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> Ranking is an excellent mechanic
Cool opinion bro. How about you just design your stages to be difficult instead? Anyway
>What about them are questionable?
Using the other post as reference:
>actually using bombs
Other than the part where you can tie scoring to bombing, there is another, much more straightforward way to make the player use bombs: make shit difficult to avoid.
>thinking carefully about powerups instead of just gobbling them up
Getting powerups beyond your max level is already pointless, as far pure survival goes anyway. Same for extends if there is already a cap... why should I bother getting the extend item at all in such a situation? What kind of complex choice is the player even making? This is definitely where you made it very obvious how much you are mindlessly sucking 8ing cock while complaining about people sucking off CAVE instead, couldn't be a more blatant projection if you tried.
>adjusting your run dynamically
Ideally you want to avoid that outside of purely casual runs, you will mostly reach the same score thresholds, use bombs in the same spots, dodge shit in the same way, and so on.
>there's different characters and styles that completely change up how you approach the game
Many games do this, 8ing didn't invent having multiple ships and making them play differently enough.
