Stumbling through Core of Innocence

[davidn]

Pudding Hat Games released Core of Innocence after a record-breakingly long time in production! And I gave it a spin, recording the experience and getting much more into it than I had first thought - even as this video was uploading I was back trying to defeat a huge annoying plant boss.

At its heart, it's a Metroidvania game, but it has a couple of extra dimensions that took me by surprise. Download and play it yourself!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2tm7uDCkkY&hd=1

Note that this video contains pixel nudity. I don't say that as a warning - more of an advertisement.

Comments

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Okay, wow. When the loading screen mentioned mature content, it wasn't kidding.

I just got through the bonus dungeon area, the Twisted Nether, and...well, I could mention that there are naked (and presumably dead) female bodies tethered to the walls/ceilings all over the place, but that kinda pales in comparison: about 4 rooms in you find the last quest of the game, which is literally to save a girl currently being tentacle-raped to death. I'm not joking in the slightest there; short of actually showing her genitalia it's just full blown hentai, right up to when you finally get it to let her go and...well, whatever bodily fluid she was being filled up with splashes out.


Not something I have a problem with, mind you, just putting that out there for everyone....truth be told, the only problem I had was with the final dungeon. I literally wound up stumbling into the final boss' chamber without any kind of warning whatsoever...all the more annoying upon realizing that A) I hadn't saved since the START of said dungeon, making me lose everything I got there, and B) had I gone left instead of right, I'd have found a save point.

Oh well.

[davidn]

Er, wow - that's something I wasn't expecting! That beats the surprise of an inverted castle.

That sounds like the game going too far for me - until then I would have said the 'mature' rating was something of a misnomer because until then it's just wall-to-wall tits, which I find quite pleasant but not deeply exciting - it's teenage stuff :) But that's stepping a bit further than I expected into a real and very explicit fetish - I'll have to let you know once I've seen it for myself...

I find myself a bit stuck just now! I have an item that allows me to get past the... malevolent fog of the Welsh marshes or something, but don't know where to use it because the only actual obstacle in my way of obvious progress is huge pits of lava.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Etan's Ring, right? That lets you go into the Twisted Nether without being instantly killed before you get to the first mook (which will then do the job for you....oh, did I mention it's full of palette-swapped enemies that are about 500x stronger than their regular counterparts?)

Oh, and while we're on the subject of that quest and fetishes, your reward for it is an accessory called a "Shibari Rope," which is basically just a rope tied around the character in a 50 Shades fashion. O_o;


Anyway, I'd save the Infernal Pits for later, once you've gotten some better equipment (and, if you haven't yet, the Heat Shield item).


OH! Right! Food for thought....if you can get your Regeneration stat high enough, the "super-long casting time and colossal damage" spells will be your best friend. That's basically how I beat most of the bosses; by the time the spell had finished casting (and thus made me vulnerable to damage again), I had recovered all of my SP and was ready to do it again. Holy Rain's a personal favorite.