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It's Easy, So It Sucks!

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It's Easy, So It Sucks!	comment	Sometimes a gamer plays a new game only to find the level of challenge is less than what they expected — sometimes considerably so. To some gamers, this shall not stand! Video Games are about overcoming challenge! No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction, after all, and without challenge, a game is little more than a pointless exercise. Of course, there is nothing inherently wrong with an "easy" game. Some people prefer them that way. Further, depending on the individual, the genre and the game playing setting, the reasons for gaming vary greatly from "overcoming challenge for a sense of accomplishment" to "distracting one from the mundane minutia of life" and everything in between. Some changes that make a game easier can remove unnecessarily difficult or frustrating parts, making for a more enjoyable experience overall. This trope is the reaction fans have when a game, particularly one from a franchise known for challenging games, presents itself as less challenging than its predecessors or than what one would normally expect from games of a similar genre. This can certainly be a valid reaction, however; when you can breeze through a game without breaking a sweat once, even the parts that should be difficult, it is easy for a game to become a monotonous and boring experience. Excessive handholding, the oversimplification or elimination of more complex mechanics, and easily accessible "win buttons" or Game Breakers with no downside to using them can also sink a game, among other related issues. When an attempt to make a game more accessible instead removes depth or any sense of challenge from parts that were clearly intended to be difficult, this reaction is understandable. This is not a page to complain about easy games. Only add examples where the sentiment has been expressed by reviewers or a sizable number of fans when comparing a game to previous installments in a franchise or similar games of that genre. Be aware with adding examples where people mention about how once they found a Game-Breaker, learned to exploit a Good Bad Bug, caught the hang of it, learned the way the game mechanics worked, then that they found the game trivial afterwards. This type of complaint can happen if the game's predecessor was more difficult. The level of reasonableness depends on what is being complained about; if it's new Anti-Frustration Features, better design decisions, or the smoothing out or elimination of clunkiness that has historically been a thing and has been viewed as part of the challenge, it's probably just people being change-averse. On the other hand, if it's people complaining about the game being boring or monotonous due to gameplay or design decisions that make it easy to rip the game wide open, streamline it to the point where there is zero depth (or incentive to experiment), or handhold the player to the point where failure is virtually impossible, they may have a point. This also becomes incredibly annoying for developers if people complained about the previous game being too hard, or if it was hard but for all the wrong reasons. It really makes for the perpetual Unpleasable Fanbase. It's Short, So It Sucks! is a Sister Trope, with several points overlapping with this. The opposite is It's Hard, So It Sucks!. Also see They Changed It, Now It Sucks!. When people try to force the way they play the game (which generally has to do with difficulty) onto other people, you have a Scrub or a "Stop Having Fun" Guy. When you have both It's Easy, so It Sucks and It's Hard, So It Sucks!, you wind up with an Unpleasable Fanbase.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_12d03b27	comment	Gunstar Super Heroes got criticized for this by fans of the original Gunstar Heroes, since the original gun mix system was swapped for having three types of ammo from the start and the option of using a huge cannon whenever. Oh, and some bosses were seriously toned down, one barely even attacking anymore.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_142657fa	comment	Thunder Force VI received this reaction from many fans.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_15ba0e84	comment	Kirby's Epic Yarn received a lot of complaints from reviewers about how easy it was, with many of them citing the fact that you can't die—there are no bottomless pits or health. However, the developers have stated that for experienced gamers, they designed the gameplay to be "shame-based": The focus is not on completing each stage, but on completing each stage with a high bead count, and any misstep you make will cause Kirby to start bleeding beads like it's nobody's business. To beat the game (especially the bosses) with all gold medals (with the bosses' secret patches being one level above gold) is a much taller order than simply finishing the levels.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_16d9b2b4	comment	One of several complaints against Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy is how easy the game is compared to its predecessor, even in Hard Mode.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_176abd38	comment	Mario Party: The Top 100 is criticized for being very heavily stacked in the playerâ€™s favor. The AI is weaker than usual, with Medium being on par with 1-8â€™s memetically bad Easy (and is, in fact, the lowest difficulty option), with Hard not being much better. Even if by some miracle you do lose, second and third still count as a win. Unless you deliberately try, youâ€™re practically guaranteed to â€œwinâ€� every minigame you play.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_187d5708	comment	Devil May Cry 2 was criticized for a lot of design choices, the too-easy fights being just one of many. And then came the sequel.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_187d570a	comment	Devil May Cry 4 was criticised by long-time fans of the series due its significantly lower difficulty compared to the third game.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_187d570b	comment	Devil May Cry 5 didn't have it as bad as the last two numbered games, but Dante experts coming from 4 lamented about the loss of the extremely high-level execution and glitch abusing Dante had in the last game.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_18ce7450	comment	Some Hellsinker players argue that using Kagura's Infernal Sabbath setup, which consists of only three weapons (a variable-width Spread Shot, two close-range orbs, and the very traditional Smart Bomb), to be too simple for a Mind Screw game where most other playable characters do not follow the established conventions of the Shoot 'Em Up genre.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_196b618d	comment	PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2 were lauded for including difficulty levels, but the catch was that Hard Mode was only natively available in Black 2 (and only in the post game, without a friend or a spare game to send it over from). Players noted that, despite the overall Sequel Difficulty Spike, the main story experience did suffer in key areas without Hard Mode (like Ghetsis' Hydreigon being unable to touch a Steel-type).
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_1d45e6aa	comment	There's a vocal part of the zOMG! fanbase that insists any nerfing of any quest or enemy is ruining the game by making it easy. This includes the parts of the game that were honestly too difficult for the CL it was meant for. And the game is still in beta. There's also the update in the first half of December 2009. Enemies (including bosses) were universally weakened, and many buff rings had their duration increased and/or recharge time drastically shortened as well as given an area of effect that reached all players visible on the screen without using any Rage Ranks. The tutorial has also been stripped out, which gives veteran players the impression that newcomers aren't bothering to learn basic mechanics of the game such as swapping rings or leveling up. Oh, and gold rewards have been increased, but it's still a pittance compared to what other methods on the site can earn.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_1d591bd1	comment	The Irate Gamer invokes this trope in The Frollo Show after Frollo and Stocking easily kill Jafar in the Frollo Beats Up Evil Residents saga. The Game Genie grants his wish. Jafar is revived into a snake and chomps off the Bores' head in response.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_1fb03afb	comment	The Freddi Fish series arcade styled spinoff Freddi Fish and Luther's Water Worries gets a lot of this. Being a children's game, you shouldn't expect much to begin with, but it's very hard to actually lose in it at all, even if you're in the game's target audience. Unless you stand perfectly still and do nothing, trying at all will grant you a win.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_1fc3ec4d	comment	Rock Band has had a no-fail cheat available since its first installment, for those who play for fun rather than score. With Rock Band 3, however, no-fail mode no longer disabled a player from saving their top score or registering it on the leaderboards. Some complaints arose from the more hardcore competitive fans, despite the fact that anyone needing no-fail mode to pass a song would never maintain a multiplier long enough to even approach a leaderboard-topping score.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_1ff419c5	comment	Kingdom Hearts II got this type of criticism because of its simple reaction commands and the addition of Drive forms, and the almost total removal of any platforming or puzzles whatsoever. Which was why Square Enix decided to program Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep as it was. One troper's response to the whining about the difficulty of the Mysterious Figure optional boss:
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem A lot of people complained about Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade being easier than the previous games. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones was even easier than its predecessor. Then came Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, which brought back the difficulty in full force. Fire Emblem: Awakening, has the option of "Casual" mode, where the player can save at any time, even mid-battle, and defeated characters regenerate after battle (in previous games, death was permanent).note This was actually introduced in the game before it, New Mystery of the Emblem, but that was never localized. While there hasn't been a particularly large outcry against the casual option, there are still vocal groups who insists you're not experiencing the "real" game if you're not willing to face potential permadeath. Fire Emblem Fates seems to make a conscious effort to address the criticism leveled at its predecessor by having two different story paths. One is similar to Awakening in that it has a world map, allowing free Level Grinding, and mostly requires you to defeat all foes or the boss to clear maps. The other, however, harkens back to the earlier entries of the series with a linear campaign that offers limited experience, and more complex victory conditions like seizing thrones and such. Even still, the announcement that this would be the second Fire Emblem game to completely do away with Breakable Weapons, as well as the introduction of Phoenix Mode, which revives units after each turn, not just after each battle, have been met with significant ire. note It should be noted, however, that Gaiden long before Fates had unbreakable weapons and that did not make the game any easier. As for Fates, while you are no longer limited in how often you can use your best weapons by durability, most strong weapons have significant drawbacks; for example, Silver weapons debuff the user's attack after combat.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_2319cc69	comment	A number of Ori and the Will of the Wisps players who originally found the Sand Worm Escape Sequence to be the most frustrating event in the game complained of the opposite after Moon Studios released a patch to Nerf its difficulty. Many have also criticized the overall Normal difficulty setting as being too easy compared to that of the first game.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_2797cd40	comment	Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance gets flack for being the easiest game in the series, among other things.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_28438266	comment	Wario Land and WarioWare games often fall into this gap as well as It's Short, So It Sucks!, due to being generally short games that reward 100% completion more than a main mode. In the case of WarioWare, this is likely because the gameplay is deliberately kept simple as part of the series premise, and due to the fact the first run through only requires you to play through the first micro game set difficulty level to move on to another. For Wario Land, it's probably because of the health set up being extremely generous towards the player (aka about ten heart points to complete invincibility). Which completely ignores that both series have some quite difficult bonus challenges and secrets.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_291dc90e	comment	While generally being viewed as a massive improvements over the previous game, many of the criticism of Octopath Traveler II is that the game is made too easy with not enough challenges because of the introduction of new mechanics like Latent Power, EX Skills and some new abilities, and it's easy to get powerful equipments and/or summons early on to make the entire game easier.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_2a04866b	comment	This happened quite a bit with Guild Wars...Even Factions received this complaint when it was new! Nevermind the amounts of missions declared as "Newbie Traps" that happen very early in the game compared to even Prophecies's annoying levels. And a lot of things in the game catch hell for precisely this reason. Heroes, PVE Skills, inscriptions for weapons (never mind that the previous system sucked ass), specific weapons becoming more common, etc etc...
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_2a6eefe5	comment	A lot of people hated Metroid Fusion for giving you the location of your next destination and closing off alternate routes, claiming that it destroyed the series's emphasis on exploration.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_2acb12c5	comment	X3: Terran Conflict got this complaint from some veteran X players, due largely to the fact that making your first million credits now took much less time. (The first million is always the hardest, then you can buy a factory and your profitsss multiply.)
