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Super Best Friends Thread 9: "Don't Get Cocky, Jesus!"

Bruce Willis was dead the entire time

God damn it I read...

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Games like Shadow of the Colossus and Monster Hunter's gameplay loop are really interesting. To make up for the fact that every enemy is a huge, long bossfight (with the jobber monsters in MH that you basically ignore being a mild exception) they have the absolute most mellow downtime ever. Monster Hunter it's just mixing items and buying stuff and outfitting gear and finding out what you need to upgrade next, along with simplistic MMO style gathering missions for materials.

SotC does this to an even more extreme degree, where the downtime is literally just looking for the boss in a huge, empty, ruined environment. It's funny how well a gameplay loop of nothing and suddenly "BAM" compares to fighting room after room of jobbers, in a slow escalation to a boss, in most action games.
 
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