I actually enjoyed Beyond The Beyond. Not thoroughly, but it kept me entertained. It did have one of the worst cases of "two steps - RANDOM BATTLE! - Oh what was I doing again? Lessee... two steps - RANDOM BATTLE!" The pumpkins puzzle was especially tedious due to that. It even had some memorable moments for my bros. They sometimes still laugh at "Mystic syphon" (an item you can buy in shops in the game, and must be one of the stupidest item names ever)

For me, it must be all those "casual" games like Build-A-Lot and the likes. They're not fun at all, they're tedious and boring, but sometimes, there're weeks where that stuff's just appealing, and I end up wasting a couple of evenings on that.