Likely My Most Anticipated Game of the Year - Book of Hours 

*Laughs in From Software*

Lol!

Ey!! same here! Played all those games too!

Have you played Sunless Skies? It's absolutely amazing, you should check it out. Sunless Sea on steroids, Failbetter knocked it out the park.

What's your account name from FL?

@@joshuabreakingbury1927 Copra

_does a bit of Enigma_ Technically all the 'heresies'. Somewhat.

I dont think they have ever called it a sequel perse. But set in the same universe most definately.

@@thegamerdudeabides It’s a sequel in the sense that it’s the same universe, and happens chronologically after CS xD But it’s entirely different perspective and different story

Some of that help was added in one of the later patches, so if you only played it on release you might never have seen it.

Government work?

@@Dosbomber Remember the russian guy on space station in "Armageddon" talking about his uncle? I was kinda that uncle. So yeah, gov work. Nightshifts were a blessing - no management, no representatives leaning over your shoulder, no one to track how much time you spent on the white throne. Machines run their course and you check it when they go beep. The rest of the time is yours.

Hey man, just wanted to ask, did ya beat "the exile"? Cuz I had no idea how I was supposed to make it work with all the constant traces.

@@sugunikibo885 No, didn't play exile - the DLC wasn't out back then and haven't played CS for some time. Maybe I should revisit...

​@@sugunikibo885Rush. You are on the run, don't worry about having to cut your losses to bail on an area. The initial win the game gives to you as your goal isn't actually the easiest, there's another way that's easier

Sort of - those are aspects (game themes) rather than Hours. Hours had one or more aspect. As I read it, Moth is more chaos and change and Knock is more blood and liminal entry. Grail is also associated with birth and is linked to heart in an cybelean way, and the illumination of lantern is consuming/destructive in its own way at least for mortals. It did also seem to me that a lot of grail lore at least touched on the crime of the sky. (Anyhow, the whole lore is a series of deliberate and fun rabbit holes that appeals strongly to some and is just weird for others.)

​@@WillowEve-rf7oq yeah moth is change but also secrecy and longing, tends towards the very cryptic. irrational means of finding hidden things and a fondness for riddles and oblique deception. knock meanwhile is pretty straightforward, it's the aspect of openings. it's obvious why it's useful for thieves, opening doors and clearing blocked passages are very practical, but it also extends to open wounds on a body. the fact it can convert any lore to itself means it probably also applies to conceptual openings too, to the point those highly attuned to it seem to be a bit psychic even?

I am very very glad I was born in the age of decimal currency, it would be an absolute ballache if you had to actually remember how all these different denominations fit into each other

Based on what I have seen this game seens to be going in the exact direction that people who found CS too obscure or frustrating would like.

it's your job to remember them. It's not that hard since the game gives you hints on the text. When you pick up a card, it will highlight where it can go. If you click on a verb, it will highlight what card can go there. Not to mention every freaking text, tells you what aspects are needed or how you can get them.

@@nb6792 I am not talking about basic functions. Even that highlight system has issues. You can select a verb, it will highlight a card, yet some of the cards will just bounce off. I am talking about what combinations of cards you need to complete actual tasks and progress. I have seen whole diagrams explaining what needs to be done to transform aspects, or whatever they are called. You want the fire keepers but, you keep finding moth cards. So you need other aspects to eventually turn moth cards into fire cards. There is sending teams out to explore places. There is little information on how much or what resources you should feed the expidtions to increase the chances of success. I have had expeditions that seem to just circle and circle and circle. I place cards into them seeing if the text changes to success. If the text doesn't change then I possibly waste something I hope will work or most likely it fails. The game is capable of retaining some things. There is that diagram that shows when you have discovered very specific cards.

@@XShrike0 I dunno how you played it but I never had problems figuring out the game. For the expeditions, you will know what you need to increase success by matching the aspects of the follower you send with the situation. Sometimes, depending on who you send the expedition outcome will differ. You can do it sneaky or you can do it with brute force. You just have to understand what's happening by reading the texts. I've beaten the game and all the DLCs. I've heard there's even a speedrun video out there.

​@@XShrike0 here's an old video of mine where I completed a hard expedition: watch?v=Rdck_LsapMc You can tell what you need because there will be icons of the obstacles you will face. Click on it to read the texts of what they're about. Then just prepare by sending the right follower for that stage.

It's simultaneously shallow and abstract, I wish the gameplay or at least the lore was deeper.

Same director,/writer I think

Try Sunless Seas and Sunless Skies. Same creator/writer. Alexis Kennedy.

Fhatgn to you too, brother.🐙

i think that would be too much of a spoonfeeding

It was good enough that I stopped watching it to avoid spoilers.

Hitting space pauses the game

@@victorfrankenstein3636 I don't know if you've noticed, but between all the fart jokes, the man is pretty eloquent, himself.

Probably 99% of my time in cultist simulator was while paused. For me that worked pretty well at removing this concern, while keeping the pressure of deciding how best to make use of "game time" as a resource.