It is sorta frustrating to me how people's lack of passionate investment in the video game medium leads to small reference pools, and now everyone acts like Dark Souls fucking invented safe room checkpoints, corpse running, and limited healing resource game mechanics. So if a game has a corpse run or limited healing resource mechanic, they go "oh it's a darksoulsemup."
Mina the Hollower didn't "bait and switch" by "pretending" to be a Zeldalike but actually it's a darksoulsemup. It's just a Zelda x Castlevania fusion with a safe room checkpoint system, and has corpse run and limited healing resource mechanics.
I am BEGGING you to play more video games. Dark Souls did not INVENTED these mechanics. It didn't even popularize them. That's like attributing Quick Time Events to fucking Resident Evil 4. Yes, Resident Evil 4 HAD quick time events and was also very popular and successful. But I assure you, games featuring quick time events were being made before RE4 and would have continued being used in games if RE4 was never made.
And Mina the Hollower probably would have had checkpoint safe rooms, corpse running, and limited healing resources even if Dark Souls didn't exist. Because those are just the natural mechanics to implement given the nature of Yacht Club's experience after developing Shovel Knight and the style of game Mina was going to be.
Also if you were looking at this game featuring a character running around swinging a whip straight out of Castlevania and weren't expecting it to be difficult, then I don't know what to tell you dude. Castlevania games are tough. And this game was always very overtly Castlevania inspired.
If you are surprised by the difficulty and mechanics in Mina, then I think maybe you just weren't paying attention.
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