When you first download and open Toribash the first thing you see is hampa kicking Uke's head off. That's all fine and good but for a new player imagine how psychologically demoralizing it is? At first you may be inspired and motivated but when you open single player and find yourself flailing on the floor and incapable to produce anything even vaguely cool you soon give up, say "this is too hard" and let Toribash fall to that dark unused corner of your desktop and later the recycling bin.

I think that Toribash should have, instead of a horde of elite level replays, some beginner and intermediate level replays too. They could be watched in a way that can show the progress of the game as your skill increases and provides easier goals and goals with less space in between. That way beginners can be inspired and hopefully won't give up so soon if at all.

Pretty much the same thing with me. After I became brown belt, I started trying to make replays like the ones in the beginning. They motivated me to learn how this game works. I thought "If they can do it, why can't I?"


I was thinking something like this. Some replays to benchmark where they're at. Like when you become blue belt and then you unlock some (2-3) replays showing you some things you might be able to do while your at blue belt.