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* ''VideoGame/PapaLouieArcade'': The "Go for the Gold" badge/achievement requires you to get gold stars on all customers, meaning that you have to earn 15 customer stars on each of them. This is an already arduous and time-consuming task, but it becomes a lot worse in Gamerias with holidays in them, since gold customers can still show up during their favorite holidays when they are normally tagged to not appear until there are only a few non-gold customers remaining. As if that wasn't enough, gold customers can ''also'' appear early if they are ordering a Special, and prior to ''Cheeseria To Go!'', you didn't have the option to forgo serving a Special to prevent this from happening.

** All the games in the ''VideoGame/SonicAdvanceTrilogy'' have something like this. The first ''Sonic Advance'' requires you to beat the game with all four characters and get all the Chaos Emeralds to unlock the true final boss and get the true ending. In ''Sonic Advance 2'', you not only have to beat the game with four characters like last time, you must also get all the Chaos Emeralds for Sonic only, and you must get 7 Special Rings in one life in each zone to be able to get each Chaos Emerald, and you have to do this with every other character if you want to unlock extra content such as Amy. In ''Sonic Advance 3''. you have to scour each zone for Chao, get a Special Key and complete an act of each zone while carrying it, and then attempt increasingly-difficult Special Stages to get the true ending (though unlike ''Advance 2'' the Chao are permanent collectibles and you aren't required to collect them with every character, although there are several that require [[CharacterSelectForcing someone specific]]).
** ''VideoGame/SonicRushAdventure'' has you do plenty of sailing and replaying levels to be able to accumulate enough materials for upgrading your vehicles, getting the Chaos Emeralds from the Johnny races and for getting where you need to go. The fact that obtaining higher ranks on main levels increasing the number of material obtained does make the grind a little less annoying, however.

* {{Random Drop}}s which may result in a player lingering in an area for a long period of time trying to get the drop.

* {{Mass Monster Slaughter Sidequest}}s which consist of hunting for and killing the same type of enemy over and over again. Also common in {{MMORPG}}s.

* {{Fake|Difficulty}} or [[NintendoHard extreme]] difficulty, especially if made worse with CheckpointStarvation, or if you want to go even further, Permadeath.

* {{Random Drop}}s which may result in a player lingering in an area for a long period of time trying to get the drop.

* {{Mass Monster Slaughter Sidequest}}s which consist of hunting for and killing the same type of enemy over and over again. Also common in {{MMORPG}}s.

* {{Fake|Difficulty}} or [[NintendoHard extreme]] difficulty, especially if made worse with CheckpointStarvation, or if you want to go even further, Permadeath.

** The un-remastered Cardassian story arc. Untouched since game launch, almost every mission in it is a MarathonLevel with LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading between space and ground maps multiple times per mission, and usually involves a MassMonsterSlaughterSidequest full of GoddamnBats. And then there are missions with the simple goal to interact with a few objects, except there are usually hordes of RespawningEnemies you have to chew through, and you are forced into BackTracking through them most times. All the loot including the mission rewards are little better than ShopFodder. Word has it though that the Cardassian missions will be overhauled with the release of Season 11 in late October 2015.

* ''VideoGame/MissionImpossibleKonami'': There's a number of little interactive sequences that stretch out gameplay. Notably how stairs force you to manually walk your agent up or down a flight in a sidescrolling section, seemingly only to differentiate between going up and down floors or just into the next room. Electronic door locks have you decode the combination to unlock them, but the game is paused while you do so, a chime will tell you the correct number, and only Grant can access the doors anyways, so the whole exercise is pointless.

* {{Fake|Difficulty}} or [[NintendoHard extreme]] difficulty, especially if made worse with CheckpointStarvation.

* Variant example: since it's history-based, ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth'' advertised "500,000 years of gameplay." 450,000 of those years were in the stone age, which (as you can guess) doesn't let you do much.

** You could just input an item code in Tom Nook's shop for 300 Turnips each day. Much like [[NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught forgery]], this can get you money very quickly. Unlike forgery, you will never be penalized. Unfortunately, this only removes money as a pad, there's still [[FishingMiniGame fishing]], insect catching, and making your town [[GuideDangIt "perfect"]] for the illusive Golden Tools.

