famousringo on 17 October 2012
| crissindahouse said: good to read about the difficulty, i love difficult games exactly for that "whew" effect. |
It's a tricky balance. When making a game challenging, it's not just about being "fair", I'd say it's more important to avoid being tedious. It's one thing to get kicked back to the last checkpoint. It's something else to get kicked out of the level entirely and have to leg it past all the easy parts. Or when rote memorization becomes the only path forward.
When a game is challenging without being tedious, when it gets into that "one more try" cycle, it's a beautiful thing
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