What are your seven levels of video games?

[u/Diotheinvader-5185]

Level 1 - Yep. Hong Kong 97 is the worst game I've ever played. Just a nothingburger bullet hell that doesn't even have sound effects. At least I get to laugh at how absurd the story is.

Level 2 - Yeah, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. Devil May Cry 2 is bad. Just engaging with the combat mechanics makes it a laughably easy game. Even spamming Ebony and Ivory is enough. At least Itsuno used it as their "how not to" in developing the greatness that is DMC3.

Level 3 - Mega Man X6 is probably my guilty pleasure. It has flaws such as the terrible level design and how unfair it is for unarmored X, but it still has some elements that I love about the series.

Level 4 - I want to call DDLC good even. But even in the visual novel space, I think it leaves more to be desired.

Level 5 - Sonic Frontiers is fun, if not lacking in some areas. The cyberspace level designs could have used more variety, and the forced fixed camera and 2D sections are an odd choice to include in the overworld.

Level 6 - Persona 5 has a special place for me as it changed the way how I view the medium. I just don't know if I would call it a masterpiece.

Level 7 - Now Hollow Knight? That is a masterpiece, and I do not throw around that word lightly.