Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. and I think this balance tuning is intentional. Limited regen (e.g. It would feel terrible.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

This is a convenient diegetic way of locking the player in-place for a cutscene, while also priming the player for an extended cutscene. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. It's more paranoid than a Ubisoft game.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

The opening cutscene literally made me cry. I mean, you spend a LOT of time fighting in this game. One last thing about the combat: it is very poorly balanced. There’s several systems of collectible quest kind of things where you find an icon on the map, do a boring, easy fight, rinse and repeat.

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Writing Fantasy Fighting Cutscenes 52

The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Because the activities you actually do in a video game, in-between the cutscenes and the conversations, may be part of the story, but they don't move the story forward. Shoot the same enemy, fight the same fight. Like you need to fight Archduke Bob. You have to fight Bob, therefore you enter the sewer.

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Games Fighting Fantasy Writing 109

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. Battle: Simplified skill point system and amazing visual effects The core of the skill system relates to balancing and mechanisms. The rough cutscene). Let’s use the Witch class as an example.

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