You can't make the argument that game mechanics shouldn't be patented so ideas can be iterated and innovated on in interesting yet different ways, but turn around on that for one particular game because the most annoying people you know happened to like it. Or over some weird hipster complex, idk.

Happy Birthday, Punch Dad!!!!! 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

Blow a dude and they turn into a pair of smoldering feet Looney Tunes ass type shit.