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Are you playing kb/m? You should go on nexus mods and grab a chapter 2 save, it puts you where the game finally opens up.
Anyway some of my favourite games were originally like that. I bounced off breath of the wild half a dozen times on wii u, and it's in no way the kind of game my friend group plays usually, but I intuitively knew there was something in it for me, I just couldn't see it yet. So when it came out on switch I gave it another shot (with gyro controls turned off) and now I like that game so much I went through the painfully obtuse process of nodding second wind into my switch copy. I sent so many fledging hunters to die to the blood starved beast in Bloodborne I probably outpaced the population of yarnham, every time I'd read about the influences or design choices I'd try again only to reach the BSB (or one time father gascione, I was so proud of myself for a day) and rage quit fifteen deaths in. Now I know Yarnham inside and out and have become a true frombro. Morimens is a recent opposite example - it's got gacha elements, chatgpt translated English and it's a card based roguelite, it should be the last thing in the world for me to play, but I'm completely hooked on it.
I definitely have books like that though. I've read the first part of House of Leaves at least a dozen times over the years, I can't go further. This will probably get me crucified, but I will never find out how frodo deals with that ring he has, since I can't finish either the books or the movies (I loved the silmarillion though).
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