Prestige Change damaged replayability

[dangermousebuu]

I was enjoying coming back to the game and trying my hardest to grind up higher in prestige levels. I was almost halfway there on Sal.

With the new update I'm already maxed out on Prestige.

I get that I need to grind to get experience to get perks, but those perks, I assume, will make the game easier.

There's no longer a challenge of making the game 'harder' with each successful attempt. The ladder is gone, and so is my motivation to keep grinding brawls.

Solution: Prestige needs far more ranks to unlock. The game needs to increase in difficulty every time you beat it and present newer challenges. 

[pacovf]

The prestige levels have been merged. Old prestige 15 is the new prestige 6. Base game difficulty was also increased. If you were only halfway, I suggest trying max prestige and see how you fare.

The problem with the old prestige levels was that each increase in prestige was barely noticeable. You had to grind *a lot* to get to the more interesting difficulty levels.

[dangermousebuu]

Yeah. So whats the point of playing without the grind?

[AYellowShadeOfB]

On 9/6/2020 at 4:07 AM, dangermousebuu said:

Yeah. So whats the point of playing without the grind?

To both make every prestige level a bigger leap, and make it easier to reach max prestige when previously it was at least 20 hours. If you're really fast, skip the dialogue and don't have to redo a run once.

It didn't hurt replayablity. It made the game's content easier to reach for the playerbase.

[Proteus Effect]

Logging on to discover I'm already done with the game was a bit disappointing. I wish they would have tiered out the unlocks a bit better, but I really like the setup of the difficult right now. 15 levels of adding "one more thing" was too grindy. Now it's satisfying to reach a new tier, and each tier adds enough that it doesn't feel negligible, like some of the earlier singlet bonuses.

[townkrier]

I'd like to take the counter approach.   Slay the Spire's grind to ascension 20 was really fun, but there were definitely ones that felt way too similar to the last run.  I appreciate that each Prestige jump is a meaningful step up in difficulty..