I just wanna say how much I hate a lot of the Masked Carnivale stuff

[Bonbori]

It isn't the most engaging content. Often times, it involves bashing your head against a wall until you figure out how to handle the instant-kill mechanic, then once you have that down, it becomes a simple stroll to the finish line. And yeah, even if you know what to do, an unfortunate lag spike can put an end to your 3-round fight real quick.

You have just described how all Savage (and to an extent, Extreme) fights are structured and I think those are the most engaging content in the game n_n

I personally think Masked Carnivale is very well designed to provide a similar experience of figuring out and progging a scripted fight without (in most cases) an enrage timer to beat. I'm a big fan of stuff that I can progress through because I feel intrinsically rewarded once all the pieces finally fall into place and all the stuff I was struggling with gradually becomes second nature. Okay, it may not be the best fit for something that has story and an incredibly useful spell locked behind it but... I would like to see a bit more of this kind of design outside of Savage/Extreme/Ultimate.

Content can be fun without being clearable on the first try. I wish people had higher tolerance for wall-bashing ._. Just high enough to notice that many of those walls are actually staircases.