Postby EekumBokum202 » Wed Apr 26, 2017 4:21 am
Having played up to world 4, I feel I can safely say I don't get the hate behind these two. Rextro's worst mini-game was the first one, which had really slippery controls. Other than that, World 3's mini-game was just "eh", while I found myself really enjoying world 2 and world 4's mini-game! So unless world 5 mini-game is SO bad it restroactively makes the others worse as a result, I feel like the hate behind the polygonal dinosaur is a bit exaggerated.
Kartos, I can almost get behind the hate, but honestly, his minecart rides aren't bad, just kidn of lackluster, at least at first. World 4 was when it really started to click for me, upping the challenge, and making use of my ability to not just jump, but brake, speed up, and shoot at the right time. It was frustrating at times, but that's kind of why it's a challenge, right? It wouldn't be a challenge if you didn't get a LITTLE angry at it, though it's important to understand what you're angry about. If you're angry because of something you couldn't possible know/do in advance, having really cheap difficulty, or being SO exact with how perfectly you need to nail certain jumps and the like, then it would be pretty bad, but honestly, the frustrating bits were me messing up a jump or getting hit, and that's on me; it's all about putting agency on the player when it comes to difficulty, making it east to play while the challenge comes in by putting a player's skills to the test. But again, I haven't played world 5's Kartos segment, so maybe that one really DOES get cheap...
Regardless, I like Kartos and Rextro as characters and in concept, so I don't want to see them abandoned entirely. I do think more thought and effort should be put into their respective segments, just like I think more thought and effort should be put into Dr. Quack's quizzes. It's just something Playtonic needs to improve upon in future installments.
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