That meant I had to do the time-honored, yet equally dreaded, task that every RPG player is familiar with: I had to level grind. Unluckily for me, the solution was to get to a high enough level to learn a skill that would heal everyone in my party at once. Once again, I took to the Internet for help. Maybe it’s called the Crying Table because of the tears of rage you’ll cry at your TV. My plucky high school students gifted with supernatural powers were dropping left and right, and then once they were all picked off, I was a goner.
This table doesn’t look that menacing, but it could do a pretty devastating amount of damage to everyone in my party. It’s literally called “Crying Table.” I don’t know why it’s crying, but it’s probably because it’s a really stupid table and nobody likes it. My enemy in this encounter is a freaking table. My second story with a horribly difficult boss is with Persona 3. It took me about two hours to finally conquer that stupid mermaid, which was also around the length of time it took to listen to all of Mindless Self Indulgence’s albums released by 2008. To aid me in my crusade, I queued up the entire discography of Mindless Self Indulgence. I got home one day from high school, sat down in front of my TV, and dedicated the next several hours to taking down the mermaid. The comments on the video were all about how difficult this fight was and how it took so long to defeat the mermaid. This was the first battle I ever had to look up on YouTube. One of the most common criticisms for Rule of Rose was its combat controls, and it really shows in this bizarre battle with acidic mermaid vomit. This sounds pretty simple, right? It is, until the part where the mermaid starts to get dizzy from hanging and swinging upside down. You have to run around the room, waiting for Mermaid Girl to drop down from the ceiling so you can bash her with your pipe. You’re trapped in a room with a poor girl who’s been tied up like a mermaid, her legs bound together, hanging from the ceiling by some kind of pulley. If you’re unfamiliar, this boss happens about ¾ through the game. The first is the puking mermaid boss in Rule of Rose. Rachel Flory: I have two stories that immediately spring to mind. What rage-inducing game sections continue to haunt you years after you’ve played them? Or when you can’t skip the cutscene before the battle, so you know all the dialogue to that scene by heart. You know what I’m talking about-when you die so many times, the “Game Over” noise triggers a Pavlovian response in you for the rest of your life. But sometimes, we come across sections of the game which push us too far. Video games are meant to be a challenge (usually)-that’s what makes them fun (usually).
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