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In rainworld, you are both predator, and prey, being a slugcat (catdog, bunnyslug thing) as seen above.
Slugcat is agile, and spends its days getting food to hibernate before it rains. In gameplay, you guide it through.. "wonderful" places to find something more than itself could ever be.
I'm personally very attached to my slugcat, who doesn't have a name.

here he is! Thinking about very important things, I assume!!

Orignially, one might assume from the begining cutscene that the whole goal is to reunite with your slugcat family. But, the beauty of this game is learning how big the world is, and how it goes on with or without you.
More comes after that you figure that out, but I won't spoil that for you ;)

But the little white slugcat (known as "the Survivor,") isn't the only type of slugcat to ever exist!
In fact, their slibing also has their own campaign! The Monk is a younger, weaker slugcat looking for their brother after the opening cutscene. The monk also can't hold their breath, at all.
I know this because I have a monk save aswell as my little survivor! be careful in the water with him, lol

(pictured: me dragging innocent wildlife into another ecosystem, destroying the enviroment :3c)

There's also the hunter, althought I haven't unlocked them yet. They have a limited amount of cycles, and the diffcultly amped up from the other two base game slugs.

While they CAN survive past the cycle limit, it isn't pretty for you or them, and if they die, that's the end of the road. Hunter also requires a heavy meat diet, and one of the survivor's food sources (the batfly) only fill a fourth of a food pip.
(you need 4 food pips to hibernate and survive as the survivor, and the hunter needs to hunt a good six of them!)
Hunter is older (and before) the other two basegame slugs, and is implied that they literaly drove several animals into extinction !!! (oops !)

There is more than just the basegame!! However, I don't really know much about it, as I haven't touched the DLC yet. Hopefully I'll fill you all in soon :D

i can talk about the dating sim, though.

yes.
A doomed slugcat doomingly doomed to play a game of mid rain stravation repeatdly, gets an award greater than ascension. Greater than the whatever your brain could imagine being possibly great.
With wonderfully crafted illustrations (as seen above, rivulet reviving the phrase "rawr" X3) and beautiful storylines, its a ride. Its a surreal ride.
I started with saint, who was rather blunt and really rather focused on the egg that you just have, i guess. Saint is great. Reading it's dialouge made me wonder "is this how people in my life see me? I'm a dry speaker, so yeah. government mandated saint kin.

spearmaster is sick of dating sims and bonds over the player slugcat (mspaint cat???) over the fact that they both got nerfed and almost not included in the game.
then spearmaster dies!!!! woopsie! and then your next partner dies! You sure are unlucky!! LOL!

Rivulet (affectionately Ruffles,) is a VERY excited and energetic silly little thing. It is very very very excited to take you to its "mom" (LTTM, playing along for the sillies, i supose) and yea!!!!!!!

there is is is also hot sauc e marshmellows

"OK SO
THERES THIS INSIDE JOKE IN THE RAIN WORLD COMMUNITY ABOUT MARSHMALLOWS WITH HOT SAUCE
BASICALLY
THJERE WAS A RAIN WOLD DOWNPOUR STREAM BY THECOMPLETIONIST OR WHATEVER WHERE THEY PLAYED IT FOR 30 MINUTES
AND GUESS WHAR
MORE THAN HALF OF IT WAS JUST THEM DISRESPECTING DEVS AND EATING MARSHMALLOWS WITH HOT SAUCE"
s1nez

artificer probably had a cool thing about her but i genuinely cant remember and of it so uh.. yeah.

and then i ended with gourmand and he cooked the reality bomb egg thing, causing the Big Bang and causing this universe as we know it!!
this was great go beat the serect campaign play it its in the files

scavengers.

I lovingly call them crows. They really like pearls, like really really like pearls. shiny, lovely pearls.
Like they'll drop literally anything for pearls. (its great)
They also have a reputation with you, and even if you're well liked some are just.. jerks!! its really funny and I love them. they also do their own thing a lot and it feels so lively!!

SPOILERS FROM MY PLAYTHROUGH PAST THIS POINT OH NOOOOOOO

I am having trouble with grapple worms and.. dlls. (have i made the pkl joke yet?) The spiders arachnids are not exactly fun to deal with.
For example! I was fed up and brought one of the "oh, this thing explodes!" plants, in a unthinking rage. and then i threw it into the abyss.

