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6/8/2025, 11:02:34 PM
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If a boss is impossible to beat without grinding levels, and then becomes trivial once you do, then you didn't design a challenging boss, you designed a level check.
The thing is, I don't believe that's what's happening most of the time. I think you (and so, so many others) have just been conditioned to hold your emulator's speedup key and level grind for a few minutes in response to any kind of challenge, instead of attempting to engage with the game's functions on its own terms. Again, if this was ANY OTHER franchise, nobody would think twice about saying this. It's only Pokemon where people decide that playing the game is somehow going against the developers' intentions.
Am I going to claim that level checks never happen? No, of course not. I'm sure there are plenty of poorly-designed, trash romhacks out there that genuinely expect the player to sit down and grind wild encounters at 800% speed for 20-30 minutes. And if that's your jam, cool. Go grind levels for half an hour and feel good about it. But don't claim that it's THE intended method for all, or even most romhacks. Some developers deserve a little more credit than that.
If a boss is impossible to beat without grinding levels, and then becomes trivial once you do, then you didn't design a challenging boss, you designed a level check.
The thing is, I don't believe that's what's happening most of the time. I think you (and so, so many others) have just been conditioned to hold your emulator's speedup key and level grind for a few minutes in response to any kind of challenge, instead of attempting to engage with the game's functions on its own terms. Again, if this was ANY OTHER franchise, nobody would think twice about saying this. It's only Pokemon where people decide that playing the game is somehow going against the developers' intentions.
Am I going to claim that level checks never happen? No, of course not. I'm sure there are plenty of poorly-designed, trash romhacks out there that genuinely expect the player to sit down and grind wild encounters at 800% speed for 20-30 minutes. And if that's your jam, cool. Go grind levels for half an hour and feel good about it. But don't claim that it's THE intended method for all, or even most romhacks. Some developers deserve a little more credit than that.
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