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 ===== Elaboration =====
-This term was originally created due to a serious misunderstanding on the part of a game reviewer, but it's useful nonetheless.\\
+This term was originally created due to a serious misunderstanding on the part of a game reviewer, but it's useful nonetheless.
-Basically, sometimes when you're playing a game, there's a bit of a disconnect between the story of the game (as it is being told) and the gameplay...or how you're playing it.\\
-An obvious example would be a game where the primary gameplay loop is killing heavily-armed opponents. If you go through most of the game having no issues...but then the player character has trouble dealing with //one guy// in a cutscene, that causes some dissonance. Or the opposite could be the case too: you have a lot of trouble during the gameplay, but then your character effortlessly dispatches opponents in a cutscene.\\
+Basically, sometimes when you're playing a game, there's a bit of a disconnect between the story of the game (as it is being told) and the gameplay...or how you're playing it.
+An obvious example would be a game where the primary gameplay loop is killing heavily-armed opponents. If you go through most of the game having no issues...but then the player character has trouble dealing with //one guy// in a cutscene, that causes some dissonance. Or the opposite could be the case too: you have a lot of trouble during the gameplay, but then your character effortlessly dispatches opponents in a cutscene.
 It's a relatively common issue and, as far as I can tell, has gotten worse over the past few years.