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_2c49204d	comment	Lunar: Silver Star Harmony has gotten shit for being easy than previous versions of Lunar. The limit-breaks have also been criticized. Never mind that one, they're actually optional, two, unless you unleash them all at once, only trivialize trash mob fights (With the exception of Mia's Mist Barrier. A Challenge Gamer doing a low level run's wet dream), and, notably, the fact that Luna was actually useful when you had her with you. (She wasn't that useful in the Playstation&Saturn versions, and was absent in the Sega CD)
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_2c4f4065	comment	You Have to Burn the Rope: The game's reception actually notably averts this. The game is a Deconstruction Game with an Invincible Hero and a Zero-Effort Boss parodying these kinds of overly easy games, but it's quite popular.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_2d940749	comment	Some players of beatmania IIDX dismiss other rhythm games for having too low of a skill ceiling. Usually, the one exception is pop'n music, but in the West, its cutesy artstyle is something of a point of contention.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_2f203125	comment	Shin Megami Tensei: There are players who feel that the way fusion is handled in Devil Survivor, Devil Survivor 2, Persona 4 Golden, and Shin Megami Tensei IV—namely, in that the player is allowed to choose what skills the resulting demon can inherit instead of the RNG doing it for them—takes a lot of challenge out of the game, believing that the best way to play is either to just deal with whatever skills the RNG spits out or back out of fusion and enter it again until you get the skills you want. While players accustomed to Persona 3 and 4 decry Shin Megami Tensei IV as "the Dark Souls of Persona", mainline series veterans feel the opposite about IV, citing the aforementioned fusion inheritance options, boss battles ending in about five turns, Game Over being met with an offer to be revived rather than booting the player straight back to the title screen, lack of puzzle dungeons, and overall comparative ease of bosses as turn-offs to the game.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_3565350a	comment	Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. A widespread criticism from fans of the Playstation FF Tactics was that the game felt so toned down by comparison. In the original Tactics, no matter what map you were on, if a unit died, there was the risk of their spirit turning into a crystal/chest and being lost forever. In Tactics Advance, that was only possible on one or two specific areas.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_35800114	comment	Monster Hunter Generations got some flak for the lack of G-Rank quests, the addition of Hunter Arts and Hunter Styles (especially Adept Style for its ability to effortlessly dodge attacks), and various adjustments to damage and monster health in the hunter's favor. The topic about difficulty in the Monster Hunter series further escalated due to Monster Hunter: World and especially Monster Hunter: Rise being deemed even easier by longtime fans.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_3583b777	comment	Eternal Darkness, due to its horror focus, often gets called a survival-horror game, but two aspects of the game's design obliterate the "survival" half and render it incompatible: a replenishing Mana Meter (complete with spells to restore your health and Sanity Meter, as well as provide a protective shield) and unbreakable melee weapons which can decapitate enemies or sever their arms. While firearms all have limited ammo, they're never necessary to get past obstacles and usually weaker than your sword/mace/axe/etc. People going into the game tend to wonder how a game so easy could get so much love, especially if they find the Mantorok rune.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_36395288	comment	Kirby games generally tend to avert this - they were actually designed to be very easy (as the first game was developed at a time when Nintendo had a trope-naming reputation for publishing difficult titles) yet nobody seems to have any problem. This becomes quite weird when you hear this trope being invoked elsewhere, since how many other games allow you to fly over most of the stage without even having to find a power-up? There have, however, been a few exceptions: Kirby's Epic Yarn received a lot of complaints from reviewers about how easy it was, with many of them citing the fact that you can't die—there are no bottomless pits or health. However, the developers have stated that for experienced gamers, they designed the gameplay to be "shame-based": The focus is not on completing each stage, but on completing each stage with a high bead count, and any misstep you make will cause Kirby to start bleeding beads like it's nobody's business. To beat the game (especially the bosses) with all gold medals (with the bosses' secret patches being one level above gold) is a much taller order than simply finishing the levels. Kirby: Triple Deluxe was criticized by reviewers for its easiness. The fans still love it, though, and tend to look down on the reviews very harshly for their apparent stance on the nature of the game. Kirby Star Allies is thought to have gone too far with easiness even by fans. A lot of this is due to the central ally system: your AI-controlled partners can steamroll enemies and bosses and will solve puzzles by themselves if they can. Even discounting allies, puzzle rooms are a lot simpler (many of them provide you with the abilities you need, and they'll outright tell you the solution unless you turn off the hints) and boss fights, normally the biggest challenge of Kirby games, are less complex. The post-game content is more challenging, but it's still a significant Sequel Difficulty Drop from Kirby: Planet Robobot, one of the harder games in the series.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_38d7c4	comment	A common criticism of Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy is that once you manage to grasp how the various item crafting mechanics work (which should come very quickly if you've played the previous game), almost all challenge goes out the window. Just making semi-decent equipment should let you breeze your way through the whole game, even on Hard difficulty. If you're playing on PC, some players will even recommend downloading a save file that has the Harder Than Hard difficulties unlocked right from the start, which is the only way the game will pose any kind of challenge for an experienced player.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_3967984f	comment	Despite being considered one of the scariest games ever, Dead Space has been commented by many to be surprisingly easy. The enemies can go down quite easily provided you have a good aim, and you'll eventually be able to read when enemies will show up, not to mention multiple Good Bad Bugs that can be used for your help, like using doors to execute enemies; because of this, some people complain that the easiness reduces the horror of the game and, unless you're a first time player, recommend playing on harder difficulties instead.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_39cb5e47	comment	In Donkey Kong Country, visits to Cranky's Cabin are accompanied by Cranky ranting about how newer games have been dumbed down for new players.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_3e13ad42	comment	One of the more recurring criticisms of Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX is the lack of an Extreme difficulty level outside of a small group of songs, meaning that the game is much easier than other Project Diva titles.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_43f52aa9	comment	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has players complaining about a lot of things, but one of them is that the (optional) travel system makes the game too easy, since you can evade random encounters after you first found a location.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_45501b8c	comment	People complained about Super Metroid back in the day, saying the inclusion of an automap feature was a travesty against everything Metroid was about.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_455ede40	comment	Super Paper Mario caught a lot of flack for this. The previous games werenâ€™t exactly hard but werenâ€™t afraid of throwing curveballs at the player, and they provided multiple forms of a Self-Imposed Challenge that could increase the difficulty. In Super you practically have to try to die and thereâ€™s no real way of raising the difficulty beyond only playing as Mario and avoiding the myriad game breakers.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV is hit with this on all fronts from the hardcore players. Compared to the original game, the reboot A Realm Reborn is significantly easy and the game was redesigned with casual and new players in mind since defeat carries a small penalty and retrying certain quests or trials gives you an extra boost so that you can have a better shot at winning. Because the game was made with ease of difficulty, a lot of hardcore players (especially those who grew up on Final Fantasy XI) feel that the game is only catering to the lowest common denominator and that the game will suffer a quick death if it doesn't challenge its players to push their limits. The same players will also complain about old content getting nerfed, even after they're no longer relevant or would be a roadblock for new/returning players that want to catch up to their friends.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_49a885c8	comment	Many fans of Final Fantasy XVI were disappointed that the game's hard mode was locked behind new game+, since many fans who were looking for a challenge found the demo and the base game itself to be too easy. Inaccessible difficulty options aside, the game was also criticized for having little strategy during boss fights, since all bosses have a stagger meter and elemental affinities are non-existent, for example, Bomb enemies from previous Final Fantasy entries who were immune to or even absorbed fire-elemental attacks are now completely vulnerable to fire.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_49eee326	comment	Nintendo Power's only complaint about the Wii version of Klonoa was that it was a bit easier... because Klonoa had one more heart than in the original version. They gave it a 9.0 anyway.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_4a4dcdd8	comment	Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was specifically designed for newcomers to the roleplaying-game genre. General concensus, especially among the hardcore Final Fantasy fans, was that they went too far with that goal (it doesn't help that the game was A) short, and B) bundled with its strategy guide).
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_4b434423	comment	This only progressed in the eighth generation, with the Exp. Share now being mandatory with no way to turn it off. PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield are controversial for other reasons, but a leading criticism is how they continue the series' downward trend in difficulty; the region is full of NPCs who will hand you free potions and fully heal your team on the spot, but besides that, most areas consist of straight pathways with little to no puzzles and there's (barring a Difficulty Spike or two) a very low level curve. Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl continue with the baked-in Exp. Share; they also repeat Generation VI's habit of giving you powerful freebies by gifting you the rare Mythical PokÃ©mon Mew and Jirachi after you get the first badge if you have save files of previous Switch titles.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_4e45b093	comment	One episode of The Big Bang Theory has Leonard, Raj, Amy, and Emily try out an escape room. However, it proves disappointing due to being too easy for them. (They complete it in just over six minutes.) As they leave, they reason it was easy for them since they're two physicists, a biologist, and a medical doctor.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_4ea10091	comment	Grandia II got flak for this, with some players going as far as beating the game for the first time without losing a single winnable battle (there were some uniwnnable ones, Millenia and Melfice).
