10-25-2010, 01:31 AM
112235290D2229342229470 wrote: Do you find the Easy versions of the mansions in MM2 to be a lot harder than the ones in MM1?
No, I don't find the Easy mansions in MM2 any harder than MM1. If anything, they might be easier, because it feels like I got thru all the Easy mansions a lot faster than in MM1 - but there are other possible reasons. Maybe I got better
Or maybe I just spent more time on it. Perhaps more importantly, after completing a few Easy mansions, I got to feel that Easy was too easy, but then I would try a Normal mansion and it would feel a bit harder than I wanted - I'd quickly drop to one or two lives after a bunch of stupid deaths, and quit out of frustration. Maybe - and I know this would pose an enormous challenge - there should a more gradual increase in difficulty as one progresses. You would have to make it more linear then, instead of letting the user choose from any of six or seven Easy mansions. But I don't like linear, so I would open up at least two new mansions for each completed one.
This might then fit with the idea of having smaller mansions, which would be easier to
controlfor various levels of difficulty. I was opposed to the idea of smaller mansions at first, but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea. Not only would it be easier to allow a gradual increase in difficulty, but I think it would allow for more variety too. But I still love a huge mansion so I think a range of different sizes would be ideal.