Agree with this.
Challenge is something that is way too abstract for it to just be measured in deaths. A game like Super Meat Boy isn't hard because you die a lot, it's hard because it takes a lot of skill to get through. You can beat a hard level without dying a single time, that doesn't mean it's not hard.
If you are a quick learner and it takes you 1 or 0 deaths to acquire the skill to pass a difficult section of a game, and for someone else it takes 10 deaths to do the same, it doesn't mean the game is harder for one or the other, because the skill required to advance is still the same. It just means the latter guy sucks.
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