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Coupled with how your character has to trudge around to every tile you clear, the pacing really gets dragged down. This is pretty important to the flow of the game as you want the logic train to keep chugging rather than feel like you're wasting time clearing tiles you're already certain of. In the normal game you can click on a numbered tile to reveal all adjacent empty tiles, provided you've marked the appropriate number of mines correct or not. Also, I spent the majority of the time hyper-aware of the mechanic that this game is missing. The post's title says 'additional mechanics', but the metal detector is the only added mechanic I see. For example, it could reveal a random non-mine tile adjacent to a tile of your choosing and have a limited number of uses.

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I don't make games, but I can speculate how to make this feature more interesting. It would be useful in situations where the mine is impossible to deduce but it's easy enough to find a version of the game where these situations don't occur. The metal detector essentially just tells you whether or not a mine is present at the cost of a little bit of time looking, and this feels antithetical to the game being strategic and logical. I didn't want to come into this being negative because Minesweeper is a great game and adding a couple of extra features is a great concept, but I think this version needs a little more thought.

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