strange to exist on this planet in the current day alongside ppl whom I assume future generations will fantasize abt traveling back in time & assassinating
This wouldn't be as big of an issue to me if the games dropped the focus on combat and looked at ways of expanding exploration and making it more engaging. The strange worlds and characters have always been the big draw for me, I could care less about flashy combat.
These games would gain a lot from looking back to Demon's Souls and the way it compensated for it's limited animation budget with actually engaging boss arenas+mechanics.
With most boss fights taking place in a round open arena and roll direction being trivial in determining whether or not you survived an attack, then we might as well be fighting on a 1d axis surrounded by pretty but meaningless environments.
Fully agree with Melos here!
Imo action games (specially souls) have been leaning way too much into quick reaction timing to animation tells and it's all becoming a bit dull to me.
March - May BathHouse-war-Dolls + Scolopendra knight 🧵
Been looking for alternatives to this in my own game for a while now. Unsure if ppl will dig it as much as I do, but it's been an interesting experiment so far!
