Ape Escape – Part 3-1
We’re made it to the end of our adventure. Now, we have only one task left. Our goal is to return to each and every stage to clear out all of the monkeys who remain.
It’s about time.
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The oddity of a game like Ape Escape, where we are gated by the gadgets we have access to, is that we’re strongly incentivized not to go back to a level until we possess every gadget in the game. That way, with our full kit, we can be confident that no monkey will be out of our reach. And yet, because we are returning with everything, we’re allow to subvert or skip certain puzzles and mechanics using late-game gadgets (notably the Sky Flier) to bypass obstacles that would otherwise be in our way.
This isn’t necessarily a fault in the game’s design. Much like we learned from the temples in Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, allowing players to find clever workarounds to puzzles you’ve carefully designed can enable its own sort of fun. That principal is no less true here, specifically with that Slingshot puzzle that we able to just glide passed.
It’s a way to make the player feel smart for “getting one over on the game designer”.
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