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I've been preaching about it for a long time, but imo the best kinds of videogames are those that make people want to revisit them over and over again. Soul can have an impact on that, i love Majora's Mask after all, but there's a reason the most revisited ones are also the most fun to play

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KH 358/2 days has more artist merit than pretty much every other game in the series imo, but good luck finding a single person willing to play through it more than once.

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I could mention countless examples really. Genealogy of the Holy War is a more interesting game than Thracia at a glance, but there's a reason whenever people revisit the kaga era games, thracia is the one they gravitate towards, it's just the better game here.

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Soul can help a game stand out, and it can be what turns a good game into a masterpiece. But a soul can't do anything on its own, not without a solid body to hold it. Ultimately, time decided that super metroid was the one to endure, even if it's more "videogamey" than Metroid II

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There's a reason as to why games with very strong ludonarratives such as metroid II are barely explored nowadays while Mario 64, a game that drops you on the most cheap videogame-looking videogame levels ever is still played and adored by many after so many years

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Luisar @luisar2002.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hot take maybe kinda not really, but people tend to overvalue the importance of ludo narrative synergy in videogames. It's quite nice when it's there, but it does not create a masterpiece by its own and it never will

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Just because it's a difficulty setting doesn't mean it should go against the main point of the game. Easy modes are supposed to tone down the punishment of certain design choices, not remove them outright.

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Luisar @luisar2002.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Doesn't this mean there's literally 0 reason to engage in non-mandatory combat since you'll always be pushed into a good stat threshold anyways. Did they not think this shit through

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Bleh, enough venting, it's just that, I've meet so many wonderful people and learned so much about myself thanks to my experiences with this series, and now it has mutated into something I don't care for anymore, it sucks really.

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Even three houses could've been seen as a one-off experiment in the same way as geanology, but then many of its aspects carried over to engage despite not fitting that game's mold, and now with fortune's weave they're quadrupling down on it.

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I think the early reports that the game was around 100-160 hours in length is what made me clock out honestly. That's not fire emblem. Say what you will about awakening, and I have, the game's dogshit, but idk, i feel like it was still a fire emblem game.

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Man time really is moving fast huh. It's hard to keep up.

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Rocky @viperwave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ngl the more i see about fortune's weave, the more i feel like the threehousesification might be here to stay and that i should just let it go already.

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From Software runs the entire industry because they were willing to let Dark Souls 2 be an exploded test tube experiment and didn't immediately throw their team into a furnace.

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Luisar @luisar2002.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They pulled this shit with three houses too, releasing the game without a high difficulty option and patching it in months after release. They learned their lesson with engage and had maddening on release there, so why did they unlearn said lesson???

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Luisar @luisar2002.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nevermind i just learned that the game doesn't have maddeningly mode on release, why.

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Luisar @luisar2002.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This looks like a fanmade titan spawn

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wren! @tropical-rouge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

‼️KNOW THE DIFFERENCE‼️ umineko - visual novel by ryukishi07 ooh, me neck, OH!! - last words of charlie kirk

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Luisar @luisar2002.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm still so pissed off about Roa's hairstyle in the remakeverse, he needs to kill his barber asap because they fucked his shit up 😭

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Luisar @luisar2002.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is like, the first time i outright can't buy a game I'm (cautiously) interested in, so it does sting a bit. I'll just have to hope switch 2 emulation becomes a thing soon because my desktop would probably be cracked enough to run it without much hassle, this thing's strong

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Luisar @luisar2002.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A shame I'll be missing out on fortune's weave, at least for a long while, but oh well, such is the price of not really being interested in consoles anymore, I've got other stuff to play regardless

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Hell I'm probably on that same boat with certain mechanics too, I for the life of me can't tolerate when stuff like sprinting or holding objects is done through a toggle button rather than a held button. Sure, the former is less strain to your fingers, but idk, it doesn't feel quite right.

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I can't tell if some of those takes come from personal experiences of more obsuse games really clicking with them or if it's just for the sake of being a contrarian. I always hope for the former because it tends to lead to much more interesting discussion, as long as they're not an ass about it

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While bluesky is by far the best place I've seen for game design discussion, it does come with the downside of some folks in here being so against anything that could be considered mainstream that they end up overcorrecting into having some of the weirdest takes I've ever seen

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Also please don't skip titles just because "they're too old", you are allowed to play games release before the 2010s, i promise it won't bite you, god. Also also avoid picking the experimental title as your first or it'll make it harder for you to get into the rest of the games.

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