I don’t want Inscryption to be easier, I want me to be smarter

Comedian Dara Ó Briain has an old bit where he talks about video games, and the difficulty barrier that games have compared to other kinds of media. “You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album. But you can be at playing a video game. And the video game will punish you, and deny you access to the rest of the video game.”

Don’t worry; I’m not about to take out a cane and start hammering away at the skeletal, equine remains of the “difficulty in games” debate. But I always remember that joke. I like him miming a book quizzing you on what the major themes of the text are so far, and then woomp-ing closed if you can’t answer, and I thought of it again recently while playing Inscryption.