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Vagante's negative reviews criticize its too-numerous insta-death traps. What would your reply be to that?
I think you might love Noita!
I would say it's a game that requires you to play tactically rather than rushing through it. Especially early game, the traps are very reminiscent of Spelunky, and it's clear where a lot of their inspiration came from, but Vagante gives you even more mechanics to deal with traps, like magic rings that let you go through walls and floors, for instance, but you won't necessarily find them every run. Noita has caught my attention here and there, but I just never made time to try it.
Hmm... May I watch you stream Vagante sometime? I've been iffy over it for a year or more now because of those reviews. Let me see how you die LOL jk. This is also coming from a SoR fan, too!
I'm not really a streaming kind of guy. Early on in the game, you're mostly looking out for floor switches and spikes. You can hold the walk modifier to make sure you always climb down a ledge, which helps to make sure you don't accidentally land in a spike pit, and you can throw just about anything on floor switches to trigger them before you get there so that they're no longer a threat. You could check out a YouTube let's play and see how they deal with them, or you could just accept that the game is pretty cheap, so worst case, you're not out much money if you don't like it.