Splunkey's Difficulty

I think of the difficulty of splunkey's areas as mirroring my experiences running across country when i was in high school. In a way, it makes sense to frontload the pain in the early stages of the game, because that's when players have the most energy to deal with it. I would also say, em what is the difference between good frustration and bad frustration? An actually, just talking about frustration is reductive, like it masks a much richer conversation. It seems like in these patched notes, derrick and the team have decided, ok, maybe it inched a little too far into bad frustration for me personally, i didn't feel that way. But, but