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Soapbox: Grinding Is Poor Gameplay Design That Doesn’t Respect Your Time

Who wants to spend hours mowing down low-level enemies?

Soapbox features enable our individual writers to voice their own opinions on hot topics, opinions that may not necessarily be the voice of the site. In this piece, Henry discusses how he’s fed up of being ground down by grinding…


We really are spoiled for choice these days and, in part thanks to digital distribution, more games are releasing than we can keep up with. In Europe alone, the eShop had 43 new launches last week. They can’t all be winners, but for a traditionally quieter month, we’ve seen already big names like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Hitman 3 and Cyber Shadow. Factoring in other platforms with big releases like The Medium being added to the infamous “List”, there’s no wonder most of us have a backlog. Despite this pandemic, many of us still lead busy lives and when we get that chance to sit down with a game, you want to make the most of it.

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