![]() ![]() Want to avoid random encounters? Don’t worry, there’s usually a stinky perfume or ugly necklace you can wear to ward them away. It’s part of the fun! These games are about grinding it out in the battlefields, running around in circles until you find the Pokémon you’re trying to catch or kill enough goblins until you level up or whatever. Random encounters are something I used to defend. It’s taken a minute away from your life, but at least you’re back to the game! Just kidding, you just ran into another random encounter. Your muscle memory takes over as you slide to the “run” button, only to see, “you can’t run away!” followed by a smack to the face from the goblin, and you decide to just one shot it. Some animation wipes your screen away and you’re facing off against a bandit or a rat or a goblin and you’ve got to kill it or run. Remember random encounters? In any old RPG, you’re running around in the world - maybe you’re playing around in the grass or dancing across the overworld - kinda just vibing out until, ah fuck, you ran into a bad guy. I’ve played two single-player video games this year and they are Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Elden Ring and if you think I’m not going to write an article grasping at straws to find the common thread between these two games, then you’re dumb as fucking rocks.īecause if there’s one thing I’ve learned in 2022, it’s that I am completely over random encounters. ![]()
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