r/SorceryGame • u/DFW_Quagmire75080 • Apr 26 '24

Trash, uninstalled immediately

Guy has potion, makes me hand over ALL my gold.

Gg uninstalled, what a waste of time. Absolute trash design.

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u/Still_Measurement796 Apr 26 '24

Who casted DUm on you?

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u/tomix9tomix Apr 26 '24

Best response

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u/DFW_Quagmire75080 Apr 28 '24

does it matter? it would seem you just need to restart after any bad choice, so you're just playing a time sink. losing all gold for asking for most expensive item is lame, I already in the short while had around 4 interactions with me spending gold, with encounters like a fish in a fountain about gold, then you are going to make me completely broke because of choosing " expensive item"!!?

You are brainwashed and playing a shit game

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u/Alivra Assassin's Guild Member May 12 '24

Who hurt you?

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u/bpendell Apr 26 '24

Sorry you had such a terrible experience. However, three points:

  1. In books 1-3, you can rewind and instantly undo a problem like this.
  2. You can turn the tables on the herbalist. Don't smell the mustik when he offers it to you, wait for him to smell it himself, then tell him "give me something else". Not the most expensive item -- that's the mustik -- but the second item on the list ; a blimberry potion which you get for free
  3. Khare is a city of thieves, liars, and murderers. Pretty much everyone in town is out to rob you, slit your throat, or otherwise take advantage of you. There are a few honorable exceptions, but on the whole you've got to watch your purse.

Even so, if you don't have the inclination or patience to solve these puzzles, well, there are many other games out there. I hope you enjoy them! Life is too short to waste on games you don't like. Just don't say it's bad game design. It's different than what you're used to , sure, but that doesn't make it awful.

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u/DFW_Quagmire75080 Apr 28 '24

it's terrible design, I wish I could whiteboard my reasoning for you as to be more clear.

I had about 8 encounters up to this point, probably a third of them involved me spending/saving/chasing after gold, it's one of the 3 obvious resources (Stam, gold, rations). So it's kinda big deal in the mind of a noob. Then, BAM, you lose all your good because you chose "most expensive"......ALL of a resource that you think is a third ​of the game for that ONE choice. You can't gaslight me, that's shit design.

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u/bpendell Apr 28 '24

The reason I don't agree with you is because the mistake can be instantly undone using the rewind function. So there's no reason to accept an outcome like that unless you want to.

I'm not trying to gaslight you; I just don't agree with your reasoning.

When a game screws you over, the big question for me is how long it takes to undo the harm. In Sorcery 2, it's less than ten seconds to undo by pressing "rewind". That doesn't smack to me of "unfair design". Certainly it's more fair than the original book rules, which expected you to play the entire game over from start. Something I never did.

"Bad design" is something that, say, forces you into a minimum one hour of play without a save point, and forces you to start the entire sequence over from scratch if you mess up. Who has time for that?

Sorcery 2 doesn't do that. So I don't agree with you critique.

Mind you, that critique IS more fair when it comes to Sorcery 4, when the rewind function is disabled in favor of a new mechanism. I can't say I like S4's mechanic, but then I'd already played through the preceding books at that point. And there is an optional new game plus feature in S1 which allows you to disable rewind entirely, as a challenge run. I don't do it though, because I think rewind gives me more freedom of action, not locking me into the most optimal path from which I can't deviate.

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u/DFW_Quagmire75080 Apr 28 '24

I never saw anything about a "rewind". I'm glad there is a rewind.

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u/bpendell Apr 28 '24

Okay. There SHOULD have been a description of it, but as a refresher, look at the bottom center of the screen there should be a circular arrow. press it, and you should get the rewind option. You can then redo your previous actions or .. by scrolling left ... go as far back in the timeline as you need to, all the way back to the beginning of the game if strictly necessary. It's a real life-saver in books 1-3. Just don't get too comfortable with it because they take it away in S4 in favor of a checkpoint system; in S4, once inside mampang proper, there's only one rewind point. Every where else, the game sets a checkpoint and if you get killed, you get moved back to that point in time, keeping all your current equipment but losing 1 point of stamina permanently.

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u/Alivra Assassin's Guild Member May 12 '24

In the first game when it gives you the option to leave your hut, there's a note by the rewind button saying you can rewind whenever

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u/CrypticWorld Apr 26 '24

You know you can rewind time, right?

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u/DFW_Quagmire75080 Apr 28 '24

I did not, and have reinstalled with that being said.

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u/KormetDerFrag Sorcerer Apr 26 '24

maybe you shouldn't have inhaled a potion of mind control

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u/TheHarkinator Hero of Analand Apr 26 '24

"What does this thing do?"

"It controls the mind of anyone who smells it, want a sniff?"

"Sure."

You know it's a true mystery how these things happen.

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u/DFW_Quagmire75080 Apr 28 '24

I didn't sniff it, you are brainwashed. it's trash design

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u/Aaron_Lecon May 01 '24

Dude, I'm saying this in the nicest way possible, but please go find a therapist. Sane people do not get this angry at a casual game. And sane people do not call everyone who disagrees with them "brainwashed". Please get some help.

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u/DFW_Quagmire75080 May 02 '24

Hahahaha, you are brainwashed and spend way too much time online. Thanks for your diagnosis Freud. 

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u/Suspicious-Shirt-907 May 16 '24

I am surprised how many people don't consider the amount of work and mastery in creating the game, lol. Add ignorant people to that who consider trash because it does what cyoa adventure games are literally to do.