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen'', in order to get the National Dex to reach islands 4 through 7, rebattle the Elite Four, and trade with Hoenn you need to obtain 60 of the 151 Pokémon found in Kanto. Nowhere in the game is the number 60 implied[[note]]except here, obviously[[/note]] and without trading with another remake, or catching as many as you can as you go, it will still take a good hour or two to get 60 darn species.

** ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush Adventure]]'' has you do plenty of sailing and replaying levels to be able to accumulate enough materials for upgrading your vehicles, getting the Chaos Emeralds from the Johnny races and for getting where you need to go. The fact that obtaining higher ranks on main levels increasing the number of material obtained does make the grind a little less annoying, however.

* ''VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport'' pads out 100% completion with its [[AndYourRewardIsClothes Driver Titles and Badges]], which are snippets of text and avatars displayed next to the user's name in game lobbies. Some are easy, such as [[Film/BackToTheFuture reaching 88 miles per hour in a Delorean]], while others are obnoxiously long, such as driving [[GreenAesop 1000 miles in a Toyota Prius]].

* BackTracking.

* ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'' was designed with similar tricks, as no-clipping above the map will reveal. Here, the main overworld itself is divided into cells by insurmountable hills or cliffs and connected by limited pathways to allow for dynamic loading. {{Beef gate}}s are added to many of these passes to discourage {{sequence breaking}}. The titular city has gateways connecting its cells, which beats going through subway tunnels. PC Mods also exist that combine area of Freeside and The Strip into single giant cells.

* In the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/ClockTowerIITheStruggleWithin'', There's a special Gag mode you can unlock called Buyo Buyo Mode, in which all the characters ceaselessly bounce up and down at all times. The requirement for this? ''Obtain every single ending in the game.'' This requires several playthroughs of a game that's already infamous for [[GuideDangIt requiring you to do a bunch of random things just to prevent your character from dying at times.]]

* The first three entries in the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series never take a very long time to replay; much time will be spent checking which doors are open, locked, or unable to be opened period, checking the map, and figuring out GuideDangIt puzzles. The bonus features are usually somewhat reasonable, except in ''Silent Hill 3''; if you want to try the hardest difficulty "Extreme X", you'll have to first beat the game on Hard, then beat it ''nine more times'' on Extreme difficulties 1 through 9. Beating Extreme X also unlocks a costume, but this can be skipped by looking up the code, unlike unlocking the difficulty itself. Additionally, every game with the star ranking system doesn't even let you attempt getting the highest rank of 10 until you've cleared the game multiple times first, as game clears are a part of the points required for it.

* The first three entries in the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series never take a very long time to replay; much time will be spent checking which doors are open, locked, or unable to be opened period, checking the map, and figuring out GuideDangIt puzzles. The bonus features are usually somewhat reasonable, except in ''Silent Hill 3''; it wants you to play the game at least eleven times, including ten times on HarderThanHard difficulty, to get a ten-star ranking and the final bonus item.

** In ''Aces'', to unlock new Characters and Special Costumes you have to play Online tournaments and obtain 1000 participation points.

** Arendelle in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' loves this trope. Sora and co. are trying to climb ''one'' mountain but keep getting interrupted or knocked down by random events, and it's always used as a vehicle for [[SarcasmMode fun and necessary]] gameplay mechanics that only serve to artificially extend the world's storyline. Examples include navigating an ice dungeon, a lengthy sledding minigame immediately followed by a miniboss, or the most egregious example, finding Olaf's body parts.

** ''Super Rush'' has a somewhat minor example in unlocking the Super Star versions of the characters, to do so, you have to get 3000 character points. You get 10 points per hole played, so you need to play 300 holes with every character to unlock their Super Star version.
** In ''Super Rush'', to unlock new Characters and Special Costumes you have to play Online matches and reach A-/135 match points. You get around 10 points per match played so it takes a while.

** To unlock the Super Star versions of characters you have to beat ''all'' normal tournaments with ''all'' characters. This somewhat alleviated in ''Open'', where you just have to beat the Final Cup to unlock them and in ''Ultra Smash'', where you can unlock them via Knockout Challenge (the game's equivalent to Tournaments) or just using coins instead. ''Aces'' ditches Super Star characters altogether.

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* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' Has a near subversion, one of the side quests is the Man Festival in what appears to be a 100 level dungeon of nothing but fights. After the 26th battle you skip to the 89th. A title card explains how the party fought through the previous 63 levels.