Dragon Quest Builders 2 kind of fits the bill for me here. I wanted to play it from the moment I learned about it. I had zero experience with 1, or any other dragon quest games. My biggest issue, and im still quite angry about it, is that the game I wanted to play, and the game the trailers promised actually does exist. Its all functional. The only way to play it though is the campaign, and its so frustratingly hand-holding and text-heavy it actually hurt to play.
"we need to build the BRONZE ROOM. So we'll need some BRONZE. Theres some BRONZE in the cave nearby." [Camera pans over to where the bronze is.] "Okay! We'll go and get the BRONZE!" "I think 3 pieces OF BRONZE should do it."
Head over towards the cave.
Hey! We're near the BRONZE cave! Isn't this where they said we could get the BRONZE that we need to complete the BRONZE ROOM? Let's get the BRONZE!
Head towards the bronze.
Hey! It's the BRONZE that we need to make the BRONZE ROOM! Lets mine some quick so we can make the BRONZE ROOM! You can do this! Let's go!
Mine the bronze
[BRONZE acquired!]
Hey! Thats it! We just mined the first piece of BRONZE that we need! Didn't the quest-giver say we needed 3 pieces? What are we waiting for? Lets mine 2 MORE!
Mine 2 more
Thats it! Weve got all the BRONZE that we need to make the BRONZE ROOM! lets Head back to the base as quickly as we can to make the BRONZE ROOM.
Head back to the base, get talked to by the quest giver for a solid minute about the importance of the bronze room. Then the concept of the silver room comes up. You think 'that was a really really really long-winded tutorial, but they'll leave me alone to do the silver and gold now that I know what to do. No. Go back to the top of that list but replace BRONZE with SILVER. Then gold. Then do it again and again and again until the credits roll and you realise the game never actually happens and you just wasted a bunch of your life and you'll never ever get it back and they could have made an excellent game, and they actually did, they just wouldn't let you play it.
Im still pretty bitter about that whole experience.