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The way I see it, it is very easy to romanticize sandbox-style play with platitudes about "player agency" and "the beauty of RPGs." It is also rather easy to demonize non-sandbox play with all manner of negative connotations. Action-movie-themed RPGs like Outgunned and Feng Shui seem able to get away with it solely because of the genre that they are trying to emulate.