January 17, 2011
How Can I Be Mad At That Pink Face?
I am angry at a Kirby game.
My Xbox has died, so I’m turning to other consoles and other amusements. I thought I would finish up Epic Yarn because of that, and sat down for a long play session.
Then I got to King Dedede.
He took me 30 minutes or more to beat, and by the end of it, I was so pissed.
Basically, he would do a couple things you’d have to dodge, then he’d hit the ground with his hammer. You grabbed a star that shot up, hit him with it, then you jumped atop him and used him to let you jump up and grab the Marionette controller controlling him. Pretty simple, right? The marionette would only swoop down for small periods of time, but for the first hit, it was doable.
The third and fourth hits, though, were nearly impossible. It would swoop in from the top of the screen and swoop right back out. It was seriously like half a second. I would jump on Dedede’s back and try to time it, but I kept missing, over and over again. I was screaming at the screen by the end of it. Never had I been so angry at a Kirby game before. Kirby is supposed to be light, stress free, and cute. This was just fucking frustrating.
I didn’t even get the patch to unlock the bonus levels after the fight. I was all pissed. I turned off the game.
Then I go and start ranting about how angry I was to pyro, and decide I’m going to show him a video of how bullshit the boss was. So I pull up this video and…
Shit.
Apparently if you do the weight drop on his back, it pulls down and stuns the marionette.
The problem was that I didn’t need to do that for the first two hits. It was fairly easy to hit. Thus, I never considered I might be doing something wrong, or there might be something else to the boss. Thus, I got caught in this endless loop of anger.
It’s so unlike a Kirby game, though. I really don’t know whose fault this was. I don’t feel like I was particularly dense or did something wrong. There hasn’t been an enemy before that which I HAD to use the drop down move on. I dunno.
I’m sure I’ll calm down and love Kirby once again, and with the actual method of beating him known, getting the patch will be trivial. But man. Anger.
Anger.