Midnight Mansion 3 - your opinion wanted!

[jacobvann]

6F424F40484F424D41402E0 wrote:
The problem I foresee with this is that some players just want to jump into

hard

mode straight away, without having to play through normal mansions.  Personally I like to play Normal and Hard modes (and occasionally Easy, just to see what is new and different) but it doesn't seem nice to force all players to play through Normal before they can access Hard.  In fact, I think that may even be a

Twinkie Denial Condition

in the Game Designer's Notebook (Bad Designer!  No Twinkie for you!)

You can very easily get around this by having a setting on the options or from the New Game screen. Something like

Start Me on Hard!

I don't see how my solution is any more restrictive than what we already have (with the exception of no typical Easy mode)