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42. Explorable Area: Thyphlo Ruins (Pitch black forest ruins)



A lot of people call this one of their favorite parts of the game! And that makes sense, because it gets points tons of this list's criteria types:

Beauty points because the darkness in this game looks so cool, and this is likely to be your first encounter with it. The dim torches scattered about, are a really cool mood too. Feels good to light them (if you think of it...which I totally did not think of during my current playthrough). I'll give it some Multi Solution points for that (I kinda just stumbled around with Magnesis on).

I'll give it some Confusion and Saturation points, because you have no idea what you're even looking for at first, you're just stumbling around investigating every little thing that catches your eye. I respect that they don't light up the area once you've finished it--so you're never quite sure you understood the layout whatsoever...

The actual challenge you have to do here, could have been more interesting I think, you just have to find and take down a particular enemy. It's the Surprise Factor of stumbling across what you have to do, and being mad about it, that's the fun part. And just, the surprise factor of walking in to this random forest and realizing it is pitch black.

Deserves Legitimate Gameplay points too, because dark ruins are indeed a cool environment to blindly fight in. I said this game didn't have enough cool environments to fight in, but I forgot this one.

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