This month are continuing our dominant strategies series, a long-form series looking at dominant strategies and how games prevent them. This is the fourth of five intended episodes.

In this episode, we focus on how games encourage players to try new things, buy always giving them different tools to try, and avoiding giving them the same options too often. We look at Magic The Gathering, Shiren The Wanderer, Lost Dimension, Unlimited Saga and Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2.

00:00 Intro

1:01 Magic the Gathering

10:28 Mystery Dungeon Shiren The Wanderer

26:12 Lost Dimension

37:47 Unlimited Saga

46:16 Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2

57:51 Ending thoughts

1:00:27 Episode End

Your hints for next month are

Bravely Default

Red Alert 3

Devil May Cry 4

See if you can guess!

We love talking about games and there is never enough time to talk about everything. Were there examples we missed you wished we talked about?

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Music used between each section is as follows.

Magic The Gathering - Azorius Theme

Mystery Dungeon Shiren The Wanderer - Story

Lost Dimension - Lobby

Unlimited Saga - The Seven Travelers

Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 - ROKUMON (Baiken’s Theme)

Lost Dimension - Conversation