Bullet Sponges: Why Artificial Difficulty Ruins Immersion

You have spent forty hours upgrading your character, mastering complex combat mechanics, and acquiring the ultimate, world-shattering weapon. You face a generic, low-level bandit in the late game, unleash your most devastating attack, and watch in horror as only a tiny fraction of his health bar vanishes. The enemy isn't smart, fast, or tactical-he just possesses a mathematically absurd amount of ...