Is this game fun solo?

[RatMilkOwO]

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[Jamjars]

yes except the item and shop rng is very high, you'll lose too many runs just to rng

[󠀡󠀡]

Yea but its much harder solo, a lot of enemies will send out more projectiles against solo players over groups

[Ridesdragons]

the story is only possible solo. or, at least, you can't go through the story online, dunno about couch co-op, but imagine having friends over in 2024

if you just play normal, it's quite a bit of fun up until you get to the point where you're no-hitting the runs. hard is a significant step up, and can be very frustrating if you aren't playing co-op. lunar is for masochists lol.

the game certainly works solo, but personally, I wouldn't get this game if I didn't have someone to play it with. you don't need a full 4-man team or anything, just one friend is enough, but the game's significantly better if you have the option to co-op.

[Limbo Mage]

Solo turns the game into straight-up Touhou. If you master difficulties solo, you'll feel much safer in multiplayer because of the increased solo difficulty. It's a different experience and I'd argue playing with someone is funnier, but solo is definitely not tame and makes for good shaping.
As aforementionned though, RNG can be quick a female dog sometimes.

[DanaO]

Solo is good for learning to convert what you're seeing on the screen to where you'll need to be about a second later - and some of that pretty near requires memorization over comprehension. What it won't do is teach you how to simultaneously deal with the stuff in multiplayer which works off interactions between players, but so far I'd say that's less of a problem. Especially since it requires a team wipe to lose and at least on easier difficulties you can get back up after personally "dying".

It's doable either way, but so far I've found multiplayer much harder to get into if you don't know anyone but also generally more fun.

[Platapoop]

After trying some lunar solo, for that particular difficulty it is a game you want to play if you like danmaku such as touhou. It is not a game if you want to experience raid mechanics like in FF14. It ends up being 80% dodging a million projectiles and 20% mechanics.

[DDRMANIAC007]

Originally posted by Platapoop:

After trying some lunar solo, for that particular difficulty it is a game you want to play if you like danmaku such as touhou. It is not a game if you want to experience raid mechanics like in FF14. It ends up being 80% dodging a million projectiles and 20% mechanics.

This is misleading as coop mode has raid mechanics.

[Nira]

No, also judging from the balance changes and from the dev's replies in other comments, it seems Rabbit and Steel isnt meant to be fun but rather a unique experience.

[DDRMANIAC007]

Originally posted by Nira:

No, also judging from the balance changes and from the dev's replies in other comments, it seems Rabbit and Steel isnt meant to be fun but rather a unique experience.

wat

[Elmdor]

I found the game to be a pretty fun solo experience.

[Platapoop]

Originally posted by ℜ | DDRMANIAC007:

Originally posted by Platapoop:

After trying some lunar solo, for that particular difficulty it is a game you want to play if you like danmaku such as touhou. It is not a game if you want to experience raid mechanics like in FF14. It ends up being 80% dodging a million projectiles and 20% mechanics.

This is misleading as coop mode has raid mechanics.

That is why I said for solo.... Also did you not notice that the OP's title is, "is this game fun SOLO"?

[DDRMANIAC007]

Originally posted by Platapoop:

Originally posted by ℜ | DDRMANIAC007:

This is misleading as coop mode has raid mechanics.

That is why I said for solo.... Also did you not notice that the OP's title is, "is this game fun SOLO"?

OP may have been talking about solo but you were still being misleading. Even in solo there are plenty of mechanics just not as many as coop.

[Kiwi]

Originally posted by Platapoop:

OP may have been talking about solo but you were still being misleading. Even in solo there are plenty of mechanics just not as many as coop.

Not really in Lunar, it's just bullet vomit.

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I think it depends on whether solo is fun for you, difficulty is really high, even for normal if you're just starting, and the nature of the game forces you to lose in order to be able to win
(at least at hard and above), because you can't really react to mechanics, you kind of just need to know what they do to have a chance to dodge. A lot of skill expression is drowned by rng aspects that aren't super great, and dancer makes the game 5x easier to play than the other classes I've tried.

Still, I've been achievment hunting and I've had a decent bit of fun, I wouldn't recommend playing it solo to 90% of my friends tho, I don't think it's as enjoyable if you're not as stubborn, or just a giga gamer

[Platapoop]

Originally posted by Kiwi:

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Still, I've been achievment hunting and I've had a decent bit of fun, I wouldn't recommend playing it solo to 90% of my friends tho, I don't think it's as enjoyable if you're not as stubborn, or just a giga gamer

I agree with you, but I think you quoted the wrong person.

And to clarify my thoughts more for other. I think the game is fine, but in lunar, this game is more bullet hell than mechanics. Some bosses and mini-bosses were made even better with the additional mechanics, but half are just here's a million more bullets on the screen as difficulty.

[Kiwi]

Originally posted by Platapoop:

I agree with you, but I think you quoted the wrong person.

Oh oops! I did quote the wrong person. I don't normally use the forums so I ended up deleting the wrong header when I went to edit it to show what I wanted it to show. Sorry