I believe that to be
poor game design because it will turn off many players, who will then not experience the rest of the game (or if they do it'll be on YouTube).
Not exact matches
Still, you'll likely find yourself dying a fair bit, largely through your own fault but sometimes it did feel like oblivion came
because of the
game and a
poor design choice, but a generous checkpoint system ensures you'll never be stuck replaying chunks of the
game.
This is not
poor design though,
because without it the
game would become ruled by skilled players making it very difficult for new players to join (
because they would get crushed repeatedly and quit playing).
Because as we all know, «reboot»
games tend to have
poor character
designs and lack the charm of the
games that came before them.