Platforms and Pitfalls Episode 19 - Risk Encouragement

This month are continuing our dominant strategies series, a long-form series looking at dominant strategies and how games prevent them. This is the second of five intended episodes.

It’s a new format for us to try a multi-part series, but we hope you enjoy it!

In this episode, we focus on encouraging players away from the typical dominant strategy of never taking risks. We look at Bloodborne, Bayonetta, Final Fantasy XIII, Battle Moon Wars and Final Fantasy VIII

00:00 Intro
1:34 Bloodborne
10:28 Bayonetta
18:21 Final Fantasy XIII
24:31 Battle Moon Wars
39:27 Final Fantasy VIII47:24 Ending thoughts
49:53 Episode End

Your hints for next month are
Dead Cells
Hearthstone
Street Fighter V

See if you can guess!

We love talking about games and there is never enough time to talk about everything. Were there examples we missed you wished we talked about?

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The opening and closing song Random thoughts by Audio Binger is used under an Attribution non-commercial licence, find more great audio here http://www.audiobinger.net/

Music used between each section is as follows.

Bloodborne - The Witch of Hemwick
Bayonetta - Fly me to the Moon Climax Mix
Final Fantasy XIII - The Promise
Battle Moon Wars - Arcueid
Final Fantasy VIII - Jailed
X-Com 2 - Main Menu Theme