Near the end of the game, as the deaths are getting more and more sadistic, it's horrible. I was almost killed by an evil save point. That should just not happen.
Possibly even worse was when the game told me it had crashed, so I went to click okay and suddenly realized that my color scheme has silver bars and this window had a blue bar. I was then splatted by a falling error message.
You could write a war and peace sized novel on the deaths I've experienced in that game. The fight where you essentially have to mash the fire button as fast as you can for about 20 seconds or die, the tetris area where if you don't manage a pixel-perfect jump you get crushed by a giant falling doctor mario pill, the part where a wall of spikes on wheels follows you for 3 screens...
Don't get me started on the bosses. Mother Brain alone is enough to make any sane man cry. The megaman fortress boss is just not fair. The fight against Dracula? You can die IN THE MIDDLE OF THE "WHAT IS A MAN" SPEECH. Yes, they kill you in cutscenes.
And of course, the final boss gives reason to start drinking. His gun shoots bullets twice the size of his entire body. The part where you bounce his bullets back at him is always painful, because you know you can do it but you can't quite manage to clear that last one.
But above all else, it's
rooms like these that make your eyes begin to bleed.
The worst part is, because I've been playing on medium and have a pink bow in my hair, most people will refuse to acknowledge that I've beaten the game once I finish.
Did I mention less than 350 people have ever beaten this game?
