Follow Your Passion: A Seamless Tumblr Journey
Look I love Pokemon Sun/Moon and Pokemon Sword/Shield for a few reasons dear to me but yes there are MANY objective reasons to criticize them, in special SwSh being so obviously super half baked.
And yet, out of ALL the reasonable complaints we could make, a lot of people choose to criticize the “casual controls” feature? “These games are so easy and stupid you can play with 1 hand lololol” they said about these games.
Do people not realize these are important features that make games accessible to many of us? Needless to say, not all games need to be action filled in real time with ass complex controls that require a gaming keyboard for competing. And not all players have to aim for that experience, it has nothing to do with being disabled. Of course, this also ties to the whole “haha casual players and girl gamers and their Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing” thing going on in a certain sector of the gaming community but that’s another talk for another day.
Gaming has always been a really big part of my life, since I was 7 and my siblings and me got a Nintendo back in the 90′s. When I started to have problems with my arm’s tendons and muscles on top of my other health issues, I started to play Turn-based JRPGs very exclusively, and other “slow games” because I couldn’t deal with most other games anymore. The part of me that’s still a hardcore Megaman fan cries herself to sleep some days becasue of that. I replayed Megaman X Command Mission many times because, even if it’s probably the worst Megaman X game (or...maybe X7 is worse lmao) it’s the only turn-based rpg Megaman game, and therefore mostly the only Megaman I can play anymore. Many years ago, when I heard they were making a turn-tased Megaman X game, I couldn’t believe it! I was so happy! I can finally play Megaman again! And yes it was only a half-decent game but I get to play as X and Zero again shut up about Megaman games having to be terribly difficult and punishing as the first generation or therefore they are not good ugh
And yes it was a big selling point for me knowing Sun/Moon and Sword/Shield had a “casual controls” feature that yes, allows me to mostly play with my left hand and yes, this helps me enjoy my life a little more.
It took my arm pain striking back really hard and being put on lay off from work for me to finally sit down to watch Dr Stone
BUT BOY AM I HAPPY I DID