Terraria: 2D RPG Pixel art perfection | A structural analysis

okay so that's my job terraria is a game that much like myself is incredibly autistic but unlike me is entirely on the fun side of the spectrum it's essentially 2d pixel art minecraft with actual content good content in fact it might objectively be one of the best games of all time and here's why it might split your friend group apart 50 hours into a server because there's only one crimson chest and the ranged player your group snatched up the vampire knives over a five-day period I dumped 60 hours on it things got so bad I underwent a sustained decrease in chemical happiness across time also clinically referred to as a book a depressed when I was playing this game every synapse in my brain was lit every neuron was fired up this is a game where salep sister I've to the point of devolving into extreme ego centrism you will lose friendships over this game you might even lose yourself say you started a world with your friends and one particular individual was to use a stack underflow to generate 999 pink dyes and bring in questionable amounts of honey from allegedly another world so he could be unique and different with his little gay otherworldly honey house it would be entirely appropriate if every other person on the server banded together and psychopathically enforced their own all-encompassing life philosophies immediately started clearing the bosses without honey boy and raked his house with tnt a pressure plate and wiring to a sign that'll send in a server message saying no cheating then waited patiently for hours until the unsuspecting victim logged on to start clearing the first boss with his friends joyfully entering his striking Honea state that he'd spent several hours of his life building yeah it's really easy once you find a hive you destroy the whole hive and on eBay Ezra's thing what just happened but why I spent so long building that with fake honey from a different world this is an intervention when I say this is the best name game of all time I'm not giving you my [ __ ] opinion I mean on a technical level just objectively it's up there but I know you're a busy man you don't have a hundred hours to dump on 2d minecraft and I certainly haven't sold it yet so instead of beating around the bush I'd rather take you on a journey along with my best attempt at a structural analysis of terraria I'll present my experience of completing the game chronologically which starts at the character selection screen I clicked random until fate dealt me the hand I wanted after which I named my guy cow man Orin Ricardo an anagram of the phrase Moroccan warrior DNA a vague reference to my African heritage although I was a bit taken aback the first time I took damage unbeknownst to yours truly I was a woman I felt it absolutely heretical to play a girl named Ricardo but it's 2020 and about time I stopped being so goddamn closed-minded we start our journey with one of the core elements of gameplay communal housing you see to build a strong community first you need a position of power which will in turn allow you to induce codependency in a form of exchanging shelter and coin for goods and services when you build a house eventually an NPC will move in there and their integrals are progressing through the game we build a functional house by having an enclosed space with a back wall table chair door and a source of light zombies will open the door and kill us which is why we need stronger borders between us and them once we realized our vulnerabilities we migrated our base of operation carved out the inside of this tree and started meticulously constructing a [ __ ] testament to the incredibly satisfying nature of building a house in this game [Music] now this is where you can go mining underground and explore caves in search of better or to make armor and weapons out of chests which can contain potions weapons and a multitude of other useful tools we also need them to store [ __ ] and the certain death that awaits you that is a legitimate way to play the game but it is not an effective way to play the game a meticulous terraria player would know to save the mining for later because we'll be doing a lot of it and instead go effortlessly chop down some cacti in which we craft insuk actus armor then travel to the edge of the map and interact with a sleeping fisherman we complete his quest which will allow the angler NPC to move into our village you now have the meta NPC once a day you complete a quest for him and in exchange he'll provide us with fishing gear and fishing potions which we hold onto whilst yet again making our way to the edge of the world which is quite a trek this game is utterly massive I'm a bit overwhelmed and this is only a medium sized world a world that is inherently rather unforgiving seeing as we are real gamers we're playing on expert mode you see the quantity and quality of drops scale linearly with said unforgiving difficulty it really is the only way to play the game because it incentivizes you to play by the meta and fishing in the ocean is by far the most overpowered early game strategy it yields the saucy with shark which is a [ __ ] chainsaw the shark river which is the best pre hard mode pickaxe so that's the next 15 hours of gameplay it beats 14 different tiers of mining that we could have grinded like complacent little simps but to be honest I'd rather settle for the fastest mining speed and the best stats speaking of stats we also fish until we get the mini shark an automatic assault rifle along with enough loot crate's to do an unboxing