http://www.gamernode.com/bigredpotion/?p=932 Refreshing gaming discussion Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:43:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://www.gamernode.com/bigredpotion/?p=932#comment-119 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:27:34 +0000 http://bigredpotion.thegamereviews.com/?p=932#comment-119 I may have to eat crow on what I said about the puzzles being too handholdey. Justin Keverne’s wrote a wonderful piece on the game, http://gropingtheelephant.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/the-fallacy-of-choice/, explaining how Drake is a man of action and shouldn’t be held up for too long. In other words, the puzzles are easy to the player because they’re supposed to be easy for Drake. In a sense, they’re hardly even puzzles, but rather the illusion of puzzles to help drive the narrative along. While I appreciate my masochistic LucasArts and Braid-like mind-benders, they wouldn’t have fit the flow of Uncharted’s more guided experience. The game is always throwing something new at you, whether it be a shootout, an extended platforming sequence, or petting a yak’s butt. Just because I like hard puzzles doesn’t make them necessary for every game. It’s good to be wrong sometimes.

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