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I guess there's a sense of "achievement" when you beat a game that's hard and has no difficulty settings. The idea of "beating" the game holds more weight in th

I guess there's a sense of "achievement" when you beat a game that's hard and has no difficulty settings. The idea of "beating" the game holds more weight in that case. But when a game has so much more to offer - atmosphere, story, adventure - (like Hollow Knight) it is certainly a bit unfair to restrict those things to only the hardcore players.

meheleventyone 6y ago
Right but you can beat a game on different difficulty settings so if you are difficulty focused and need the validation you can feel better about beating the game on expert rather than easy. Graduated levels of success are fairly common in other endeavors. You can even self impose rules like the speed running community do.