Common Sense Corner
12-16-2016, 02:07 PM
Time for some more common sense! 
Today's common sense is entitled...
NO REASON TO BE HERE... YET!
Why would you make it so you can pick up something totally random when you have no idea what it is?
Example:
Marvin Montel Omnom by himself walks into a secret lab he found in Bratztown, the town next to the one where he's supposed to be right now, and happened across a Vial of Triangularium that he picks up. He doesn't know what Triangularium is, and there were about 50 other vials, but it's what he picked up. And now that he has that, he can kill the evil Leapfrog McGee 5 towns over! He also picked up the Key to Crystal Lair in the lab by removing a floor panel, but uhh... what's the Crystal Lair? Marvin Montel don't know! Marvin don't know nothin' 'bout dat! And neither does the player! But the description on the Triangularium says "We can face Leapfrog with this if we use it on Miranda!" and the description of the key says "Use to enter the Crystal Lair below Mr. Finalboss's Taco Shack."
Should be obvious what happened, right? Make sure Marvin can't waltz into a room and pick up whatever as if he knows what he's doing if he shouldn't at that point. He doesn't learn what Triangularium is for a long time, and he learns it's at the lab LATER! And who's Miranda?! Spoiler alert?! He's still alone! And who's Leapfrog?! COME ON!!!
Marvin also doesn't know that the key to the Crystal Lair is in the floor panel until before he's about to face Mr. Finalboss and is told by an oracle of South Oracle Lane Road.
So uhh... Conditional branches, people. Can't pick up the random vial until you know what you're looking for. Otherwise, it says "Lots of vials of peculiar liquids".
Or the key is in the floor panel, but to Marvin, it's just a floor panel with no words whatsoever until AFTER you find out what's under it. Not something to remove and find a key under because removing floor panels is a hobby he apparently has.
Today's common sense is entitled...
NO REASON TO BE HERE... YET!
Why would you make it so you can pick up something totally random when you have no idea what it is?
Example:
Marvin Montel Omnom by himself walks into a secret lab he found in Bratztown, the town next to the one where he's supposed to be right now, and happened across a Vial of Triangularium that he picks up. He doesn't know what Triangularium is, and there were about 50 other vials, but it's what he picked up. And now that he has that, he can kill the evil Leapfrog McGee 5 towns over! He also picked up the Key to Crystal Lair in the lab by removing a floor panel, but uhh... what's the Crystal Lair? Marvin Montel don't know! Marvin don't know nothin' 'bout dat! And neither does the player! But the description on the Triangularium says "We can face Leapfrog with this if we use it on Miranda!" and the description of the key says "Use to enter the Crystal Lair below Mr. Finalboss's Taco Shack."
Should be obvious what happened, right? Make sure Marvin can't waltz into a room and pick up whatever as if he knows what he's doing if he shouldn't at that point. He doesn't learn what Triangularium is for a long time, and he learns it's at the lab LATER! And who's Miranda?! Spoiler alert?! He's still alone! And who's Leapfrog?! COME ON!!!
Marvin also doesn't know that the key to the Crystal Lair is in the floor panel until before he's about to face Mr. Finalboss and is told by an oracle of South Oracle Lane Road.
So uhh... Conditional branches, people. Can't pick up the random vial until you know what you're looking for. Otherwise, it says "Lots of vials of peculiar liquids".
Or the key is in the floor panel, but to Marvin, it's just a floor panel with no words whatsoever until AFTER you find out what's under it. Not something to remove and find a key under because removing floor panels is a hobby he apparently has.
