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Random rant: It's okay for a game to be a pain in the ass, but the player must always specifically elect to be subject to it.

It's never otherwise okay for a game to be a pain in the ass with no surrounding justification.

And that justification can be as simple as "the game is intended to be a pain in the ass". Hence games like Dark Souls. That's perfectly OK!

But your players should never, ever want to throw down the controller and go "Oh, that's bullshit!" Deaths should be learning opportunities.

This is something that a lot of smaller developers seem to miss. Challenge in a vacuum is not fun. I should *want* to tackle the challenge.

This is one of the reasons that where I work, 4 people (plus Lucy) are nominated each day to playtest for half an hour.