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* [[Shoot'Em Up|Shmups]] can fall prey to this as well. [[Sin and Punishment|Some of them]] [[Radiant Silvergun|have detailed]], [[Ikaruga|intricate backstories]] [[E XceedEXceed|and stories]] [[Do Don Pachi|which go]] [[Mushihime-sama|mostly unnoticed]] [[Hellsinker|by their]] players, who are just there to test their skills against the [[Nintendo Hard|Nintendo Hardness]]. It certainly doesn't help that a lot of these shmups are in Japanese, [[No Export for You|without any kind of official English translation.]]

* This often happens with Tabletop games, ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', and even ''[[Magi Nation]]''. Many players don't care about the material in the sourcebooks beyond feats and rules.