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Don't Block Off the Zot 5 Lungs with Traps
Basically, there are three situations when traps block the lungs:
- Teleport trap: This gives you one of two options. Either you can lure enemies to the teleport trap, then hope they get teleported out of the lungs (and if you really want to be optimal, search the lungs to hunt them down if they did). This is incredibly tedious. The other option is to just take the teleport, which essentially is a massive, massive dice roll that can easily result in the lungs being exponentially dangerous than they normally would be.
- Zot Trap: Like teleport trap, it's a big dice roll, where the results can range from insignificant, to tedious, to crippling.
- Other traps: Pretty much insignificant.
Basically, blocking off the Zot lungs with teleport traps or Zot traps creates situations where the only option you have is to roll the dice and desperately hope you don't get screwed over. Is that really an interesting or fun mechanic to have, at all? Especially on the last level of the game, when you've been playing for a while, losing because the game gave you a choice between incredible tedium or randomly teleporting and hoping you don't end up in a deadly situation seems like a pretty bad mechanic.
It seems like the idea behind blocking the lungs with traps is to add some extra random challenge to make the lungs varied. That's not a bad goal, but I just think teleport and zot traps are the wrong way to achieve it, because the variance in how dangerous stepping on them could be is absurdly, absurdly high, ranging from "harmless" to "you're dead and there's basically nothing you can do about it." Having both lungs blocked by zot traps or teleport traps doesn't feel like a fun challenge, it feels like the game deciding to force me into a stupid gamble that might randomly screw me over at the last minute.
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