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Don't do Painful mode on your first LISA playthrough. The DLC is a step down in quality from the main game but has the true ending as it is a direct sequel that starts as soon as the main game ends, and as such I highly recommend getting it.

You don't have to use a guide but be aware that if something looks like it can permanently kill your party members it probably can, and the choices you make will directly affect gameplay.

Lisa doesn't have any branching paths or alternative endings, if that's what you mean well technically that's not true
Absolutely do not play with a guide, at least for a first playthrough.

I can only get one of these, so I'd like to hear some thoughts on which one I should get.

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I bought Blazing Chrome. It's pretty solid. However, unless you're intending to play the hard mode, which has limited continues and demands you learn the game, you'll probably want to wait for a deeper sale. The game is really fun but it's not a huge time sink.

is the combat fun or should I only play it for the story?

Yes. Will be a bit more of the same gameplay wise but the setting and atmosphere are very different (and imo better). Unless you play the two back to back it isn't an issue at all.

tower and sword and just Fear 1 there I saved you some bucks and you can fap tonight

Lisa is great because there is hardly distinction between the two which is strange because combat takes you to a separate screen. Naturally there are filler fights but the game as a whole is an interactive experience.

I never found painful mode that hard honestly, as long as you aren't a dumbass and remember to weaponize status effects. Also, I always thought of Joyful as more in the realm of a fangame or separate story rather than part of the canon of Painful. I don't think the lore was never that important to the story of Brad and it was better as subtext. Expanding on the yado shit just serves to distract from buddy's story imo. And then ending of joyful isn't a "true ending" of the series because this is Buddy's story. The end of joyful makes sense for Buddy and her conflict, but it feels like in order to do so it breaks the universe rules set up in Painful, like joy being an inescapable drug that literally consumes you and turns you into a mutant. The internal conflict of brad in painful was what made the story tick, and it seems like thematically joyful tries to do the same with buddy. Because of that I don't think they should be thought of as the same game, but two separate stories in the same universe.

>buying games

BEING POOR

The combat is pretty good and has a lot of potential due to the shitton of characters, there are like 35 possible party members and none of them are clones.

It's less that Painful is hard (although it does increase the difficulty in a few areas) and more that with the harshly limited number of saves, a new player won't know how to properly pace themselves between them and will wind up losing a lot of progress because they did something like use Act 3's hub save ASAP.

Combat is fun because the characters are fun and distinct, and status effects are actually important. People compare this to undertale so if you were fine with that then this should be fun too. It also doesn't feel separate from the story, and there isn't really a point in grinding imo.

How often does 3DMark go on sale?
I want to test out my 3070

DMC Collection easily.

DMC.

Yeah I get that. Looking back though if I could play it again for the first time, I would have told myself to play it on pain mode. I think one of the more memorable parts I had was when I fucked up the dialogue and lost all my shit and my arm before the last section . Obviously it sucked at the time, but I do think this game is better the more you feel lost and afraid what's next.

I need timesinks recommendations. Something on the same vein as Factorio / Rimworld.
Thinking about Satisfactory or Medieval Dynasty, both have good ratings but both EA.

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Speaking of, can someone tell me how on earth tlou2 is anything remotely like Lisa? All I know is that some gamergate dorks thought the main girl wasn't sexy enough and looked trans, and I watched the joseph anderson video on the first game and it looked terrible, but I never followed anything about the second game.

was thinking of getting sekiro and persona 4 golden

Thoughts? Opinions?

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