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Because you used the phrase "epistemic learned helplessness" I'm going to boldly assume you might be able to understand some basic probabilities:
The odds of making a single correct choice are 1/11 or 9%, but needing to get four 1/11 chance choices correct, in the correct order and given those choices might repeat, your odds of clearing a single encounter through random choices are 0.007% or about 15,000:1. I'm not going to do the math for the 6 and 11 choice encounters, but it's ugly. I can't even find an odds converter that goes that low.
Sure, it's not random - the game gives you feedback about what works... until it doesn't.
My point is, other games don't get "critically lambasted due to grinding" because they don't work on math like this, period. Judging by Dragon Quest's wiki, it looks like it has multiple classes for the player to pick, so there are already multiple ways to clear encounters. I'm embarrassed I even have to point that out. Terrible analogy.
Sensei Quest isn't serious, it's a cobbled-together, surreal meta-game joke pushed to the extreme for shock value that ups the ante from other resets that did similar. Lighten up, don't preach about telling ppl to harden the fuck up when any idiot with a notepad can do this "mini"game given enough time.
Not every repetitive task you have the opportunity of wasting a ton of time on is an opportunity to build character, it's usually just an opportunity to waste a ton of time. SO GROW! indeed... out of your boomer phase, please.
