Serious Sunday: Brutal Games - What makes a good, or bad one?
4Luke takes a few minutes to muse, stream of consciousness-style, about difficult games, and what makes one good versus bad. In honor of the recent release of Dark Souls 3, he touches briefly on what makes the dark souls formula work, while other games that merely punish the player and rely on memorization are poor game design.
Serious Sunday is a freeform roundtable discussion between the members of the Level 0 NPCs, where a specific topic is pre-selected by the group to be explored and discussed at length. Each of the NPCs approach the topic from both the perspective of a seasoned, die-hard gamer, and as creators of games themselves. Part freeform review, part critical analysis, part video game book club, Serious Sunday is where the NPCs take a step back and take a moment to give a serious look at something that is important to the industry, or games in general.
Background footage is taken from Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition on PC.