Platforms and Pitfalls Episode 21 - Consistency mitigation

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

In this episode, we focus on how games encourage players to try new things, buy always giving them different tools to try, and avoiding giving them the same options too often. We look at Magic The Gathering, Shiren The Wanderer, Lost Dimension, Unlimited Saga and Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2.

00:00 Intro
1:01 Magic the Gathering
10:28 Mystery Dungeon Shiren The Wanderer
26:12 Lost Dimension
37:47 Unlimited Saga
46:16 Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 257:51 Ending thoughts
1:00:27 Episode End

Your hints for next month are
Bravely Default
Red Alert 3
Devil May Cry 4

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.

Magic The Gathering - Azorius Theme
Mystery Dungeon Shiren The Wanderer - Story
Lost Dimension - Lobby
Unlimited Saga - The Seven Travelers
Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 - ROKUMON (Baiken’s Theme)
Lost Dimension - Conversation