Is it really elitism to say someone didn't really beat a game if they used Savestates. That just sounds correct. Like I certainly don't consider someone jamming a game genie into the game and putting in an invincibility code beating the game and I'm not sure why save states are much better than that.
I'd see elitism as more like "you didn't beat SMB1 if you used Warp Zones" or "you didn't beat Mega Man 2 if you didn't play on Difficult"
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