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I once was playing Splinter Cell with a friend who, I have since learned but did not know at the time, had very little interest in stealth. To his credit, he did make an effort to be sneaky, but eventually gave up and ran through the level with a shotgun, shooting anyone he saw and yelling "STEALTHY! STEALTHY! STEALTHY!"

To his credit once again, he did beat the level with this strategy.

There are two approaches: Pink Mohawk and Black Trenchcoat.

Black Trenchcoat says no one should know you were there.

Pink Mohawk says that if there are no survivors, no one can know you were there.

Both are considered stealth.

I’ve learned to make characters that are good at getting out of a room as well as being able to sneak. I will inevitably get caught right after finding the McGuffin, so I might as well have an exit strategy.

This is why I liked Ghost of Tsushima so much. The stealth and non-stealth combat were equally fun (in different ways) so it wasn’t a bad thing to get caught.

I was just playing a level in Death Stranding 2, clearing out some bandits stealthily, but then I saw they had a truck in their camp... I cleared the rest of the camp out by running the bandits over one by one.

I've always been the type of player who, when the game says "there's no way we can beat them all, we should sneak past", decides "let's test that theory".

Top: Me the first five minutes of project zomboid.

Bottom: Me the second five minutes of project zomboid.

There is no third five minutes.

Why is that game so hard?

I love it when the game allows to continue after getting caught. Arkham series, Far Cry series and Ghost of Tsushima come to mind.

Then there are games like Assassin’s Creed (made by the same company as Far Cry) which fails the entire mission upon getting caught just to stay true to its name.