Hey, more monk playthghroughs! Nice! Haven't seen your survivor play yet, so not sure if you hit all the default plots points first run or not, except you said Echos. Not sure how much you are okay with/avoiding spoilers and tips, but if you are cool with them, Monk is, map and plotline, yellow survivor. He does have different mechanics most people don't know about. You already found the gate one yourself! What I consider the next most important would be hinted at by his description in the title screen, regarding empathy. Really Monk and Saint should have their names switched since "If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat" is more of a saints/Jesus teaching but hey fine that's fine just make that something Monk does better that's fine devs XD Monk also has debuffs in combat and a bit for exploration, but mobs are easier to escape and avoid
My survivor playthrough was a 100% playthrough that was achievable at the moment. I got almost every achievement and did get all passages available pre-gourmand. I have not spoiled myself on any stories for the other slugcats, I just doing pilgrim route for it instead and went to 5 pebbles before seeing any of the echoes. Hence why I'm trying to do that now because you need a fresh run to get pilgrim and an achievement i won't be happy about. As per mechanics, I'd like to figure most of them out myself, with the only thing is hints at what is achievable would be appreciated occasionally. I would never have figured out sliding or rolling in survivors playthrough without it. As such, while I know that monk should be "more peaceful" i don't really fully know what that means lol. Anyways, thanks for watching lol, if you wanna see the full survivor playthrough there is a playlist in description that has survivors playthorugh then be followed by this one. hope you enjoy whatever you decide to watch though!