Astral Ascent: A Roguelite That DESERVES Your Attention 

WOAH! Thank you for watching! You did a phenomenal job with the soundtrack. Every time I get to the final boss it feels so awesome with it playing in the background. The game is genuinely great and your contributions are a big part of that!

@@sl1ppey this is basically the best thing you can say to a composer. Thanks again!

I sit there and let the music play for like 5 mins at the start of every run. It's so good. I nominated it for best soundtrack for the steam awards. You should be very proud of your work. Not many games make me legit STOP playing them just to listen to the background music.

@@martialfarts31692 oh my god thank you so much

dale you were amazing for wizard of legend and astral ascent. music was so fluid in transition and was beautiful

and dreamscaper!

Itsa me!

@@DaleNorth very great work!

@@FakeFlameSprite thank you so, so much!

​@@DaleNorththis is so incredible to find out. Wizard of legend is still one of my favorite roguelikes. Your music is wonderful

Shoutout to Cobalt Core for deck building rouguelikes!

Risk of Rain Returns, too

Viodigo has been out for like 4 years

@@shiggitydiggity4839yeah, exactly! The EA in Steam sometimes makes it a bit harder to properly realize for how long a game has been truly out. My way is checking reviews, since review history show the real release date.

​@@shiggitydiggity4839Not on Full releases only EA

Thanks for that. It means a lot :')

Awe thanks!

Damn that's high praise. Thanks a lot!

It was me. I’m sorry. (He wasn’t sorry)

Bit harsh lol

Thank you! I honestly wouldn’t have expected someone who doesn’t play games to be into my videos lol

Hope you like it!

Hopefully you enjoyed, the bosses are great, no matter how many times you fight them they're fun. Helps that all of them look badass

Thanks! And thanks for watching!

2D Wizard of Legend? Sign me up

Same composer as wizard of legend too

Hey thanks! I think you'll enjoy this game a lot, then.

The only gameplay option I've seen is being able to turn off screen shake. Could be worth suggesting to the devs. I will say the character outline is a must for me, as I do lose track of myself otherwise.

@@sl1ppey Cheers!

Oooohh this game looks cool. Wishlisted!

Glad you enjoy it!

Thanks dood!

Thanks!

keep it up

When I’m playing Nuclear Throne going for the “Everything Hurts” achievement (basically a no-hit run) I’ll sometimes put on a podcast to distract me from how much I’m getting my ass kicked. Also, thanks a lot, Noah!

Jesus Christ.

It's so hard in general to keep up with all of the amazing indie games that come out. It's both a blessing to have so many games to play and a curse to not have the time to play them all.

What else

it's easier to parse when you're playing but yes it can get chaotic

It's not that bad when you're playing. Dead Cells feels worse in that regard imo.

Roboquest looks REALLY good. Definitely want to play it!

Yeah 100 hours in a Roguelike/lite are rookie hours.

Unfortunately, this one only has the ability to alter the screen shake. It’s one department I think they could improve upon.

@@sl1ppey oh well, Dead Cells didn't launch with em, hopefully this game will get them too at some point

Oh shit what happened with that game?

@@SahiPie abadoned because the publishers didn't see enough profit

Thinking I will. Heard amazing things and it's also on sale right now 👀

That’s Dead Cells! Another very good roguelite that Astral Ascent took inspiration from (as far as I know).

sure is!

It’s much more intuitive in practice than it sounds on paper. It’s a bit daunting at first but will become second-nature to you with a little but of time!

We did get Roboquest recently which I still need to try out (along with Gunfire Reborn)

I would say to focus on doing exploration rooms (particularly ones that reward auras at the start) as much as possible to up your chances of early spell drops to replace your starting spells, and make sure you have at least 3-5 keys on you at all times (every exploration room will have one upgrade altar. Ideally you want to always purchase the upgrades that cost 5 keys as these are always more cost efficient, but the 3 key ones are better than nothing). So don’t make the early mistake I did and do way too many fight rooms than is necessary. Make sure to claim Sun points from Sire Bapy for any challenges/achievements you’re completing to buy upgrades from Zim Zim, especially max health. Try your hand at practicing with Kiran as his signature spell counters any and instances of damage in the game. It’s a very forgiving window for the parry to activate to the point that it’s practically a free damage negation every 13 seconds. For me personally I ran with Kiran until I got better at dodging. Speaking of dodging, abuse the fuck out of your dodge. Don’t be afraid to abuse its i-frames to phase through attacks, particularly outside of boss fights where enemies gang up on you with multiple hitboxes. My natural instinct at first was to try to simply move out of the way of most attacks, but realized you kinda have to do a healthy amount of both to avoid most of the damage in this game.

which is so weird being that I’m an Aquarius

​@@sl1ppey omg pretending to be a pisces is such an aquarius thing to do

Thanks lol. I try to write my scripts with the assumption that most people watching me have at least a basic understanding of games in general.