Quinn Angstrom
OKAY, actual Burggeist impressions
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it's weird, unique, and evocative
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the basic premise is that you're Ignace, a pyromancer, and your wife is being turned to stone
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and in order to cure her, you need to build a tower 5000n tall
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here is the tower I've made
here is the tower I've made
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it's a little over 1000n tall
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to build towers, you go to specific weird-looking trees called Cyclophyton, and cast a spell
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the tower will then gradually grow upwards, but Abhorers will gather to try and destroy it
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so you need to fight them off, then find a safe moment to end the construction spell and lock in the new height
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you do that with pyromancy and your best friend, Burggeist
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A platform covered in siege weapons carried by a big monster that you can order around
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mainly you can have it move and have it open fire on a position, then can control the concentration of the fire from narrow to wide
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the core gimmick of the combat system is that elevation increases damage
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the further down your fireballs fall, the more damage they do when they hit
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so you want to find strong vantage points to bombard the abhorers from
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while using burgy's artillery barrage to thin the herd
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occasionally an enemy called a Trumpeter appears, usually pretty far from the tower, and you have to trust burgy to hold the enemy off while you rush out and kill it
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because Trumpeters gradually raise the combat level of summoned abhorers, and while one is present you can't end construction
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each tower has an NPC and quest associated with it
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when you first build the tower, you go in and meet them
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then at certain height thresholds for each tower you unlock new conversation scenes with them
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towers also acting as fast travel points
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the world is vast and strange, and there's no combat outside of tower construction battles
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so you can just wander around, finding weird shit
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it's extremely odd and very compelling