In many of the nomination rounds, including the most recent one, several people have suggested playing Another World / Out of This World. We (the moderators) didn’t include it in the short list because we weren’t convinced that a group playthrough of the game would work well, but given the amount of support that it’s been given, we thought we should give its supporters a chance to convice us otherwise.
Basically, what we’d like to understand is which of the following three hold:
* Is it unsuitable for a VGC playthrough?
* Is it unsuitable for a regular VGC playthrough, but suitable for a playthrough with special rules of some sort? If the latter, what would be good candidate rules?
* Is it suitable for a normal VGC playthrough?
Here are some quotes from the game 8 thread:
LouisF said:
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I just want to observe that Out of this World is not a game for “novices”. It is a game for hardcore masochists, and without a guide and emulator state saves, I would’ve probably never made it through (which took about a week).
alexkidd said:
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As much as I love Another World, I find it difficult to recommend. It’s just too easy to play for a long time in certain sections of the game, only to realise you’ve made it impossible for yourself to progress any further. As such you can only really play it with a walkthrough (or a lot of restarts) these days. Plus, some of the platform elements are really tricky. It’s a shame..
Other people largely disagreed with the complaint about being impossible to progress further, but brought up the length as a potential problem. Specifially, ILR said:
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Yes, it is a puzzle game, and quite tricky at times. But the first time I played it through was five years ago as a relative n00b and didn’t need a walkthrough. It was such a captivating experience that the whole game took only two evenings to finish.
And Pots_Talos said:
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Out of this World is an amazing game, but very very short. I have played it through dozens of times and can beat it in under a half hour. I’m pretty sure that even a novice could handle it in one sitting if not then two\three days tops.
So, basically, it sounds to me like it has the potential of being the worst of both worlds: hard enough to drive away many people, and short enough that those who stick with it will be done within a week. (I looked at GameFAQs, and the length of the FAQs there supported the latter concern.) The Abe’s Oddyssee playthrough was our least successful one so far; the comments here make it sound like an Another World playthrough could be noticeably worse.
But I’ve never played the game, and many people have proposed it. To those of you who have played it: are my concerns off base, or can they be managed somehow? Which of the three possibilities that I listed at the top is most likely?
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