Not exact matches
Laura seems bent on eliminating any stress I might be feeling and replacing it with one of the aromatherapy oils or
healing potions sold
by Saje, one of Canada's most successful purveyors of holistic health products.
One can level up
by offering salt to the deities of the sanctuary, purchase necessary equipment and refill
healing potions.
There are the obvious conveniences: You can save wherever you want,
healing is handled
by skills so as to cut down on excessive
potion juggling, and health automatically regenerates.
As the battle grew longer and my supply of
healing potions ran out, each successful hit against the monster was accompanied
by a rush of adrenaline.
With
healing potions in limited supply in the early game, the dwarf is,
by far, the rock star of the multiplayer party.
As a result, you tend to glide through combat
by guzzling
potions to compensate for the lumpen blocking mechanic, and even when you get to more challenging boss encounters where enemy
healing and shielding threatens to become an issue, you can almost always progress through sheer gluttony and overkill rather than
by having to think too deeply about what sort of combat approach to take.
Perhaps it's a learned response, from growing up in an era where even the best game stories featured characters who could shrug off a nuclear explosion in «game mode» with a
healing potion, but who could then be fatally wounded
by a single sword swipe in «story mode», but I've always been able to compartmentalize what happens in a game's story from what happens in the gameplay when necessary.