and over and over and over....

There's a fine line between learning a level and the various traps by dieing again and again and thus refining your technique, and doing it too many times where you start to make stupid mistakes.

I'm at that point in Ori and the Blind Forest, an indie adventure-platformer. Don't get me wrong, I've been loving the hell out of this game, the music's great, the images, the story...I've been chugging away at it for a while now. Technically I'm only a little over 27 hours into it, but often a week might go by without me having time to sit and curse at the screen. (It's a challenging game)

I may have to reluctantly set my controller aside and let my head rest, though it seems every time I do that, I pick it up again not five minutes later. I'm on the final escape, and have made it almost to the end twice before getting killed. I may use a trick I tried earlier, on an equally frustrating escape level, turning the music off. It creates such a sense of urgency that I sometimes mash the wrong buttons while trying to avoid the creature hell-bent on killing me.