Too many metroidvanias have abilities that work more like keys - they open a door that gives access to a new area of the game. A better ability is something that changes how the game fundementally plays, or makes old areas feel fresh.
Starting the game with sufficient movement is a big one. Hollow Knight starts with too few movement abilities, and the beginning is slow.
Vähän myöhässä mutta fantasiaa. Julkaisin ensimmäisen romaanin tuossa tammikuussa, nyt menossa jatko-osan neljäs vedos. Seitsemän romaani tullut yhteensä kirjoteltua.
Jaksamisia.
Katsoo jos kävisi vielä juoksulenkillä töiden jälkeen, sitten olisi neljä päivää romaanien kirjotteluun aikaa.
Is this development cost or marketing cost, tho
Alongside the Buddy Bot, Frost Giant's implementing game modes to appeal to players who are interested in RTS gameplay, but might not seek out the intensity of 1-on-1 competitive RTS matches. In addition to a story campaign that can be played with three players, Stormgate will have a separate 3-vs-AI mode, custom games, and a competitive 3-vs-3 mode where each team has to defend a single, large base structure.
As the typical RTS enjoyer who only plays singleplayer, this type of paragraphs make me less and less interested in this game.
This is unfortunately typical of visual novels. The line level sentence-to-sentence prose is rarely even adequate, and often what they choose to describe is already shown as an image on the screen. The best ones, I feel, simply omit the prose and have only dialogue, and if they choose to describe an already-visible image, the description ought to tell what isn't already available as visual information.
Thank you for your informative comment. I know I'm almost a month late, but I'm about to start my vacation and needed a nice city building game to try.
Thanks, forwarded this post-mortem to my current meta question.
reported to meta. It looks like this is not the first time this kind of issues happen with between instances https://sopuli.xyz/post/9076347?scrollToComments=true
On the left: this community viewed directly through lemmy.world instance. On the right: this community viewed through sopuli.xyz
Absolutely. What I'm talking about is something like Bloodstained, where honestly the upgrades simply meant you now get to proceed to the next linear area in the game, where the area now can use the ability you unlocked, but lots of older areas have no use of it.
An example of a "key" like ability in Hollow Knight is the rocket dash. It's only ever used to bypass an obstacle you normally wouldn't be able to cross, but at the other side of the obstacle, you have no more use of that skill. I suppose it can be used in rare instances to travel around the map faster, but only if there's a straight path.