Kept
Kept adjective - (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded.
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Required
Required adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.
Kept and required are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Kept" instead an adjective "Required".
Nearby Words: requirement, requiring
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- The Airwolf Licensed Game on Amstrad CPC had this limitation, particularly grating when some targets required pixel-perfect aiming (and the gravity kept changing it).
Source: One Bullet at a Time - Then there's the fact he kept Conquest, a guy who required a Deus ex Machina from Atom Eve to be weakened enough for Invincible to defeat him.
Source: Idiot Ball / Comic Books - This actually kept the game interesting though, as strategy was required for just about every encounter, but you could avoid fights to balance things out.
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