Looking from another angle from Yoko Taro’s point, I’d say that, in fear of failing due to being too big, companies would rather play it safe, but that causes creations to grow sterile.

And as consequence, people allegedly “weird”, which I wouldn’t think are necessarily people with curious antiques as Yoko Taro himself, but simply people whose game ideas are far from a safe ground, go for making indie titles instead as then they can be free to do whatever they want.

In my opinion:

If memory serves me right (as I played the game a while back), Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse’s intro stage acts as a tutorial, but it’s so seamless to gameplay and story that it barely feels like so. Iirc, also same for Valkyria Chronicles 4’s first mission.

And that I remember better due to playing relatively recently, Final Fantasy VI and Catherine’s tutorials are well integrated to their games’ specific flows, the former being a series of NPCs you talk to, something you already do a lot in the game, and the latter being quick, straight to the point and given like it is a normal part of the narration and the increasingly frenetic (for a puzzler) gameplay.

And also if memory serves me right, Dirge of Cerberus and Outlive both have optional missions in their main menus that act as tutorials, that don’t feel like a chore, and that if you ignore them, the game is still sufficiently manageable.

Meant in that sense, yes - searching for errors and their solutions as I see my computer having such major failures

If I had a nickel for every time my phone saved me from massive failures in Linux, I’d have 4 nickels. "<.<

I think there has never been a proper line separating indies from other games, rather being a loose perception of games made to show what the developer wants. And the impression growing stronger as bigger projects more and more seek to go for the lowest common denominator or go by what who gives the orders demands.

Even if a game is from a bigger company, but the company gave the thumbs up for doing whatever the team wanted, without conditions, handholding, etc., then I’d say the game is indeed independent enough.

Though, on a more negative view, I wonder if Dave the Diver getting nominated was a case of that meme of the older man trying to act as a cool kid.

I consider two things to think Peertube not being sustainable isn’t the case.

First, the noise caused bad actors / professional fearmongerers, and people too used to Youtube or that think any social medias would skyrocket in the first month of service, may make people think it’s a far more prevalent opinion.

Second, platforms such as Peertube may cather to any movements, be them cultural, political, for business, and so on, while also, due to being based on instances, it much harder to be taken over.

Those two together make me see the project as having great potential, a potential that some may fear intentionally or otherwise.

And on a side note, “the new mobile app” reminds me, anyone could potentially make programs for it, or even integrate Peertube to their own. Another reason for it being able to cather to way more people, I think, as then programs could be made to interests and needs otherwise not found.

Indeed seem to be few to me too. But I wonder elsewhere, like a Japanese Piefed instance and a S. Korean Mastodon instance I found before.