Today we spoil Bum-bo the Stout! The defensive control tank who loves to eat (his mana!)
Bum-bo the Stout was originally designed as a Cleric who would focus on making hearts and healing himself with a yum heart, but that proved to be quite boring... with a few redesigns and a mechanical suggestion by Tyler i decided that it would be best if he became more of a crowd control character with a huge upside and minor downside...
The Stout starts with 2 spells:
- The Stick: this medium damage spell uses 3 brown mana and deals 2 damage and knocks an enemy back 1 space from bum-bo, if a primed melee enemy is moved, it unprimes.
- The Blender Blade: a puzzle spell that costs 3 green mana and removes the tile selected as well as all tiles touching up down left and right from it.
Bum-bo The Stouts Stats:
Hearts: 2
Spell Damage: 2
Moves: 2
Puzzle Damage: 1
Luck: 1
Character Special Ability: Goodie Bag!
Stout has the ability to gain +1 bonus mana for each 2 mana gained of the same type. so if you get a 4 combo of boogers, you gain +6 mana and a 6+ combo will yield max mana of that type ( you cant gain more than 9 mana). this enables the stout to pull of some crazy hits on his turn but there is a down side... at the end of each of his turns, he eats all his mana.
this makes items that use multiple types of mana more difficult to cast and changes the game a great deal.
BONUS LETS PLAY!
since i wont be showing off the stout in action, and you guys seem to love lets plays, i thought it would be fun to have Danielle do a lets play since shes been testing the game non stop for the past few weeks.. then she thought it would be fun to include peach in on the action ( she just turned 4 )... get ready for some chaos!
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QA:
Q: how are characters unlocked?
A: you unlock the first 4 characters by completing chapter 3 with each one in order starting with The Brave ( the only unlocked character at the start)
Q: will spells have synergy like in isaac?
A: very much so, most spells were designed to play into specific draft archetypes and tend to synergies in interesting ways.
Q: how many bosses are there per chapter?
A: currently each chapter has 3 bosses.