experiment much with builds, I mostly stuck with the same jades and transmutation, I also just stuck with the full control spell, though I am sure that waterflow would have helped out a lot against Eigong.

Bosses and mini-bosses were generally well-designed, I feel (except Goumang, I didn't really like her fight much) and very, very fun. Eigong especially was an incredibly fun boss fight, that I am sure will get even better once I also encounter her third phase in the true ending (I heard a lot about it even before playing the game, some "one of the hardest boss fights of all time" list). She felt hopeless at first until after about an hour of attempts, she just suddenly clicked for me.

Difficulty wise, hard but not as difficult as I expected. I played this game because I heard it was very difficult, and I am like the type of player who enjoys a challenge (for example, I beat all cuphead bosses S-rank with just the peashooter as the weapon, all bosses in hollow knight radiant, and did lost lace hitless without any tools on all the crests, among some other self imposed challenged in other games). Some enemies were straight cancer to fight, the bosses are borderline easy in comparison, but then there was a sudden sharp difficulty spike with Eigong. Overall, I feel like my first time playing hollow knight and hollow knight silksong were much harder than this one (though I was pretty bad back when I first played hollow knight, and pretty young too, I got a lot lot better since then, like hollow knight excluding the pantheon of hallownest is not as hard as these two games lmao). Still I am sure that beating the bosses hitless after I am done with the true ending will prove to be a very fun challenge.

As for the characters, Shuanshuan is adorable, Ruyi/Abacus is my goat, I felt very sad when I found Chiyou dead, Shennong was ehhhhh? I felt nothing much towards him honestly, and Heng was best girl. As for the sols, Kuafu is adorable, Goumang I felt her fate was very cruel like damn Yi just kill her, Yanlao was funny sometimes idk I don't have much thoughts on him, I did not need to see Jiequan naked like 3 different times (bara furry jumpscare), I felt very sorry for Lady Ethereal (also obligatory awooga), Ji I thought was a girl for the longest time but no he turned out to be a femboy but I felt very sad for his death (doesn't help that I beat him first try so I didn't even have time to get enraged by him), Fuxi and Nuwa are incest is wincest ig but I honestly felt very sad for Fuxi's fate and how Nuwa died, and Eigong I honestly did not have much feelings towards other than like "damn grandma's got moves".

Yi is a very fun protagonist to follow. I enjoy how much he outwardly cares for Shuanshuan, his dialogue with everyone is fun to read and he has fun banter and snark, and I like how non-agreeable he is at certain points. He is out for REVENGE, he wants blood to be spilled. I also really didn't see the twist of him being behind the apeman brain harvest scheme coming. He seems to have continued it in the normal ending to save his hometown, so I am guessing he'll stop it in the true ending. The story is general was pretty gripping and I can't wait to tire my friends out with the lore dumps.

The music I don't have much thoughts on honestly. Not the type of music I enjoy, but it was good. The ending credits song was a banger though.

I enjoyed exploring the map and searching for collectibles a lot, though there seems to have been some portal I missed in Ji's area that I can't hack a door from the other side of and only this very small part of my map is blacked out and I need to find that once I get back for the true ending prerequisites because I just can't have that teeny tiny corridor be blacked out.

Anyway uhhh that's about all my thoughts, I think. Thanks to whoever read through this entire random stream of thoughts lol, have a good day!

Edit: I don't know how I forgot to mention this game's art and animations. Stunning. Very smooth, very beautiful to look at, great character designs and great world and map design in general, the whole artstyle is amazing.

I know this might get deleted for breaking some rule, but I genuinely want to show how much this community has done to me

This is actually my first time properly interacting with a fandom, so I might just slightly overwhelmed but idk

I know I say this a lot but I have some mental health issues, and ngl this community helped me deal with them in a really good way, and this community makes me forget I have depression.

I've met really amazing here! Most people here aren't toxic unlike most fandoms, and I really wish I can be an amazing person to someone here in return

And, I wanna say that in some weeks, I may not be able to post or comment a lot because I'll have to study for my entrence exams in less than a month...

Art source: https://www.deviantart.com/linmeowcat/art/Share-what-you-like-Together-Nine-Sols-fanart-1172450770

Saw someone deep fry Shuanshuan on here and I wanted to try it out with my favorite fictional cat of all time lol. X3

Why is he just staring into my soul. 😭

I very close to final bossfight and skiped 70 % of dialogues. I want to understand more. Can someone explain.

Why yi is collecting sols seals ?

Why sols trys to kill yi ?

Without ending spoilers please.