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[Baneling]

So there was a game a while back called Candy Box.

Today, the sequel came out.

The premise is that you are...well, accumulating candies, and later lollipops. Many, many things ensue from this, and it's a surprisingly deep game.

During the course of discussion, kindly avoid spoilers, or hide them in the tags so as to not ruin the experience for people.

[Robsoie]

Found what looked like a problem , don't know if it was the browser i used (was playing it with a portable version of Iron) but :

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At the 1st quest, after buying the wooden sword and be allowed to get into the cellar to kill the rats, clicking on the cellar does nothing, i clicked all around the whole screen and found that the actual click leading me into the cellar was located roughly to the left of the guy text .

edit 1 : Oh great, while i was with the squirrel the page just went down, guess it's under heavy traffic right now, and refreshing, it went back at ... the beginning, all the unlocked items are not there, i had to wait again until i could access the cfg and save setting, i still see my previous save in slot 1 but if i click on the bottom of the page to load it ... page unavailable.

I guess i'll try again in a few days, judging from the popularity of the 1st version, there must be a lot of people clicking there

edit 2 : Worked again, but this time the problem i put in the spoiler didn't happened, the clickable box was displayed visually.
Hmm wonder why it happened.

[Puzzlemaker]

Remember to equip or re-equip your weapons in the inventory screen.  It's not done automatically!

[Robsoie]

Yes, same with piece of armors, when you get a new one, it's not equipped by default.

To avoid the odd problem i got with the page unavailable, i recommend from time to time, to use the text save (just copy paste the whole thing in a text file), so in case the save is oddly lost, you can still recover it.

[h3lblad3]

I, while waiting on my candies to come up, finally managed to beat the Computer from the first one. Gah.

It's so weird having the extra tab that unlocks.

[Robsoie]

Found a problem related to some specific quest when you wear a specific item that will make you stuck in it (fortunately you can still quit but you can't progress in it)

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When you "jump at sea" while wearing a crown of the octopus king that you have enchanted with the "octopus king automatic summoning" spell, you'll see that progressively a bunch of octopus kings will be summoned, but the problem is that they prevent you to move forward, and the amount of enemy fishes killed by the octopus kings does not matter, you will not advance at all in that mission and will be forced to quit it.

Something i like in that new version is that unlike previously you're not stuck with an enchanted item when you don't like the original enchantement , in this version you can find/buy multiple version of those items and so you can give them the various enchantment and wear the ones you want in various quests.

[frostshotgg]

I was so ready for this but it's down right now.

[Baneling]

Argh, treasure container of endurance. It has one million health and I am taking forever to kill it.

Fortunately, weighing down the hotkey for the highest damage spell I have (~500 damage) accelerates the killing process greatly.

I better get like fifty billion candies for this.

[Oneir]

Is there some way to move around aside from mindlessly walking right and teleporting?

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I know the pogostick exists, but not where to find it.

Because I've run into a few maps where it seems like you're expected to be able to move, especially since

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You can't walk through the octopus king.

[Robsoie]

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It's very worth it killing the octopus king, the "jasper" enchantment you can get on his crown in the well is really great, the other enchantment is not that good, and it's really worth it managing to kill that damned jumpy monkey wizard too for his weapon

[Baneling]

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Pogo stick is obtained by finding the * in the mountains somewhere.

Aside from that, teleportation and walking forwards, there's no way of moving around.

There is an item that will make it so you don't walk forwards automatically - instead, you can only move while airborne. That's the extent of the movement modifying items I've found thus far, though.

[Trif]

I think I like the original game better because the main appeal was to find out how deep the game goes. Every upgrade was a surprise. In this one, you get thrown to the world map after your first quest. It kind of ruins the suspense.

Aside from that, I do like that there is surprisingly little grinding involved. The dungeons are better, there are some neat puzzles every now and then and the cauldron isn't as important. I enjoy it a lot.

[LASD]

I stopped playing at the same point as the last game, which is at the cauldron. I really hoped they would've removed or fixed it for this version, but no. It's still pretty much a twice as annoying version of a Quick Time Event.

I really did enjoy the "throw candy on the ground" sequence though.

[Baneling]

The cauldron in this game is a lot less used - there were three things I used it for and they were

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  fighting self for boots of introspection and antigrav pots for ~2 areas.

as well as spamming out a bunch of health pots, once. There's no longer the "make ALL the potions!" that existed in the original.

[Robsoie]

Some teapot finding

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Using the Scythe (that cost 5 millions of candies, only reasonnably obtainable by throwing more than 10 millions of lollypops , that took forever, in the well) + using the octopus crown with the Jasper enchantment + using the gloves with the red enchantment + removing enchanted knight armor because it halves your damage + having the X2 damage bonus from the monster claw from the jumpy+gravity potion room of the Desert Fortress, it takes a little more than 40 minutes ! to destroy the teapot.

Can't imagine with a lesser damaging weapon.

So be sure to have 40 minutes of your time to left your computer running, or browsing away, good that i had work to do, because apparently getting out of the room reset the damned teapot health !

At least the resulting item is a giant spoon that does very high damage, no idea if it can be enchanted on top of that, i ran out of chocolate but man that's ridiculous.