My God that was an awful, pointless, awfully pointless grind (Eternal Sonata)

Recently started playing this game again. The first time I played it, I got about 5 hours in and reached, for some reason, a massive puzzle involving a massive cirlcular room divided into two halwf with big concentric crescent paths and upper and lower floors and movinf rooms and switch that moved the paths and all that kinda shit. Got incredibly fed up with, stopped playing the game.

Came back a few months later, started from the beginning again (glad I did), got back to that room. This time, I went through with a guide. A very cleary explained guide that told me exactly what to do. And it took me AN HOUR to push all the switches and run along the paths and move all the rooms in the right way in order to advance. An hour. And that was with the knowledge of exactly what to do and clear directions. An hour of running in circles, pushing switches, and fighting bloody rats. I really fucking hope this game never does that again.

that sounds kinda shit

It really did feel like it was there just to make the game longer.

i hate pointless gsame extenders like that
the other classic is having to run to opposite sides of things for no reason

I remember a part of Okami where you had to run around for an hour just to get a dog to join you. It was stupid.

Roronoa Kaio wrote:

I remember a part of Okami where you had to run around for an hour just to get a dog to join you. It was stupid.

that dog hunting was bollocks

The bit where you had to find all the dogs or something? Been a while since I played it.

The worst case of that I've seen though was in Super Paper Mario. You literally had to just run in a wheel for 10+ minutes before you could advance.

the fuck o_O
what console was that on

that actually does sound like the stupidest thing ever

how about ffvii resuscitation game that was baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

Arm-Fall-Off-Boy wrote:

The bit where you had to find all the dogs or something? Been a while since I played it.

Yeah, you had to find 8 dogs or so. 4 where hidden in the village, 3 were nearby and for the last one you had to run around the entire world map.

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The worst case of that I've seen though was in Super Paper Mario. You literally had to just run in a wheel for 10+ minutes before you could advance.

I remember that. >_>

thats why i liked dq8
the whole game was a struggle but you never needed to grind same with nocturne

Roronoa Kaio wrote:

Arm-Fall-Off-Boy wrote:

The bit where you had to find all the dogs or something? Been a while since I played it.

Yeah, you had to find 8 dogs or so. 4 where hidden in the village, 3 were nearby and for the last one you had to run around the entire world map.

Oh yeah. That last one didn't bother me at all though, because it wasn't arbitrarily introduced. It wasn't just a new area that was designed to take 100x longer to get past than it should be. The dog was there in the village the whole time, from the start of the game.

Those type of delays I don't really mind, because you're actually playing the game for the most part. The game doesn't just take a break for something completely unrelated to the rest of the gameplay that takes a ridiculously long time.

mario games are really bad for that kinda crap
i remember sunshine you efeectively played each individual level 10 times o_O