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_4f2ad444	comment	Sword combat in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag was widely criticised for being too easy and lacking nuance. This was addressed by developers for the game's sequel, Assassin's Creed: Unity, where combat is harder and has consequences when done openly.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_536a5cc9	comment	One of the main criticisms leveled against Sonic Colors is that it, especially bosses, are too easy.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_554058ce	comment	Mario Kart 7 more so, since not only is the drifting very similar to Wii's, but the star rankings have been made much easier to get and things like wheelies, bikes and much of single player mode have been removed as well.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_554058cf	comment	Mario Kart 8: In a track-specific example, GBA Riverside Park managed to be considered underwhelming by fans because of how easy it is. Granted, the original was a Mushroom Cup course, so it was never going to be truly challenging, but it comes across as lacking compared to the Mario Kart Tour version, which built itself around the game's tight controls and speed cap. The 8 Deluxe version does add some Ptooies in an attempt to add some danger to the track, but they move slowly enough that they're rarely a genuine threat, and there are multiple wide turns that allow for racers to easily stack up purple mini-turbos with little in their way.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil: When Resident Evil 4 was ported to the Wii, aiming became much easier due to motion controls. While much of the fanbase was pleased with easier controls, purists went on ranting about how the game was ruined because it was too easy to shoot things. A criticism Resident Evil 3 (Remake) faced was that it wasn't as challenging as the original. Puzzles are either non-existent or highly basic, Nemesis is fairly easy to ward off thanks to his slow and somewhat sluggish movements, infinite weaponry do not require doing extensive challenges to obtain, and ammunition is far more plentiful. Especially when you compare the game to its predecessor, which was praised for being more difficult than its original. Though certainly not an easy game by any means, Resident Evil Village was criticized for being comparatively less challenging than its predecessor. These criticisms were attributed to the increase in ammo supplies, the return of the ability to upgrade weapons, most of the bosses being relatively slow with obvious weak points, and not requiring players to perform overly challenging tasks to obtain infinite ammo. In fact, infinite ammo and all other unlockables in the game can even be simply bought via a $5 DLC, practically eliminating the need to either grind for points or complete the necessary challenges.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_57f19f4d	comment	New Super Mario Bros. Wii is accused of being easy due to how often you can gain extra lives and friends in multiplayer can put themselves inside bubbles to skip chunks of the level while their other friends get past the harder parts. There were also tons of complaints about the Super Guide where an AI-controlled Luigi can beat the level for you if you lose several lives in a row in a given level.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_5803e162	comment	Dragon Ball Fighter Z: The game caught some flack for this, primarily due to an auto-combo system that can be used by rapidly hitting the attack button. Auto-Combos aren't new in fighting games, but FighterZ's are unusual in that they are actually helpful, and see use even within tournaments. There's the fact that the moves on every single character have the same button inputs. That said, it's still a wildly popular game within the competitive scene, showing that this opinion isn't universal. The game's story mode caught some flack for its low difficulty. The AI is braindead, characters have ways to level up their stats to make them even more powerful, and the game never really has any challenge at all until the very end. There is a hard mode, but the game needs to be beaten first for it to be unlocked. It is widely considered to be a tedious grind, which isn't helped by the fact that beating it (or buying the season pass) is required to unlock Android 21. In contrast, arcade mode has been hit with a heavy dose of It's Hard, So It Sucks!.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_588b7241	comment	The difficulty of Sonic Forces is a common criticism with the game, and why to some the game ultimately doesn't stand out very much. Even on Hard difficulty, which is cited to be for experienced Sonic players, the game is ridiculously easy and simplistic for a Sonic game. Levels are very short, extremely linear if not borderline on-rails some of the time, the Avatar Wispon abilities are extremely broken, the enemies rarely pose a threat, and it is just as easy if not easier than Generations to get S-Ranks. The only genuinely difficult part of the game is the time trial Challenge Missions, which require intimate knowledge of each level's shortcuts and controls.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: The Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid frequently had this criticism lobbied at it. To counter this, the American version was given adjustable difficulty... with the Japanese version being the Easy difficulty. One third of the complaints about The Twin Snakes were that the addition of the tranquilizer gun and first-person aiming made the game too easy. The other two-thirds were about the voice acting and cutscene changes. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots received flack for including a silenced pistol from the get-go. In previous games, the tranq gun was stealthy but only temporarily incapacitated the enemy, while the standard handgun was lethal but loud. Combining the two removes much of the challenge, as you can just shoot enemies with wilful abandon.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_5921531a	comment	While players accustomed to Persona 3 and 4 decry Shin Megami Tensei IV as "the Dark Souls of Persona", mainline series veterans feel the opposite about IV, citing the aforementioned fusion inheritance options, boss battles ending in about five turns, Game Over being met with an offer to be revived rather than booting the player straight back to the title screen, lack of puzzle dungeons, and overall comparative ease of bosses as turn-offs to the game.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_59769f6	comment	Dm C Devil May Cry was accused of this, especially in regards to how the revamped style meter makes it painfully easy to go from D to SSS with just a few of the right moves. The boss fights in general have been criticized for being much less difficult than those of past games as well.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_5a2333ef	comment	A common complaint about the LittleBigPlanet games. Game Informer complained that the Vita game in particular has infinite checkpoints for every level except boss battles.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale gets this from many players. Some people think the game is a bit too easy on the Neutral and Pacifist routes. While the fact that you only have 20 HP on the latter makes things harder, some fights only amount to waiting out the enemy or performing relatively simple sequences of ACT commands, so there's less strategy involved in going on the offensive, and in the final boss on the latter route, you're automatically revived if you die. The Genocide route has two of the hardest bosses in the game, especially the final boss, but as you can see elsewhere on this page, there are reasons why a lot of people don't want to play it. Likewise, other than the two impossibly difficult bosses on the Genocide route most of the enemies can be killed in one hit and most puzzles are already solved or deactivated, leading others to consider the Genocide route as being too easy and, unlike the Pacifist or Neutral routes, without any sort of feel-good reward for the hair-pullingly frustrating parts. To be fair, this is completely intentional, and important to the game's message - if the Genocide route was any fun, its meaning would be all but lost.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_5cb7fc72	comment	While System Shock 2, which Bioshock is the Spiritual Successor of, had resurrection chambers, the difference was that there was only one on each level and you had to find and activate it first. And it costs you- no nanites; you stay dead! There was no penalty for the original System Shock, but in that game, you didn't just die if the machines weren't activated, SHODAN turned your corpse into one of her cyborgs. This same money-costing principle from System Shock 2 was carried over to Bioshock Infinite, although played from a strange angle. If you died while Elizabeth was present, she would revive you with some kind of hypo. If you were alone, you'd emerge from Booker DeWitt's office...somehow.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_5d020c4a	comment	Heroes of the Storm gets it even worse than LoL for its simplified mechanics design ("No gold? No items? All farm shared by the entire team? Maps where gimmicks will win the battle for you? Bah, casuals!"), multiple different maps each with their own unique primary objective rather than a focus on the traditional "3 lanes and jungle" design, much shorter matches, and large number of really bizarrely-designed "gimmicky" heroes (such as Cho'Gall, a single two-headed ogre hero controlled cooperatively by two players). To be fair, a large part of this is just hatred of Blizzard in general for their fairly open attempts to appeal to the widest market possible (as they do with World of Warcraft and Hearthstone), mixed with players simply being unwilling to accept such wild deviation from the MOBA formula.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_5d96b889	comment	Mario Kart: Mario Kart Wii is accused of being dumbed down. Not just because snaking is useless now, but the fact that in order to gain mini turbos, you have to drift on corners and maintain it, which is easier than wiggling the analog stick left to right and getting many turbos in a row while drifting. Mario Kart 7 more so, since not only is the drifting very similar to Wii's, but the star rankings have been made much easier to get and things like wheelies, bikes and much of single player mode have been removed as well. Mario Kart 8: In a track-specific example, GBA Riverside Park managed to be considered underwhelming by fans because of how easy it is. Granted, the original was a Mushroom Cup course, so it was never going to be truly challenging, but it comes across as lacking compared to the Mario Kart Tour version, which built itself around the game's tight controls and speed cap. The 8 Deluxe version does add some Ptooies in an attempt to add some danger to the track, but they move slowly enough that they're rarely a genuine threat, and there are multiple wide turns that allow for racers to easily stack up purple mini-turbos with little in their way.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_5e91c7d	comment	When Resident Evil 4 was ported to the Wii, aiming became much easier due to motion controls. While much of the fanbase was pleased with easier controls, purists went on ranting about how the game was ruined because it was too easy to shoot things.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_629cd094	comment	This criticism happened to Dragon Age: Origins, despite having difficulty settings; and several bosses are still difficult on Easy Mode. The console version in particular got flak for this, because the "Normal" difficulty mode on consoles is actually the "Easy" difficulty on the PC. This is because of Friendly Fire: it's a lot harder to manage your party's exact location to avoid them getting caught in your own AOE with a controller instead of a mouse. Dragon Age II is criticised for being easier than the first one.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_631805af	comment	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots received flack for including a silenced pistol from the get-go. In previous games, the tranq gun was stealthy but only temporarily incapacitated the enemy, while the standard handgun was lethal but loud. Combining the two removes much of the challenge, as you can just shoot enemies with wilful abandon.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_64dbb72f	comment	The Man with the Golden Gun: Scaramanga's entire reason for saving Bond's life and bringing him to the island. He wants a challenge, and doesn't want to spoil it by shooting the only man who can match him while he's unconscious.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_65a47935	comment	Popn Music Lapistoria rebalances the scoring system so that GREAT and GOOD judgements are now worth more pointsnote in previous games, GREAT gets you 50% of the note's points, and GOOD 10%; in Lapistoria the values are now 70% and 40%, respectively. This has made many players exceptionally unhappy. Some feel that the change in scoring ratios would've been bad regardless of whether they were made stricter or looser, as it completely skewers the scoring scale and makes it very hard to compare scores from older games with scores made on Lapistoria.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_66a1dcea	comment	Tomb Raider Old fans in particular often blame Crystal Dynamics' games of being too easy and straight-forward in comparison to the often expansive and difficult Core Design games. Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation was designed to be a good jumping-on point for new players, but long-time players who had gotten used to the brutally difficult Tomb Raider III could be left wondering, "Is this game ever going to get hard?"
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_67ce5a04	comment	Fire Emblem Fates seems to make a conscious effort to address the criticism leveled at its predecessor by having two different story paths. One is similar to Awakening in that it has a world map, allowing free Level Grinding, and mostly requires you to defeat all foes or the boss to clear maps. The other, however, harkens back to the earlier entries of the series with a linear campaign that offers limited experience, and more complex victory conditions like seizing thrones and such. Even still, the announcement that this would be the second Fire Emblem game to completely do away with Breakable Weapons, as well as the introduction of Phoenix Mode, which revives units after each turn, not just after each battle, have been met with significant ire. note It should be noted, however, that Gaiden long before Fates had unbreakable weapons and that did not make the game any easier. As for Fates, while you are no longer limited in how often you can use your best weapons by durability, most strong weapons have significant drawbacks; for example, Silver weapons debuff the user's attack after combat.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_6819fb9f	comment	Many longtime fans of the Rainbow Six series complain about the series' shift from hardcore "one-shot kill" tactical shooters to standard First-Person Shooter action games, starting with Rainbow Six: Lockdown and solidified in Rainbow Six: Vegas.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_68de28e	comment	Mario Kart Wii is accused of being dumbed down. Not just because snaking is useless now, but the fact that in order to gain mini turbos, you have to drift on corners and maintain it, which is easier than wiggling the analog stick left to right and getting many turbos in a row while drifting.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition took many measures to make itself "newbie friendly" and in turn drew vicious ire from fans of the third edition who actually enjoyed the complexity in 3ed and find the "simplicity" in 4ed makes the game boring. Tabletop games as a rule are divided between players who enjoy them for their strategy aspects (and think everyone else should as well) and players who view strategy as a barrier to "roleplaying." The former group is likely to despise almost anything the latter enjoys for this reason.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_6b85085e	comment	Street Fighter fans also tend to dislike Mortal Kombat titles of Midway era for relying on Violence factor, rather than strategy. And claim, that aside from special moves, Mortal Kombat characters are exactly the same.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_6d8311c4	comment	PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver were criticized for this by fans for their low enemy levels and simple Gym Leaders (not counting Whitney). Wild and opponent trainer PokÃ©mon leveled in the 23-25 range even by the eighth Gym badge, and the Champion's highest-leveled PokÃ©mon was level 50. While this served to accommodate the lengthy Kanto post game, it resulted in a nasty grind especially when preparing to face the True Final Boss (whose team was in the 75-80 range). The remakes HeartGold and SoulSilver were similarly criticized for not fixing this, though they featured welcome improvements in other areas like improved AI and high-level Gym Leader rematches.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_6ede144d	comment	Many cellists felt this way in regards to Pachelbel's Canon, as the cello part consists of the same eight notes repeated ad nauseum.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_70814599	comment	In Stargate SG-1, "Avatar", the base scientists have built a virtual-reality training simulation. Unfortunately, they have no field experience, and when Teal'c gives the program a test run, he completely curb-stomps it and complains that it's far too easy. So he volunteers to plug in and let it learn from his experiences to make a more challenging scenario; he gets his wish and then some.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_74c5b2f3	comment	The Advance Wars series (part of the Nintendo Wars series) has become much easier across all four games. The first game's campaign was moderate, but the hard campaign was nigh impossible. Advance Wars 2 reduced the difficulty in both game modes, and Advance Wars: Dual Strike...well, thanks to skills, the hard campaign was easier than the normal one. Even though Advance Wars: Days of Ruin increased the difficulty a bit, it is nothing compared to the first game's difficulty.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_74f7210c	comment	Many The Legend of Zelda fans complain how the games have steadily gotten easier over the course of the series, especially after the Video Game 3D Leap. The series added more and more interesting puzzles but included easier combat, fewer traps, and less dangerous Boss Battles as part of the deal. The original Wizzrobes could deal four hearts of damage if they hit you with a beam attack, but it is rather hard to find any enemy that can do anything close to that in the 3D games except for the instant-kill trains in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_764768c	comment	Compared to its predecessors, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel gets a ton of flack for making battles too easy, buffs up physical attacks that they can out damage arts, and barely any memorable boss fights that did give players a hard time. This got worse as the Erebonia arc went on with Cold Steel III introducing the Brave Order system that greatly broke the game wide open as it allows players to not give any enemy any turns whatsoever, buffed attacks even more, easily break the newly introduced Break Meter system, and made boss fights a joke overall. Cold Steel IV somewhat nerfed some aspects but then introduced even more powerful combinations that the nerf was barely visible at all. Part of it is because in previous games, physical attacks were useless unless it's a: a S-Craft on a critical turn or b: can recover really fast (like Alan Richard) and another part is that the game forces players to use arts that take up so many turns just to cast a magic spell.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_78e27fa7	comment	A lot of people complained about Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade being easier than the previous games. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones was even easier than its predecessor. Then came Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, which brought back the difficulty in full force.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_791fca44	comment	BioShock gets criticized a lot for the Vita-Chambers. Whenever you die, you respawn nearby without penalty, so even a tough enemy like a Big Daddy can be worn down over several "lives", removing almost all challenge and a lot of scariness from the game. A patch added the option to disable the chambers, making it much harder. (Granted, you could have always chosen to simply reload the game and wipe your progress instead of letting the Vita-Chambers revive you. Same end result.)
