/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7249349
arcade games are just shitty and unfinished versions of the later castlevania/metroid games which have "savestates"
the game is too dumb to loop around itself so genius developer starts you over at the beginning with nothing
it was a technical limitation on top of being a mental one at the time but you will still find some sad sucker on a basket weaving forum 30 years later defending it

>having to start from the beginning
>each run feels meaningful
>gives playing it a gravity and a intensity
calm down Jordan Peterson