You know? It could be a combinations of things, nostalgia is always easy seratonin, it’s comfortable, familiar, and combined with that familiarity can be the ease of playing a familiar game: it’s something you know, are good at! Repetitive patterns jive with the human brain a lot, were kind of geared in many ways to enjoy climbing, successive… Success!
It’s super addictive to get a combo in Okami, to scale a familiar colossi, to hit the beats just right in Mother 3, unlock that limit break you know is coming, see a Pokémon evolve or go zen in a Zelda dungeon with just enough challenge to keep you engaged but knowing the bests that keep it less frenzied!
Probably also, it’s just that, these were things we spent doing after school, maybe instead of homework, or right after a long day of being bored or under/over challenged in school. Work can be like that too from time to time depending on what you’re doing! So force of habit/being accustomed to de-stressing in this way also probably helps with how effective it is!
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It’s super addictive to get a combo in Okami, to scale a familiar colossi, to hit the beats just right in Mother 3, unlock that limit break you know is coming, see a Pokémon evolve or go zen in a Zelda dungeon with just enough challenge to keep you engaged but knowing the bests that keep it less frenzied!
Probably also, it’s just that, these were things we spent doing after school, maybe instead of homework, or right after a long day of being bored or under/over challenged in school. Work can be like that too from time to time depending on what you’re doing! So force of habit/being accustomed to de-stressing in this way also probably helps with how effective it is!
I pretty much listed all my go-to games ahaha!