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Are there any games where you become less powerful as you progress? Always thought that would be a neat gimmick.

I know there's one time deals for story reasons (like Samus from Metroid or Jade from ToAbyss). I'm thinking more as part of the whole game.
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That would be an interesting concept. I'd love to see a game like that.
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i think the campaign for the Warcraft 3 expansion forcibly levels down Arthas the whole time
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Too bad this concept would be a huge turn off for casuals. Only hardcore players would accept becoming more and more handicapped over getting more and more powerful.

Im definitely interested in the idea though.
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The ideal way to do it is by adding handicaps rather than taking away abilities. For example you might start with unlimited stamina, and then you gain a stamina meter to limit your more powerful abilities. Maybe things that ordinarily didn't hurt you now do, like bright light. That way, the game still becomes more complex and introduces new mechanics, but you're also becoming weaker.
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Eternal Sonata.

In a way. There are more limits placed on you in combat, such as having to do things quickly, and I think you don't get time to plan what you're going to do in a battle later on.

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Tellah in FFIV decreases in stats if he levels up too much
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I think you can level down in God Hand, but it's not permanent. I think it fluctuates depending on how good or bad you do in the combat or something.
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LISA might be an example.
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The character could be someone afflicted by a curse or disease that slowly eats away at them.


Honestly this concept is the norm for most games in the sense that the game progressively gets harder.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

The character could be someone afflicted by a curse or disease that slowly eats away at them.


Honestly this concept is the norm for most games in the sense that the game progressively gets harder.

2 different things. One is enemies getting stronger
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redeadlink posted...

i think the campaign for the Warcraft 3 expansion forcibly levels down Arthas the whole time

It did. Arthas keeps losing levels as you go through it. Anub'arak got stronger through it though.
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There are games where enemies level up as you do, and in some cases, they get stronger per level than you do. This effectively handicaps you more as you progress, but you're still technically getting stronger.
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It's important you don't lose skills as you level down. Kingdom Hearts would suck if you start with all of Sora's abilities and then by the end all you can do is 1-2-3 the Keyblade.

But what you could lose are natural OP abilities. Like extended i frames, auto counters, regeneration, etc.

The way I see it, and this might be a crude example, but basically your character slowly changes from a Superman to a Batman. Super powerful and just swinging brainlessly at things to weak but a smart player with more finesse. You level down but as you fight more and more you are still gaining fighting experience and developing new skills to replace natural traits.
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This sounds horrible.
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