Hey everyone! Taking a quick break from my yammering about banned books, I am going on a trip to Latin Camp! Before I go there, I have a bit of a thing to tell y’all about…
I have an addiction. To a game.
So, you all have probably been reading my sister’s blogs. If you do catch up with them, there’s a good idea that you found the blog post Because Slime Rancher Killed My Grandma, Okay?? (no grandmas died in the making of that blog), where Solus, my sister, talks a bit about the indie game Slime Rancher, and how it kind of made people stay up all night playing it.
I’m bringing this up because… she had some inspiration. I am the one who has been addicted to the game! But you probably aren’t surprised because of the title of this blog.
So… what have I discovered in the days I have played this game? Well, I completed the Slimepedia, got to the post-game credits, found a total of 13 Gilded Ginger, snared and bursted a Gold Gordo, snared two Hunter Gordos, and burst all the naturally-spawning Gordos. All in a couple of months.
…y’all have no clue what I’m talking about, don’t y’all?
Well, let’s get to the basics: Slime Rancher is an indie farm/life simulator/open world/first-person shooter game officially released on 2017. In the game, you play as Beatrix LeBeau, a woman who begins her life on the Far, Far Range, an alien planet located a thousand light years away from Earth.
The Far, Far Range is also home to gelatinous and bouncy creatures called slimes, which Beatrix has to wrangle up, feed and sell their plorts (the product a slime makes when it eats) for Newbucks (the currency in this game) to expand your ranch. Sounds fun and simple, right?
Well, naw! First, every slime has a specific diet (for example, Tabby Slimes eat meat >in the form of chickens< while Rock Slimes eat veggies, Phosphor Slimes eat fruit and Pink slimes eat nearly everything). Not to mention that each slime has a favorite food, which gives you double the plorts when you feed them said favorite food. This can be hard to do, as some food types are harder to find than others (meat/chickens especially!!!).
Second, some slimes are harder to contain. See, when collecting slimes, you have to collect them from the wild, put them into little spaces called corrals and keep them there to feed them and collect their plorts. However, some slimes have quirks that make them harder to corral and collect their plorts.
For example, Honey Slimes create a special kind of plort that attracts other slimes, possibly creating Largos (a HUGE slime that is created when a slime eats a plort it doesn’t produce) or, even worse, if you aren’t in Casual Mode, can create Tarr (a VERY hostile kind of slime that is created when a Largo Slime eats a plort that it can’t produce).
There are also slimes that have abilities that can make it hard for the player to harvest their plorts. One of my favorite slimes, called the Rad Slime, creates a radioactive force-field that, if you stand in it for too long, can start damaging you. This is terrible if you have more than one in a single corral! Another example is the Puddle Slime, a kind of slime that can only be kept in water, or else it despawns.
…you all can see why I’m addicted to this game now, right?
There is MUCH more I want to talk about this game, but this would be a VERY long blog if I had to do so.
Cheers!
– Nova S.