Isn't clearing it quickly the right way? Life and games alike | Essay

I recently started playing a
Switch 2 title called 'Pokoa Pokemon'.

I've become so addicted to this game, commonly known as 'PokoPoke',
that my daily life is on the verge of falling apart...

For me, it's the most fun game I've ever played.

While playing the game,
I had a sudden thought.

How to deal with walkthrough sites and YouTube

Unlike in the past, nowadays,
if you open Google, you'll find easy-to-understand walkthrough sites.
If you open YouTube, it's overflowing with countless walkthrough videos.

In the first place, games these days don't even have instruction manuals.
I'm sure there were quite a few people
who were the type to read those thoroughly, but
'You don't really get it unless you actually play it' is
the essence of it, isn't it?

Nowadays, as you progress through a game,
easy-to-understand tutorials are provided,
and the style of learning the controls little by little has become mainstream.

I feel this is a good system too.
Although I was the type to at least skim through the instruction manual once.

The problem is how to deal with walkthrough sites and YouTube.

If I bring up the past again,
there used to be game strategy guides,
and there was a culture where people who wanted to would look at them while playing the game.

Strategy guides are still sold today, but
I wonder if their necessity or demand is practically non-existent.

Just like with instruction manuals, I feel the flow of the times.

Walkthrough sites and YouTube are
free and incredibly convenient, but on the other hand,
you end up getting more information than you were looking for.

That has a good side,
where you're glad you found out, but
it also has a bad side where it ends up being a spoiler.

Well, I knew that, so
I tried to avoid looking at them as much as possible, but

my wife and son were
'How to build a lovely cafe-style building' and
they were watching it, so I ended up taking a peek too.

It was so shocking
that I was left speechless...

I thought, 'You can play with this much freedom!!'

And I learned that
that's the stage after you've finished the story,
and that's when the real game begins.

Thinking that, I thought I should
clear it quickly,
so I started watching walkthrough videos, but

I started to feel like that was somehow wrong.

The sense of discomfort that I had mistaken the goal

I think.

Certainly, if the goal is to clear it quickly, then
watching walkthrough videos and proceeding efficiently is the right answer.

But I,
want to enjoy the game itselfyou see.

Even if it's inefficient or a mistake,
I want to be thrilled by new discoveries and
I want to proceed in my own unique way.

I thought that this might be the same for life as well.

Since it's a matter of values,
there isn't really a right or wrong answer, but

Are you the type who feels joy in
setting clear goals and
achieving them in the shortest time possible?

Or are you the type who
sets goals loosely, and
wants to thoroughly enjoy the process while taking detours and side trips?

I think it's this difference in values.

I am the latter, if anything.
I don't like being too inefficient, but
I want to cherish the here and now.
I feel that this awareness is always there.

And so,
relying as little as possible on walkthroughs,
I'll continue to enjoy both games and life at my own pace,
falling into the swamp again today...

Ken

Thank you for reading until the end🎮

This article is
an article included in the magazine "It's okay to sway,"
where I leave my feelings of the day just as they are📚

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