I like when motion inputs are showing the full motion instead of arrows and showing the buttons instead of, for example, SNK putting "down to left + HK" (for Heavy Kick) or even worse having "LK" for accept and "HK" for cancel when that could be anything.
Yes that's how new mobile games are. It plays itself and you just drop items and unlock waifu and shit to distract yourself with insanity and give yourself a reason not to suicide just to unlock more waifu by wasting most of your money you earned in 996 grind!!!
To show me where the button you want me to press is situated, duh. If I have to think about it, then a moment of conscious thought happens between what the game is throwing at me and my reaction, and it's no longer pure reflex. It's less viscerally satisfying, and it's not a fun sort of thinking - say, having to think of a clever move in the heat of the action - but just a stressful "where is the Circle again" moment. If you fail because of it, it's frustrating because it feels like a bullshit ask on the part of the game.
the button is always there, Mr. duh. I don't see why I have to remind you of that.
What? I'm not looking at my controller, I'm looking at the screen. Showing us all four face buttons while clearly highlighting the one to press eliminates the need to try and remember where that one button is again, which you can forget especially in a stressful moment (like a QTE). If it's meant to be a test of reflexes, then it's a better way to do it. If you tested a hundred people with various degrees of familiarity with a given controller, I'm certain you'd see faster reaction times when doing things this way because that's what happens for me and others who have posted in this thread. "Why do I have to do that?" is a weirdly whiny and lazy question to ask as the game designer you present yourself. If it works best for the player then it's what you should do.
Bold of you to assume I remember how a compass works
It's mostly about which button relative to the others.
So I'd have to show you Alt alongside the Spacebar?
Alt and Space are the same in most keyboards.
The best would be showing all 4 shoulder buttons but usually they're explicit enough with Left and Right (although I confuse ZL with L and ZR with R sometimes).
