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Elden showed the risks involved in allowing players to race past enemies and skip large expanses of virtual territory to engage in a boss battle for which you are not, perhaps, fully prepared. Yes, there is a sense of illicit excitement involved in sidestepping a game designer’s meticulously crafted play arc. As the people behind a thousand successful YouTube channels know, everyone loves to break apart