As you go down into the mine, you can mine for various ores and sell them to upgrade your gear, including your pickaxe, lantern, drill, and other various mining implements you unlock as you go deeper into the depths.
This got very tedious to me because I was mining without a real purpose. Why do I even need this shit? Why should I keep making trips above ground to sell this junk? And the act of mining alone was not fun to me.
My goal then became to go as deep in the mine as possible. I'll just dig up ore on the way as it's convenient. And so I did, and I reached the bottom. Now what? In my haste, I apparently missed a door that was blocked by lasers and would trigger a new objective to, you know...unblock it.
It wasn't until my shitty robot existence was given this purpose that I didn't feel like the game was a chore. I mined more by choice to upgrade my gear and worked to turn off the lasers by destroying hidden generators. And once that was taken care of, I got to fight a mean mad boss man.
Because I hadn't leveled up much during my non-fun having, my health bar wasn't maxed out, and this fight was more difficult than it should have been. I'm glad I beat it and it can be checked off my backlog list, but SteamWorld Dig is not something I would necessarily recommend.
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