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_7d656203	comment	One of the biggest complaints fans have with Fairy Fencer F is that it is the easiest Compile Heart game to date. This is from the same company who gave us Nintendo Hard games like Hyperdimension Neptunia V, Record of Agarest War Zero and Cross Edge.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_7eceb06d	comment	This was extended even further with Fable II. It is completely impossible to die. Losing all of your health merely results in scarring. And of course, you can carry an infinite number of health potions and resurrection phials (still very cheap).
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_7f49dfdb	comment	There are players who feel that the way fusion is handled in Devil Survivor, Devil Survivor 2, Persona 4 Golden, and Shin Megami Tensei IV—namely, in that the player is allowed to choose what skills the resulting demon can inherit instead of the RNG doing it for them—takes a lot of challenge out of the game, believing that the best way to play is either to just deal with whatever skills the RNG spits out or back out of fusion and enter it again until you get the skills you want.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_804132fe	comment	This is one of the most common complains of Touhou Shinreibyou ~ Ten Desires as, especially when compared to Undefined Fantastic Object, it was considered way too easy due to less bullets, simpler scoring system and a system which effectively made players completely invincible without having to use a bomb, as well as the first final boss in the series to not be immune to bombs during her last attack, players also often complain of dying less to bullets and more to enemies bumping into them. Of course, comes Touhou Kishinjou ~ Double Dealing Character, and the fans complain it's too hard.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: The Super Mario Advance series is often accused of this, what with things such as your number of lives being saved. To Super Mario Advance 4's credit, it had an e-Reader card that replaces the enemies with harder versions, but that never made it out of Japan. Miyamoto himself has stated that he regrets making New Super Mario Bros. for DS too easy. Super Mario Galaxy is often bashed for being too easy, people saying how getting 60 stars to fight Bowser in the finale is a cakewalk compared to how Super Mario 64 did it (64 required 70 stars to access the final stage), and only a few of the 120 stars in total posed a challenge. Super Mario Galaxy 2 seems to have taken the "easy so it sucks" complaints to heart and made the majority of the game more challenging (except according to some who played the game, like Josh Scorcher), though there are still some complaints because of its Cosmic Guide. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is accused of being easy due to how often you can gain extra lives and friends in multiplayer can put themselves inside bubbles to skip chunks of the level while their other friends get past the harder parts. There were also tons of complaints about the Super Guide where an AI-controlled Luigi can beat the level for you if you lose several lives in a row in a given level. Super Princess Peach got this criticism on feminist grounds, with some commentators arguing that its relative easiness compared to the main Mario games was (indirectly or otherwise) insulting to the abilities of female gamers. Yoshi's Story traded in large, imaginative, dangerous levels for short, boring, easy ones. The Final Boss even has invincibility powerups in the same room as him.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_82ca6aa3	comment	DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu ver. 1.5 gets this from a lot of players, due to forced auto-bomb (the game automaticlaly fires a bomb to protect you if you get hit). Many players, particularly those playing to simply complete the game, feel that this cheapens the value of completing the game on one credit, as auto-bombs effectively turn bombs into spare lives. On the other hand, those playing for score disregrd it, because bombs are just as detrimental to score as dying is. DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu BLACK LABEL addresses this issue by granting the option to turn it off, although score attackers were displeased by how easy it is to maintain combo in BLACK LABEL. When DoDonPachi Saidaioujou was revealed, some players feared it would end up being too easy due to players being able to clear the location test's 3 stages, never mind the inclusion of an Expert mode. Of course, come the game's actual release and this died away, with many players considering it a Sequel Difficulty Spike.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_86814cd0	comment	The Japanese and North American versions of the GBA remake of Final Fantasy IV landed into this because of a bug - the game would semi-regularly (as in, somewhere around 20% of the time) give a character a free turn immediately after taking their previous turn. It was kind of like using Quick in the fifth or sixth game, except for free, didn't require any grinding to take advantage of, and available from the beginning (and keep in mind, Quick is frequently cited as a Game-Breaker in those games even with those limitations). The bonus turns made the game's difficulty curve plummet, and it's frequently cited as the worst version of the game because of it. The shame of it too is that the North American translation is usually noted to be among the best that the game ever received.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_86814e94	comment	Final Fantasy XI sometimes has its veteran players complain that new expansions have made the game too easy. Of course, they have only brought the game somewhat into line with modern MMO standards for ease of play and soloability, and the game is still an epic time sink for grinding and camping Notorious Monsters, among other things. And these kinds of things are what people consider difficulty in an MMOG.... An upcoming (as of June 2010) update is set to remove the level caps from the Chains of Promathia expansion, widely regarded as the hardest series of missions in the game mostly because it's impossible to find help for them since most players cleared the missions five years ago and never looked back. Once the announcement of the cap removal was made, cue throngs of whining elitists who will literally not be affected by the change in the slightest because it "takes away from the game's difficulty".
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_8756259d	comment	A common complaint about Azure Striker Gunvolt is that the Prevasion mechanic (basically a Mana Shield, allowing you to automatically dodge attacks as long as you have EP, which can be easily recharged anytime) and Joule's Anthem (when you run out of health, there is a chance that you will be revived with several power-ups, including infinite mid-air jumps) make in practically impossible to die. Of course, these complaints no longer apply when you're trying to get a high rank, as Prevasion reduces your Kudos to zero when it activates and the Anthem massively hurts your rank.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_87a4e420	comment	Super Princess Peach got this criticism on feminist grounds, with some commentators arguing that its relative easiness compared to the main Mario games was (indirectly or otherwise) insulting to the abilities of female gamers.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_87b652bb	comment	Starcraft II fixed many of the problems posed by the limitations of the original game's design and mechanics. This significantly lowered the amount of micromanagement needed to get even basic tasks done (typical of SC1's era) and freed up more Actions Per Minute for actual strategy, a change that saw many Brood War B-listers skyrocket to the top of ladders and tournaments and old pros bring out stunning new plays. However, to this day there are still large numbers of fans demanding a return to BW mechanics, both for individual units and for larger portions of the game.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_8828fa33	comment	If you indulge in the In the Groove scene, get used to some players declaring that any chart below double-digit difficulty sucks, and most other players declaring that any chart under 9 sucks.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_8ac4e993	comment	In the early 1990s, Bandai introduced several simple labor-saving ideas for Gunpla (Gundam model kits) in order to appeal to beginners. This included parts that came pre-molded in the proper colors so there was no need to paint them (which also solved the issue of small hard-to-paint places like the Gundams' faces), and runners made to match up so the builder could assemble several parts at the same time simply by locking the two runners together and then clipping off the completed parts. However, long-time modelers complained because they felt that simplifying things took away the challenge of building and limited customization. Because of the complaints (and because the changes were more expensive than anticipated), Bandai dropped them after only about three years.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_8c9862c7	comment	Prince of Persia (2008) The game has been criticized for being very easy, as the companion saves you from any death while platforming or fighting, though you're brought back at the beginning of whatever platforming, or after the enemy regains a good chunk of health. For all intents and purposes, this means that the game establishes checkpoints at every safe platform, rather than forcing you to go back to some arbitrary checkpoint and waste time redoing five minutes or so of platforming just to get back to where you were before. Another complaint about the 2008 Prince of Persia has to do with the changes to the series platform running, climbing, and jumping. It feels much more hand-held than before, and things like direction and distance and timing feel less important. As long as the buttons are pressed in the correct order, it is difficult to screw up a maneuver. As this review comments, it has been reduced to a quick-time-event.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_8d318bad	comment	Super Mario RPG is a fairly straightforward RPG that isn't difficult overall save for the one or two bosses that are surprisingly hard. Between how powerful Mario's party can get, the big assortment of items that can keep the party healthy, and the small chance of getting a freebie of any item you use (that also includes powerful and rare items like the invincibility granting Red Essences for example), hardcore RPG players tend to view the game as insultingly easy. The Nintendo Switch remake skews the difficulty even further towards the easy side due to the quality of life updatesExamples Items stack instead of taking up individual slots, the timing of timed hits are visually shown by a "!" until you get the hang of it, many single target enemy spells can be blocked with a timed button press, party members can be swapped during battle, game overs don't happen until the entire party is defeated, the new Triple Move mechanic can shred enemies to pieces, fully heal and revive the entire party, or grant one time damage immunity, and perfect timing on physical attacks can cause small splash damage to the entire enemy party. and the ability to switch the difficulty to an easy mode.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_8e2db8df	comment	An interesting example is the Tony Hawk series. The first game's goals are much easier than later games, but it is harder to score more points due to the lack of mechanics available. In later games, it is easier to score more points but the goals are harder. Unsurprisingly, the highest rated game in the series is Pro Skater 2, which is easily the hardest. The remade classic levels in Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and American Wasteland are good examples. In the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, it is quite hard to get up the mountain in Downhill Jam, in Underground 2, it is possible to just get off your board and climb up there. Similarly, in American Wasteland, the Downtown level is made easier with the ability to just climb the raised areas at the beginning of the level rather than having to go up the ramp to get to them. The mall level in American Wasteland features an steep ramp to the left of the fountain, that would have been almost impossible to get up to in the original game. But in this, it is possible to get up there and get off your board.