video then we excavate the area beneath our treehouse and begin an exploration of the underlying caves we scavenge them for materials which were used to construct essential crafting stations such as a furnace and anvil the tinker's were bench in the EM statue which I had to remove about 20 times throughout the playthrough as I was uncomfortable with letting my friends finish whatever they were typing and on a completely different note terraria allows for five different trinkets to be equipped the further you progress the more mobility and effects you gets a stack and it's incredibly satisfying currently I can double jump with a cloud in a bottle and sprint with the Sailfish boots I'm also rocking a golden armor set and dare I say terrifying weaponry we also got grapple hooks which is objectively a great thing in every video games they've ever been in objectively did I say objectively when the night of the Blood Moon came to terrorize our village we Disick rated everything with streamlined efficiency we weren't just prepared we were absolutely [ __ ] qualified and it was at this point I realized that in terraria a little fishing goes a long way after the Blood Moon we waited till the next dawn of night and summoned the first boss the eye of Cthulhu now I did play this game nine years ago and no one felt it necessary to inform me that expert mode adds new attack patterns to some of the bosses my friends believed it appropriate that I discover these things the fun way the way the game developers intended and that's only the first boss in the easiest section of the game some we yet again went back to the metal which in this case meant building an arena so we could dodge his wacko mode after a few rounds of trial and error we take down the eye which grants us crimson or and the shield of Cthulhu we can now - this is massive with increased mobility newfound courage and a fair total sum of carnal willpower we went on an expedition to the jungle biome it was exciting to explore this whole area and find 15 different golden chests that Josh had already looted playing by himself at 4 a.m. you'll come to find that Josh's antisocial personality disorder would throughout our playthrough evolved from a mild nuisance to a metaphorical social hand grenade and that's one of the things I love about this game it will bring out the worst in you and against the worst in others if Josh's items were to mysteriously disappear out of his chests while he's at work it sure looks to me like he should have used the safe instead of communally available socialite storage but I digress it was time to change circumstances entirely and surpass the peasantry of being limited by gravity we combined bottled water fire blossom death weed blink root and feathers to create gravitation potions which when consumed will invert gravity we soar to the skies to explore the sky islands up here you'll find stacked sky chests regularly spawning wyverns in a comprehensive introduction on the self regulating effects of terminal velocity that's all the side constant and it's definitely there but the real reason I came here is to fish in the sky lake not for any particular items no no I just came here for the atmosphere [Music] [Music] after our Bazaar sky trip I rinsed the herb Pharm and Henny's chests for de bloom Moonglow blink root water leaf death weed shiver thorn and fire blossom which I combined to make a gender change potion I simply didn't feel like my outward flesh reflected my inside emotions I may look like a girl but I feel like a man unfortunately I accidentally dropped the potion and I ran off with my gender after a couple minutes of chasing my manlihood I finally reclaimed it down the Bruce juice and replaced Ricardo's gender dysphoria with the self realization of a warrior and you might be thinking to yourself alright you built a tree house caught a pickaxe and an assault rifle fought a demon I inverted gravity to fish in a sky link and changed your gender where can you really go from here and the answer is down it was time to dig the hell evader partly because we want to go to hell but mainly because it's the most oddly satisfying digging process you'll ever go through [Music] [Music] [Music] now I really wanted to take a creative risk dump the whole four-minute clip and let the Giroud ovalle remakes bang out but when you really get down to brass tacks the reason I couldn't is because I'm too mentally disparaged to set up a virtual audio cable and all my friends are on the same audio track as the game another Stern consequence of my mental state is that we dug this thing incorrectly contributing to the ever increasing killcount of terminal velocity luckily I'm playing with people who actually know what they're doing that could rectify my poor construction skills we finish the hell evader but we weren't quite ready for Hell yet first we had to travel to a crimson biome and fight the brain of cthulu Cabasa creates illusions that are so easy to see through even an eight-year-old would scoff at the lack of difficulty looking back at the footage the fake brains fooled me every single time and I fail to see through the trickery even once shortly after we completed sir arias ode to British sesh culture you know devastating the central nervous system and meteorite landed and let me tell you that is absolutely smashing meteorite is the most powerful arm we have access to in this stage of progression if you stand directly on top of it it will sear your flesh to the point of death to avoid a situation where we all stopped being friends we split it equally and let