One of this year’s E3 announcements that escaped my attention until today is Nintendo’s announcement of the “Kind Code<\/a>“. This is a system\u00a0whereby if you find yourself stuck at a certain point in a game, you can activate the Kind Code, and the game then plays itself. In this way,\u00a0you can figure out puzzles, or learn the best way to defeat a difficult boss.<\/p>\n

My first take after reading this was distaste – that it was essentially a cheat added in by the game designers. And while in some ways it is, I can’t wholeheartedly object to the idea. When I think back to games like Metal Gear Solid 2 and Eternal Darkness, which I had to stop playing because of a too-difficult boss, I realize that I’d have loved to skip that portion of the game so that I could experience the rest of the story after that particular battle.<\/p>\n

Super Mario Brothers Wii will be the first game to make use of the Kind Code. I’ll likely buy it, since it seems like a perfect game to play co-op with my wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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