Just one more LOOP! Just One More LOOP!! JUST ONE MORE LOOP!!!

OMG! I'm Fighting GOD! aka OMEGA! He tells me some story about how the Hero's ancestor shanked him when he was the creator god known as ALPHA. He was then resurrected as the destroyer god OMEGA and there is a story to this game?

Omega then thanks me for defeating him and he will one day resurrect as the creator god Alpha. But he needs to die a few more times to make it happen.

So Omega is defeated and Yota, a snarky lady who has been the Hero's companion drops a bombshell:

So, after having a JRPG-esque ending by defeating literal god, what else is there to do in Hoop Lero? Well, Loopman [that is what I am calling him] has a base. You can upgrade his base to store items that give him bonuses. And Hooah-boy, if you are the kind of gamer who likes to break a game, this is where the real [[[game]]] begins.

Trying different combos of items in the supply and setting up different maps and monster encounters is so highly addictive that I have lost one or two weeks to this game. I am literally writing this blog on Tuesday 6/10 in the evening with no draft, just directly onto the blog and commentating on any screenshots I have made in the last couple weeks.

Thankfully, there are only a few screenshots but this will be the first time in the site's history that a post has more then four or five screenshots at a time. We're going over 20 screenshots here baby! Breaking ground today was not on the menu but we're ordering extra.

Another devious thing about this game is that it has an Alchemy system. You can take any of the orb resources above and decompose them into hydrogen. And with that hydrogen, you can synthesize items that you need to upgrade or craft. And turning this mechanic into a mini-clicker game is so evil. So many of my resources got decomposed just to watch that hydrogen counter go up. It's insane and I do wish there was a way to do more then just one because clicking for several minutes straight does get tiring.

So, besides equipping items, making maps to spawn hordes of monsters, then slaying those hordes, what else does Loop Hero have to offer? Well, there are a few secret boss fights you can encounter, mostly for humors purposes. One boss you literally need to level up Loopman to the max in one run. I did do that on PC but it takes literal hours to level the Hero up, even with all the midmaxing and tricks. And I did not bother with that secret boss.

But I did fight the Frog King by making the road nothing but swamp.

So, yeah, I fought the frog king and won. You don't really get anything from defeating him but some armor and weapons. But it is a funny little encounter. Now, I was planning on fighting this following secret boss(es) and somehow met all the conditions to fight this boss by pure accident.

Once you trigger the secret boss(es) this kick ass 8bit theme plays. The whole game is full of glorous 8bit music that would make any fan of oldschool NES games squeey. But this theme is kick ass and I usually had the sound down to not drain my tablet's battery. But hot damn, I drained that battery good while listening to that theme. I got to find the track on Spotify, I could listen to it for hours.

So, what is this secret encounter? Well, it is none other then the very people who made the game. Yes, this secret boss fight is with the developers of Loop Hero. You fight against their adorable avatars, but not before the Hero has a chat with them. But they are not in the mood for taking, more in the mood for fighting.

So after the devs are defeated, they are at a loss for words. And before the Loopman can ask more questions, this happens . . . .

And the game restarts with all the loot I got from that run in my camp's inventory. The devs maybe a little snarky about answers the Hero's questions, but they are not monsters when it comes to the player's progression.

So, I kept telling myself to stop playing after that. I got the super secret ending against the devs, what else is there to do? Well, I kept thinking about new item combination and map layouts to try. And it kept going . . . and going . . . and going.

Loop, after loop, after loop, after loop.

At one point, I soft locked the game but did not make a screenshot to show what happened [huge regret there]. Long story short, I encountered a Ghost of a Ghost with my Necromancer, this GG had vampirism and 100% counter, and I had archers covering me and skeletons in battle. Weak skeletons, that I could summon in an instant but kept dying, because the archers kept firing at the GG which counterattacked several hundred times in a second, and kept super-quick healing with vampirism as it desimated my skeletons!

I played this game so much that I literally found a glitch that causes the Hero to summon skeletons forever with no way to win. I exited out of that, while laughing my burnt butt off.

I played this glorious chronophage of a game so freaking much that I unlocked a special dialogue with an enemy encounter that I did not know existed.

My favorite combo of cards to lay down to cause some serious farming of resources, Road:Swamp, Roadside:Vampire_Mansion, Landscape:Desert+River+Trees. Its like pachinko, watching all those resources flying into the Hero's bag, its about as addicting as anything else this game has to offer.

So time went on, the days went by and I got steps in and a little writing done but I just kept playing this game. I fought frog king again just out of sheer LOLZ. And I accidently summoned the devs again. I kept playing, hours at a time, "just one more loop, just one more loop!"

It got so bad that I literally am writing this so I don't play that game tonight. And I know after tonight, I might not play it for a while. I'd like to get back into writing more consistantly again. I wrote a chapter of DotNO (which is so very close to being done) and it was the greatest feeling ever. I love to game, it was a part of growing up for me and I will always love it. But writing is my true love.

And I'm sure I scratched that gamer itch I have been feeling, all thanks to Loop Hero. I love this game but it is time to spend my time wisely and be productive again. The gamer itch has passed. And I know this because there are other games out there that I would like to play but convince myself not to.

Like Stardew Valley? I would, but that is an investment and no.

A Koi-Koi/Hanafuda game? There are so many and no.

Fallout Shelter? Microtransactions, so, no.

Pokemon Go? No . . . well, maybe while I do my steps but yeah, no.

No more gaming for a while. And I mean it this time. I am literally typing this at nine-PM and declaring no, no more Loop Hero, no more Loops, no!

Good Luck and NO MORE LOOPS!

---BUCK

PS: Thank you for reading this long winded confession and vent and whatever else this might be. I do love gaming, I do love Loop Hero, but I love writing more and I will be getting back to it. . . . Or maybe I'll get hooked on anime again, who knows!

Oh, and yeah, no dice tray pic this time. That Orb of Eyeballs is just screaming to be the title pic for this post.

PPS: I have no idea how long the word count for this one might be. This is the first time I wrote a post directly on the blog itself. I usually write these in a doc then creepy/pasta it in the blog to make a post. Maybe I'll look into it and see how many words this is later . . .

PPPS: Actually, the blog software I am using does keep track of word count. It is at 1700+ which makes it the longest update blog, I think. What'eves, I'm done, time to schedule this at the usual time and sleep! Sleep with imagines of Loop Hero forever burned into the dark of my closed eyes . . . LOLZ!