each individual decide what they wanted to craft I looked at the wiki for less than 10 seconds before I knew I wanted the space gun then we had an absolute surge of overconfidence and built an arena outside the dungeon we also erected a little house with a bed so we could set our spawns next to the fight the skillet Ron fight that is a battle we were not prepared for a battle which will result in a long therapeutic process many years down the line once I'm done repressing it this is yet another situation which draws a direct parallel to British culture we needed gears much more gear which came in the form of a second meteorite by the way farming meteorite in terraria reminds me of the now eight year old sub us cos let's place that I used to bang out on the daily hello once again audience I was actually gonna go get some more wood it's more wood I don't get it but I was gonna hey you want to die while I'm harvesting that's fine oh just I just kill yourself that's a good idea Oh everybody man 2012 Utes of gaming with something else anyways with my newfound meteorite riches I craft a full meteorite armor set which reduces the mana cost of my space gun to zero we take on skillet run once more and it dawns on us that our equipment was only part of the problem as it turns out the other half of her predicament was that we suck [ __ ] but only losers stay on the ground real gamers rise up and take it on the chin with a handful of attempts we finally eradicate mr. bones which grants us access to the dungeon the pacing of terraria is difficulty is [ __ ] astonishing you plates a point where you almost feel overpowered and then as soon as you reach the next stage its back it's a primal carnage you'll have to overcome incredibly harsh adversity and if you do you're rewarded with an adversely harsh power spike my absolute favorite part of progressing is getting to see which items Josh left behind for the people that can actually feel empathy after a moderate amount of deaths I am now plowing through the dungeon with the book of skulls and the magic missle which along with my space gun led me to spec into magic one of the four class setups along with melee ranged and summoning I find it incredibly cool that you can go for a certain class for a couple stages of progression and then change it with some of the future weapons equipment and armor you gain access to you might even change it entirely based on one incredible item you get ahold of and you can even combine the classes later down the line this is fantastic game design and I wish more games gave you that freedom furthermore terraria really is all about freedom of choice let's say hypothetically two of the four players exploring the dungeon got a hold of a shadow key something which would allow us to open any shadow chests in the underworld those two players would now have a choice to make do we go on a hellish expedition with our friends and share all the loot fairly or do Josh and I do what anyone would have done given our circumstances that was a rhetorical question we of course rinsed hell for every single shadow chest I did the entire right side of the underworld whereas josh took the entire left side gotta look out for number one and the risk of social detriment is far outweighed by the rewards from flame lash to meteorite bars to the hell wing bow and cold hard cash the [ __ ] is absolutely poppin and I don't regret our choices in the slightest by the way is the underworld is one of my favorite visual a aesthetics in the game the backdrop is insane you can screen cap any frame down here and it's literal pixel art I also love the dynamic of how you survive with the current equipment you literally go building to building narrowly escaping hell bats that do an unreasonable amounts of damage scavenging for health potions just clinging on to your life unlike most games in terraria you're heavily rewarded for breaking all the small destructible 'he's god damnit this game is [ __ ] well-made after rinsing the shadow chests we dug out a hill Forge which we'd need in the future and made our way back to the surface involuntarily now you've seen a lot of fighting you've seen a lot of mining but you've only seen a minor amount of building one of the best parts of terrarium considering that Josh literally has a manor Henny's got her castle and Barney has a floating honey house for now it's rather lackluster that my house is essentially a tree house dorm shared with two other blokes to rectify the situation I started building my home first I laid out minecart tracks from the communal tree house measured the distance and started constructing my sky house I use a bottom layer of ice so that my home will eventually be a frost biome and because the ice taps are visually pleasing might destroy one of the sky islands to make a cloud back wall and I'm already tired of explaining this [ __ ] to you so use your eyes to visually perceive what's happening and enjoy one of the grooviest video game soundtracks of all time [Music] yo s poppin it's your boy chow mein orang Ricardo and welcome to my crib let me show you around this is my favorite part of the house the roof this is where the magic happens it'll send you flying through the air on mr. Ricardo's wild ride which loops around and takes you right back to the ice annex my cribs very own little frost biome and if you actually traverse through it without too much rigor mortis the wild ride continues you'll go directly from soaring the skies to the underground Express officially the most convoluted least streamlined way of accessing the elevator