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>imposed
Is... Is that a... MENU OPTION???? AAAAAAAAAH I'M GOING INSAAAAAAANE! MY HAND IS MOVING TO SELECT IT ON ITS OWN I CAN'T CONTROL IT! SAAAAAVE ME IRONMAN!
Give me a fucking break, it's imposed on you as much as casual and normal mode are imposed on you. Choosing not to play on Casual is as much of a decision as committing to ignoring the turnwheel for the game.
>it's bad design. Period. And should not be defended on that basis alone.
This entire thread I've been playing Donkey Kong Bananza and may or may not have been ragebaiting to relieve frustration which is another case of questionable design with regard to difficulty. The game offers you all kinds of upgrade options, many of which go beyond being helpful and opening up new ways of play and instead completely break the game's difficulty. Extra hearts, health refill packs, all of them would obviously trivialize difficulty to the point that I question why the devs were willing to render their hard work moot so effortlessly. I don't like it... so I chose not to use any of it and ignore them. It was that easy. And I had a good time with the game because of it.