Extreme
Extreme noun - The furthest or highest degree of something.
Linearity
Both words in one sentence
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Because of a problematic control scheme, and the linearity itself and extreme Mind Screw in storyline, welcoming was mixed at best.
Source: Postmodernism -
This combined with the extreme non-linearity of the game means that the player might not have gotten the poem from Gurdy before reaching the desert -or worse, gotten it so long before that by the time it becomes relevant they've forgotten about it.
Source: Moon Logic Puzzle -
The Mission Impossible video game (which predates MGS by a few months) was particularly bad about this, due to a combination of Checkpoint Starvation, extreme linearity, and some rather vague mission objectives.
Source: Trial-and-Error Gameplay
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