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“instead of a normal review, i’ll post my favorite insight from this podcast (so far).
in the pokémon red and blue episodes, the hosts mentioned that jrpgs of the time had the inherent problem of wanting to reward exploration, but discouraging it with random battles; and that pokémon solved this issue by turning random battles into a gatcha-like slot machine where the enemies are the prizes.
overall i find these podcasts much more insightful than many youtube “video essays,” polygon articles, the few books i’ve read, and other well-regarded media on game design.
episodes on nintendo games tend to be the best, probably because they don’t know them that well and can notice design decisions which i take for granted as i played them all ten years ago.”
nickmcco via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/12/19
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“I started listening to this podcast after hearing about it on Kotaku Splitsreen and started with the Plainscape game.
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