Studio Ghibli movies should never be dubbed or subbed. You just have to learn Japanese to enjoy them, just don't watch them if that's not for you...

I feel this is a false equivalence.

If you wanted to make a movie analogy, I'd say it's more like a movie having subtle subtext or context which would make it's message or intent more difficult to comprehend.

Imagine if someone watched The Cabin in the Woods (satire movie about horror movies) and said it was a bad movie because it wasn't scary.

I think its fair to say that person would have low film literacy at least.

How do we compensate for that? Should movies start offering accessibility features so every viewer can have the ability to know foreshadowing, film cliches, or meta-narrative devices?

I feel like giving viewers an option before a movie to say "i have low media literacy", which would result in popups during the movie to say "hey, this is a callback to the Hellraiser franchise" would be insulting to the creators.

The film wasn't made for casual movie viewers, it was made for a specific audience. The creators aren't obliged to make it more easily digestible.

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Satire falls apart when it's spoon fed.

If difficulty is part of the games design, then reducing it is functionally similar to explicitly stating irony to a viewer.

Is it not fair for the game developers’ artistic vision to not be accessible to all? Accessibility is nice, expands the potential audience, but if it compromises my artistic vision and I’m ok with giving up reach and money to preserve it, that doesn’t make my game bad or my vision invalid.

It would be ridiculous to call up the bar or the ama and complain to them that becoming a lawyer or a doctor is not accessible to all.

One last addition, adding control remapping, color options, and text to speech are true accessibility. Easy mode is fake accessibility

Why everything should be for everybody? And why artists should care about your opikion when they are creating what they want to create.

Cup head is great example. Everything in the game is meticiusly hand crafted. The big part why its so popular is the difficulty that forces you to focus on the aninations and sprites. The difficulty also is economical in game as labor intensive as cup head. Because every sprite was hand drawn devs could not just churn unlimited levels and the games lenght came from the difficulty. Making the game easy would ruin the pacing of the game.

Games are art form like any other. There are mainstream movies, plays, songs, paintings and games etc etc etc. that try to reach as large audience as they can. But there is also obscure art pieces that only small group of people can enjoy. And both ways are fine

I find it obnoxious when people bitch about desing choices that devs have consciously made. Its not like they have any obligations to make a game in one way or another.