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As devs have realized they can "cheat" and make incoherent gameplay systems, all "balanced" by meters/ammo
This has become a PRESSING point to stress
Go ahead and set that resource/meter to infinite. Does the game still have an engaging dynamic? Or does it become unbalanced?
If the answer is the latter, turn back, you are sinning and probably making a bad action game
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Go ahead and set that resource/meter to infinite. Does the game still have an engaging dynamic? Or does it become unbalanced?
If the answer is the latter, turn back, you are sinning and probably making a bad action game
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If the only counter force a super strong tool has, is how many times you can use it, the only depth you are really rescuing is routing it, nothing more
It will still trivialize important encounters where the player will actually use it
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tempting to mystify Nishitani and the team as people usually do, but the real answer
Heavy limits on what the player can do, opening up avenues enemies can exploit
Playtesting your own game to death until you become scary good
Economic enviroment rewarding challenge
Genuinely, how did they do this?
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Also Simplicity as a concious value (again because of the economic enviroment), that pushes the developers to natural properties
Roxy flips herself over you, and ducks your punch while moving back, she does not super armor or stat Bullshit that
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Final Fight is such a well crafted game that at times enemies just feel sentient, and its all achieved with relatively simple AI and a couple of functions
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Its ironic how often players ascribe design to just chance or luck, considering to make a video game you have to intentionally create and position every property and function in that space
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kind of like books, unlike something rooted in real life (movies), there are no natural properties, every letter must be written down
Final Fight. In the bar fight in stg 3, if you stand above this trashcan, you ""happen"" to be aligned with the off-screen bull that will spawn
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Not to say things don't happen by chance sometimes, in fact part of the challenge of making a coherent system is making sure chance also feels crafted with intention, but its safe to say many "they probably didnt intend it" are actually intentional, for better or worse
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JUST GET IN THE SCREEN
JUST GET IN THE SCREEN
JUST GET IN THE SCREEN
PLEASE
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I guess actually Fight n' Rage does capture that dynamic quite a bit, probably why its such a fav of mine.
But its done in a sloppier way there, and the SuperJOI is far less engaging to use
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Final Fight is the first Beat 'Em Up I have played where SuperJOI does not feel optional
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Final Fight is the first Beat 'Em Up I have played where SuperJOI does not feel optional
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Not to shit on Punisher or Caddillacs too much, but in those games the SuperJOI is very much a "I fucked up 3 moves ago" or a setup tool
In Final Fight it feels as mandatory to use as your jab
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Also to clarify, I do not mean "optional" from a POV of player expression or anything like that
But in those games it feels like if you play really well, you wont need it to pass, while in many Final Fight sections I dont see what you can do without using it a lot
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Hyper Bun Buster feels like a modern, refined iteration of some fairly prolific arcade genre from the 80s or 90s. Except that genre doesn’t exist, which makes it all the more shocking that it’s as polished and realized as it is.
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Moving fodder to prevent Evil Rapist from exploiting my ass
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Working on a Hard mode and honestly I'm not even balancing this thing it's just gonna off you
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