Beyond that, the simplicity and linearity and brevity of the game all end up working in its favor.
But when all the bodies are very massive, such as stars in a galaxy, this non-linearity becomes important.
Combat is decent but not particularly innovative, and the linearity of the game makes it less appealing on second playthroughs.
On the downside, the linearity of the missions may turn off those looking for some control over Garrett's choice of tasks.
We might also explore the various theories that underlie and reinforce the shift, including theories of human nature and motivation, sources of creativity, non-linearity, emergence, paradox, obliquity, ethics and social responsibility and so on.
Most RPGs these days basically ignore level design altogether, crafting open and often lovely environments and fairly linear, unimaginative dungeons, as though this coupling of above-ground openness and bel0w-ground linearity will result in something akin to diversity.
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As OEMs also look to implement more flexible input options for consumers, the Synaptics ClearPad 3400 allows simultaneous pen and finger touch recognition, passive pen tracking with pinpoint accuracy, and linearity and jitter control that functions with any number of fingers and styluses as small as 2mm.
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Thankfully there is a suite of configurable parameters that can be changed on the wheel itself, things like total force feedback effect, the linearity of motion of the wheel, the number of degrees of rotation you'd like on offer (up to 900), and about a half-dozen other minutia.
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The linearity of the core story becomes clear during a second playthrough, but here the relatively short duration of each episode is a strength: it is possible to take different sides and pick different fights to elicit different responses over the episode without finding the situational repetition tedious over these short stretches.
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