“Found stuff I missed”, as in, missed stuff they couldn’t possibly get the first time because the game didn’t give them the verb yet?
The ‘ideal experience’ is to walk past stuff I can’t get, until I reach a boss deliberately tuned to be too difficult, so I come up with the idea to backtrack?
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“Found stuff I missed”, as in, missed stuff they couldn’t possibly get the first time because the game didn’t give them the verb yet?
The ‘ideal experience’ is to walk past stuff I can’t get, until I reach a boss deliberately tuned to be too difficult, so I come up with the idea to backtrack?
May I recommend Alex Kidd in Shinobi World which has tons of fun secrets, weird drone-y music like early My Bloody Valentine, and a lobster that shoots lemon wedges at you and dies with melted butter on him
September 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
May I recommend Alex Kidd in Shinobi World which has tons of fun secrets, weird drone-y music like early My Bloody Valentine, and a lobster that shoots lemon wedges at you and dies with melted butter on him
I call it “clock-in clock-out gaming” because you sit down and play for a hour, and you are guaranteed 1.2% more progression on your file. You can be mentally checked out for the entire hour and yet the result is the same. You’re never asked to do even one crucial input.
September 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I call it “clock-in clock-out gaming” because you sit down and play for a hour, and you are guaranteed 1.2% more progression on your file. You can be mentally checked out for the entire hour and yet the result is the same. You’re never asked to do even one crucial input.
I think so. Some people really don’t like ambiguity or ambivalence in their media, it seems to make them uncomfortable. Instead of making a personal connection with a pice of media, a loud minority of people want canonical explanations, and reciting these in-universe facts seems to be the draw.
September 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I think so. Some people really don’t like ambiguity or ambivalence in their media, it seems to make them uncomfortable. Instead of making a personal connection with a pice of media, a loud minority of people want canonical explanations, and reciting these in-universe facts seems to be the draw.