I am VERY good at rainworld trust me.

(pictured: A Daddy Long Legs waiting for me. I do not want him there. also, julian. Hi julian)

I really don't like these things. Better than SC spiders, I guess.
Oh, I could feel those things crawling over me while playing the game, it was awful. (I quit my terraria playthrough because of the comical amount of spider caves, so I have absolutey no clue how I made it through SC)
But! glad I did considering I am now stuck in "cooler, blue acid spider things!

I can get through (and past) the DLLs but the grapple worms are the bain of my existance. How.. why do they grapple to the strangest places?

I've gotten the first two areas past the shelter down pat, but last time grapple worms just.. didm't spawn. Why do the blueberry worms hate me ):

"jermery" (named by the julian mentioned above) attempting to follow me through. he could not and we found this very funny.

spawncamping, smh!!! I was very silly and thought "I sure can jump around this" and I could not.
I also made my slug fluffy because I really like fluffy things :)

and finally, a new shelter! I waltzed into a gate and went into "oh wow this isn't my pc overheating for once!" and now it feels like a puzzle game.

and this is when i realize this was all pointless

that was from the dlc, me being unaware of the fact that it was installed on my main save.
oops!!
However, it served as a good break.

psychic lizards. bullying me. no fairs!!!1!1 (/s)

man, five pebbles was rude. are we surprised?

Here he is in what I assume is an insult to my brain compacity.

little rant here, but I think 5p giving slugcat the ability to comphrend complex thoughts actually made their situation worse.
Perhaps he enjoys this, for while slugcat can.. (y'know) for a moment 5p can give them the suffering he precives.
Like buddy, I don't think "basically a housecat with thumbs" was really questioning the cycle or anything. If it was, what would it matter with thoughts so simple?
I view you in shame. Perhaps, you can't view anything other than the way YOU percive it. A flaw that can ruin one, although do i really need to say that?
have fun with rot

finally without spinning spears, and for what felt like years,

A breath of fresh air.

The wall was not that bad, and it felt like the game letting me just soak in how it felt. A towering city with no one, being able to see the walls
rubble under my feet. It was awe striking, it was beautiful

cue, chimney canopy. Vulture hell!! Jumps with no saving grace!!! Oh, welcome to chimney canpoy.

I didn't actually kill this vulture, and for the rest of my CC career, I had a bird who absolutely wanted to rip into my corpse.
Many, many deaths occured here. Too many to mention, way too many to even properly remember. I couldn't write out most of them if I tried. Really brutal reigon masquerading as
a simple opening.

I accidedently got into the DLC again, with The Gutter. It's funny, there's absolutely nothing on it on the internet.

That isn't water, and It stopped me in my first few attempts. I call it "honeytar" because I assume it's how both of them together would act.
The atmopshere (exlcuding the CC extrence, which is dark because.. why not!!) is a decently light gutter. Lots of orange centipieds, snails, glowing lizards, and a few scavs for good measure.

I actually really enjoyed it!! :D It's fun and i reccomend a detour if you have the time to check it out.

Suddenly, after this I had an urge to visit moon.

I don't have much to say, other then the fact this.. stuck with me

I have nothing to add to this, it just.. i dunno.
It makes me feel something.

the end of the end

I knew there was something else to be done, so after visiting moon (perhaps, as a goodbye) I headed east.
and then, there was garbage wastes.

And as a welcoming gift, I had a shelter flood! I was also very, very confused. Outside awaited a scavenger rave (I sadly.. have no photos of this) and eventually i kept going my merry way. which was no way in particular, and led to a lot of dead ends! lots of them. Although probably worth it in their own ways, just not worth it to me.

I have no clue what happened here, as whatever managed to happen was offscreen. really funny in the moment, trying to understand "how??"

I had made my way to drainage system, wherein my karma level was systmatically drained along with my sanity

I.. drowned a lot. Mainly because I was a stubborn little slugcat who tried the same thing over and over again! The only reason I got past this was trying a different route! and almost dying!! are you proud of me?

Now sorry to say, I spent aproximantly five minutes in filtration system. I full on speedran through it, on accident! So quick I didn't even think to take a screenshot, shame on me .

this is all I got!

It was the end. And it was impossible for me to turn back.