Had an experience with this I've been internally referring to as "scratch and sniff gaming" in which I play a game with immaculate vibes just long enough for it to swallow me whole, but slamming the eject button before I get too irritable with actually playing it. I have successfully created an Imagination Polyhedron in my brain containing idealized projections of what the latter 3/4s of Vagrant Story could potentially look like. Playing any more comes with the risk of Vagrant Story becoming "known", the worst thing that can happen to a game with such an unlimited, mysterious potential.

The OG Spyro trilogy struggles again to expand the formula that was already tired and played out by the end of the first game. Instead of expanding Spyro's moveset to allow the designers to stretch their legs from the rigid gameplay, this game is instead filled to the brim with gimmicky missions and alternate gameplay styles. And I will say, some of the other playable characters are pretty fun to play. I like flying around with the Penguin, and the Kangaroo's high jump adds platforming unseen elsewhere in these games. But unfortunately these additions aren't given adequate focus. They're just one of many short, isolated distractions put in as a desperate attempt to add variety to the game instead of actually putting any work into the core mechanics still unchanged from the first game.

This is the longest game in the trilogy and still Spyro himself has been given zero growth mechanically speaking. By hour 25+ of playing these 3 games back to back, my mind is just mush. Head bash armored enemies, flame everything else, slowly float around. Instead of a bunch of half baked minigames I'd have really rathered they put some time into adding meaningful changes to the formula. But their only goal with this series seemed to be to make each game a few hours longer than the last.

What is the difference between an AI's capricious torturer scenarios and the Old Testament?

Time is a closed circle, we use technology to dream up new ways to make our sins relevant through eternal damnation or simulation.

Not me though, I'm built different. I looked up the good ending in a walkthrough.