Am I the only one seeing this as more of a god metaphor? The being can choose to do as its creator tells it, and as such, understands things better, whereas if it bluntly disobeys all the creator says, it is stumbling blindly through life...whatever.
This game is seriously fantastic. It's still fun to replay, especially when bumping the difficulty. I've had fun running it twice, from normal to masochist. Sometimes it's really as painful for me as it is for the hero, simply through frustration.
Everyone shut up. The controls are fine. The game is fine. For combos you have to go slow enough for it to register. I have had 0 problems with anything.
This is like Metal Gear Solid 2...I can't play it, it's just NOT the first game...1/5. Take it back, polish it, make it suck less in general. PLEASE, for the memory of the first game!
Pretty beast solution to the hump, if I do say so myself. It takes a bit of fiddling though, being fairly simple.
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