Are you terrified by the idea that a game might tell you what to do? Or, rather, a game might point you to the ideal path to your goal by making ladders and ledges look a bit like they’ve just been visited by someone who dunked themselves in custard ? So good news. Star Wars Outlaws has a special mode just for you.
Ubisoft’s space villain sim features an “Explorer Mode” that removes “guiding colors from core navigation elements” in the game’s environments, according to PC Gamer. Yes, that means no more yellow paint.
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It’s another in a long line of landmark moments in the accessibility movement for people who really need them – those pedants who might complain that they’re being deprived of discovering short ledges in a truly immersive way ability. Forget the fact that when we miss something important and have to spend half an hour aimlessly wall-hopping, we’ll probably all start complaining that whatever game we’re playing doesn’t do enough to help us Quickly navigate to the next section where we really care.
Lifting the veil of sarcasm for a moment so you can see I’m not done in yellow paint, I can see why certain games (Final Fantasy 7 Reborn) received some criticism earlier this year as being unmissable for a particular brand Lemon Stain – Used to indicate something you can do that will annoy some people, especially considering that it can be done in a less direct way. In fact, it sounds like Outlaw does that last part a lot of the time and then slathers yellow paint on the parts in question anyway, making it feel more unnecessary than people often give it credit for.
However, it’s interesting to note that Desperados and many other games have essentially started offering a toggleable mode for people who complain that they don’t need accessibility features in the same way that many games handle actual accessibility features like anti- way provides this. Yes.
What’s the ideal solution to this never-ending debate, you ask? Maybe offset the annoyance of the yellow paint with something fun—a ledge, or maybe just say “ledge,” like Lethal Company’s arachnopobia pattern that swaps the creepy crawler for the word spider.
Outlaws will be released on August 30th for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC, and you can read our preview here.
