As such, by the point the final recreation within the tenth and remaining episode rolled round, viewers have been anticipating one thing really epic between the Mai (Participant 278) and Phill (Participant 451) to find out who can be the Squid Champion as soon as and for all. What they obtained as a substitute was “rock paper scissors.” For sure, some of us have been disillusioned.
We have been additionally disillusioned with Squid Recreation: The Problem‘s selection for a remaining recreation, however in all probability not for the rationale you assume. Permit us to elucidate.
Let’s get the plain out of the way in which first: there was by no means any likelihood that The Problem would copy the unique sequence’ closing match of the particular “Squid Recreation.” The principles are fairly just too complicated for many non-Korean audiences to maintain up with. Not solely that, however Squid Recreation‘s iteration of it’s actually only a mano-a-mano combat to the demise, one thing that The Problem would naturally battle to recreate. The present’s government producers confirmed as a lot in a Making Squid Recreation: The Problem documentary that Netflix added to its servers following the finale.
Squid Recreation: The Problem had no means of figuring out the bodily profile of its remaining two contestants forward of time. Subsequently it needed to discover a recreation that: A. Everybody is aware of how one can play. B. Doesn’t favor a selected physique sort over one other, and C. Includes no less than a little talent. With these qualities in thoughts, rock paper scissors is definitely a fairly shrewd selection. Positive, it’d contain extra random likelihood than one would like however Mai’s superior efficiency within the recreation means that technique does matter. Moreover, it’s not like Squid Recreation: The Problem has been a luck-free zone up so far. Seemingly half of the video games and elimination challenges offered all through the season integrated pure luck. Hell, the very problem earlier than this one concerned gamers merely urgent a button and studying their destiny.
The issue with Squid Recreation: The Problem‘s remaining recreation isn’t luck. The issue is these keys. There’s simply too rattling lots of them! Introducing the component of 1 right key in a veritable haystack of false ones looks like artistic twist on rock paper scissors at first. Profitable a match doesn’t win you the sport, it simply buys you a metaphorical lottery ticket to the protected containing the $4.56 million. The extra video games you win, the extra lottery tickets you get earlier than ultimately somebody opens the hallowed protected.
Sadly, Rock paper scissors has so many keys in that pile that it actually has no means of producing actual rigidity all through the sport. We see this bear out within the modifying. Whereas the present dutifully depicts the primary six rounds of rock paper scissors, by the point it will get to the seventh it has no selection however to hurry issues up with a montage as Mai and Phill carry on discovering false key after false key.
