Puzzle games tend not to produce this reaction as much because I know they’re going for it, so it’s more appearing “within my expected frame” than “surprise from left field”. (When games do it in a surprise genre-subversion way, that’s more wuckly)
For it to not merely be surprising-and-confusing, but interesting that it’s surprising-and-confusing, it needs to be a situation where by default, you wouldn’t expect it to be surprising/confusing (at least in that particular way)
I think good puzzle games are trying to target primarily this emotion and then a satisfying resolution of it.
Puzzle games tend not to produce this reaction as much because I know they’re going for it, so it’s more appearing “within my expected frame” than “surprise from left field”. (When games do it in a surprise genre-subversion way, that’s more wuckly)
For it to not merely be surprising-and-confusing, but interesting that it’s surprising-and-confusing, it needs to be a situation where by default, you wouldn’t expect it to be surprising/confusing (at least in that particular way)