"--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.

There's a preliminary non-fatal version of the fatal thing.

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.

i was hoping someone would do this

I was having trouble with one of the bushes

and then I remembered my Super Mario Bros. trivia