Intensity Up, IQ Right To Hell

First of all, it's a kids game. It's marketed towards kids, teens at best. It's supposed to be easy. If it wasn't, it meant that Game Freak wasn't doing their job correctly.

Secondly, we've seen firsthand what happens when a Pokémon game is too hard. The BDSP Elite Four is the perfect example. They made those guys TOUGH.

Thirdly, the primary difficulty complaint is about the automatic EXP Share. You don't want difficulty, guys. You want tedium. I played Gen 1 again and I can say that the lack of EXP Share was the main reason I stopped that playthrough.

Most damningly, people have addressed this issue already. Nuzlockes, No Damage Runs, you name it. You want difficulty? Do those challenges, or hell, make your own.

We all immediately answer with “Michael Afton”, right? But, when you go back to the “Connection Terminated” speech, it just doesn’t line up.

"And to you, my brave volunteer, who somehow found this job listing not intended for you, although there was a way out planned for you, I have a feeling that's not what you want. I have a feeling that you are right where you want to be."

That “not intended for you” doesn’t make sense if we’re playing as Michael. Henry, trying to put an end to everyone involved in all of this, would realistically post the job listing with the intent of having Michael be the volunteer.

“So what?” I hear you ask. “We’re just playing as some random person.” Well, that random person must be suicidal if Henry’s saying he has a feeling that they’re right where they want to be! And would that be what Scott would have done for a game meant to tie up loose ends? No.

So at the end of the day, we are looking for a person that is:

Not Michael Afton, as Henry would have intended him to be the volunteer

Someone present in the plot at this time

Someone who would be “right where [they] want to be” during the fire.

And you’re going to call me insane for who I think it has to be with these criteria. Get your tinfoil hats ready.

It has to be Golden Freddy.

 Not Michael (Obviously)

 Present in the plot (Since Golden Freddy is not shown in the true ending of FNaF 3, it’s safe to say they’re still around)

 “Right where [they] want to be” (Definitely the shakiest of these points, but I’m sure that TWYSNHK would only really be able to make UCN by leaving the suit somehow)

Let me know if there’s something in the books that contradicts this, as I haven’t read them.

figured i'd add to what tumblr has in terms of ffta2 posts with nitpicks of my favorite game. Yes, i have logged about 200 hours in this thing, which, considering i didn't have access to it for the majority of my life and it's a bloody DS game, is a lot.

Does that stop Trove? No.

My Revenant has a base movement speed of 104.

We all know mobile games mostly underwhelm and more than half the time suck ass. The advertisements are almost always somehow worse than the games, as well. However, some of the ads are just hilariously awful, and some of them seem to actively discourage the viewer from playing the game.

These are my favorite kind, ironically. The ones that make you question if there is a thought in the advertisers' brains.

Example: One ad in the collection of bad Hero Wars ads tries to be a commentary on how bait-and-switch ads suck ass, but "ThIs GaMe Is DiFfErEnT!". If you know Hero Wars, and I know you do, they are pretty much famous for these bait-and-switch ads, most of which consist of The Writer's Barely Disguised F*tish(TM).

Guess what the B-roll for the ad is. That's right, HERO WARS'S OWN F*TISH BAIT-AND-SWITCH ADS.

And now, it is time to delve into the realm of the However. The But. The nitpicks. Or should I say nitpick, as I only have the one?

Character deaths.

If you have not played BL2, play it now, or at least listen to a story breakdown on YouTube, because hell if I'm explaining it.

Firstly, some basics. Hyperion New-U stations are the in-lore respawn mechanic. you die, Hyperion takes your life savings, the station spits you back out. Some stations also function as fast travel. Characters actually use this function in the Pre-Sequel, thus cementing the New-U stations as an in-lore presence.

All of that shatters in Control Core Angel.

Roland gets shot in the back by Jack and dies. Permanently.

Now, this is a game where pretty much EVERYTHING comes back to life with but a save-quit. Even most bosses, as illogical as it is, resurrect by this process.

Roland's just fucking dead, though, and this makes no sense from a gameplay perspective. From a lore perspective, it's fine. Jack is letting you know he's not fucking around anymore. You JUST killed his daughter.

But in terms of gameplay? We played as Roland in BL1. He had to have interacted with at least ONE New-U Station. And if Jack somehow blocked him from accessing them, why the hell can we still use them, even AFTER this point?

Even still, Borderlands has a system in place where you cannot get killed in one shot when you're above half health. Roland shouldn't have died in the first place.

But let's just say that he was under that threshold and that Jack DID stop him from respawning. Jack himself dies at the end, and while one of the problems is no longer, the OTHER has become a wall.

We see Jack interact with New-U stations in the Pre-Sequel, and no self-respecting megalomaniac takes down the only thing barring him from a permanent death.

...and I noticed that, in the lore of the characters, you can see, VERY clearly, that they planned this in advance. Like, REALLY in advance. For example, Lin Fei’s lore page mentions Volkov, a character who joined much later. The same happens with Isaiah and Fait.

And then came the tidal wave of vanilla extract that was the polls.

Now, it is far easier to bring myself to interact with their little worlds.

Life is chaotic now. But, at least... it's the good kind of chaos. The kind that spices up the life of everyone involved. The kind that teaches you that life really is a roller coaster, no matter how cheesy it sounds. The kind that makes you feel like maybe, just maybe, things will stay good for once.

The kind that brightens up your day like a candle in the dimly lit room.