Rw Watcher - Blog Posts
Brrrrrr
Rainworld art month day 29 night cat :>
leaving ripples behind
There are three types of Slugcats
see you soon!
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As if every cycle of my existence has knotted together with another's, even if for only a fraction of a second it rippled through mine.
Someone told me they wanted to see the kittens without the lines. So I did.
Sunflower
Endless Blooming Misfortune just loves their Large Wife
Rain World Art Month Day 21 - Karma 4: Gluttony
Everybody's here! Except for Enot. Enot isn't here because they've been banned from all future gatherings of the scugs for attempting to pole dance (it's important to note that the pole was, in fact, a pole plant)
I almost gave up on this one more times than I care to admit, and I'm still not entirely satisfied with the colors, but it's finished!
Some close ups of the scugs :>
I feel like every time I draw Rain World art, I get better at drawing Slugcats and worse at drawing Rivulet specifically
Hide and seek
I know that this is not possible, but i just want them to be happy kids... And playing children games... Am i asking too much?
My design for spinning top, as an ancient
I love them so much, they a cute
Doodle of watcher, while i am playing
Watcher spoilers!!
Because I need to post something
Watcher doodles (add Pebbles because I needed my daily dose of him)
made these 2 months back when the watcher dlc first came out but didnt post em until now
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIGHTCAR (art for @rainworldbdays) the reason it looks like this is because im sick but i still got a birthday to celebrate
this is like a small update on my (very) successful other post that blew up for no reason like wow- but if i were to be the watcher, this would be what id say (translation is: yeah no im done i am not doing this)
"hey where were you?" waiting.. or should i say watching! *laugh sfx* anyways i watched the watcher dlc trailer and im not dissapointed, i saw this critter and thought "yeah, this seems drawable" so here u go
WATCHER SPOILERS!!
Prince my beloved,, my freak of nature,,, my eldritch horrors beyond comprehension,,,, im so normal about him i promise guys (lying so much)
WATCHER SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT!!! WATCH OUT!!!!!
so
this moment huh
im so normal about Unfortunate Evolution you dont even know. what even fucking is it. how in the balls did a void worm get rotted. absolutely insane region /pos
after doing nothing but play rain world: the watcher for 4 days (bar monday i had to go to college sadge) and i have now completed the whole dlc as it currently stands. i have many thoughts
EVERYTHING BELOW HERE WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS!!! FOR EVERYTHING!!!!! THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING
alright. starting with the generic spoilers
first up, the beginning. HOLY FUCK I ADORED THE BEGINNING OF THE CAMPAIGN. i wish my clipping software wasnt broken so that i couldve clipped my reaction to That One Chimney Canopy Room. literally as i was climbing i was speculating on when in the timeline Watcher was (my thought was around hunter/gourm) and then Boom. rot jumpscare. i am The Rot Enjoyer so i was genuinely ecstatic. also the jumpscare of Hydroponics being in Industrial was rather funny
(also idk where else to mention it but all the drawn art for watcher is so gorgeous. the colour theory used is geneuinely breathtaking. the last frame of the intro cutscene is beautiful)
secondly, the world (or, what of one there is). being able to get lost in the world is something i havent been able to truly experience up until now (i didnt play any of base game or downpour blind) so it was delightful getting lost in these gorgeous and unique regions.
and aether ridge i suppose
i really dont think aether ridge was a good choice for a modded inclusion. i mean just off the top of my head i can think of several Better regions with better maps that they couldve used. but like. thats also a handful of regions amongst TWENTY THREE. THAT IS MORE THAN THE REST OF THE FUCKING GAME. INSANE. so many regions that i straight up didnt see two of them in my first playthrough
i do wish the world has at least some interconnectivity like in base and downpour. i miss the cohesive and grounded world but also that is just Not what watcher is about so its alright. its still cool regardless. also the implications of some regions being timeline variants of others??? hell yeah
thirdly, the new creatures. fuck barnacles all my homies hate barnacles
in all seriousness though, most of the creatures are cool additions (sea slugs my beloveds <3) i just wish there was some more interspecies interactions besides the moths throwing lizards around. itd make the world feel more alive. the barnacles also need a massive tweak they are just actually bullshit sometimes.
