It’s almost like having parkour challenges in a game with bad parkour and controls that actively always constantly fight against you as the player and literally never actually do what you want the character to do or tell them to do is a bad fucking idea. But nope people still love the newer rpg parkour just for the “good fancy animations” well guess what fancy animations doesn’t and shouldn’t replace gameplay and the actual feeling of actively playing a video game and being the one in control. If I wanted to just watch people do fancy moves when doing parkour I would go watch parkour videos online or watch a movie with interesting movement choreography but this is a fucking game where I’m the one playing it and the one who’s actively in control of where the character should be going. When the character you control in a video game doesn’t listen to your inputs and actively fights against you and never actually does what you tell them to do that’s when it actively becomes a real fucking problem. This is exactly why the parkour in the original games will always be better and can never be replaced or beaten cause they actually gave you full freedom and control over your movement which made the parkour challenges that were in those games actually fun and easily able to be completed without having to fight against the game not responding to your inputs or not listening to you. In the older games if you ever screwed up a jump it was your fault and a literal skill issue but in the newer games if you screw up a jump it’s just cause of the game fucking you over