From a design perspective, what is the reason behind respawning with 3 hearts instead of full health after dying?
In my experience it only adds tedius pot smashing before attempting a tough area again.
It punishes the player for failing. Game design 101
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>>340680886
I'd say that going through half the dungeon is punishing enough, farming health for 5 minutes is just tedious
I also think that if that would be a good decision design wise, more devs would've tried it, but the majority of game designers let the player respawn with 100% health
bump, I'm curious if they ever changed that. The last one I played was Windwaker
>>340680613
It forces the player to regroup, perhaps retreat to replenish their inventory of bottled potions/fairies/etc., instead of brazenly charging back into the thing that killed them in the first place.
You're not supposed to play an action adventure game with the intent of starting over.
>dying in a Zelda game past the SNES
boop
>>340680613
It's so you don't use dying as a way to get back to full health. Think about it like this. You get to the boss door but have 4 hearts left out of 12, so you kill yourself on purpose and take the quick easy walk back at full health now that you opened all the shortcuts. You would effectively be getting a free full heal just for being warped to the entrance. Thanks to this punishment, the game makes you prepare by in advance by bringing potions, travel to a great fairy, farm monsters, or buy hearts with rupees. This encourages being prepared, exploration, combat skills, and saving resources respectively which I think is a fair cost.
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>>340680613
this. it's not a complicated mechanism
you need to challenge your players. if they lose they will have a more challenging time unless they perform a task they don't want to.
done.
easy.
