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Jay Is Games has just posted a puzzle-lock game called Ethan Haas Was Right which nicely illustrates one of my most favorite ever puzzle game peeves:

If your puzzle critically depends on a substitution cipher of the Latin alphabet, then for mercy's sake, make the cipher symbols as easily copied down onto paper as the Latin alphabet itself is. I mean, look at this thing. (spoiler) That is not an alphabet. That might be a fragment of an ideographic writing system, and it sure looks nifty, but can you write down five arbitrary symbols from that set in the three seconds they're displayed? Can you tell them apart from each other when drawn at one-third scale on the surface of a sphere? I bloody well can't.

Also, my tendinitis will not suffer through entering a long code by clicking repeatedly on each of 20 tiles until the right symbol comes up. At least let me use the arrow keys, which can be held down!