Stiff
Stiff adjective - Incapable of or highly resistant to bending.
Unresponsive and stiff are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unresponsive" instead an adjective "Stiff".
Unresponsive
Unresponsive adjective - Not responding to some influence or stimulus.
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Stiff and unresponsive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Stiff" instead an adjective "Unresponsive".
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- It features Fake Difficulty in Demonic Spiders, very stiff and unresponsive controls, no Mercy Invincibility, subpar graphics for a late NES game, and the droning and annoying music in the background that loops every 20 seconds or so.
Source: The Problem with Licensed Games - Finally, the game has stiff, clunky, and perhaps somewhat unresponsive controls.
Source: Nintendo Hard / Beat'em Ups -
Stiff, clunky, and perhaps somewhat unresponsive controls (but only when applied to the original 8-bit, 16-bit, and (to a small extent) 32-bit generations; in more modern games, it ceases to be expected and veers right into Fake Difficulty.)
Source: Nintendo Hard
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