>>725609584
It extends the olive branch to babbies by giving them a way to make the game easier by grinding but establishes hierarchy between them and the big boys by telling you that you are in fact a lesser player for using them.

And I think thats fair. As a kid I was really bad at these games and I used the elves. I didnt even care about scoring because I had a hard time with the base level difficulty of the game already.
Now I ignore them and play for A/S ranks.

Its good design and fixes the typical JRPG issue of retards sitting in a bush at the start of the game and grinding slimes until level 99 and then cry about the lack of difficulty but I guess it hurts peoples egos. By MMZ3 they added those satellite elves that let you interact with the elf system even if you score so I guess they listened to people.

>>723381314
Whats worrying is that there is not a new generation of eccentric creator personalities.

I think current corporations specifically try to suppress them becasue they dont want their company image hinge on the whims of single people. They want everybody to be an unnamed cog instead.

>>721051201
the problem with modern devs is that they will add tons of ladders and boxes that arent climbable and breakable so they need to set the few that do work apart visually somehow.
its the result of muh realism clutter retard design when in the past games were more abstract which was objectively better.

ok but current fighters are still all shit with zero exceptions.