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_8ec33a88	comment	One of the most common critcisms of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is the fact that it's extremely easy to overlevel yourself by the midgame. If you do all of the sidequests as they become available, by the game's halfway point you can easily be ten levels above anything the story can throw at you. It's compounded by the Bonus Exp mechanic, which allows you to level yourself up even further even though the only time you'll ever need it is at the very beginning of the game, meaning players will boost themselves by a few levels to help with early bosses, only to find themselves even further ahead of everything by the end of the game, making what should be the most difficult story battles considerably less challenging. Compounding it even further are the Chain Attack mechanics, which can easily be utilized to whale on enemies for extended periods without them having any chance to fight back. There is a Hard Mode, which does make things more challenging, but it still doesn't fix the level scaling. Many players consider the New Game Plus mode to be far better balanced, mainly because it comes with an option to de-level yourself to match the enemy levels.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_91684031	comment	The otherwise highly-praised PokÃ©mon Black and White were criticized for doing away with Poison's infamous overworld damage. You could also find a lot more places that sell Lemonades, or NPCs who were medical trainers, so some bemoaned how easy it was to get from town to town without fainting. Black and White also have no Gym Leaders with more than three PokÃ©mon and reduce the Elite Four from having five PokÃ©mon each to four, both of which continued through X and Y.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_92d87e3d	comment	A criticism Resident Evil 3 (Remake) faced was that it wasn't as challenging as the original. Puzzles are either non-existent or highly basic, Nemesis is fairly easy to ward off thanks to his slow and somewhat sluggish movements, infinite weaponry do not require doing extensive challenges to obtain, and ammunition is far more plentiful. Especially when you compare the game to its predecessor, which was praised for being more difficult than its original.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_935a39be	comment	Super Smash Bros. Brawl was accused of being dumbed down for casuals due to the reworked physics and overall game speed being slower compared to the previous game. Word of God stated that Brawl was made the way it was to allow new players to jump into the series without being totally clobbered by experienced players.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_952797ee	comment	There is a similar issue in competitions for the PokÃ©mon Trading Card Game: Tournament rules state that if a participant asks to see an opponent's face-up card in play, the opponent must comply; and if you have any foreign-language cards, you must set aside duplicates of those cards in your country's dominant language at all times for your opponents to see.note This rule has since been replaced by a stricter rule banning foreign-language cards outright. Naturally, every competition, there are players who attempt to skirt these rules, under the idea that competitors should already know what these cards do, and too bad for them if they don't. They can't get away with it for very long, though, because a tournament official will penalize them if caught or reported.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_9b14ba04	comment	At one point of Torque, the heroes assess their situation. One comments that what they have to do won't be easy. Leader Cary Ford quips "Wouldn't be fun if it were easy." Later, the situation worsens and one guy says "I know you said it wouldn't be fun if it were easy, but does it have to be this much fun?"
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_9db1766a	comment	Devil May Cry: Devil May Cry 2 was criticized for a lot of design choices, the too-easy fights being just one of many. And then came the sequel. Devil May Cry 4 was criticised by long-time fans of the series due its significantly lower difficulty compared to the third game. The North American version of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening had to be released twice because the original version was unplayably hard. This is probably the only instance in the series where this trope was not invoked by fans. Dm C Devil May Cry was accused of this, especially in regards to how the revamped style meter makes it painfully easy to go from D to SSS with just a few of the right moves. The boss fights in general have been criticized for being much less difficult than those of past games as well. Devil May Cry 5 didn't have it as bad as the last two numbered games, but Dante experts coming from 4 lamented about the loss of the extremely high-level execution and glitch abusing Dante had in the last game.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_9e2819c9	comment	A common complaint about Silent Hill: Homecoming was that its updated controls made combat less threatening, since you could actually dodge. In an interesting twist for this trope, many also suggested that making it easier to fight things made the game less scary, since traditionally fighting enemies just led to you dying, so it was smarter to run.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_9ec154c1	comment	Pump It Up, the main competitor to Dance Dance Revolution, is routinely memed on by DDR players due to its significantly looser timing windows. This has led to rebuttals that Pump is meant to be played with timing windows as wide as they are as higher-end charts are often designed with the more lenient timing in mind.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon games have been hit with this criticism throughout the series' history, some games more than others. The main games in general get this accusation from more competitive players who have every last bit of the system memorized, not accounting for the all-ages target audience and varying playstyles of other players. PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver were criticized for this by fans for their low enemy levels and simple Gym Leaders (not counting Whitney). Wild and opponent trainer PokÃ©mon leveled in the 23-25 range even by the eighth Gym badge, and the Champion's highest-leveled PokÃ©mon was level 50. While this served to accommodate the lengthy Kanto post game, it resulted in a nasty grind especially when preparing to face the True Final Boss (whose team was in the 75-80 range). The remakes HeartGold and SoulSilver were similarly criticized for not fixing this, though they featured welcome improvements in other areas like improved AI and high-level Gym Leader rematches. The otherwise highly-praised PokÃ©mon Black and White were criticized for doing away with Poison's infamous overworld damage. You could also find a lot more places that sell Lemonades, or NPCs who were medical trainers, so some bemoaned how easy it was to get from town to town without fainting. Black and White also have no Gym Leaders with more than three PokÃ©mon and reduce the Elite Four from having five PokÃ©mon each to four, both of which continued through X and Y. PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2 were lauded for including difficulty levels, but the catch was that Hard Mode was only natively available in Black 2 (and only in the post game, without a friend or a spare game to send it over from). Players noted that, despite the overall Sequel Difficulty Spike, the main story experience did suffer in key areas without Hard Mode (like Ghetsis' Hydreigon being unable to touch a Steel-type). The 3DS era of games, beginning with PokÃ©mon X and Y, was quite controversial with fans for easing up on much of the series' difficulty. The biggest example of this was the newnote technically not "new" because a similar item existed in Generation I, though not nearly as effective inclusion of a team-wide Experience Share that gave experience even to non-participating PokÃ©mon. Though this could technically be turned off, it seemed to represent a shift in the games' design philosophy that prioritized more casual play (especially since, by default, it was turned on; experiencing greater difficulty was therefore a voluntary action). Players noted other key ways the games were easier — the dungeons were simpler with fewer puzzles, the Gym Leaders used incredibly simple movesets (often with fewer than four moves), you now gained experience by merely catching PokÃ©mon instead of defeating them (which extended to your entire party with the Exp. Share on), the new affection mechanic conferred free boosts (like randomly shrugging off status effects or surviving would-be finishing moves) that AI trainers never got, and you were regularly given very powerful PokÃ©mon for free (most notably Korrina's Lucario in X and Y and Latios/Latias in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Mega Stones and all). While PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon featured some genuine challenges with the Totem battles and Ultra Necrozma, the 3DS titles are still primarily remembered for their downgrades in game difficulty. This only progressed in the eighth generation, with the Exp. Share now being mandatory with no way to turn it off. PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield are controversial for other reasons, but a leading criticism is how they continue the series' downward trend in difficulty; the region is full of NPCs who will hand you free potions and fully heal your team on the spot, but besides that, most areas consist of straight pathways with little to no puzzles and there's (barring a Difficulty Spike or two) a very low level curve. Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl continue with the baked-in Exp. Share; they also repeat Generation VI's habit of giving you powerful freebies by gifting you the rare Mythical PokÃ©mon Mew and Jirachi after you get the first badge if you have save files of previous Switch titles. The games' online fandom is now fractured into two camps on the subject; one camp despises the "hand-holding" of the newer games and yearns for the more hands-free approach of the earlier games which prioritized player independence. The other camp appreciates the lack of Level Grinding typically required without an Exp. Share, and often argues that the games were always easy due to poor AI and an easily-gameable Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors matchup system and that the first camp only remembers the older games as challenging because they were worse at games in their childhoods.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_9fe76e58	comment	Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation was designed to be a good jumping-on point for new players, but long-time players who had gotten used to the brutally difficult Tomb Raider III could be left wondering, "Is this game ever going to get hard?"
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_a2482670	comment	Fans criticized the American version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? during its original ABC run when the game was easy enough that a Millionaire was crowned in a matter of months, or even weeks or days. The show upped the difficulty of questions when the show moved to syndication (although this was the result of a lower budget) yet the fans still complained about the difficulty which results in droughts of million-dollar wins that can last for years and fans are screaming that difficulty should be lowered. All we can say is Be Careful What You Wish For. A question worth $250,000 or more (or one of the last 3 questions in general) that is way too easy for its level almost always elicits this reaction. To name a few: Dan Blonsky's $1 Mil: "The Earth is approximately how many miles away from the sun"? (The answer is 93 million miles.) Compare that to his $500,000 question, which asked what celebrity was featured on the cover of the very first People magazine. Dawid Michaelewski's final question: "How many candles are lit on the eighth day of the Jewish Festival of Light"? (AKA, Hanukkah.) Obviously, the answer is eight...And to make it even worse, he got it wrong! Mark Kerr's Â£500,000 question: "In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, which of these characters doesn't die"? Anyone from the UK should know what the answer is as soon as the choices appear, especially since there was a joke answer, which isn't supposed to happen at this level. He walked away with 250k pounds. Ingram Wilcox's 250k pound question isn't easy at all...but it's been reused no less than three times, resulting in this trope.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_a599305d	comment	The Zero series calls players' bluff. The stages are fairly easy, but the ranking system is aggressively demanding. You have to get at least an A rank to receive EX Techs. Zero 4 toned this down, refreshing for a lot of the Zero fanbase. (However, try the Self Imposed Challenges in the ZX subseries.)