now what was that like 40 seconds I'll have you know building it took many hours of my life but they were hours well spent considering I have hundred sixty-two hours on hearthstone battlegrounds at least building a house and terraria is a worthy way to spend my time my sky house is stacked with a dozen chests that are all entirely unorganized and filled with random [ __ ] of just stashed in there I also have my very own party girl living in the dungeon and if I'd built the living room just a little differently it would have spelled weed but I'm not immature so why would I do that building in terraria is extremely fun and the further you get the more materials you'll have access to placing blocks is like a tiny little dopamine button the stellar sound design and pixel art visuals constitute an incredibly engaging creative aspect which is a breath of fresh air and a very welcome change of pace from progressing through the content speaking of which we once more went back to the jungle biome and rattled the hornet's nest to fight the queen bee the second-last boss before the training wheels come off believe it or not we're in the introduction Airy easy section of the game oh no well that's all using oh yeah in a team effort together we built an arena with the proper preparation it was almost anticlimactically easy too easy so we decided to not prepare in the slightest when going to take on the hardest and final boss for this section of the game to do so you must travel to the underworld and find a team in carrying a guide voodoo doll kill the demon and drop the doll in the lava this kills the guide in great agony and summons the wall of flesh a giant demonic flesh wall which instinctively assumes that you're hurtin for a squirtin you will meet your demise if you let it shoot you you will succumb to homicidal cannibalism if you let it eat you and Lord knows we're not gonna elaborate on what happens if you're unfortunate enough to let it touch you if there's one thing that became crystal clear it's that hell wasn't distinct need of a hell bridge something you can't build single-handedly you need one construction worker and a bodyguard Marnie respect is a summoner and seeing as he'd emotionally extorted us for the B grenades and other B gear you get from the B boss he was admittedly perfectly suited for the job in about an hour's time we erected a beautiful hell bridge then went exploring underground since we were already on the far right side of the map where we discovered the location of the Aztec temple went mining with spelunker potions and rekindle our arachnophobia in the spider biome I then encountered a nymph every other NPC we ran into has been a tremendous help so I naturally interact with her the nymph goes on to beat me unconscious and steal all my money not the first time a woman steps all over me and most certainly not the last you know what they say crazy in the head crazy in the bed satisfied with our expedition we put the conquest to rest while spying our time and gathering our strength the day after once we had a couple people online we took on the wall of flesh once more and to be honest the hell bridge is really the definitive way to play this boss I mean I really don't know why we didn't do this from the beginning the wall of flesh goes from rip and tear to sit and stare Oh although I'll admit when we ran out of bridge and Henny was burnt alive I was a little shaken up but I know that comes with the territory you might have to burn a gamer girl or two if you want to get that gamer bread and the bread you can potentially scavenge from the wall of flesh treasure bag is not your standard pure carbs and sodium why try not your malnutrition French baguette no we're talking sprouted whole grain sourdough these are your chickpea flat breads your Ezekiel bread the cream of the crop the creme de la creme we're talking absolutely based game of bread you folks in my case that meant a slow laser rifle which I didn't use for several hours seeing as it was slow turns out though shows the stats it got which can be rear old and it's three times as powerful as my space gun you live you learn I guess I also got the Sorcerer's emblem which is perfect for a magic wielder and the demon heart which when consumed grants an extra trinket slot and with all these things I'm completely powerless because as soon as should be the wall of flesh the entire world changes as you enter hard mode in our case expert hard mode this is what separates the boys from the men our entire world permanently converted and revamped with new challenges and contents explore we got the Crimson biome rapidly spreading and corrupting our holy lands and on the flip side the hallowed biome where unicorns and elves will rip out our entrails new or mobs invasions crafting stations new crafting options new bosses better bosses more class specialization cursed events new NPCs and way more items furthermore nearly every aspect of the game has been revamped adding extensive replayability but we'll get to that in just a second first we do the most important thing kill wyverns in the sky until we have enough salsa flight to craft harpy wings [ __ ] listen to me limited flight gliding no more fall damage an extra trinket slot from the now redundant double jump terraria has been rolling ever since house music was called techno but this is where it starts peaking we go to the crimson biome to smash a crimson altar with the pone hammer this is the first point where we begin to grow accustomed to the steep incline in difficulty we're forced to actually learn attack patterns