i ADORE the rotzards though. ough the pained noises they make,,,, i love them sm theyre so cool. i wish more creatures got rotted. i wouldve KILLED to see a rotted whale or loach. that one rotted void worm took me OUT
fourthly, the gameplay loop. the weakest part of the game. the total lack of any direction or assistance is upsetting. in base rain world you have the overseers to guide you, and in downpour you have your anchor points in FP and LttM. but here?? nothing. i didnt even know i needed to be finding the echoes until 8ish hours into my first run. i needed my friend to read me a guide for my second. the game needs to at least give the player hints or clues. i found a workshop mod that implements saint's echo ping and both me and my friend had such a better time playing after that. that should be a default setting
its even worse for the second ending. as i mentioned, my friend had a guide pulled up and walked me through it as spoiler-free as she could. and i would have NEVER gotten it blind. this combined with the sheer number of regions (as mentioned previously, twenty three!!!) honestly ruins the game. my friend almost gave up on the whole DLC because of it. i know they plan to start patching things in, and their first action should be implementing better guidance
also i didnt even know you could go through ripples at top karma?? or that you could warp without a karma flower (with consequences)??? the game just. didnt tell me. which i feel like it should because those are both Pretty Big Things
i do think that the gameplay loop could be genuinely fun with actual assistance. because i actually had fun finding the echoes after i got that mod.
and now, onto the ending specific spoilers, starting with the echo ending
WE GET TO ACTUALLY FUCKING SEE ANCIENTS????? LIKE WALKNG AROUND AND SHIT????? IM SO INSANE ABOUT THAT
the storyline of helping an echo detach themself from their wordly desires and move on is so sweet. but i did NOT know that was the story until the last region. it almost made the ending feel unearned. it felt a little shoehorned in tbh. but also like. i dont care WE SAW ANCIENTS WAHHHHH
also hey we watch an echo ascend. neat. i do have a theory that an echo can ascend (or at least move on) if their attachment to whatever desire binds them is destroyed (Four Needles disappearing after their body no longer exists at all) and can move around space and time in accordance to their desires (Rhinestones choosing to come to Undergrowth to appreciate the life thriving there) so. hell yeah more echo lore i LOVE echo lore
but you know what i love more than echoes. the rot
the second ending. is peak i fear. not only is the campaign progression significantly better and more impactful than the echo story, but the ENDING. OH LORD THE ENDING. again, i am The Rot Enjoyer so i was going INSANE at the whole world getting fucky. and dont even get me STARTED on the rotted base game regions. i could go on for hours about how genuinely fucking cool the rotted regions are.
and everything surrounding The Throne and the roterator (The Prince??) (me and my friends nicknamed them "Yapper") is insane. the rot gaining sentience???? and having a pure and genuine trust in their beliefs???????? holy moly. fun fact if you hit them with a spear they get happy that youre playing with them <3
i cant even put my thoughts of this ending into words because its just So Insane (also i experienced it like. an hour before writing this so my brain is still reeling) but my theory currently is that every single strand of the cycle will eventually fall to rot (as the echo says that "it all ends up like this" if you wrongwarp to a rotted region) and that we simply witnessed and assisted in the end of one of these strands. theres. more to that theory but i just Cannot words it yet. ill probably make a seperate post about it soon
overall, The Watcher is an inherintly flawed product that i hope gets fixed up and improved soon, because i did genuinely enjoy it and want more people to. outside of the region bloat and lack of any direction, the game is genuinely peak, but those two things really do just kill it unfortunately. it is deserving of its mixed reviews on steam, but i do hope to see that shift more positively as the rest of the planned content is added and QOL changes are made.
also fix those damn barnacles PLEASE
can you believe it guys :> watcher :) just a week away :] watcher in a week :Dwahoo :3
MARCH 28TH MARK YOUR FUCKING CALENDARS ‼️‼️‼️
i somehow glichted myself of the back of a skywhale and was like "wait i have to draw this"
the reference screenshot:
little guy is lost