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Game which initially appears to be a conventional RPG with an unusually extensive tutorial chapter, complete with a helpful tutorial fairy who provides encouragement and explanatory tips and resets you to the nearest checkpoint each time you die. However, the things that kill you become progressively more unfair and unlikely with each reset, and the fairy's explanations increasingly flimsy, until it's revealed that the fairy has been teaching you the game's mechanics incorrectly on purpose in order to trick you into killing yourself. The game then transitions into a time-loop horror scenario where your objective is to figure out how the game's mechanics really work and complete the tutorial properly, thereby passing beyond the tutorial fairy's grasp.

The old Flash game Depict One does this.

I mean, to be completely fair to the folks who wrote the series finale for Two and a Half Men, if the actor playing one of your three main characters left the show in the midst of a cataclysmic cocaine bender that culminated in them claiming to be a god on national TV, and the season after that, another actor playing one of your three main characters converted to Seventh Day Adventism and publicly denounced their past involvement with the show as immoral and inconsistent with Christian values, obliging you to stagger through an entire season short two-thirds of your core cast, you’d probably burn that fucker to the ground, too.

They could’ve just rebranded the show to be called Half A Man.