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_a606596a	comment	Chrono Cross also gets some flack for being pretty easy. Your main character, Serge, is easily the most powerful character available and can't be removed from the party until New Game Plus. There's a few bosses that can be tough, but for the most part you can just plow through everything with little trouble. That being said, it is harder than Trigger, especially considering you can't grind in Cross.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_a66b3bbc	comment	DanceDanceRevolution: Mario Mix was blasted by fans and critics for being easier than the other DDR games in the franchise, including the highest difficulty level. Some believed the lowered difficulty was to appeal to the younger Nintendo fan audience. X2 had the Good timing window (which doesn't reduce health) absorb the Almost window (which did), allowing players to pass songs more easily. Some felt this encouraged button-mashing and cheapened a pass. DanceDanceRevolution (2013) introduces a major change to the combo system: Goods now increment combo instead of breaking it. Combined with the previous change, many players were unhappy as it devalued Full Combos. While many players can regularly get Full Combos or Perfect Full Combos, very few can get them on every song, so most players have some "blue FCs" now. A significantly changed the grading system for the first time in almost a decade. Aside from adding pluses and minuses to the letter grades, the score requirements for all grades were reduced. It's very difficult to pass a song without getting at least a C+ or B- (both equivalent to a D before). This is ignoring that Greats are now worth 60% of a Perfect (versus 50%) and Goods are worth 20% (versus nothing). Of course, some older fans complained, some to gatekeep, some because they felt like their own scores were now "cheating", and some worried that new players wouldn't want to develop their accuracy, since you could "flail" through a song and still get an A- (an old C).
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_a6f6433c	comment	This was the main complaint against the first Jak and Daxter game. Jak II: Renegade fixed that.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_a6fb0678	comment	La-Mulana is a Take That! against newer generations of games; the manual calls anyone used to playing newer games a wuss. Ironically, NIGORO (the developers of La-Mulana) toned down the difficulty (at least of certain elements, like the save system) for the remake, citing the need to make the game more accessible for more mainstream customers (considering it was originally released for WiiWare, this was a valid concern), well aware that this trope would be a potential reaction from some players. In exchange, they buffed the damage enemies can deal to you, as well as making Guardians more difficult to defeat.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_a796bde8	comment	The Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid frequently had this criticism lobbied at it. To counter this, the American version was given adjustable difficulty... with the Japanese version being the Easy difficulty.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy The remakes of Final Fantasy had purists complaining about hits being redirected to live enemies if they targeted enemies that had just died; in the original, they would have automatically missed, which is considered Fake Difficulty nowadays. Later remakes were stuck in "easy mode" (the PSX version had to option for "old-school" difficulty or easy mode). In addition to making level ups easier to achieve (level 2 takes 12 XP instead of 40, for example), it replaced the "x spells per level" mechanic with a straight MP mechanic. This ended up seriously unbalancing the game towards the player, who could now cast NUKE (Flare) many, many times per dungeon, as opposed to two or three times. However, the developers DID realize how devastatingly powerful this is: all enemies have increased magic resistance, and bosses are almost entirely immune to attack magic (except Lich with Dia. Go. Fucking. Nuts). The ability to save anywhere was mostly excused for the portable versions, since players might need to quit and set the game down on short notice. Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was specifically designed for newcomers to the roleplaying-game genre. General concensus, especially among the hardcore Final Fantasy fans, was that they went too far with that goal (it doesn't help that the game was A) short, and B) bundled with its strategy guide). Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles was bashed for, among other things, ease of play, which contrasted directly the much-hyped difficulty of use. It's not a hard game by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not supposed to be.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering started a practice of printing italicized rules text on cards when space permitted, making it slightly easier to actually play the game without having a rulebook handy. Of course, hardcores who already know all the rules hate it. Wizards of the Coast even poked fun at its fanbase in a joke set: Duh The removal of Manaburn means that the odds of dying to one's own manaramp deck have been all but nullified. Naturally, this takes a good chunk of the fun out of playing said decks. Ironically, this practice makes it amazingly easy to tell exactly how long individual players have been playing. By taking the point of what they felt was the downfall of "challenging" Magic and then going back two years to the last Standard format before that set/block's release, you usually get the entrance point. This leads to hilarious conversations between players about how the latest sets are too dumbed down and have too many cash grab rares, without either realising that the "good old days" that they both think they are discussing are actually fifteen years apart. It also doesn't help opinions when a lead designer goes on record with, "The real question isn't "Are we dumbing down the game too fast?" It's "Are we dumbing down the game fast enough?" " In a metagame example, the color Green often gets this treatment. All the other colors have cool spells and flashy effects to throw at you (Kill It with Fire, Power Nullifier, Mind Rape, The Sacred Darkness, Phlebotinum Breakdown, and more), but Green just has... Mooks. The fact that it's the easiest color to start with, and the color most likely to appeal to Timmy players, doesn't help.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_a85b3bac	comment	A major complaint about Fighting Masters is its basic gameplay, and the fact that, for a fighting game, it lacks combos and strategy, even for a game from the 90s. No matter which character you pick, or which character you're up against, you end up doing the same thing over and over again: All you have to do is stun your enemy, grab him and slam him hard into the ground; rinse and repeat till he's down for the count.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_af9c3802	comment	Jett Rocket received some flack for this—despite being just about the only 3D Platformer on WiiWare, reviewers wanted something Nintendo Hard.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_afa87e53	comment	The Backyard Sports series, to IGN at least. The scores just get lower and lower because the games get easier and easier (and cheesier).
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_b0b22636	comment	Similar criticism is held against sister show Wheel of Fortune, which has gradually introduced more and more specific categories over time (for instance, something that would've previously been just a Thing might now be Around the House, Living Thing, Food & Drink, etc.). What's more, the daily Prize Puzzles are often themed to vacations or beaches in some way.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_b4501394	comment	Left 4 Dead 2 is usually blasted for being too easy due to the inclusion of the Magnum (one hit kill on common infected, regardless of game mode) and melee weapons (same as the Magnum in terms of killing power).
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: Many complain about the rather short and simplistic level design in Sonic Chaos, especially compared to the usually larger difficulty spike of the 8-bit titles. One of the main criticisms leveled against Sonic Colors is that it, especially bosses, are too easy. The difficulty of Sonic Forces is a common criticism with the game, and why to some the game ultimately doesn't stand out very much. Even on Hard difficulty, which is cited to be for experienced Sonic players, the game is ridiculously easy and simplistic for a Sonic game. Levels are very short, extremely linear if not borderline on-rails some of the time, the Avatar Wispon abilities are extremely broken, the enemies rarely pose a threat, and it is just as easy if not easier than Generations to get S-Ranks. The only genuinely difficult part of the game is the time trial Challenge Missions, which require intimate knowledge of each level's shortcuts and controls.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_b55b8015	comment	The Ninja Gaiden series prided itself on being some of the hardest games around. This changed in the reboot version of Ninja Gaiden 3. Critics and fans hated the game for taking the strategic fighting elements from the first two and toning them down to a simple one button hack & slash. One common complaint being that you can close your eyes and still kill all the enemies.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_b7c72249	comment	Castlevania: Symphony of the Night angered many fans of the series' incredible challenge factor. The Metroidvania installments of the series tend towards easier difficulty in general. There are so many possible Game Breakers found through normal means that by the end of the game, the only challenge most players will face is purely Self Imposed. Despite this, though, Symphony of the Night is still widely considered the best game in the entire series.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_b9d8b8af	comment	Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One received criticism that its gameplay was very simplistic and easy compared to previous titles in the franchise, due to being a cooperative party game rather than a single player. The levels were short and completely linear with no serious incentive to backtrack, there were no gadgets to use aside from the vacuum that was built to pick up and launch the other players, and the boss fights were simple.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_ba1083f7	comment	When Guitar Hero: World Tour's track list was announced, fans complained that there was no song on par with "Through The Fire and The Flames". Fan backlash and flame wars are expected as those fans realize that "Satch Boogie" is not on that level, and that's the only really hard song in the game.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_bc907c69	comment	Tetris: The Grand Master 3 implements floor kicks, which allow an I block on a flat surface to rotate upright, allowing it to more easily slip into holes one block wide.Elaboration When rotating an I that's horizontal, its third block from the left is used as the pivot. There must be two empty cells under this third block in order for the I to rotate into a vertical position. This feature was not in TGM3's predecessors, which has led some players to believe that this ruins the challenge of the TGM series.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_bca72091	comment	A common complaint with Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is that decorating has no challenge as you're given a very generous minimal standard for each job and with the removal of the real-time system from past Animal Crossing games, there are no deadlines to anything in-game. You play the game at your pace.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_c00614a7	comment	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles was bashed for, among other things, ease of play, which contrasted directly the much-hyped difficulty of use. It's not a hard game by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not supposed to be.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_c0c57462	comment	The later bosses in Chrono Trigger are easier than most Final Fantasy games. The difference is that your level is much more controlled in Chrono Trigger, so you can't just over level to steam roll bosses as easily.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_c1632d4d	comment	Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia was panned by fans on both sides of the pond for being way, way too easy. It still proved popular enough to spawn a sequel, which upped the difficulty slightly, but not so much as to alienate those who liked the fact that it was easy.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_c2463c46	comment	The remakes of Final Fantasy had purists complaining about hits being redirected to live enemies if they targeted enemies that had just died; in the original, they would have automatically missed, which is considered Fake Difficulty nowadays. Later remakes were stuck in "easy mode" (the PSX version had to option for "old-school" difficulty or easy mode). In addition to making level ups easier to achieve (level 2 takes 12 XP instead of 40, for example), it replaced the "x spells per level" mechanic with a straight MP mechanic. This ended up seriously unbalancing the game towards the player, who could now cast NUKE (Flare) many, many times per dungeon, as opposed to two or three times. However, the developers DID realize how devastatingly powerful this is: all enemies have increased magic resistance, and bosses are almost entirely immune to attack magic (except Lich with Dia. Go. Fucking. Nuts). The ability to save anywhere was mostly excused for the portable versions, since players might need to quit and set the game down on short notice.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_c2e7dcca	comment	Avadon is an interesting case in that it's not much easier than most other recent western RPGs, but the default difficulty is significantly easier than the game it's been repeatedly compared to. The complaint goes something like this—RPGs that are such obvious '90s throwbacks are hardly ever made nowadays, so it's disappointing to fans of the genre not to get a challenge out of this particular game. (For what it's worth, the highest difficulty level is painfully hard—it's just streamlined, lacking a lot of challenges that the creator considers Fake Difficulty.)
