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MM2 is a good game I'm just saying these are poorly designed things within it. Prior knowledge being outright necessary to beat a level is bad design. You shouldn't need prior knowledge, it should only help. Pre-requisite knowledge should also go off some amount of intuition as the weapon pathing often does (many later entries it gets tougher-- ironically this is probably a big part of the reason people like MM3 less than MM2 because it sort of just disposes with a weapon path that makes sense since what the hell is supposed to beat a "Gemini man"). Item 2 being obtained from Bubble Man for example would help the Heat Man situation a lot I think.

If you can overlook these kind of things then more power to you but I don't think dismissing every gripe with a game's difficulty curve with "git gud" is sensible.

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