For me the amazing part was somehow pacing. Every single time I felt like I am starting to cruise through levels, I was knocked down really hard… and my brain exploded more than a few times.
Stunningly, this created one of the best mechanics for me — “if it was too easy, you probably missed a valuable lesson there”.
Arvi created something special, where every bit of that frustration pays off at least tenfold.
Hey, they started with millimeters so any additional info is kinda passable (in my books) as a visual / imagination stimulus.
Sometimes it can be really helpful, like with the distance from Earth to Moon, almost 385 000 km — that’s yeah, a lot, this gives the facts.
…but, when I found out that all the planets from our solar system packed next to each other would fit into this gap with some space to spare — this gives the perspective.
“Elementary, my dear Watson…”
but remember kids, the bird THEORETICALLY re-evolved as evolution is just a THEORRRY!
attachments:
witch_spooky_laughter_from_stardew_valley.mp3
My preference is „bare metal” approach, then I really know if everything is working as it should, so I had a separate drive for Linux installation at the beginning and got to my other drives by just mounting them as NTFS.
But, finally I am at the point of no return for some time now, the old Windows drive is not even inside of my PC and the other drives are ext4 already.
For a quick check Live CDs/USBs are totally fine but not fully representative.