Gato Roboto packs a full game's worth of action and adventure into only a few hours. More games should follow its lead.
Gato Roboto
is here to remind those games that aimlessly dragging on and on isn’t a crucial part of the Metroid recipe.integral to a good Metroid-style game appear here in full—the backtracking, the permanent power-ups, the seductive level design that puts goals in clear sight but just out of reach.
Over the last few years there have been a lot of great games that don’t demand too much of the player’s time to finish. Many of them have been better than. Few of them so successfully offer a satisfying and full-featured action game experience, though. Most short games tend to be on the artier or more experimental side, or use that brevity as a pretext to streamline the game’s mechanics.Games generally don’t want to see you go these days.
Providing enough game for the price is a valid concern, but player expectations as they currently exist probably aren’t tenable. It contributes to the absurdly high cost of development of would-be state-of-the-art blockbusters, and the unconscionable crunch time employees are forced to labor under in order to make those games. The idea that “real” or “serious” games need to last for tens of hours is unhealthy for everybody involved.swipes its paw at that notion.
Senior editor Garrett Martin writes about videogames, comedy, travel, theme parks, wrestling, and anything else that gets in his way. He’s on Twitter
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