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Why don't we talk about some of our retro ideas? So we talked about a lot of stuff. We were kind of

all over the place in the previous episode. But in terms of the notes that I laid out, which are

14 pages long, we only got to page what three. My god, gracious. So with this episode, we're going to

assuming we have actually talked about super retro, I take a more granular approach and more structured

approach and talk about specific game components. And one, how they work or don't work in some cases,

maybe. I don't know. And also just how those ideas have gone on to affect and influence other games

in subsequent years. How does that sound? It sounds great, right? Absolutely. That sounds absolutely

fantastic. You say it sounds cracking. Yeah, it sounds like a wizard thing to do.

Sweet. Okay, phenomenal. This is like super Metroid was designed by the British.

All right. So we're going to begin with backtracking. That is that is a thing you do in super Metroid.

And we talked about this a little bit in the previous episode or maybe a lot about how basically

the game requires you to do a certain amount of backtracking. But it's not just like setting

you loose to explore a vast map that you've already covered in search of one or two little tiny

objects. It's very good about one about kind of limiting the amount of backtracking you can do

until it's ready to take off the training wheels in very subtle ways. And two, it's really good

about kind of giving you little hints of things that might intrigue you and make you say,

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