Inscryption: Kaycee's Mod
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mousewife

reviewed Inscryption: Kaycee's Mod

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This review contains spoilers

i loved inscryption a lot. its one of the best games i've ever played. i think kaycee's mod is the worst thing that could've happened to it. i understand that the first act of inscryption is really fun and i understand wanting to play more of it, but i think the greatness of inscryption was making this amazing potentially infinite roguelike card game and throwing it away.

when act 2 of inscryption starts its supposed to feel like a rip off. its supposed to feel like the game you wanted to play being taken away. thats what gives it weight. thats what makes you think about it for the rest of your playthrough. thats what makes the ending where you see leshy one last time hit so hard. this mode takes away that weight completely. now inscryption is the story mode to kaycees mod, the actual game.

i don't think anyone is wrong for wanting or liking an infinite mode of a great game, but to me it will always be a blemish on an otherwise perfect game.

Reviewed on Jun 20, 2022

4 Comments

chandler

1 year ago

i think you're projecting your own take on this meta narrative a bit hard. i can see why your own attachment to the narrative would make you feel as you do about act 2, but for me (and i'm sure many others) i was just stoked to see more mechanics and experience how much the game would continue to evolve. this is essentially a continuation of that

Wistful

1 year ago

I'm not sure I understand this, you're reviewing specifically Kaycee's Mod, which you think is the only good part of the game apparently, but you're giving it half a star?

DragoCrafterr

1 year ago

cannot disagree with the review itself more but I completely get where you're coming from and it's completely valid, liked

Palas

7 months ago

I don't really agree having Act 1 being taken away from you is what makes Act 2 have weight, or that Kaycee's mod puts itself as the true game to which Inscryption is just a campaign, but your take shines a light on an important aspect of Inscryption: the game is very eager to throw itself away, and it builds upon its own debris. The whole progression, not just the story, is very powerful because of that. The relentlessness with which it's willing to burn after reading is indeed tainted with Kaycee's mod existence. But just a little! Because I see it as a friendly reprieve from the vortex of self-immolation, and a game that's not really concerned with its own integrity deserves a little bit of reprieve, too, I guess.