A ramble about achievements and guides :D

[Kyupid_games]

I am quite the completionist, so I am working towards unlocking every achievement in the game! I had to pull up a guide for certain achievements, like Urban Exploration, Guided by Sparks and It's Stuck, and though I searched up how to begin/find the secret achievement, I did complete it on my own.

When using a guide for some achievements and a few puzzles that left me scratching my head, upon completing it instead of a sense of pride or satisfaction for figuring it out, I just tend to feel guilt :,) It makes me feel like a fake or bad gamer.

But hey! I did the rest on my own and I'm supposed to be having fun and enjoying the experience, and if guides help me and others enjoy the game more and progress rather than leaving us frustrated and confused, then there is nothing bad about using them :)

I still have one achievement left, though, and that is No Point in Dying. I'll probably try tackling it tomorrow. Wish me luck! :p

[kanna]

I feel you there. I am not comfortable looking at guides unless I've at least made some good attempts first. If I'm up against a wall and done making further attempts/spending additional time, I'll check a guide for clues (some guides for some games are thoughtful about this), but I'll still try to avoid a straight-up solution.

For that reason, I generally will not watch video "guides" for puzzle games. (*I will watch them for something like a boss fight I'm stuck on in other kinds of games, though.) For me-- and I repeat, I'm speaking only for myself here-- video guides for a puzzle are the equivalent of giving my controller to another person in other games, because I find the satisfaction of a puzzle is far more about the discovery process of finding the answer myself than it is about executing this or that combination of controls with the right timing.

Anyway, good luck on your last achievement!