re: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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I don't mind games being difficult, but I don't understand the mentality that a hard game = a good game or that a game being hard is automatically better somehow.

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There's also a difference between the difficulty being part of the gameplay experience experience, and manufactured difficulty.

The quintessential "manufactured difficulty" example for me are sports games where suddenly stats don't matter anymore. Every team on the highest difficulty starts to play exactly the same because they are basically just on a permanent cheat code.