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_c3176ee4	comment	And even when another Sierra adventure game called Torin's Passage came around and featured an in-game hint feature at the cost of points, people whined about how that hint feature was too easy. The minmaxing, powergaming types are compelled to use every tool at their disposal to their advantage for maximum gaming efficiency: Game-Breaker weapons, physics glitches, you name it. Those people did have to use the in-game hint feature, simply because it was available to be used, but they don't have to like it.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_c42e88f4	comment	A common criticism with newer fighting games, particularly those by Capcom, is their alleged simplicity compared to older titles. Particularly, fans of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 commonly cite this trope as a reason they dislike Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_c6e9c6cc	comment	Super Mario Galaxy is often bashed for being too easy, people saying how getting 60 stars to fight Bowser in the finale is a cakewalk compared to how Super Mario 64 did it (64 required 70 stars to access the final stage), and only a few of the 120 stars in total posed a challenge. Super Mario Galaxy 2 seems to have taken the "easy so it sucks" complaints to heart and made the majority of the game more challenging (except according to some who played the game, like Josh Scorcher), though there are still some complaints because of its Cosmic Guide.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_c7a12984	comment	The Telltale's Back to the Future: The Game has been called this by many gamers. The puzzles are very simplistic and the games short, however, the dialogue and story were written by Bob Gale, the writer of the films, and the voice talent is top-notch. This results in a Broken Base between fans of the film and hardcore gamers who want a challenge.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_c834792e	comment	Spyro the Dragon: Fans of the later games (especially The Legend of Spyro) are prone to saying this about the original series. The second game introduced the ability to save anywhere in the level. This, coupled with the lack of dragon statues, changed the game into somewhat of a standard platformer.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_c9bd89f1	comment	Mega Man Rock Force's old version was criticized for being way too easy. The newer version is harder.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_cd866b61	comment	This was a major complaint levelled at Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work: The designer's intention was to make the game play more like an interactive cartoon rather than a complicated adventure game, and make sure as many people as possible finish the game, therefore removing old Sierra adventure game standards such as death or Unwinnable situations. Despite Larry 5 being, for these reasons alone, significantly better than the games that preceded it, adventure game fans cried foul as their beloved genre was being dumbed down for the masses.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_d1e766c2	comment	BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle has been accused of this compared to the previous titles, due to it being in permanent Stylish mode (Which allows for autocombos with the press of one button) while removing the Technical mode, the CPU being too easy, the Story mode being short, and in general, being directed to a more casual audience.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_d217e378	comment	There were complaints about the introduction of 'Super Hints' in Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. In the previous two games there were three hints that you could unlock via hint coins. Super Hints more or less solve the puzzle for you and cost an extra two coins.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_d23b032e	comment	Jumper fans usually criticize lack of Difficulty Spike in Jumper Three and its lack of length.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_d4d31eeb	comment	DJMAX Portable 2 reuses a few songs from the original DJMAX Portable such as "Blythe" and "NB Ranger", and gives them new, usually-easier charts. Fans complained about the new charts.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_d4dafda9	comment	Cytus was criticized for its exceptionally lenient window for a "Perfect" judgement. The devleopers responded by adding two different kinds of Perfects: A perfect-Perfect and a slightly-off Perfect, with the former being used for a harder scoring system referred to as TP.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_d4e47577	comment	In DoomÂ³, the monsters are slow, deal surprisingly little damage (no common mook save for the Hell Knight deals more than 20 damage per hit, when an Imp could deal up to 24), attack in too small groups to make up for the non-lethality, and medkits and armor are scattered everywhere, to the point where they often end up ignored. A remedy for this would be to ramp up the difficulty, but Veteran (Hard) still falls short, and the Harder Than Hard Nightmare mode revolves around the Fake Difficulty of your health dropping constantly, instead of actually making the demons a credible threat. Skilled players have to resort to values-altering Game Mods to make the game legitimately challenging.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_d5166b43	comment	While still being a challenge, Legendary in Halo 3 in itself is still toned down compared to Legendary in Halo 2. There are only, at best, a handful of Sniper Jackals in the entire game of Halo 3 (likely because they were Demonic Spiders in Halo 2), and while the Brutes are significantly improved from 2 to 3, the Brutes are not even close to being a replacement for how fierce and challenging the Elites could be. More importantly, the Sniper Jackals who are still in the game don't pull off the "I can kill you in one shot if you are driving a vehicle" thing anymore.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_d5166b44	comment	Halo 3: When the game isn't being bashed for gameplay modifications or whatever, it's being bashed because it's too easy. The developers have freely admitted that Easy difficulty is purposely developed so that "my grandma can complete the game if she wants". However, try it on Legendary. While still being a challenge, Legendary in Halo 3 in itself is still toned down compared to Legendary in Halo 2. There are only, at best, a handful of Sniper Jackals in the entire game of Halo 3 (likely because they were Demonic Spiders in Halo 2), and while the Brutes are significantly improved from 2 to 3, the Brutes are not even close to being a replacement for how fierce and challenging the Elites could be. More importantly, the Sniper Jackals who are still in the game don't pull off the "I can kill you in one shot if you are driving a vehicle" thing anymore.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_d57d722e	comment	This was a complaint leveled at Ōkami a lot, and it was an easy game: The items were cheap and powerful, and a plentiful Auto-Revive was built into your abilities. It was still critically acclaimed, but sold poorly.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends is often considered by Heroes of Newerth and Dota fans to be a "noob game" due to its lower skill cap and newbie-friendly features at the expense of player skill and the competitive scene. True to this trope, LoL went on to become one of the most successful online games in the West while HoN experienced very limited growth in it's playerbase after the open beta and was forced to adapt the same free-to-play model as LoL a year after it launched. The hostility of the community towards new players was likely one of the key reasons for this (though having a price tag for over a year compared to LoL being free-to-play the whole time didn't help matters). HoN also went on to become notorious for its extreme Rocket-Tag Gameplay as time went on, which deflated much of the "skill" argument due to the overabundance of massive burst, long-duration crowd control, and "win button" self-buffs and gameplay that had started to become more and more of a contest of who had faster reflexes. The "LoL is for casuals" insult became increasingly outdated as, while it has a somewhat easier learning curve, the game became increasingly complex and convoluted as the years went by. "Noob champion" is a common insult by players who pick difficult champions for its own sake and then get destroyed by players with easy or stronger champions. You'd think if you lose as a direct result of not picking the best champion then you are the noob...
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_d9066cfe	comment	Inuyasha The Secret Of The Cursed Mask received significant flak for how simple and easy the game was. There's no MP system so special attacks can be spammed with impunity (they do lower a character's place in the next round's turn order, but in normal combat it was rare for a fight to last more than one round anyway and against bosses it wasn't a significant drawback), all the bosses had simple attack patterns that rarely hit more than one character at a time, you used all of the main characters at a time rather than having an Arbitrary Headcount Limit like most RPGs so the enemies were almost always outnumbered, resulting in a game where it was virtually impossible to lose even if you were actively trying.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_dab32be	comment	To this day, Mega Man 3 still takes a huge amount of flak for introducing the slide move. This is odd, since MM3 is still considerably harder than the previous entry (at least on the Western "Normal" difficulty mode), and Mega Man 4 is downright ridiculous in places.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_dab32c4	comment	Subversively Mega Man 9 is a throwback to the Nintendo Hard era. It's short, but very difficult. And then along came Mega Man 10, with the addition of an Easy Mode. Cue rage from the "Stop Having Fun" Guys (Never mind the fact that Mega Man 2 also had an easy mode, even if it wasn't called that...).
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_dab32e3	comment	Despite its still-present challenge, people don't like the new abilities that give a better chance of beating bosses. The Mega Man X series gets more flak because of the dash jump and other such abilities. Especially so for the first Mega Man Xnote Not to be confused with the first Mega Man game, which is Nintendo Hard, which is considered to be the easiest game in the franchise.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_db10ee3f	comment	See above about Ace Attorney; now imagine taking the life bar out of the equation. The result is Detective Pikachu. You're free to guess incorrectly during case wrap-ups as many times as you like, and each time, Pikachu will just ask you to think about the case harder and try again, no penalty.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_dbf18509	comment	Some longtime fans of Jeopardy! criticized the show for seemingly getting easier over time, particularly in the early 2000s. While it's very much subjective in this case, the purported "easiness" may just be the result of learning more material by watching the show for an extended period of time. Similarly, when the current version debuted in 1984, there was criticism (mostly, by fans of the NBC series) about the show's material during the first season, especially during the first few months. The producers admitted such was the case, deliberately so so as to acquaint new viewers with the show's concept and to allow time for the question writers to come up with more challenging material. The "Kids' Week" games that started in the early 2000s were widely loathed for featuring questions that are too easy even for that demographic (in addition to making the "Teen Tournament" feel redundant). They stopped doing them after 2014, mostly due to the Sony hacks, as well as a firestorm the previous year after a contestant was penalized for slightly misspelling a response.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_dc029dad	comment	Yoshi's Story traded in large, imaginative, dangerous levels for short, boring, easy ones. The Final Boss even has invincibility powerups in the same room as him.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_dd5934e0	comment	Atelier Series: One of several complaints against Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy is how easy the game is compared to its predecessor, even in Hard Mode. A common criticism of Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy is that once you manage to grasp how the various item crafting mechanics work (which should come very quickly if you've played the previous game), almost all challenge goes out the window. Just making semi-decent equipment should let you breeze your way through the whole game, even on Hard difficulty. If you're playing on PC, some players will even recommend downloading a save file that has the Harder Than Hard difficulties unlocked right from the start, which is the only way the game will pose any kind of challenge for an experienced player.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_dddc4aa0	comment	Kirby Star Allies is thought to have gone too far with easiness even by fans. A lot of this is due to the central ally system: your AI-controlled partners can steamroll enemies and bosses and will solve puzzles by themselves if they can. Even discounting allies, puzzle rooms are a lot simpler (many of them provide you with the abilities you need, and they'll outright tell you the solution unless you turn off the hints) and boss fights, normally the biggest challenge of Kirby games, are less complex. The post-game content is more challenging, but it's still a significant Sequel Difficulty Drop from Kirby: Planet Robobot, one of the harder games in the series.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_de1259da	comment	Super Monkey Ball 3D gets a lot of hate for this. Considering how hard the originals were. Same with Super Monkey Ball Step and Roll, despite of the obstacles that block the player's way.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_de8f1f24	comment	Kingdom Hearts III was criticized for being too easy, even on Proud. With so many options for combat, Magic being insanely powerful, and other factors, the game was regarded as too easy. Then Square Enix patched in Critical Mode...