die so otter nonsense try to adapt rinse and repeat funny game funny game where enemies can come through the wall I'm looking from funny it's so funny and continue to get eviscerated anyways because they're too plentiful and they're too powerful eventually I managed to break through and smash a crimson altar which releases new types of ore in the world in our case cobalt orichalcum and titanium these are essential if we are to have any chance at facing the trials and tribulations that lay ahead so I mined like my life depends on it which it absolutely does until I can craft a cobalt drill then I scavenged for orichalcum or which I'll need for the pickaxe that can farm titanium and in the midst of mining my own business the destroyer awakens that's a terrible turn of fate awful situation to be in it'll hunt us all down Massacre every single NPC and spawn kill us for a good 5 minutes after the destroyer despond we get to breathe for literally 13 seconds before the pirate invasion hits at this point you can really start to feel hard mode it's settling in quite nicely you know with some games you turn up the difficulty and it's like alright I think I can feel the difference terraria is not one of those games [Music] from the invasion I managed to salvage the Keen pirate staff it lets me summon a little pirate and West twice as much dps is my best weapon he can take damage doesn't despawn and single-handedly probably tripled my character's effectiveness and that's what it feels like every time this game's difficulty spikes the content and pacing there up is [ __ ] perfect so I farm serotonin crystals and kill enemies in the underground hallow for souls of light I then go to a bookcase and combine these with a tome to make crystal storm this spell tome is to a match expect pre mechanical boss terraria player what halo top low-calorie ice cream is to fat people it's a well-known fact that much like in the game people who consume low-calorie ice cream on a daily basis actually lose all their mana which results in skin complexions and victim mentalities although sometimes it's alright to feel sorry for yourself for example if you're fighting the mechanical bosses it's not a mentality you are the victim the eye of Cthulhu is now railed to the bone and jacked as can be one eye with a laser cannon and another spewing wild fire both alternate between these modes and a charging melee attack and just when you think you have a chance of winning you acquaint yourself with the enrage mechanic [Music] safe to say we didn't beat it on our first try but I'm just gonna cut to win we did cuz this video was already way too long with 15 souls of light I crafted the key of light which I Chuck in a chest turning it into a hallowed mimic we bum-rushed the bad boy and with some luck I actually managed to get a Daedalus storm bow and my first attempt this item is what led me to ever so slowly move away from being magic spanked with my new weapon I wanted an adequately difficult challenge when Fighting's Skeletron prime I realized I'd bitten off much more than I could chew but beggars can't be choosers I suck it up and engage in the only reasonable course of action repress the experience deny that it's hurting me and leave this for my future therapist to deal with because truth be told when you go through an agonizing traumatic experience it might be best to act like it never happened and instead of facing objective reality reject and repetitive stagnant life within the confines of normality I don't know what that means I don't know if I'm projecting but I've spent way too long on this [ __ ] video next boss ah the Destroyer is pretty self-explanatory but I'll go through the motions it can kill you in one or two hits shoots lasers out of each segment which went damaged will't attached leaving you with laser drones chasing you down on expert mode we're looking at 315 thousand health and if we don't beat it within a few minutes it's daytime and the Bosque spawns now there is some lame way you can she's pretty much every single boss in the game but because we are real gamers we want the challenge we welcome the suffering and we embrace the post-traumatic stress disorder defeating the mechanical bosses grants us hallowed bars and various tormented Souls which I use to make the pickaxe ex the necessary item to take it to the next level I use it to mine glorified or and I opted to fully expecting to melee with the mask I then combine hallowed bars and souls of light and mind to craft light disks five of them to be exact because that's how many I can throw out this weapon is definitely pretty good at dealing damage but it's unprecedented at making noise and I would go on to craft much greater weapons but before we continue allow me to in a biased manner blindly praise the game design a bit more because I think progressing an early hard mode is a clear-cut case of outstanding nonlinear of well implemented replayability you can progress in pretty much any aspect of the game whether we go to the dungeon the underworld fishing building mining every aspect of the game can directly contribute to completing terrarium even if Josh is an antisocial weirdo who just wants to spend hours fishing by himself he's still getting us that gamer dough barney is and these are his words not mine are gay interior designer and I intend to speak with reverence when I say I don't always agree with his feng shui but the mere fact that he didn't give a [ __ ] about farming mining or most of the bosses but rather spent 10 hours of his life building a teleporter station in [ __ ] space