u/3esen

What other games, excluding competitive multiplayer games, do you find yourself adopting the arcade, 1cc or high-scoring sort of mentality around? I’m thinking of games in which you repeatedly fail or otherwise encounter friction while striving for mastery, aside from shmups, bmups, rail/cabal/gallery shooters, and run & guns. A few genres that come to mind personally, which I have also heard mentioned by other creators in arcade-adjacent circles, are arcadey puzzle games like Tetris, rhythm games, precision platformers, and retro action platformers such as the Ninja Gaiden NES Trilogy. Feel free to share experiences with specific games from the genres I just mentioned or any other games or genres that come to mind.