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submitted 2 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

I personally always dislike it, too.

There are two reasons you might want to do this as a dev, of course. One of them I feel kinda half-asses your design, if you don't want to get a threat or failure during gameplay to get into the way of your storypacing, just make a visual novel. Or at least something like SOMA, Amnesia or Still Wakes The Deep.
Or alternatively, if you want to make a game explicitly made for children that's okay, but then also do the marketing a bit more kid-centric IMO. I dunno, maybe this one is actually genuinely meant for children, but some of the humor and writing doesn't feel that way if I'm honest. Princess Peach does this more thoroughly: It is the same "handholding 100% of the time", but it's also very obviously meant to be played primarily by relatively small children!

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[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

All a game like this would need is the ability to disable the feature.

It's like developers are so obsessed and occupied with making it as accessible to everyone, that they seem to forget that there is also an entire playerbase out there not looking to be handheld through everything (including children). I'd get a bigger sense of achievement if I managed to do it on my own.

I remember playing Mario on the NES and it was completely unforgiving as a child, like insta-deaths, limited amount of lives, no save games, hidden secrets, etc. But it was pure bliss when I finally beat the game.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

19 and still can't beat the original Mario bros 😭

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

It's not an easy game, that's ok. The reason most of us beat it in the 80's is because we only had one or two games at a time to play until Xmas/birthday every year.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Hold Start and press A when continuing to continue from the current level.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I know 😭😭😭

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's fair these days, unless you're playing it on a CRT with original hardware or MiSTER, the latency will be through the roof compared to what the game was designed around.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

no hidden secrets

This bitch doesn't even know about warp pipes lul

[-] MagisterSieran@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago
[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You gotta admit it's confusing and abnormal to put a single "no" entry in the middle of a comma-delimited list of "yes" entries. Normally you'd say,

It has this, that, and the other thing, and no bad things, malthings, or blahs.

Sometimes the "and" and "or" are left out.

It has this, that, the other thing, and no bad things, malthings, blahs.

The original commenter took this format, and mixed it all up like

It has this, no bad thing, other thing

Is that no other thing or yes other thing? Who can tell? Only people who didn't need to be told these things in the first place.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago

Thanks but I never need someone else entirely to tell me that their interpretation of SOMEONE ELSE'S sentence is more correct than mine. If he wants to correct me he can

[-] shani66@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago

But some interpretations are more correct

[-] MagisterSieran@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Fair enough, but you also never need to call someone a bitch.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Don't listen to the haters. The original sentence was ambiguous.

[-] MagisterSieran@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

I’m a “hater” for pointing out they misread the comment? Okay.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

No, I meant the person who said, "Media literacy skill: 0"

[-] Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Media literacy skill: 0

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

In the early 2000s you pirated nintendo games, had no manual ( or bought it legit but couldnt read it properly to understand) and just figured out the manuals.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I remember playing Legacy of Kain: Defiance for the first time when I was a kid.

I spent actual hours coming through the damn mansion level looking for the proper route and I was so frustrated. I finally broke down and looked it up on the computer (which I was grounded from at the time) so I could see if I could find a solution.

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