meticulously designed for streamlined access to all the key travel points in our world actually provided us with technological infrastructure that would carry us through the late-game hi is an absolute meta gamer who's played through the game several times always scheming up some new optimal arena are preparing all the materials we need for the next big boss fight or ensuring that he gets the Crimson chest [Music] I'm not mad I'm not angry and then there's me and Henny who aimlessly browsed us her area wiki to see what items we can get next whilst randomly progressing wherever we happen to go in the world now the beautiful thing is that all of these are valid ways of plowing through the game and just when you thought I was done praising terraria x' game design i do the unexpected and keep sporadically praising it for the rest of the video you may have noticed that i'd at this point discovered the dine tab not just is there a cosmetic slot for every piece of equipment you can also acquire various dyes and pretty much customize your character to wherever on the spectrum you may find yourself the bosses in the game are also a spectrum on one end you got the slime King very slow easy to kill very slow easy attack patterns simple movement killed with ease very slow easy to kill little killed with ease and on the other side of set spectrum you have plantera the hardest [ __ ] boss in the game if early your bosses was cause for distress and constitute a need for therapy then plantera is the [ __ ] you never tell your therapist about both because you don't want to be chucked in the loony bin and because it's an experience that can't be repressed as it breaks you to the point of ego dissolution within the first minute by the way on the tank with full turtle armor that means every boss primarily targets me that is for a whopping nine seconds after which I succumb to fatal disintegration when I spawn it's a race to get back down because if all four players are out of aggro range simultaneously plantera Dee spawns and locusts I wasn't ready for the gamer turtle plan Terra has this attack where he flies three times as fast as the player and one shots you when he's not doing that it's a lethal organic bullet hell as they say in Danish States Consuela kudos but much like heavily up marked Scandinavian produce just because it's natural nutritious and organic doesn't mean I wanted anywhere near my body hi told me that I should implement the slime mounts fast ball to dodge and the terraria wiki told me the flame throwerw would be an effective weapon I quickly came to find that I was dealing with a malicious website and a controlled operative both peddling deception the feeding plants Hera grants me three completely [ __ ] useless items entirely revamps the dungeon for that and drops the key to the Aztec temple by the way the destroy was the final boss back when I played so this is all very new to me especially the spiky balls and the spears I genuinely never saw him coming this as it [ __ ] should be I didn't play this game for 40 hours so it could hold my hand and we could walk on sunshine I'm here to conquer and [ __ ] dominate unfortunately when you fight the Golem oh you may be the one who gets conquered and dominated but with verbal potions that mysteriously disappeared from Henny's chests and friends that can actually dodge I single-handedly slay the Golem once again terraria is difficulty spikes and we're faced with utter military superiority in the form of a UFO invasion that reminded us why we don't face our enemies head-on but rather behind the lush comfort of easily abusable game mechanics admittedly a cowardly strategy but after dying 15 times we felt it appropriate and even 15 deaths is actually Baby Talk compared to the frost moon which extensively acquainted us with the ruthless difficulty spike you must face after clearing a boss the terraria wiki told me that the pumpkin moon would be easier than the frost moon but you have to remember it's a malicious website with false information I looked at the data and the leading theory is that the pumpkin moon was likely developed in Hell by Satan it's a gruesome experience going through it makes me want to shake everyone's hands makes me want to cosplay PewDiePie playing pub G it's an absolutely carnal slaughter I clearly wasn't equipped to deal with the situation and here's what I did to change that during the Martian madness I scooped up the coolest magic weapon in the game the laser machine gun which I trade for the cosmic car keys after all a magic will do me no good as the tank but a spaceship just mind I then used 12 hallow bars to craft Excalibur 12 stingers and 12 jungle spores to make the blade of grass Josh's chest to craft Muramasa 20 hailstone bars to make the fiery great sword and ten crimson bars to make the blood butcher I go to a crimson altar and combined the blade of grass Muramasa fiery great sword and blood butcher to make Knights edge I then farms the solar eclipse and highs inventory for two broken hero swords which are used to craft respectively the true Excalibur and shrew Knights edge I then go to an orichalcum anvil and combined the finest blades of light and darkness to craft the terribly our long-range melee weapon I'm not done the Titan glove and feral claws make a power glove combine that with an Avenger emblem and we get the mechanical glove which is forged together with a magma stone for the fire gauntlet any weapon we swing is now on fire as 10% increased attack speed and damage plus 80% more knock back I crafted the strongest pre endgame tank