playing the harry potter 1 psx game because why not and

did they playtest this at all? this is _extremely_ difficult, and not in a good way

there are mandatory sections where you have to try to collect things while on a gringotts minecart with wonky physics, and the screen rotates every which way but the warnings saying "obstacle ahead" or "collectible ahead" point the same way regardless of screen rotation

oh also there are barely enough collectibles to actually complete the stage, and if you don't you have to start all over

on top of that it's an autoscroller so even if you know you missed too many collectibles at the start you have to wait for the whole thing to finish

@Felthry the n64 and ps1 had the worst minecart and trolley levels

from that
to spyro 2's trolley
to tombi 2's minecart
to dk64

@Dex this game just has really horrible difficulty in general, honestly, for a game aimed at kids

@Dex part of that could be the controls though. camera control is inverted from what we're used to and it can't be changed, and though it does support analog input the right stick does nothing

@Felthry ooh that's pretty bad

if you're playing on an emulator you could at least remap the emulator controls, I guess?

@Dex nah, playing on ps3

on top of that the playstation analog sticks have always felt too light and imprecise compared to the gamecube and wii ones with their detents to help you hold the orthogonal directions well