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I don't like it when people think that the Pokémon world is perfectly analogous to the real world. Can't this fantasy world have its own identity?
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I'm watching DidYouKnowGaming's new video about Mewtwo, and they mentioned the whole "Mew contains every Pokémon's DNA" thing, which just bothers me. That's not how evolution works!
Idea: Pokémon reimagined as Digimon.
Contrasting this, Metroid: Samus Returns released on Friday and it's completely isolated. Any and all exploration is on your own and without any sort of guide. It's good to be back to classic Metroid, folks.I think not being able to get lost is a symptom of modern gaming. Everything these days is so easy and hand-holdy, and if for some weird reason you happen to get stuck on something, there's a guide or wiki that you can find in under a minute. I went back to some older games recently (Saints Row 2, Dragon Quest III, Link's Awakening, X-COM: UFO Defense) and jesus christ, the disparity in difference between older games and modern ones is shockingly staggering. I never noticed so the decline in difficulty must have been a gentle slope over the years, but it was brutal getting back into those.
Yep, having to spend two hours going back through Ridley's Lair and Norfair just to get enough missiles to take down Mother Brain was the absolute bane of me back in the day. Even now I don't think I'd have the patience to finish that game without putting in the Justin Bailey password.Speaking of classic Metroid though, I recently replayed a bit of the original NES Metroid on the GBA port that they released a long time ago. I love the franchise, but I'm going to be honest. That's an awful game. Beyond just being hard, it's confusing, repetitive, unintuitive, and really grindy.
Point and click puzzle games were the worst for this.I'll bet everyone can remember a game where a puzzle solution was irritatingly obscure or based on silly logic. Damn that, I say, off to net for the solution before I throw away an hour being frustrated rather than entertained