armor in terraria the beetle shell set we also scooped up a paladin shield which absorbs 25% of damage done to players on my team I skip the anchor arm because I'm not gonna farm for 10 hours and then combine a multitude of items to make the master ninja gear for optimal movement and a 10% dodge chance combined the Sun and Moon stones for the celestial stone defense life regeneration kris strike damage and melee speed then I get lucky as [ __ ] with the frozen turtle shell a 1% drop chains from the turtles in the ice biome it significantly reduces damage taken when below 50% health along with wings that fills out our six equipment slots and of course we spend an unfathomable sum of gold to re-roll all of them till we get +4 defense and force are useless wizard slash interior designer to be the healer the final touch is the extremely fast short-range weapon I showed in the intro with that on the finally completed this is what I spent 40 minutes building up to this is what I spent 50 hours of my life to achieve I've been waiting for this my whole life this is gameplay pure primal gameplay [Music] I'm not just having a good sign here I'm not just getting by I'm [ __ ] thriving when I'm standing still in the middle of a boss skankin my brain is in a state of reverse depression just pure [ __ ] pleasure if you did an MRI you find my central nervous system flooded with serotonin and dopamine every neuron fired up and every synapse collapsing in on itself as it [ __ ] should be I didn't go with the Terraria for a mild kick I came here for a mainly tanking experience that would leave me terrified traumatized an entirely [ __ ] brain damaged and it's at this point that we use the truffle worms of fish because faith tanking bosses we've already defeated so it's - our gear is definitely solid but fishing with a 66% baked power to summon Duke fish Ron is a direct adherence to the meta yes hello is this my therapist yeah I would like to schedule an appointment how does three times a week for the next four years sound to you absolutely it's a guy called Duke fish run you see he's really putting me through it I haven't felt like myself ever since the sharknado that sounds good what about Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 4:00 p.m. all right I'll be in the office tomorrow hello all right it's a date with a successfully booked therapist appointment I had the final prerequisite to take on the final event and the final boss but before doing so I decided to waste my time on something useless i rinsed our homemade mushroom biome on about 20 separate occasions to have enough glowing mushrooms which I combined with chloro fight to make shroom I'd bars with 18 of them and 20 souls of flight I construct the hoverboard and then immediately feel intense remorse regret and disdain when I realize I just spend literally hours to make an awful item which maneuvers significantly worse than the wings I chuck it in the cosmetic slot shed the victim mentality and rise to the occasion because it's time for the final frontier we kill some heretics outside the dungeon which summons a lunatic cultists the wiki informs us that he's considered the penultimate boss of terraria so it should come as no surprise that he was the easiest thing we've ever done in our lives and none of us even came close to dying a stark contrast to what came next for celestial pillars manifest in our world causing the vortex star dust nebula and solar rifts to tear through space-time leaving us at the mercy of an interdimensional alien invasion in the words of the then famous now infamous prophet Christopher west of her he said when down whip it out now you can complete the lunar events the intended wing or you can complete them without dying 30 times nonlinear game design it's your [ __ ] choice and out of 10 slowly but surely we use bullets to start defending ourselves into a crowd of illegal aliens free drift at least hundred 50 confirmed kills are required to make the pillars vulnerable but we're not here to meet the bare minimum we're here to keep this world in line we've gotta cleanse this place of evil this is best control we gotta remove these animals this is our home quarrel we can go back to the way things were we could have warm water coral who spent years cleansing the corruption coral we got to keep this place pure but got to defend our home so anyways each of the pillars grant us solar nebula Stardust and vortex fragments which can be used to craft various extremely powerful items within each respective class and since in Terraria the means of production is owned and controlled by the workers I had to engage in communal resource distribution and share my solar fragments with Josh who was also mainly that was the real daily compromise I use mine to craft the solar eruption a sword with so much power and so much extension that I'm almost certainly overcompensating for something but regardless and from what it is that I'm lacking this weapon more than makes up for it so with a book therapist appointment bang and game aloof and an unrelenting force of will we challenge the god of this world first we fought an enormous eyeball with teeth than a slime with a person suffocating inside of it is in a teleporting brain then a bee who's really mad then a crazy cursed skeleton than a gruesome flesh wall then two metal eyeballs with a laser cannon and a flamethrower then an insane robotic skeleton with a cannon a saw and a spiky head then a robot worm with rapid fire lasers then a flower than a big orange robot then a dragon pig fish and finally the ultimate challenge