Saw a comment that said the Marx is secretly a hero. Because if Kirby said I wish the moon and sun stop fighting, nova’s answer would be to blow up popstar.

I know not what possessed me to make this.

月1通院あるおかきより不機嫌そうに見えるまめきち

I'm kinda a strategic head (albeit my brain processing power couldn't handle anything TOO complex) so I'd usually prefer a game that has its way of keeping me on edge or getting me to think for a bit on every move, so my opinions here should probably be taken with a grain of salt lol

…because it got sidetracked by resource management and luck of a pull.
Luck factors in game is FINE, some people LIKE that, but to what extent should it be utilized and at what point does it feel like a detriment or even worse exploitative is a thing to be measured in details.

…then there are games that sought to lump itself into a roguelike format and inherited the problem coming from not rounding the format up properly. Some games tried to go with that and basically killed the initial nuances and stakes of core gameplay…

And in regards to the “gambling” aspect or luck factor in game…this is a more detailed discussion that involves the game structure and what it sought out to do. There are definitely games that builds on “watching numbers going up” and that only…

In a way I kinda appreciate that some devs strayed away from such format and went “oh, you don’t really need to full collect every item in game or something” just so it doesn’t come off as grindy—don’t want to make your game feel like a second job.

…even though by this point the game’s size makes this pursuit come off as an absolute time vacuum, and the game itself also didn’t round itself up around that.

Isaac as one of the earlier pioneers in the format really ran into the issue created by its format in the long run—the game creeps on scales of contents WAY too much and follows the “everything has to turn in reward” logic…

In regards to roguelike stuff and especially indie roguelikes tho…I feel like there are a good amount of games that turned to their successors (tBoI and Balatro and so on), seeking to achieve about the same vibe but failed to realize that those formats can come off as insufferable.