The game isn't fun when you have someone chasing you who can't die. 40 seconds is a very long time in a Jazz game.
I know it is a part of gameplay, but it makes the gameplay unenjoyable for everyone who doesn't have the shield. Sure everyone could get the shield, but then what do you have? A game where everyone is invincible, and then no gameplay happens at all.
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With our extreme gelatinous apology,
We beg to inform your Imperial Majesty,
Unto whom be dominion and power and glory,
There still remains that strange precipitate
Which has the quality to resist
Our oldest and most trusted catalyst.
It is a substance we cannot cremate
By temperatures known to our Laboratory.
~ E.J. Pratt
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