Oracle of Seasons, one of the most frustrating games in my memory but also one of my all-time favourites.
It occurred to me recently that modern gamers are.... wimps. I'm not excluding myself here.
Whenever a gamer is punished for failure, such as a lives system they moan, they whine and they throw their controllers and say "games shouldn't have these features". The fact is that we are spoilt. A lot of next-gen games give players cheap thrills, immediate fun with no long-term fun or big hills to climb over.
The lives systems and game over screens give a game violent ups and downs, but I believe in some cases the pros outweigh the cons and I'd hate something so marvellous as this to be wiped from...
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