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Duration: 13:39

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Harvest Hunt, as a concept, is amazing. You and an eldritch fiend are stuck playing a game of cat and mouse in a world where the rules constantly change. Sometimes lady luck will favor you and you'll be chasing it with an axe while laughing maniacally, and other times you'll be forced to trudge through a poisonous swamp of sadness and suffering. Usually you'll find yourself somewhere in the middle, but the extremes are definitely where the concept truly shines.

Unfortunately, a concept is all that Harvest Hunt really is. With only one monster, one location and one objective, it takes only a couple of hours to thoroughly explore everything it has to offer. The various roguelike elements do their best to keep things fresh, but there's only so many ways you can remix the duel against Blobbimus Bloo, the Amorphous Blob of Evil before the tension goes away and you start thinking up stupid names for the thing you're supposed to be running away from.

So if you're curious about where Harvest Hunt succeeds, as well as where it stumbles and falls flat on its face, allow me to share with you my thoughts after spending so much time running through an accursed swamp that I now consider Blighttown a vacation destination.

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00:00 - Intro
01:29 - The nightmare begins
04:08 - A strange but effective mix
06:37 - Can a blob be truly scary?
10:19 - Where it all falls apart
12:33 - Closing thoughts

The outro music is by Steven O'Brien: https://soundcloud.com/stevenobrien/

Thanks for watching!

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