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The fake bench before him that forces you to get diseased
was so offensive I almost quit, but I kept going on, determined to reach the end. I was nearly at the end of the game when I reached Crust King Khann.
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I miraculously cleared the first three gauntlet rooms on the way to him before dying in the fourth. When I went back in and realized it was going to make me start from the beginning each time, and that it may take me ten or so times after I finally reach the boss to finish, I immediately uninstalled.
People who love the runbacks will say things like “Once you’re good enough, the runbacks aren’t a slog they are just time consuming.” That’s exactly what a slog is. If the game made you put in the first 100 digits of pi every time you died, no one would play it because it was wasting your time. Punishing you for dying by burning a significant chunk of your real world life span is not something I want to encourage.
My disdain for games that have no respect for the player’s time seems to be uncommon. I criticized Blue Prince for the same reason, and people strongly disagreed.