Nour Polloni, a designer working on Alone in the Dark has revealed that you’ll be able to skip some of the more difficult sequences in the game.  They decided to implement this feature so that everyone has a shot at beating the game.  Here’s what she said about it in the latest OXM:

Another achievement is linked to whether or not the player skips. We want everybody to be able to finish our game, so one of the other new features we’ve added is the ability to skip sections using a DVD-style menu if you get stuck, but always at a cost, and achievements is one way to reward players who don’t skip.

I have to say this is a fantastic feature.  Will I ever use it?  No way.  The challenges that games provide is a large portion of the fun for me, but not everyone feels that way.  Many people come across a difficult section in a game, then end up never finishing it because they were never able to overcome that particular sequence.  This is a much better solution than making games easier, since that then takes away from people looking for a challenge.  The best part is if you don’t like the feature, you don’t have to use it.  Everybody wins.

[Via Destructoid]

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I think this is a lot better than dumbing down the game to reduce the difficulty like some games do. The noobs can skip the hard parts and then the true gamers can play the full game the way it was intended.

Exactly!  I’m just curious how much of it will be skipped, and how they’ll explain to you what you missed.

And will they give you items that you normally would have picked up during the skipped period?  It’s a great idea but the more I think about it, the more difficult it seems to do.  I’m very curious to see how they’ll handle it even if I don’t plan on using it.

ahem, or they’re like me and once they’re stuck they look up the solutions online, get to keep moving, AND get the achievements.

Well, I don’t think they mean just puzzles.  Sometimes there are parts that are too hard to beat because people just aren’t good at killing monsters, or a difficult boss.

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