ningen's comments

ningen | 6 years ago | on: For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily reality

"Money smooths things out, like an iron"

ningen | 6 years ago | on: Etrian Odyssey Director’s Diary (2016)

Etrian Odyssey has some of the most satisfying "progress" feelings in RPGs I've ever experienced - getting to a new floor, building your parties skills, finally beating a tough boss.

Very interesting diaries, you can tell the director was very ambitious and the final product shows the amount of work put into the game

ningen | 6 years ago | on: To get good, go after the metagame

This strategy is only viable if nobody is blocking you from the tier 2 and especially tier 3 cards either by reserving what you're obviously going for, or shorting the supply of a colour you clearly need - But it works great otherwise.

Splendor has clever subtle player interaction here which I think is a real strong part of its design.

ningen | 6 years ago | on: This person does not exist

I've seen some of those before - the algorithm is a bit strange about people who hang around the edges of the border and sometimes create some fairly horrifying abstractions of humans