What makes ARPG such a confusing term is that they basically come from three distinct unrelated lineages that play nothing like each other: dragon slayer, tower of druaga and diablo

Notice how NOBODY is going "I'm not gonna buy your game because it doesn't have AI"
Might need to think about why that's the case, what the fuck is the middle ground supposed to be here?

There's no middle ground to subverting the creative process. only degrees

Honestly this is how I feel lol
Only thing I really need to do is actually make stuff... I've met so many cool people here and I believe in myself that they will want to see what I've done

Yeah, some form of structured, pedagogically-sound study method like a textbook is basically vital.
A lot of people who go "you shouldn't use textbooks" are from people who used them and simply discarded how useful they were in hindsight, forgetting that's how they built their foundation

I don't think those would even last 5 minutes in front of me

Speaking of, I had a list of 15 games to beat. I'm actually 3 games off of completing it but I've been sidetracked so many times lol

Spyro's been particularly challenging because it's been causing me motion sickness lately

on that note, are the pits and spinners visible in the GBC version? I noticed on Llylgamyn Saga they're very easy to spot, as well as the spinners, if you have milwa/lomilwa active which made the floor MUCH easier

honestly I like how the core ideas of the level layout stay the same, they did a pretty good job with making it smaller.

Also dumapic being an automap seems quite sensible for the gameboy version as you're not exactly going to be carrying graph paper with you when you're out and about lol

Oh that's interesting, is this the SNES version? I didn't expect it to be 16x16, the original maps are 20x20 I think

anyway please play wizardry proving grounds of the mad overlord

Of the few DQ games I've played (1-3), 2 was my least favourite tbh
I absolutely had a blast with 3 if you decide to continue on to that one though

God, I really can't think of any, other than Herzog Zwei

It really feels like a flimsy excuse. AI images for placeholders don't make sense at all, functionally it does not work as a placeholder, hence why they end up "slipping through"