It's a mistake that games don't use mistakes more

Here's a question for you: if you fudge something up in a game, and it doesn't kill you so you can still continue on afterwards, albeit with the undesired outcome, do you? Or do you reload?

For a long time, I reloaded. I thought that was what I was supposed to do. The games I grew up on, that's what you did. You quick-saved, you reloaded, you got your desired outcome. That was how I always played. By the end of a game, I'd done everything exactly as I intended, or I hadn't done it at all. If only life were that simple.

But would you do the same in life if you could? Because how many times have you heard someone say they wouldn't change anything, even the mistakes, because those are what made them who they are? It's cringey but however I look at it, it feels true: mistakes have a huge impact on our lives.

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