Games that punish you.

[Tupin]

This.

I don't think I've ever played a game that was so shamelessly padded out.

[Zoe F]

Doesn't Nier (360/PS3) mess with your save under X conditions in someway too? Fuyukaze was telling me about this a while back, but I can't for the life of me recall exactly how. Neat underrated game too BTW... All hail Twattycake!

Nier forces you to delete all of your saves for the game in order to access the final ending. It actually makes sense in terms of the plot. You can easily back up your save and restore it afterward anyway. You're also given a good deal of warning before the actual deletion process. I wouldn't really consider this a punishment at all.