I dislike this one wholeheartedly. Tying challenges to single playthroughs and forced repetition of three separate missions is not fun. I don’t mind it if it’s getting SASO on one challenge, but to play perfectly three in a row and therefore only having a single way you can play it in order to get that perfection, is bs. This game is supposed to be about cleverness and inventiveness, not “play this exact way every time, over and over and over again, restarting from the top, and hope you succeed.”
ETA: Took me eight hours to finally succeed, and only then it was by sheer luck on the second escalation with the timing. I think if there wasn’t a rival-timer on it, I would have had much less issues and there would’ve been less emphasis on the ‘right’ way to do these escalations and more freedom for creativity.
For those of you who care, I enjoyed Greed and Gluttony the best. Lust and Envy are my least enjoyed for timer SASO reasons. Sloth and Pride were middling.