a guy with eyes on his hands who's genuinely a great ending to the game and appropriately excruciating finalboss for an adequately difficult game sprinkled with loft crafty and cosmic horror in if you read between the lines just the right amount of vaccinations the Moon Lord is nothing to scoff at his aggro range is the entire world for he is omnipresent if he kills your friend near the ocean he will teleport to where you just spawned and fragged the nurse as per the intended game design the moon Lord will occasionally fire a phantasmal death rain that will sweep across the entire screen the strategy for beating him is to have one person in a spaceship dodging circles until they're about to die at which point a magic mirror is used to teleport back to the base if the main tank exuded a massive blunder and had the mirror in his inventory rather than on a hotkey landing himself a solid minute long respawn time it would likely cause his party to wipe meaning they'd have to restart the 15 minute long boss fight a clear-cut case of it is what it is this fight has too many goddamn variables there's no way you don't [ __ ] this up and as a result this ends up being a chaotic infinity war across the entire game world if whoever had aggro [ __ ] up there's absolutely no mistaking if you're next I think it's appropriate to say all right now we're in the endgame as we overcome the final boss I'll provide my final verdict I don't think it's unreasonable to claim that within its respective genres terraria is both experienced wise and on a technical level one of the best games in the world it just does everything right from the extensive customization to a super accessible crafting system so the nonlinear progression to the perfect pacing of constant and difficulty I find it extremely hard to critique the game when it excels across the board base building exploration combat sound design immersion replayability these are words that send me into manic frenzy and I just might punch myself I played this game nine years ago by myself and I'm so glad that I revisited it with friends after the developers follow through on their vision I think it's a timeless visual masterpiece and I'm not biased this is objective information in my opinion so here we are at the end of the road I originally intended to show you the final tier of equipment it's only by farming moon Lord for hours I thought it would have been a good little meme if I provide a social commentary whilst completely cleansing our world of corruption making it a utopia of pure pleasure after which I intended to use the drill containment unit which would take a solid ten hours to farm to destroy every single block in the world it would have pissed off my friends and been a neat little way of tying everything together but instead I decided to stay true to the structural analysis and provide an accurate reflection of my experience with the game rather than forcing content where there is none terraria is extremely fun one of the most succulent games I've ever played that is exclusively while you're progressing through the content but as soon as you kill moon Lord there's no next step no new or to farm and no new area to unlock it goes from hundreds of zero real quick I guess you could still build a house but what's the point Josh literally has an automated mob farm below his mansion I'm lame-brained maybe even impaired so I can't possibly beat that plus the building gets pretty boring and stagnant when you don't have the exploration bosses and other contents of balance it out there's no greater challenge to warrant farming all the Moon Lord items and to be honest we all completely lost interest in playing on the server once we'd beaten the game so what happened is that I found an erratic Nakia tight beat sweded about it and then low file any sent me his music through a series of events i don't legally have to explain i ended up dropping a homosexual gangsta rap which is in an unexpected plot twist my final rating for the game my name is ben lolo i'm so homo suck a big cholo make that dole oh you could work on i-25 barely wanna stay alive every day rise & grind waiting on your [ __ ] time but i don't want to do it like that [ __ ] that [ __ ] crap i don't wanna [ __ ] women i just wanna [ __ ] straps suck ass get I'll handle the jizz on my ass cuz I'm tired of this [ __ ] straight [ __ ] bait [ __ ] I don't want to date [ __ ] shits so fake I need a break I just wanna feel alive and awake please God one day let me wake up gay ha so whack a couple of booty shots pixie cut bubble bus suck a dick no hands romance in a trance with a trance no pants he's got a nice ass I've got the finance made a hundred thousand selling trap porn on only fans oh yeah check out the scuffed cosplay contest on our discord

Channel: UberDanger

Views: 4,902,212

Keywords: UberDanger, Terraria, Journey's End, Review, Terraria Gameplay, let's play, commentary, Terraria review, bosses, expert mode, hard mode, PC gaming, Action-adventure, sandbox, game review, UberDanger Terraria, moon lord, flesh wall, eye of cthulhu, endgame, ranged, melee, summoning, magic, class, terraria classes, plantera, full playthrough

Id: 5_rwp_UbpLk

Length: 49min 31sec (2971 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 12 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/man-man420]

i literally just watched that

[u/jayzeats]

It’s so good I can watch all day

[u/S_090o99]

Terraria is best played with friends but still great solo imo

[u/Dr_docter_the_doctor]

What was the N statue supposed to spell? We may never know...