The combat mechanics are intentionally rudimentary and unvarying, primarily involving mashing buttons.
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Mashing buttons in a panic is always more reassuring than a pane of glass.
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Just slap three AAA batteries inside the tiny arcade, power it up, and start mashing buttons.
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If you're particularly great at mashing buttons really fast, I'll never beat you at Track & Field.
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Clickers can be sort of passive, more about immersing in the underlying dynamics of a system than mashing buttons.
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They're the auto industry's Wizard of Oz types, pulling at levers and mashing buttons behind the curtain (just without the chicanery).
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Even in later stages of the game, you can't just charge in and destroy hordes of enemies by mindlessly mashing buttons.
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This leads to occasions where you find yourself mashing buttons and screaming at your TV while the stubborn animal does what it will.
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They sit at retro-style gaming cabinets or television screens, mashing buttons and flicking their wrists in bursts of 99 seconds or less.
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The closer perspective also forces players to keep track of the battlefield more instead of just aimlessly mashing buttons and hoping that things work out.
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The learning curve is certainly a bit less steep than Smash… though, at the level we were playing at, we were mostly just mashing buttons.
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For me, someone who straddles playing somewhere in-between mashing buttons and occasionally remembering a more advanced move would probably be useful, that's less true.
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Because the game includes a wide variety of weapons, he could stick with a preference for slow, timing-based attacks that don't rely on mashing buttons.
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But it's there at least, and you can still waste time mashing buttons while you wait for texts from your friends on a battery that lasts forever.
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While there was still significant difference between a player mashing buttons and once executing a proper rotation [the optimal order of ability usage], it was no longer nearly as stark.
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I spent half an hour on my couch, hunched over and staring at a tiny screen while mashing buttons to blast aliens in Destiny 2 before my back started hurting.
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But, there's no iconography on the Blipblox itself to hint at what the buttons do, so it's hard to say how much kids will really learn as opposed to just mashing buttons.
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While you can beat a lot of the game by mashing buttons, reworking combos for different fights pays off, and it's so satisfying that I wish more games would iterate on it.
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But instead of mashing buttons on a plastic guitar or navigating with a controller, Beat Saber has you smash them out of the air with two glowing blades that look suspiciously like lightsabers.
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Having a friend right there fills the gaps in the game's slower moments and makes the action sequences better — frantically mashing buttons feels more purposeful when someone is yelling "HIT SQUARE PUSH GO GO GO" in your ear.
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For instance, in certain modes and with certain songs, you'll have the opportunity to launch into a guitar solo, where you can sound pretty much virtuosic even when you're just mashing buttons — so long as get the rhythm right.
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Danny Gourley of Ten Ton Hammer praised its gameplay, stating "it requires gamers to think a little instead of just mashing buttons".
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