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What’s better: invert mouse, or undo?Help me decide the single best thing in video games
Help me decide the single best thing in video games
Last time, you decided thatfriendship is better than interrupting conversations. You must be very good friends, if your friendship is more important than your desire to butt in. And now I know I can butt in and you’ll just accept it. This week, we pick between an unfathomable conception of flesh and a matter of convenience. What’s better, invert mouse or undo?
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Invert mouse
Undo
The ability to undo is a wonder. Make a mistake or simply want to see an alternative and wham, hit the undo and back you go. The game doesn’t want to punish you, it wants you to experience it without fuss or bother. What would be the fun in making you repeat something, or ruin your game with a misclick? Undo says hi, looks like you’re in a pickle, need a hand? What a pal!
The oft-delayed Sands Of Time remake is stuck in its own endless rewind.
I mostly know undo from puzzle games, rewinding actions so I don’t have to run through the busywork of repeating a puzzle up to the point I make a mistake. That’s nice. Strategy gameOld Worldlets you undo, too. Then some games wrap themselves around undoing. Time-twisting puzzle-platformerBraidis all about the undo, taking it being convenience with puzzles built around rewinding. Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time builds rewinding into its world and story too, with a magic dagger letting our man re-do missed jumps or avoid attacks, or just rewind time because it looks cool.Invisible Incbrought undo to stealth andit was great. A thing which looks cool, helps you out, and makes you feel like a wizard must be a pretty good thing.
But which is better?
I want to say undo. But I don’t want to wake up having been inverted. But if I pick undo, if I wake up staring at the floor I can just undo this catastrophe. Alright, undo it is, in the hope that I will eventually be able to handle my inverted controls just enough to mash undo.