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_df882d43	comment	Roblox's Anomalous Activities is often criticized for how very easy it is for the mercs to achieve their objective while in practice the anomaly almost has no counter aside from hoping that they can engage in Terror Form and pray that luck manages to get on their side, while the mercs can use teamwork easily to take down the anomaly with surprising ease. Not being helped that there have been multiple updates that give the mercs an easier time, while the anomaly got multiple nerfs without any benefit, and the advanced techniques to them are so well-hidden that it's not uncommon to see mercs winning outside of incredibly bad skill, and the maps often tend to favor mercs rather than the anomaly.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_e144ba19	comment	Dragon Age II is criticised for being easier than the first one.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_e26d37ec	comment	Part of the backlash for newer Tetris games comes from infinite spin. Then there's the purists of older versions of Tetris (especially the iconic 1989 Game Boy version) that denounce the piece generator in later versions, saying that surviving a wave of S and Z pieces and going 50 pieces without an I piece is what Tetris is all about. Other complaints include hard drop making the game go too fast, ghost pieces making low-gravity too easy, and hold pieces upending the premise of the game. The one set of exceptions to this trope is the Tetris: The Grand Master series...which is seen as too difficult instead.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_e50423a8	comment	Harvest Town gets a lot of criticism for not being challenging enough. Crops aren't season-specific and can even grow during winter, meaning that the player can grow any crop they want at any time, instead of having to buy seeds and plant strategically around the seasons. The 7 Nov 2019 update takes this even further by removing the penalties of not watering plants and/or feeding animals, and is again met with a barrage of protests, complaining that the game has become catered to lazy people.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_e5d5d23c	comment	Doom In DoomÂ³, the monsters are slow, deal surprisingly little damage (no common mook save for the Hell Knight deals more than 20 damage per hit, when an Imp could deal up to 24), attack in too small groups to make up for the non-lethality, and medkits and armor are scattered everywhere, to the point where they often end up ignored. A remedy for this would be to ramp up the difficulty, but Veteran (Hard) still falls short, and the Harder Than Hard Nightmare mode revolves around the Fake Difficulty of your health dropping constantly, instead of actually making the demons a credible threat. Skilled players have to resort to values-altering Game Mods to make the game legitimately challenging. The classic titles also get hit with this from time to time, thanks to the abundance of custom map packsnote megawads that have raised the skill ceiling further and further over the course of three decades and counting. Not only have the map-making fans learned how to use Doom's bestiary to much deadlier extents than id Software ever did, computing power has increased over time and made maps with thousands of enemies possible to create and run without much difficulty. The first and second titles are now seen as pathetically easy, with only The Plutonia Experiment — a wad that was considered Nintendo Hard back in its day — holding up as the baseline difficulty for modern standards.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_e5feb1e	comment	Every entry in the Ace Attorney series has been hit with this complaint at one point or another: the introduction of profiles, the removal of profiles as "presentable" evidence, the introduction of "perceive" abilities, changes in gameplay structure, and the occasional That One Level where it's possible to lose anywhere from half to the entirety of your lifebar. Depending on what the player considers difficult and whether or not they want to live life in the shadow of a game over tends to invoke this trope.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening, has the option of "Casual" mode, where the player can save at any time, even mid-battle, and defeated characters regenerate after battle (in previous games, death was permanent).note This was actually introduced in the game before it, New Mystery of the Emblem, but that was never localized. While there hasn't been a particularly large outcry against the casual option, there are still vocal groups who insists you're not experiencing the "real" game if you're not willing to face potential permadeath.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_ebaf064d	comment	Kirby: Triple Deluxe was criticized by reviewers for its easiness. The fans still love it, though, and tend to look down on the reviews very harshly for their apparent stance on the nature of the game.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_ecd2d797	comment	Though the Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights series weren't ever really seen as presenting killer difficulty compared to other companies' RPGs, later Bioware franchises like Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire and Mass Effect have vastly "streamlined" combat and shorter, much more linear (and repetitive) campaigns that older fans complain are a cash-in on the genre and give less bang for the buck.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_ef076a36	comment	Put to good use for the episode "Fair Haven" on Star Trek: Voyager, in which Captain Janeway expresses some serious concerns to The Doctor at realizing she's falling in love with a holographic character. He—at first—fails to see the problem with this kind of one-sided relationship.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_ef661e97	comment	Many fans of Street Fighter derided Virtua Fighter, and later, Tekken, as being too easy because characters had full limb movement and the game didn't require you to learn combos to win. Never mind that 3D games have a far larger variety of moves and thus less of a need to stick to a strategy, old school players still deride it as 'button mashing'.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	The Mega Man franchise to an extent. Despite its still-present challenge, people don't like the new abilities that give a better chance of beating bosses. The Mega Man X series gets more flak because of the dash jump and other such abilities. Especially so for the first Mega Man Xnote Not to be confused with the first Mega Man game, which is Nintendo Hard, which is considered to be the easiest game in the franchise. To this day, Mega Man 3 still takes a huge amount of flak for introducing the slide move. This is odd, since MM3 is still considerably harder than the previous entry (at least on the Western "Normal" difficulty mode), and Mega Man 4 is downright ridiculous in places. Mega Man II is considered the worst Mega Man handleld game and one of the worst Mega Man game in general. It's due to ear-bleeding sound instrumentation, Metal Blade, that can obliterate any enemy and the easiest boss fights in the franchise. Subversively Mega Man 9 is a throwback to the Nintendo Hard era. It's short, but very difficult. And then along came Mega Man 10, with the addition of an Easy Mode. Cue rage from the "Stop Having Fun" Guys (Never mind the fact that Mega Man 2 also had an easy mode, even if it wasn't called that...). The Zero series calls players' bluff. The stages are fairly easy, but the ranking system is aggressively demanding. You have to get at least an A rank to receive EX Techs. Zero 4 toned this down, refreshing for a lot of the Zero fanbase. (However, try the Self Imposed Challenges in the ZX subseries.) Mega Man Rock Force's old version was criticized for being way too easy. The newer version is harder.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid A lot of people hated Metroid Fusion for giving you the location of your next destination and closing off alternate routes, claiming that it destroyed the series's emphasis on exploration. Gamespot infamously deducted points from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption because the controls were too good and thus the game was "too easy". People complained about Super Metroid back in the day, saying the inclusion of an automap feature was a travesty against everything Metroid was about.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_f58366df	comment	Marsupilami: Hoobadventure: A common complaint about the game is its nigh-Kirby-level easiness. Fruits are so common that lives become meaningless, even with the Law of 100 in place, and there are health jars located after most hazards. That said, like with Kirby, the main difficulty of the game comes from going for 100% Completion, rather than getting to the end of the game.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_f5f43e15	comment	Though certainly not an easy game by any means, Resident Evil Village was criticized for being comparatively less challenging than its predecessor. These criticisms were attributed to the increase in ammo supplies, the return of the ability to upgrade weapons, most of the bosses being relatively slow with obvious weak points, and not requiring players to perform overly challenging tasks to obtain infinite ammo. In fact, infinite ammo and all other unlockables in the game can even be simply bought via a $5 DLC, practically eliminating the need to either grind for points or complete the necessary challenges.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_f691fa67	comment	Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is a simplified version of the now-defunct World of Warcraft TCG, which in turn uses somewhat similar but different rules than Magic: The Gathering. Among other things, Hearthstone gives players mana for free every turn (while WoW TCG requires you to specifically choose what card to sacrifice for mana), doesn't allow players to play out of turn (Secret cards can be activated out of turn, but the one who plays those secrets can't quite control when it fires), there is no card whose activation you can manually choose (all activations are triggered) etc. And because of that, many veteran card game players complain Hearthstone sucks.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts Kingdom Hearts II got this type of criticism because of its simple reaction commands and the addition of Drive forms, and the almost total removal of any platforming or puzzles whatsoever. Which was why Square Enix decided to program Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep as it was. One troper's response to the whining about the difficulty of the Mysterious Figure optional boss: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories has been criticized for being somewhat easy, as on many boss fights against enemies with decks (for example, the Organization members), the player can repeatedly dodge the boss's sleights (which remove one card from the deck) to drain the boss' card reserves. Eventually, the boss will be unable to make more than a few attacks without reloading, will hardly ever use any of the sleights, and most likely will have used up its Enemy Cards, so it will be relatively easy pickings. And your deck was never shuffled, this is because you can stack it so that you only have to mash the buttons to pull out sleight after sleight, during some of which you are invincible, then once your deck is badly depleted via sleight depletion, reload it with an Elixir (which reloads used cards as well). Kingdom Hearts III was criticized for being too easy, even on Proud. With so many options for combat, Magic being insanely powerful, and other factors, the game was regarded as too easy. Then Square Enix patched in Critical Mode...
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_f858847a	comment	The 3DS era of games, beginning with PokÃ©mon X and Y, was quite controversial with fans for easing up on much of the series' difficulty. The biggest example of this was the newnote technically not "new" because a similar item existed in Generation I, though not nearly as effective inclusion of a team-wide Experience Share that gave experience even to non-participating PokÃ©mon. Though this could technically be turned off, it seemed to represent a shift in the games' design philosophy that prioritized more casual play (especially since, by default, it was turned on; experiencing greater difficulty was therefore a voluntary action). Players noted other key ways the games were easier — the dungeons were simpler with fewer puzzles, the Gym Leaders used incredibly simple movesets (often with fewer than four moves), you now gained experience by merely catching PokÃ©mon instead of defeating them (which extended to your entire party with the Exp. Share on), the new affection mechanic conferred free boosts (like randomly shrugging off status effects or surviving would-be finishing moves) that AI trainers never got, and you were regularly given very powerful PokÃ©mon for free (most notably Korrina's Lucario in X and Y and Latios/Latias in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Mega Stones and all). While PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon featured some genuine challenges with the Totem battles and Ultra Necrozma, the 3DS titles are still primarily remembered for their downgrades in game difficulty.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_f91f25d8	comment	Gungrave and Nightshade got this, as their challenge was mainly based around getting a high score or equivalent, and they were fairly easy if you wanted to just charge through to the end. Oddly, the more traditionally difficult Gungrave: Overdose and Shinobi instead get complaints about being too hard. In Nightshade's case, it managed to feel more like a traditional Shinobi game due to easy levels, but relatively hard bosses. Of course, ditching the health-draining sword mechanic of PS2 Shinobi made fans of that game find Nightshade to be too easy, so it's really a case of Broken Base.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_f9368d52	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories has been criticized for being somewhat easy, as on many boss fights against enemies with decks (for example, the Organization members), the player can repeatedly dodge the boss's sleights (which remove one card from the deck) to drain the boss' card reserves. Eventually, the boss will be unable to make more than a few attacks without reloading, will hardly ever use any of the sleights, and most likely will have used up its Enemy Cards, so it will be relatively easy pickings. And your deck was never shuffled, this is because you can stack it so that you only have to mash the buttons to pull out sleight after sleight, during some of which you are invincible, then once your deck is badly depleted via sleight depletion, reload it with an Elixir (which reloads used cards as well).
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_fa575b33	comment	Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune: Some fans of racing games complain that the game takes about as much skill as a NASCAR game due to the abundance of straight roads compared to, say, Initial D Arcade Stage. From Maximum Tune 3 onwards, Story Mode took a significant drop in difficulty, which some argue ruin the prestige of Story Mode "undefeated" status.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_fa5e90fd	comment	The death penalties for City of Heroes are considered to be even easier than WoW's, except that their players liked it that way. Lately there have been complaints that the game is getting too easy as the already weak penalties have been reduced to near irrelevance; however, with the introduction of the mission editor in issue 14, players who like a challenge will be able to play (and create) missions as difficult as they like, to the point of creating new enemy groups which make Malta and Knives of Artemis look like wimps.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Fistful of Datas", Worf reluctantly joins his son in a holodeck reproduction of a Western town called Deadwood. When Worf easily dispatches some outlaws in a saloon brawl, Alexander complains that it shouldn't be easy to be the good guy. He has the computer increase the difficulty level a little bit, and the next time Worf faces these outlaws in a brawl, it's more of a challenge.
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It's Easy, So It Sucks! / int_ff9ca30	comment	Gamespot infamously deducted points from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption because the controls were too good and thus the game was "too easy".
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