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The Plucky Squire Should Have More Faith In Its Players (kotaku.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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You see, The Plucky Squire falls prey to one of modern gaming’s most well-intentioned, but still utterly annoying, sins and overtly tutorializes everything. When it deigns to allow the player to pop out of their storybook for a 3D platforming level, the camera pans across the entirety of the stage outlining the intended path before you’ve even really set foot in the world. Even within the confines of the 2D world in the book, The Plucky Squire will often deploy humorous narration via onscreen text and a corresponding voiceover, which adds flavor to the game but also explicitly communicates what is expected of you at every turn.

At just about every step of the way, the game lacks any faith in your ability to figure out solutions and paths forward for yourself, preferring to bludgeon you over the head with answers before you can even be afforded a chance to think for yourself. It’s a frustrating wrinkle in an otherwise charming tale.

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[–] OrangeEnot@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Started playing It Takes Two recently. The game introduces basic controls, and that's that, no additional tutorials, no hints how to solve puzzles, no characters telling you what to do next when you are "stuck" (many games have these annoying verbal hints when you do nothing for a minute, this one respects its players). It has a lot of places where players can simply play around with mechanics and see what happens, just for the joy of exploration and not some immediate gain.

And it reminded me of playing Spyro back in my childhood days, a feeling I didn't think I'd ever get from any game again. The only downside is that the characters are surprisingly cruel at times, the game's creators certainly lack empathy.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel like the point of that in it takes two is communication. It’s pretty heavy-handed in the whole “sort out your shit amongst yourselves” theme, and it’s sort of meant as a way for a gamer to get a non-gamer into gaming, so you’d have one person with the skillz leading the other through challenges.

Or at least that’s how it played out with me. The person I was playing with is also a gamer but not really environmental/puzzle games (and easily frustrated) so it was sort of playing around with what to do and walking each other through - calling out timing and stuff, etc.

It’s a very interesting take on co-op, imho.

If you like small people in huge environments, exploring, and not being super hand-held, tinykin is a cute game, not super long, it does sort of a bit guide you through some major things but not in a particularly obnoxious way. Mostly just exploring on your own. :)

[–] OrangeEnot@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Our experience's different. I'm playing with my husband, and he's generally better at aiming and shooting, while I'm better at platformer aspects, and the characters we ended up playing are sort of wired in the right way for us, haha. Co-op is definitely super enjoyable in this game.

I'll check Tinykin out!

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