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One of the first games we had as kids, was The Broken Land, a shitty Diablo knockoff.
It was our favorite game. The map consisted of a big castle, which we were really struggling to conquer. But I mean, you don't want the whole game to be beatable so easily, so it was fine.
There was one thing, though, we didn't understand. A vendor outside the castle had an inventory slot, where you could place gemstones, but it didn't do anything. Unfortunately, we couldn't check the manual, because the game came as part of a collection.
After actual years, we suddenly placed an armor in one slot and a gemstone in the other and it enchanted the armor.
So, we started enchanting all our gear and suddenly, the castle was easy.
In the castle, you could rescue a mage, which casually doubled your party strength.
And the mage told you to head East, where there was a portal to ...the second level.
All these years, we were stuck in the first level of actually quite a lengthy game. All these years, we thought you'd just play with a single character. All these years, we were biting our teeth out, because we hadn't grokked one specific game mechanic.
But also, we liked it even beforehand. So, you cannot imagine how blown away we were, when the game suddenly opened up to be so much more.
Still a shitty Diablo knockoff, though.
Fucking brutal.
we had a similar thing with Kingdom Hearts. my childminder didnt have a memory card for the ps2, so our whole experience of the game for months was the destiny islands, the tutorial. we loved it. theres no videogame place im more attached to. and when we finally got a memory card, and had to het my childminder to beat the introductory boss, the whole game opened up. amazing.