Another DD, another folder full of videos from me

https://mega.nz/folder/WQ91HBxL#X4-j8Mj7H30Ai3aevWFEmA

Great intro

Once again, I have tried One Armed Bandit. 

I think decreasing the amount of starting items was a good idea because you only really need enough power to defeat a couple of dice before you have a build in the making. Also, I noticed more chests this time around which is pretty good for run variety.

This time around I defeated the boss far more easily than last time. I think stacking blue remains the most powerful strategy. Stacking red or green are both inferior to red/blue or green/blue too. 

It's sorta like in MTG where the consistency boost of running a single color is so great that cards that require multiple colors must be absolutely broken to compete, only it's the opposite here and when there's a lot of RNG the goal of the game is usually to decrease it. Hence why I think most players will try to build red/blue to capitalize on that single hybrid symbol you start with. 

Yellow remains absolute garbage and will get you killed against the boss. Totally worth it to pay 50 to get rid of the single yellow symbol you start with. I found other options from the store to be too expensive most of the time and leftover chips are useful against the boss anyways since you can pay 15 on a blue/yellow match to decrease his power. 

Besides that the only bug I encountered was that the cursor would freak out when hovered outside of the playable area, but that only happened in my 2K monitor so that might be hardware specific.  

I keep playing and I still don't understand what I'm doing but I have fun with the minigames. I've yet to score a single winning run but I feel this game has sovl potential that not a lot of other games have.

Looking forward for next release!

good as always. i won with a bunch of different color builds

• i liked the changes to big coin stacks
• unsure how i feel about the changes to the starting build. i hate lemon and didn't really like the retaliate or red bone, but i almost get the sense that something is missing when you start with such a plain build
• 150 chips feels too cheap to buy artifacts(? idk what they're called)
• mouse support is appreciated! it’s nice that it works even with the extra turn token
• chip gain isn’t as polished as the rest of the events that activate. for example, bitcoin will pop up with how much it’s value has changed, but it’s not clear at a glance how many chips you gained from chip gain events. it's not a big deal, though
• (a bug i noticed in the old build but wasn’t find the amulet to test yet) the less cost effective money shield amulet (i forgot the name) applies instead even when money shield status is active
• tutorials were good and non-intrusive
• a fun bug i’ll miss when you fix it – if you reset the game while selecting an icon on the overworld you get to NG+ with that option
• you used to be able to crash the game by resetting in the title screen, but you probably noticed that because you can’t reset there anymore

i hesitate to offer design suggestions about where you should go with this in the future cause you probably have a better idea of what you're doing than my theorycrafting

Damn, this is some serious progress. Well done man. The game is getting really good. Absolutely love the new intro. Visually, everything looks better and more crisp too. Most importantly, the play experience is really smooth. It no longer feels crushingly difficult or tedious at all. In fact, it's starting to feel quite fun! I tried to go nuts on aggressive symbols, and just shred people. Then Spike got me good. I will go back with more defense next time I face him. That sort of thing is a lot of fun, experimenting and seeing what works. It feels great when I get a giant web of red symbols though and just shred an enemy like they're nothing.

Keep doing what you're doing. 

Oh yeah, one small suggestion. You have hover tooltips on lots of things which are great. They might be nice on the actual reels too though. Because sometimes when my reels stop, I can't quite remember what each symbol does. Being able to hover over it and see a tooltip would be nice.

Love the pachinko minigame, played a few times before getting to the end. A blue/red builds seem much better than green/other colors since you start with the red/blue token, also removing things from the reel is really cheap it seems easy to be able to always get 4-6 matches after removing other colors, maybe that's intentional though since its really fun to get a lot of matches and the rng doesn't feel bad since you have a lot of control over your colors.

Just wanted to tell you that I am playing your game and loving it, it reminds me a lot of dicey dungeons, but this has a lot more flare.