Message from @Scribblehatch
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They CONSIDERED.
So its basically optimism or gallows humor
"Wait wait wait. Guys. I think we forgot to consider."
"--What?! Damn he's right. Let's go back."
You know for a game with genocide, concentration camps, and ethnic cleansing
Valkyria Chronicles is somehow jolly
Cringy dialog sometimes
I told you the word that I'd sum up Japan with.
But here's the GESTURE I'd sum up Japan with.
Nothin inconsiderate there, but I cant name another game with that theme in the US
Call of duty
A chin, jutting outwards slightly, rising up. And then the index finger, middle finger and thumb, sliding from the outskirts of the chin, to the tip, repeatedly
And a sound coming from the nose "Hrmmmmm.."
"HRMMMMMMM..."
"Okay so Super Mario. He mustn't fall into pits. The player must learn this, but without cheating them."
"So we have a death pit early on. But it's structured in the exact same way as a series of blocks from earlier, WITHOUT the pit. It will serve as practice."
"Hrmmmmm. I agree."
is this loss?
That is genius design in its sheer simplicity.
That player will simply WANT to not fall into the thing the first time
But as its level 1 they're JUST getting used to the controls.
So it's practice.
It would be so easy not to realize you should do this.
ok theres too much bouncing around
I'm still saying Japan is considerate!
I aint bouncin no way no how!!
Because they do the things literally every good game designer should do?
o: ...
If not for Nintendo, do you realize how dead video games might've stayed during that time?
It only seems like common sense because it was done so well.
There weren't rocksteady rules for any of this!
The idea of training people before letting them undertake a more risky task existed long before this
Its just being applied to video games in this case
But without any instructions?
That's the genius.
No "Mario, you see those?"
Controller in your hand, character on screen, obstacles.
Teaching with just those. That was the incredible part.
@>Cytos, de lieve goede synth THIS is loss.