On difficulty in Videogames

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/10/02/assassins-creed-origins-tourism-difficulty/ Okay, here’s an argument which pops upĀ all the time which I completely reject: Do we have some arbitrary test in the middle of a movie which locks you out from seeing the end if you don’t pass? No. So why should these barriers exist in videogames? Replace “movie” with “book”, “album”, whatever other medium…