I saw this article and am somewhat dumbfounded by how badly they overcorrected for Easy Mode.

Because this isn’t just a sequel though. Could you imagine if they made a sequel where you replay 90% of the original game again. People would just say its a cash grab.

Calling it a remake is more akin to what it is. The game is mostly the same. Sure the ending leaves it open for it to be vastly different, but at the…

If you’re sharing a Switch with somebody who has Covid-19 you’re probably already infected, so cleaning it seems pretty irrelevant.  Alcohol is overkill anyway, mild soap and water is plenty effective.

You might have to take apart your controller to clean it in your case.

Under normal circumstances people shouldn’t be cleaning their controllers with isopropyl alcohol anyway. It can dry out the rubber pads under the buttons, which cause all kinds of problems. Warm water with a small amount of soap. Soak a washcloth, wring it out, wipe it down, wipe it dry.

PEOPLE are not the same. They cannot have the same experience anyway with one difficulty setting.  That’s why developers interested in appealing to a broader audience add difficulty modes in the first place.  If everyone enjoyed the game the same way, of course there’d be no call for difficulty settings.

More options is a great idea! But a good baseline is “anybody should be able to beat this.”

I’m not going to reiterate that all of this sucks like some other people have, but it does seem that after decades of watching anime a lot of this ends up looking.... kinda the same. The only character designs that immediately jumped at me seemed to be from Wave, Listen to Me!. Well also that Olympia and Komatta…

You can play offline and lose access to factions, notes, invasions, co-op, etc. yes. It’s still a big part of the game though, especially if you beat the game in easy and then hopped online with lots of gear and high levels.

Entirely for the sake of beating the game, you’re creating a much more hallow experience.

“I guess you could entirely disable online for an easy playthrough and lock the difficulty, but that’s ridiculous.”

I guess you could entirely disable online for an easy playthrough and lock the difficulty, but that’s ridiculous.

I think the bottom line here is that more choice is good.

It would have been good if they could have applied Classic mode to Easy and Normal separately, instead of defaulting it to Easy.  I think the bottom line here is that more choice is good. 

Exactly this.

It is impossible for an easy mode to “compromise the integrity of the game”. It’s been pointed out ad-nauseum to Souls fans that the existence of an easy mode wouldn’t impact their gameplay if they don’t touch the difficulty setting but they still spout this nonsense anyway.

I think this is partly why devs like From Software don’t bother with easy modes. They have one, set mode that they want to balance everything around and that’s all they want to do. Not that there’s anything wrong with this approach, where you have an easy mode that has no challenge. But I can see why devs might want…

Motoko from the film is an outlier in that regard. The Stand Alone Complex-version, the best one in my opinion, is an amalgamation of the film Major and the original manga character.

she was never like that in the source material though. the girly and goofy persona they give her in other media is how she’s portrayed in the manga.

So basically nothing interesting to watch. shame.