TS: Part of Darkest Dungeon's DNA is the fallibility of humans. 'We want to pack the game with new awful monsters.'

So this game is more about reaching towards something precious than it is sort of exploring how far down the staircase goes. It's trying to get somewhere, it's trying to accomplish something, and above all it's faint, and distant, and the journey to get to it is extremely tough, but it's there. And so it's going to be Darkest Dungeon, it's not going to be easy, it's not going to be forgiving, we're not going to hold your hand, all of those things remain true.īut it has an aspirational thread that the nihilistic older brother didn't have. I think if the first Darkest Dungeon is about going deeper and understanding how much worse things can get at each step, this game is about clawing up out of it. Is that where you're headed?ĬB: I think we have a rich tradition of table flipping. Sometimes the Collector shows up blocking your only path and you gotta expend way too much fighting him than you should normally.Often we see sequels deliberately kind of flip the table on players' expectations, on habits they've developed, and certainly Darkest Dungeon is not a game where players are often allowed to get comfortable. One bad Crit, one single Affliction can send the whole thing into a death spiral. On the other hand, even the biggest fan of Darkest Dungeon can't deny that the RNG can ruin every single setup in the game. You've got a lot more to think about, more things can go wrong, and when they do go wrong they have lasting impacts. Your party members aren't the unshakable badasses you'd see in Final Fantasy. On the one hand, yes, this is a thinking man's RPG. It's amazing how much people on both sides miss the point of the game.

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