voted for you, good luck

they're a total black box. some suspect games get approved just fine some innocuous games get trapped in the hell dimension and no one knows why. the only consistent themes is if you have anything even slightly gay you're playing russian roulette on hard mode

…also I guess the 5m kan directly won me the game

left player was waiting on 5/8m, kan’ing it seemingly made them give up on it and deal in

translation for non-players: what if luck just decided that you actually got 3x the points and won immediately

I guess I should have assumed they had mahjong powers in that, huh

this made me do it and I did get 4/6 but it *was* sick

along those lines, just went looking for any interviews and found nothing on the design

but apparently someone translated a short interview with the composers for 1/2/GH, which might be of interest to you: jeedusnostalgiazone.home.blog/2021/01/28/c...

trying to do “well you’d fumble with keys while in a panic” in a way that really didn’t land, or a forced decision to pad out playtime, or… anything

and that’s to say nothing of the plot and how that was just dropped at the end

there are so many things about why it is the way it is that I would love to know the intention/reason behind

like the restricting you from unlocking doors while being chased was *so* miserable and I could just as easily see that being a weird technical restriction, or earnestly…

did you think about the homestar runner song as a result

though I did also recently make it to Expert in 3 player exactly on my 100th match of that mode, so, there’s that