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clair obscur is beautiful and fun, but what on earth is the point off all the empty corridors? (hexbear.net)

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French noises: the game is blowing up and not without good reason. It's beautiful (awful flickering hair TAA artefacts and weird gormless facial expressions aside), the story is more mature than the usual slop gamers settle for, the style is shamelessly traced from persona five's notes but with unique aesthetic flair. I am a known "video game stories are mostly actively a negative addition" hater and I've been moved to tears. Shit slaps.

I just have one question, what is the point of all the hours you are meant to spend holding down sprint running backwards and forwards through a sequence of empty corridors waiting to find the next actually interesting thing? What does it add? The best defense I can think of is that it gives you time to listen to the great music?

The pacing is whack, it's banging fight. 5 minutes twiddling a joystick and occasionally pressing X, banging fight, 5 minutes twiddling, amazing fight, story beat, time to stop having fun because the overworld section is next!

Can someone please explain?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For me, I don't need rewards or items or whatever on a path if what's down that path is meaningful part of worldbuilding.

FF9 had tonnes of things like this. Treno in particular is a fucking maze with loooooooong empty pathways between parts of the city that are kinda annoying but it's one of the most memorable locations for me because it was annoying... I wouldn't change it. For a JRPG the architecture of the location is a memorable feature in a sense, and by architecture I don't mean the appearance/art but the traversible paths of the area.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haven't played a ff game (tried 7, was a snoozefest and apparently that's the peak of them?) so idk. Maybe it's like dad game stuff.

The mindset of someone who would want to play power wash simulator vs practice an instrument/do decorative knotwork/crossstitch/bake/read/whatever is pretty much inaccessible to me. So I guess I'm must a mechanic pilled pacemaxer while you're fillercore and vibing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's bookreading vs extreme sports. Different tastes I guess?

I enjoy both though. For different reasons and different moods. You do actually have to genuinely get into a world and story in order to enjoy the quieter parts though. If you don't, they do become a factor for burnout on those games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I like chill as fuck games too. But like in slime rancher traversal is like the game and the mechanics support that. There isn't (at least as of last time I played it) a part of the map where you go and play a bad piano rhythm game or something.

If fans of jrpgs just sort of expect filler wandering and half executed minigames and that's the reason they're there then it explains why human lives were spent realising them. I didn't know what was a thing though.