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What game mechanics do you love and hate?
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Hate: disproportionately excessive penalties for falls (usually found in platformers).
If you get shot in the face by an enemy, you lose your shield, lose a life, whatever. In a bad platformer, if you don’t time a difficult jump exactly right, you lose a life, lose everything in your inventory, get sent back to the very beginning of the level, get audited, and have to mow the developers lawn for an entire summer.
Platformers are “guilty until proven innocent” - I won’t play one until I know it won’t destroy my will to live.
That's why Celeste is one of my favorite platformers. If you fail, you respawn at the very "screen" you died.
God damn that's a great game. At the same time, I think they did this knowing that folks would die all the time, so they didn't want each death to be super punishing.
In older games they were called "rooms"
Out of interest, what platformers are you referencing here? I can't think of any that are that punishing.
I honestly can’t even remember the one that first set me off. It’s been a while. I just remember realizing that gravity was more punishing than any of the enemies, and thinking “oh, to hell with this.”
I stopped playing salt and sanctuary because of the platforming, despite being an ardent lover of souls likes.
For platformers, maybe. But for certain genres -- like battle royale -- the risk of losing it all after one mistake is part of the thrill. It all depends on the game.
You would hate Nocta lol