this mindset plagues romhacks and i hate it
just because you know a game inside and out doesn't mean you have to prove to everyone that you're the best at it
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in reply to @blazehedgehog's post:
I HAD THE SAME ISSUE WITH EARTHBOUND DELUXE
like "oh this is meant to fix things"
makes the intro segment even harder
LIKE THE INTRO IS THE HARDEST GRIND IN THE GAME
in reply to @darkwitchclaire's post:
I genuinely feel like a lot of these ROM hackers don't realize they've gotten so close to a game their sense of difficulty is warped. They think that's just how it is.
I think it's perfectly fine to make a romhack that does this? it's ok for a hack to be geared toward sickos. no one has to play it. but as suggested, this kind of thing is inevitably gonna run into difficulty spikes, so it's best to smooth some of those out or otherwise communicate in some way that this is a sickos only hack.
(Chrono Trigger seems to me to be a game that could pretty easily withstand this sort of thing, and it's easy to see how this hack would lead to strategic choices about cost/benefit of using certain parties and the like, which is not something the base game is gonna make you do nor should it.)