So hopefully I’m doing this right! :) (I’m still new to some of this so haven’t figured out things yet! I did ask this via Mastodon also, but wanted to add more detail to my answer!)
Is there a moment in a computer game, a boss fight, a specific moment that you would love to experience fresh with no prior memory of it?
Mine would have to be The Seat of Sacrifice fight in Final Fantasy XIV, one of if not my most favourite fights in the game to date.
The mechanics work so well and tie into everything that’s been happening, and then that moment where <redacted> (I refuse to spoil it!) shows up to help and then leaves with I think what made me cheer SO MUCH the first time I did the fight.
The music, the song To The Edge has become one of my most played songs in my entire music library (alongside Endwalker - Footfalls and Shadowbringers) as it is quite frankly perfect for the fight. and when they revealed that Soken had been battling cancer and wrote it whilst in hospital…
I adore the fight all together, and cannot help but say the lines in the cut scene bit in the middle every time I do the fight, and will never ever get bored of it.
So what moments in a game would you love to complete again with no prior experience?
Playing through the first one was in my top 3 most satisfying game experiences. Great game, then suddenly there was a huge twist. Then that ending.
The second one is great but has such a different feel. And I wish they’d gone with “GladOS has actually been activated and bored this whole time” to explain why there was so much extra STUFF. And I didn’t want to hate Wheatley. Etc.
Still, all the Cave Johnson stuff was so great. And great puzzles. And the whole potato thing. And finding out GladOS’ backstory…
Portal 1, as Yahtzee famously said, is perfect. The twist, structure, pacing, music, even how efficient they were with assets and the length of the game. All flawless.
Portal 2 is great and also does a good job for its length but Portal 1 would be my pick.