Kotaku
No, that is not German for "The Elite Beat Agents, The." No. This is the story of a man with a bad temper and facial hair. A man who isn't very good at video games, but quite skilled at destroying things. This is the story of some guy who got so incredibly pissed off at Elite Beat Agents that he broke his DS, stabbed the screen multiple times with a screwdriver then snapped the game in half—blaming the whole thing on Nintendo. After the jump, the well-adjusted gentleman's forum post describing what happened:
Well... 2 and half hours later, I still couldn't get past the fourth set of screen objects after the second cutscreen. I had the first two sections down so pat that I was bored out of my skull every time I got sent back to the beginning. Several times I swung my DS laden hand back over my head and prepared to end this cavalcade of misery... but relented.But no man can be put through endless torture without snapping, and likewise, after the 100th time I had nearly aced the first two sections to be suddenly humiliated by the third and fourth sets of the third... my DS snapped in half because I threw it across the room.
Then, I gathered the bottom portion of the unit and touched it like I really wanted to: With a screw driver.
And I promptly tossed the rest of my DS games in the trash.
Should I have relented? Traded in my DS stuff and gotten store credit at Electronics Boutique or Gamestop? No. Immediately after this... I wasn't upset that I had destroyed an expensive piece of hardware. I'd just rid myself of a terrible cancer. I tried to remember back to the last game that Nintendo had, itself, made that I had truly enjoyed... and I couldn't think of one. I mean, they were enjoyable for the first few minutes, or hours in some cases. But inevitably, I grew frustrated, angry, and upset with the game and felt it was more like penance than pleasure. Sure, I had enjoyed games on Nintendo systems, no doubt, even difficult games, but only the Nintendo games made me ANGRY.
So why not trade the games in? Simply because no human being should be made to suffer a Nintendo video game ever again.
I hate Nintendo now. I think I have Elite Beat Agents to thank for helping me come to this realization.
There's a word for this: Batshit insane. (Yeah, two words, I know. Or is that three?)
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