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The problem is the same as with Okri’s quests: Fighting is something we do anyway, including Bosses and Patrols. I’d find that even more uninteresting than the jumps. That would make obtaining the grim dangerous, as well as making the second grim more difficult to obtain. You’d probably have to beef up patrols or add a rat ogre to the current ones. That gives the player a choice of obtaining it through team combat, or sneaking past. The Grim isn’t visible until you manage the jumps, so it’s quite easy (if you’re finding out about things without outside help) to deem it impossible.Īlternatively grims could be attached to patrols. As others here, I find the hidden switches or unusual side paths more interesting, as at least those ones don’t feel like they stall the gameplay - and aren’t really in danger of failure and even more stalling.Īs for the particular Grim discussed here: The first jump in particular requires such precision that the first few runs when we noticed the place (and suspected something about it, specifically because of the door below and how the place looked) we ended up giving up with the jumps, and at least I personally started to wonder whether our suspicions were right after all. Actually, I don’t even like calling them puzzles, because while for some of them there may be a puzzle element for the first time you find them (“there’s the book, now how do I reach it?”), it’s minor and the precision jumping is a far bigger aspect of it - and one that you have to do again from the start if you fail. Either you get them quickly, or you end up getting annoyed at failing. But for the most part, they end up being uninteresting time-wasters. Some people may even like them (but I don’t remember anyone mentioning that at least). This is made somewhat worse with controls that are not specifically built for precise jumping, but for something else completely. So to achieve the precise jumps, we have far less information available than in other kinds of games or real life.
#WAR GRIMOIRE FULL#
While in real life we can still look down and see how our feet are positioned, we can’t do it here (yes, I know about the Full Body Awareness mod, but as it isn’t approved and not available to consoles, it’s irrelevant) and in addition (at least by default) our field of vision is smaller than in reality. But in first person, we only have available similar visual information to real life, and often even less. In third person games, the lack of the senses of balance and touch can be partially compensated with additional visual information: We see our whole character and their immediate surroundings at once, and can relate those to each other. Through that we can achieve some pretty interesting and impressive tricks.
We have our sense of balance and touch, and sometimes even hearing, working together with vision to give us a good sense of both our environment and body position. In real life, what allows people to do parkour or other precise jumps and movements is that we have a lot more information available than just visual. There’s an inherent problem with platforming in First Person perspective in games, and it’s the reason why I never finished Mirror’s Edge. Once again, I end up repeating something I’ve said before, but it was in an old thread about the same (well, jump-puzzle Grims in general) issue.
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