Maybe it's done because the author is not willing to take
a stand on a certain point.
Not exact matches
Unfortunately this is the main drawback of the gameplay as it's quite unimaginative and although there's a considerable amount of hours available to the player, each level feels quite the same with similar puzzles rebadged with different graphics such as requiring the players to
stand on certain pressure
points or use their abilities to progress in the «maze».
Assuming what people thinks makes any difference — I've seen estimates that this thing may have cost Amazon something like 5 - 10 % of book sales among
certain demographics who don't like what Amazon is doing, which is not nothing, if not exactly crippling — if Hachette is
standing on the «we care about authors» moral high ground, Amazon is pretty much duty bound to
point out why they are the ones who should be viewed as the Author's Friend.
You're gonna have to rearrange the Oxylane at
certain points, and if you don't make things right, items will be missed, obstacles will
stand on the way, enemies will catch you, and Princess Ming will be no more..., at least until you have a chance to replay the level.
Unfortunately this is the main drawback of the gameplay as it's quite unimaginative and although there's a considerable amount of hours available to the player, each level feels quite the same with similar puzzles rebadged with different graphics such as requiring the players to
stand on certain pressure
points or use their abilities to progress in the «maze».
It is too diverse, too much a collection of competing voices to be pinned down precisely, in terms of what it could be said to
stand for; however, by generalising wildly, it might be possible to say that it represents a
point around which
certain attitudes towards abstraction have coalesced: one being, that the attempt to build
on the discoveries of Modernism is still worth making; and another, that any such attempt can not be reductive, only expansive, ruling nothing out in terms of form, colour and material.