This is about your decision to:

- the character upgrade tokens in secret rooms
- have at least half those secret room be basically impossible to find for anyone who doesn't lick walls
- have a giant 1UP token that doesn't give free lives.

These are all terrible design choices on their own.

But together, they're so much more than that: They combine to make 'an excellent argument against the game itself'.

The question:

WHO HURT YOU?