>>11493056>I still don't agree with tama evolving based on care mistakes, it doesn't feel right when the tama you want has to suffer like a bitch before it gets to your preferred evolution.You're looking at it the wrong way-- care mistake-based growth was originally envisioned as go-with-the-flow in terms of how you raise your Tamagotchi, where you get certain evos based on naturally messing up along the way, which is why there's a challenge factor to getting perfect cares in the past and was a vital part of the game flow. Old bad care characters likewise were treated as punishments for doing poorly, which reflected both in their design and in-universe personality (Maskutchi, who is perfect care but many discipline mistakes, is selfish and mean, Kuchipatchi, perfect discipline but poor care, is kindhearted but fat, lazy and dim, Connection's Gozarutchi and Masktchi don't brush their teeth nor bathe and were originally characterized as LARPers who sit around watching TV before the former was eventually changed to actually being a ninja). Caretaking WAS the game.
Nowadays it seems like they keep the care mistake mechanic without understanding that it fundamentally doesn't work with the new gameflow. Growths are shorter so there's less of a natural element to make mistakes over time unless you're actively being neglectful. It's one thing to miss a discipline call or let the needs go unchecked because you're busy in the old entries with slow growths, but now, the meters deplete so slowly and growths are so fast that you have to go out of your way to be less than perfect. Likewise, the original philosophy of "flawed growth = flawed personality" is long gone too. There's not much separating Hachitchi from Papillotchi in terms of how they behave, yet one's a bad care while the other's a perfect.
Then again apparently to get Babymarutchi's secret form you need to let your Tamagotchi idle for 4 hours from birth without doing anything, so maybe Bandai's just having a laugh.
