I don't understand why it's a part of gaming, why it's always been a part of gaming, and I don't understand who its obligatory nature is for. I'm the sort who enjoys the rest of the game, the bits where the challenging enemies take three or four hits to take down, not thirty or forty while I'm still being attacked by the other challenging enemies at the same time.

You might be much better at games like Throne and Teleglitch, or the sort that revels in twitch controls and bullet-hellish waves of extra enemy attacks while trying to chip away at a big enemy who is able to attack you from any distance at any time. I've been playing since yesterday, having such a brilliant time - then the first boss fight happened, and now it seems I'll never get to play most of the game. Exploration is key, discovery is splendid, and it's all a really rather superb time. The fighting is surprisingly tricky, waves of enemies in small locations, early on when your arsenal is limited and your skills unhoned. Ridiculously lovely pixel graphics that are constantly breathtaking, a clever world that evokes classic 8- and 16-bit classics, elements of Zelda, but with a hefty focus on Nuclear Throne-like combat. Hyper Light Drifter is absolutely wonderful. A game I was absolutely adoring is now a game I can't play at all, because of a wildly difficult boss fight. I've ranted about boss fights SO many times, and argh, it's happened again. I've done that now, and my mea culpa and further thoughts are here. I could have gone in other directions and played more of the game.

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