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That is how some people think of determinism, trying to deny personal responsibility which comes with experience and a chance to change your mind after making a mistake.
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An important lesson in life: You may have total free will over what you wanna do, but when you make mistakes, you can't redo them. You got one chance, that's it.
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I didn't get the same effect because my movement seems to be spontaneous and explorative. I immediately knew I wasn't in control when I re-tried because my character flipped directions rapidly like the 1st time.
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Would be better if the first play through didn't lag to the point that he isn't moving at all when I first hit the arrow keys and then next thing I know he's dead.
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I feel like a lot of people are missing the point here. The idea is that your character (and by extension you) have no free will. The first time you go through your "life" you believe you are in control, you think you are performing the actions you want to do, because those are the actions that make sense to you in the context. It's only when you look at your life with new experience that you realize you were only doing those things because you had no choice, and in actuality you were never in control of the game/your life, not even the first play-through.
Really interesting portrayal of free will that made me stop and think.
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I just now realized that what they mean by "free will the game" is not saying you have free will, but that you have to free the character, whose name is Will. derp.
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I seriously thought that i was controlling the guy! Totally freaked out when the guy started moving without my control. LOl.
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Funny game regardless of whether you actually "free will." And the Japanese title in-game means "determinism"...i see what you did there :p
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at first i thought repeating my moves was all it could do, but then i scrolled down to read the comments and it clicked the "try again" button by itself!!
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Funny at first, but I would like to be able to play it all the way through instead of getting stuck in an infinite loop every time I make a mistake. I wish it had a normal mode.
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I learned a valuable lesson this day: F5 is my one and only true waifu. And also that the image of someone legitimately raging over this is hilarious.
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OHHH, I get the joke! It is that playing these gameboy games is just a repeat of the same thing OVER AND OVER AND OVER. What the game does by playing for you is show you how pointless it is to try and retry the same hops and jumps while trying to reach some unknown goal.
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I DID IT!!!! OH MY GOD I FINNALY DID IT!!! PEOPLE GOING FOR THIS GAME: DON'T GIVE UP! IT MAY BE FRUSTRATING, IRRITATING, AND IT MAY SEEM POINTLESS BUT IF YOU MANAGE TO BEAT THE GAME YOU'LL WITNESS SUCH A MIRACULOUS SCENE THAT THE TRUE MEANING OF LIFE MEANS NOTHING IN COMPARISON SO IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU SPEND TIME ON THIS ONE, BAD VOTES ARE GIVEN BY WEAK AND DESPICABLE SOULS WHO DIDN'T MANAGE TO GET TO THE EPIC, MARVELOUS, AND UTTERLY LONG END CREATED BY THAT STRUGGLING MIND BEING PUT INTO THE LIMIT THAT THIS MASTERPIECE MAKER RAITENDO HAS. THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD NOW ARE EIGHT.
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LOL i didnt realize its mimicking your movements forever after your first death for like 15 minutes i kept getting mad that i was dying the same way over and over again XD