Comment on Anon encounters a Switch owner

• Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not that deep, lol. Again, it drives creative problem solving by adding a price to each action. Using your tools like the slate or other mechanics is free, and results in a more engaging gameplay experience than just “swing my strongest weapon forever.”

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  • kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Deep or not, it’s unnecessary trash.

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You believe mechanics that support interesting problems and encourage creative solutions are “unnecessary?”

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      • ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The main problem is weapon durability is in direct contention with how the dungeons are designed. The shrine puzzles try to encourage experimentation in finding solutions, but when using the time lock tool hitting objects depletes your durability, then once you run out of weapons, you need to leave the shrine to find new weapons\materials which ends up being a big interruption in the main gameplay loop. It’s made even worse by the fact every weapon applies a different amount of force to a locked object per hit. I’m not sure what interesting and creative problem solving weapon durability adds. It really just encourages you to avoid combat and use easy to come by weapons wherever you can.

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      • kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I played the game as a rom with weapon durability turned off. It was a great game after that, previously it had been tedious, which is the exact opposite of what a game should be. I get enough tedium IRL & through talking to people like you.

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      • TeryVeneno@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I would replace it with nothing since the system did not support interesting problem nor encourage creative solutions, it just made me button mash more to get more weapons to replace my broken ones. Once I turned it off I felt free to experiment with interesting ways to kill enemies since I wasn’t worried about my weapons anymore.

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