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* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: it makes me sad when writers resort to just having their characters say what they feel in so many words.
* [[Exposition]]
* [[Explaining Your Power to
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* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: Your character is significantly ''less'' able when you're not playing as him.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: The game mechanics don't work the same way the storyline does, or the story doesn't match the way the player is allowed to behave. This often comes across as the game simply ignoring whatever the player is doing to tell a fixed, immutable storyline.
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