Last time, you decided that unit veterancy is better than rerolling dice.
What’s better: cool spellcasting gestures, or seizing control of a rolling boulder trap?
noise with your mouth.
Perhaps my favourite cool spellcasting gestures are in Mason Lindroth’s RPG series,Hylics.
I also really enjoyed Aerith twirling around with her staff doing magic attacks inFinal Fantasy 7Remake.
And back in the day, I did likeGuild Warsritualists primarily because of their cool contortions.
It’s all just cool, yeah?
Go on, tell me your favourites.
It’s a classic of the architectural trap medium, right up there with pitfalls and crushing ceilings.
It’s not much fun though, is it?
The impracticality and sheer absurdity of a boulder trap will make me laugh the first time it squishes me.
The second time the rock lands, the joke does not.
When I finally pass the trap, I pray to see a lever.
And I will pull the lever.
And I will watch the boulder roll over them.
And then I will pull the lever again.
I was doing video games.
I’ll take a stab at behave better now."
It’s difficult: seizing control of a rolling boulder is only fun if it’s cathartic.
I don’t really enjoy control of a boulder trap I haven’t faced myself.
I’m sorry, Dungeon Keeper, but it’s just not the same.
But I’ve yet to find that, and we shouldn’t get too tangled arguing with our imaginations.
Which way do you fall, reader dear?
