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Randahl Fink@jeffowski what an excellent idea.
Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!)@jeffowski Isn't this essentially what the Super Mario games had in the Galaxy games and Odyssey?
Ferrichrome@egallager @jeffowski Yup, that was immediately what I thought of lol
dobrado@doisbu vários jogos do kirby são assim. O mario odissey também.
Scavello@jeffowski basically tails from sonic 2
LSDNinja@scavello @jeffowski Kind of. The issue there was that it was all too easy to dash off and leave him behind. Sure, he’d always come back, but that would frustrate both of you.
John DavisNintendo gets this!
MarioKart has a optional steering assist / acceleration assist features that are great for that age.
Ölbaum@jeffowski @histoftech My daughter likes to help me when I play: I’m in Gradius or Castlevania and she tells me about every upgrade pod or torch to make sure I don’t forget to pick up one. Then she asks me if she helped, and I say yes, a lot.
Herzleid@jeffowski #Alt4You image ID:
Screenshot of Twitter(?) post by @ LouisaTheLast: "Babysitting a 4 y ear old has me convinced that what video games need is 'little buddy mode,' where a kid can have a character that just jogs along with you and can help/get their own encouraging score but cannot be harmed."
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@jeffowski Super Mario Bros U Deluxe and some of the old Sonics have that :D
Dark Sage Torunka 
@jeffowski I'm pretty sure this is why Super Mario Galaxy had a second player mode where the second player just collects star bits
DevoKun@jeffowski I would pay double for this feature.
jcGyo@jeffowski Kirby Superstar has this
therieau@jeffowski This is a wonderful idea, but I want it for me. I just want to be a person in that world and look around and explore at my own pace. No guns, no time pressure, maybe have a chat with the big bad in the boss level to see if we can deescalate.
Grimmtooth@jeffowski City of Heroes had something like that where you could declare someone a "sidekick" or they declare you an "exemplar" and I always thought that was pretty cool.
@jeffowski he’s called Tails