Started playing Lunacid

I finally started playing Lunacid - a "King's Field like" from 2023. As far as I can tell, it's the game in this small genre that helped it kind of break out into the mainstream (in the way that indie games have their own mainstream). I like it! It's easy and heavy on the vibes. The vibes are very, very good. One of the reasons I hadn't picked up Lunacid previously - or any games in this tiny genre - is that I was under the impression that their combat was deliberately hard or annoying. I think I got this impression from conversations with friends where they either exaggerated stuff to me or said stuff about King's Field itself that I misinterpreted. I'm glad to say I was mistaken - Lunacid is actually pretty easy and accessible even to people who don't consider themselves good at combat-focused games. It might be a little too easy?? I did not grow up playing games like this, and I lack the cultural context to receive this in the way it was intended, I guess. There's stuff that these…