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Jet Lancer is HARD
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Picked it up because it was on sale
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The first few tutorial missions were easy-ish
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Then it's like "OKAY NOW WE'RE OUT OF THE KIDDIE POOL AND INTO THE BIG LEAGUE"
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And I am just getting curb stomped over and over again
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By every available mission
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Fuck this
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Also I can FEEL the bad gamer brain in me
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Because there's a difficulty setting on the main menu
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And it goes DOWN
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And right now the game just feels Too Hard
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But I don't WANT to change it to easy
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Because then I have LOST
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The game has BEATEN me
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And I can say "That's fucking stupid" as many times as I want but that doesn't change anything
Villain
Quinn Angstrom you dealt with this kind of bad brain before
Villain
How do you make yourself not hate everything
Quinn Angstrom
years of practice resetting my brain and learning to embrace the super give up
Quinn Angstrom
and occasional meditation on my impressive achievements of the past
Quinn Angstrom
like how you beat Cave Story's hell ending
Quinn Angstrom
you are Good at Video Games
Villain
I did do that
Quinn Angstrom
and one individual video game cannot take that away
Bolt Vanderhuge
And I mean, if it's a genre that's outside your normal wheelhouse? It's fine.
Villain
I guess it kinda is
Quinn Angstrom
yeah your main steeze is first person games
Villain
steeze?
Quinn Angstrom
jam?
Quinn Angstrom
operational specialty
Bolt Vanderhuge
A lot of shoot 'em ups or aerial combat games often throw people, and even then, there's lots and lots of variance
Bolt Vanderhuge
In how each title can play
Bolt Vanderhuge
And like, I love shoot'em ups and such? But I fuckin' suck at most of them
Bolt Vanderhuge
lot of the skills only questionably transfer
RobotApocalypse
setting a game to easy mode isn't a loss/letting the game beat you.

it's exploiting a loophole that allows you to train up your skills until you can come back stronger in the next season and defeat it then
RobotApocalypse
but seriously though, i tell myself that there's no shame in playing games on easy mode because 1) the devs put in it there for a reason, might as well use it, 2) sometimes it takes a while to really figure out the nuances of gameplay in a new game, just think of easy mode as practice mode, and 3) games are supposed to be fun
RobotApocalypse
i understand the frustration of banging your head against a wall and feeling like "i should be able to do this!" but ultimately you gotta tell yourself that what you're trying right now isn't working, so you need to go try something else
RobotApocalypse
here is something i saw a lot back in my heavy DDR days: get on an arcade machine with somebody who's playing for the first time, and watch them set their difficulty to normal
RobotApocalypse
because there's the assumption that "normal mode" means that's how you're supposed to play the game
RobotApocalypse
but if you've never played DDR before, I'm here to tell you: normal mode will fucking murder you and throw your body in the river if you haven't already drilled in the basics playing on easy mode
RobotApocalypse
so that's the sort of framework i take with me into other games in other genres: if normal mode is too hard for me, then i should go play easy mode for a while to drill in the basics. once the basics come naturally, then i can bump up the difficulty and try again
Villain
ugh okay fine let's just
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do the thing
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WAIT
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WHAT THE FUCK
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THERE ARE ONLY TWO DIFFICULTIES
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NORMAL AND NEW GAME+
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So I guess I'm just
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never beating this game
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great
RobotApocalypse
wait what???
Villain
$10 down the drain
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NG+ isn't even UNLOCKED YET
RobotApocalypse
oh no....... why would you design a game like that
Villain
IT LOOKED SO COOL
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BUT I JUST
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I CAN'T DO IT
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THERE'S TOO MUCH GOING ON
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There is an accessibility mode
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that has like
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an invincibility toggle
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So you can just be invincible
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But I think that's too far in the other direction
Villain
I don't want to get my teeth punched out over and over again
Villain
But I do want SOME challenge
Villain
But no there's
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- Fuck you be perfect mode
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- Easy baby street not even really a game anymore mode
Villain
I haven't been burned this bad on a game since Lo-Fi Ping Pong
Villain
I'm so fucking mad
RobotApocalypse
looking at the nintendo page for the game it says there's adjustable dodge windows in the accessibility options as well, have you tried that?
Villain
Was there?
RobotApocalypse
that's what it says
RobotApocalypse
https://images.plurk.com/76uEfORV3573QDm4DC1QU9.png
Villain
oh hey
Villain
"Invincibility" isn't just a toggle
Villain
It has a half-damage mode too
Villain
okay let's actually
RobotApocalypse
oh nice!!
Villain
fiddle with some settings rather than immediately go into a rage
RobotApocalypse
i guess lesson 2 is always go digging through the options/settings to see what's available
Villain
Doubling HP did indeed make the game playable
RobotApocalypse
awesome!! i'm glad you found a solution!
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