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The Secret Mystery Game

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I never had any illusions of completing it though.

So, then my question would be "then why play it at all?" and I guess the answer to that would be something about it being fun, right?

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Exactly! I know most people are able to (and indeed do) enjoy playing games that just go on and on until they get either too hard or too boring. Sometimes I have short periods where I play these games. Once I played Tetris a lot for about a week, and... well, maybe that's it.

I'm still playing Picross, for example, but that's only because there's a finite set of man-made puzzles, and when I've completed them all I'll never play it again.

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Fun, spot on. I was a little disappointed when (I think at about 30 - 40% in) I finally hit a level I just couldn't do or be arsed to practice enough to beat. But it had entertained me mightily up until that point and I didn't resent it at all.

Rag doll deaths with sickening crunches thrown in help a little ;)

Advance Wars Dual Strike did the same thing to me - fun, but one of the campaign maps was just so arbitrarily hard I ceased caring about any of the game after it.

In N, watching the replays from the high score table was also highly entertaining - there are some incredibly devoted/talented people out there, and they turn playing N into an awe inspiring feat.

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