My friend (as a new player) is stuck on Clubstep (his hardest is clutterfunk) and he believes practice mode and startpos copies are cheating. Am I a bad person for repeatedly telling him he's doing it wrong? (Read desc)

(both me and him are blurred for privacy)
No matter how many times i tell him how necessary practice mode is, he keeps insisting he's the single part of the percentile who's actually playing the game correctly and it's making me really frustrated because I want him to be able to have a natural skill progression, and he's just refusing to listen
I don't want to see any comments about "ohh bro got ragebaited" because yeah some of it is definitely ragebait, but the parts that ARE true are genuinely infuriating. what i want to know is LITERALLY WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS DUDE??? Am I the villain for making him play the game in a way other than how he wants to?? I'm legit just tryna help him play the game in a way that doesn't actively detriment him

(for context he has stated, as can be derived from these DMs, he plans to go for glungus adventures as a final hardest which, if you've seen it, is NOT easy, as well as just claiming that he's a casual player and just doing it for fun???? unless he plans to build up a humanly impossible level of sightreading skill bro is going NOWHERE)

u/DoogerTheBopper — 1 month ago

About the Rooms...

So it's been confirmed that the rooms will be reworked into an area called the Archives. Since we've seen that A-90 will be brought to the archives as well under a new name, i think it's safe to assume that the normal rooms will be completely removed. However, I think the rooms should stay as a hotel subfloor- if this is for some reason impractical, i think the rooms should at least be turned into a vision.

Since the archives as a subfloor seems to be a much more complex subfloor than the rooms as it is now, there will likely be more achievements associated with it, rendering A-1000 as a badge that probably won't be able to be obtained anymore. If the current rooms was made into a vision, the A-1000 badge could stay and anyone who's earned it would be able to keep it, while the archives replaces it in the normal game.

What are your thoughts on this?

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u/DoogerTheBopper — 1 month ago

What are your predictions for The Castle (Floor 3)?

Try to make more creative predictions other than things such as "Rush will appear" or "There will be bosses on door 250 and 300". Anyway, here's some of mine:

-The floor will START with a seek chase. I think this would be really cool, and also makes sense with the ending cutscene of the mines
-There will be an entity that is/is reminiscent of a living suit of armor. It's a haunted castle, how could there not be?
-Figure will NOT be present (was not very prevalent in the mines and nothing is shown to suggest that he escaped them)
-There will be two main "halves" of the floor; doors 201-250 will be the main castle and doors 251-300 will maybe be based on dungeons or prisons.
-There will be new types of traps, such as falling axes
-There will be a sword item that will somehow be used to repel entities
-Jeff's shop theme will be sort of reminiscent of a medieval bardic song

Let me know yours in the comments!

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u/DoogerTheBopper — 1 month ago

a lot of people tend to hate this game, but i feel it's pretty underrated! definitely give it a shot if you like metroidvanias

u/DoogerTheBopper — 4 months ago