Risk of Rain 2: The Final 4

 It is funny that after my last post about trying to beating 'Risk of Rain 2' on Monsoon and escaping the moon aka beating Mitrix and not just obliterating myself we finally did it.

It also unlocks the Purity item which is the second last item I need to collect before having all items. The last one being the very illusive Iridescent Pearl. It's amazing how close we are to completely 100% the game. However, at almost 200 hrs, I am still having way too much fun and I can see myself playing RoR2 still. The last game I 100% was 'Thymesia' and that was a fun time but once I unlocked everything, I felt I did all I need to do. Now I set waiting for it's DLC and hopefully we will get some this year. 

Ironically, I feel the same about 'Elden Ring'. I did as much as I could possibly do in my first playthrough and the only things I need to do to get the 100% completion for that is to get the remaining endings, nothing else. I fought all the bosses, explored 95% of the dungeons and got all the spells and weapons. Like 'Thymesia' I await the eventually DLC before heading back to it. I would love to play 'Elden Ring' again and the craziness is it has just celebrated it's 1 year anniversary. 1 year and it is still a hotly discussed game and From is still doing patches and balances but I think since I did so much the first time around I can wait for the DLC before I start another full playthrough. Plus this is From Software we are talking about. the DLC for all their games are always amazing and well worth the wait. 'The Old Hunters' anyone? Yeah I thought so.

Anyway, this all to make a point that normally when I go in for a game and get 100% I normally start playing something else and well, I do not see that happening for 'RoR2' anytime soon. I think once I get the 100% the RNG Roguelite nature of it will make me want to do another run for fun occasionally or try a new set-up I've never done before and that is even after I finish all the challenges for the remaining 4 characters. Hence the name of this blog. I think I've decided to go in this order; Mercenary, Engineer, REX and to finish off with the final character released for 'RoR' the Void Fiend.

Also as previously mentioned, now I'm playing modded 'RoR2' on Windows via my Steam Deck's Dual Boot, so many of the mods are really amazing and some of the Quality of Life ones really change the game for the better. However some of the mods are purely aesthetic and as a man addicted to skins, some of the custom skins are next level.

The above left is a Mod for MUL-T and the right is the actually Mastery skin for him and well, I use the Dino skin to earn the one on the right. The story is I originally did not want to play MUL-T because he just aesthetically does not appeal to me. As I used him and earned his other skills (most of them during one run ironically) I got more use to his gameplay loop and I enjoyed a couple things. I enjoyed the fact he can carry 2 equipment so you can care a utility equipment and a pure damage one or if you wanted to get nutty, both damaging ones. I enjoyed once they were unlocked you could change his primary attack skill as well and you had choices! He really lived up to his name MUL-T. However I could not ignore his actually design just did not do it for me. Each character before MUL-T had a cool aesthetic I could bond with. When ether it was the big robot arms of the Loader or the cool Captain trench coat and hat. The Commando's distinct fishbowl helmet to Acrid's almost primal look. All of them made me gravitate towards them and try them. With MUL-T it was more due to the fact I need to play someone I didn't want to be too technical with which the remaining 4 have in spades. I honestly just wanted to point and shoot and MUL-T allows that.

However as I mentioned, here the mods saved him because a cool mod made MUL-T look like a dinosaur, tail and all and well if you know me, I love dinosaurs LOL.

So yeah, this one was a no-brainer for me and well just having a different look made me enjoy playing him more and well as you can see, I earned his Mastery skin which is a nice homage to HAN-D from the original Risk of Rain which is cool in itself. Now the final 4 characters remain but I do not see myself stopping any soon. If you are enjoying the 'RoR2' content, there will be much more to come.

However the next 'planned' blogs will be different. Of course the previously mentioned Roguelite one, a upcoming one dedicated to the Steam Deck and one dedicated to Chris Christodoulou

 aka the mastermind composer behind Hopoo's games which I've become obsessed with. Of course, we will throw in some updates like this one too. Blogs are back baby.