What were they thinking in Aria of Sorrow with letting the player recharge MP and HP (the latter with the worm soul) passively? Wasting your time shouldn't be a mechanic.>Stuck somewhere tough?>Out of potions?>Don't worry just leave your gameboy on for 2 minutes
Skill issue I'm affraid
>>750184820the devs had a skill issue when designing the game yeah
>>750184574The guy who was making the really good castlevania's like rondo and SOTN (Toru Hagihara) left.That's why they shitcanned the series onto handhelds and just started reusing assets.It's also why there's a huge drop in quality in the series after the 4th generation/Symphony.
>>750184574>Wasting your time shouldn't be a mechanicThen don't? Nobody is stopping you from leaning into a crutch like passive recovery>b-but how am I supposed to heal?MASSIVE SKILL ISSUE
>>750184574>waiting 2 minutes instead of running back to the save room IQ issue
>>750185380He can't 'cause he went in too deep without any heals and now he can't go back and dodge enemies to save his life
>>750184574It was a handheld game. So you could just keep it running in your pocket or something. Lots of handheld games had features like that. It's actually kind of cool. It's not really effective during gameplay, but can have a noticeable effect in-between gameplay. And the handheld games were very easy to just put away and pick back up.
>>750184574>having to use such things in the first placeWay to out yourself as a scrub.
Why the fuck did they put a strobing background for the last fight in HoD? What were they thinking?
>>750184574>wow can you believe that one single door that only opens when you aren't looking at it? the mechanic never used anywhere else?>haven't they watched best design practices by youtube wannabes? that's a bad heckin' mechanicthe thing you gotta understand is that a lot of projects have no grand purpose or overarching design, it's all happenstancewhat were they thinking? "yeah healing is gonna be a unique soul ability"
>>750184574I remember playing this shit on one of these brick Nokia cellphones back in 2012 can't remember exactly what year but yeah I was a young little guy then, anyway I fucking hated this piece of shit game but I still finished it and I don't remember shit about it
>>750184574Persephone in Dawn of Sorrow is even more broken.You can have it on at all times and it basically doubles up as an attack and a minor/moderate heal.
