This video almost didn’t exist, because I almost didn’t finish playing the demo for Winds of Arcana: Ruination and was about to rage quit. Some 10-15 minutes into the demo, I came across this fight that seemed simple at first, with an enemy I had already faced earlier, but the twist was that there were two of these enemies at the same time, and the fight area was sealed, giving the player very little room to move around. And then for the next forty minutes, I kept trying again and again to clear the fight, but kept dying, again, and again, and again.
Usually the point of such fights is for the player to learn from their mistakes and try again. But here, even though I knew what I was doing wrong, it came down to how fast you could react to the enemies’ speed, and clearly my reflexes weren’t fast enough. At this point I had two options: either give up and admit that I didn’t have the skill to beat this fight, or seek help from the internet. I wasn’t exactly in the best of moods right then.
After stepping away for a few minutes to calm down, I hopped into the game’s discord server, and asked for help. One of the devs replied that the fight was frustrating even for some of their own team members. This cheered me up a little bit, making me feel that maybe I wasn’t the worst player in the world. The dev then offered a helpful hint to get past the fight, and sure enough, I cleared it within a few more attempts.
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