Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 29: A Groundhog Fell into a Cactus Pile

"No no no... wait wait!!!"

Liuliu was in complete chaos!

No wonder she'd been so confused earlier, wondering why a bullet hell ga didn’t seem to have any bullets.

Those bat monsters looked dumb as rocks and didn’t even attack.

Turns out this is your so-called "bullet hell"? It's made out of monsters?!

It's a f*cking swarm tactic!!!

As layers and layers of bats surged toward her, Liuliu started to panic!

At that mont!

She finally understood why the ga only had a movent key.

Because the player has way too much to juggle at once!

You’ve got to dodge and weave to avoid monster attacks,

Maintain a steady offensive to keep killing enemies,

Constantly watch the waves of monsters to find an opening,

And even keep an eye out for dropped XP gems and grab them when you can!

Busy!

It was driving Liuliu nuts!

Watching her flail around on stream, screaming every ti a monster touched her, the bullet comnts exploded with glee—

"Hahahaha classic case of watching the front but ignoring the rear!"

"These monster numbers are insane hahaha..."

"That whip’s smoking at this point!"

"Joke of the day—this ga’s way too easy (doge emoji)"

"Liuliu’s gonna hand out mute packages after this."

"It's fine, she doesn’t have ti to look at chat right now."

"Hahahaha I'm dying!"

"Whip bro: Sis, did you insult the dev or sothing? Why did the difficulty spike so hard?"

"Bat monsters: Here’s a lil’ taste of another world for you."

"The whip's hitting black blobs. Are we on an Arican farm or sothing?"

"Hahaha d*mn! That joke’s dark as hell!"

"Teacher: Do you know what I’m about to sing? (Wise mode)"

"I swear I'm gonna die laughing at the chat."

"You're dying from the chat, and sis over there is dying in the ga."

"HAHAHAHAHA..."

The bullet chat was full of joy!

The stream was full of screams!

The tide of bats was overwhelming—one slip, and you'd be bleeding on the spot.

Sure, each hit didn’t deal much damage,

But death by a thousand cuts is still death!

The whole stream was filled with Liuliu’s shocked yelps:

"Ow!"

"Stop that!"

"OMG!"

Like a prairie dog thrown into a cactus patch.

Sure, leveling up gave her so weapons and passive items,

But since it was her first ti, she didn’t know which ones were actually good.

She wanted to try everything, which led to overloading and sloppy choices—

And the fight only got harder.

Finally, a surprise wave of bats overwheld her.

She fell, fuming.

"Ugh—!!!"

Liuliu slamd the table in frustration.

Hearing the commotion, her younger brother Zhuangzhuang asked with a smug tone, "Oh no! Sis! Don’t tell you died?"

Liuliu ground her teeth.

"Yeah! I died! So what?!"

"And you? Don’t tell you had to reroll already!"

Zhuangzhuang had entered the ga a bit earlier than she did.

Liuliu figured that even if he had a head start, he couldn’t be that much better on a first run.

But then!

Zhuangzhuang chuckled in the voice chat.

"Sorry, sis~ If you're free, you’re welco to hop into my stream and give so pro tips!"

He sounded so smug.

"Teach how I beat the ga this fast, hahahaha..."

Liuliu was shocked and suspicious.

"You’re not dead yet?"

Curiosity got the better of her, and she clicked into her little bro’s stream—

Only to see!

Zhuangzhuang wielding a staff, surrounded by a halo of garlic.

Wherever he went, not a single bat survived!

The bats at a distance were zapped to bits by magic missiles from his staff.

And on top of that!

Three axes kept flying out of his head like flower petals, smashing any stragglers!

anwhile, Zhuangzhuang was yelling and charging forward like a maniac.

The “ding ding ding” sound of picking up XP gems was nonstop.

"Woohoo! So satisfying! This ga has a weirdly addictive, stress-relieving vibe!"

Liuliu: ???

Is this really the sa f*cking ga I was just playing?!

Why does his version look so fun?!

Viewers in the chat were equally stunned—

"WTF King Zhuang’s build is OP!"

"Is this Dynasty Warriors: Garlic Edition?"

"Feels like he and Liuliu aren’t even playing the sa ga..."

"LOL the whole genre changed!"

"That garlic aura is AoE damage? That’s strong!"

"Mobs die just from touching it. Insane."

"This is the real way to play the ga!"

"anwhile, poor Liuliu’s stuck on misery mode."

"..."

"You see that, sis~?"

Zhuangzhuang was way more relaxed than Liuliu.

And when he saw she joined his stream, he got even cockier.

"I just don’t get it. What’s hard about this ga? It’s just a mindless hack-'n-slash for stress relief!"

"Look at , am I stressed?"

"This ga is practically challenging my gaming skillz..."

But then!

Before he could finish flexing—

Everything changed!

At the 10-minute mark, a ring of piranha plants suddenly appeared on the screen.

Zhuangzhuang blinked: "Eh? New mobs?"

He instinctively looked for a way out,

A trick he’d picked up over the last ten minutes—

Keep moving, never get trapped by the mob waves.

So he tried to find a gap this ti too.

But the next second—

He saw sothing terrifying:

"Oh sh*t!!! Wait, what?!"

There wasn’t a single opening in the piranha plant ring!

It was like a trap tightening around him, getting smaller and smaller!

All that confidence disappeared.

Zhuangzhuang panicked.

"Hey hey hey WTF?! No no no! That’s cheating! How am I supposed to get out of this?!"

As he flailed around looking for an exit,

The screen shifted—

And sothing even worse appeared.

A giant mantis, easily three tis his size, stepped over the plants and headed straight toward him!

At that mont—

Zhuangzhuang finally understood what people ant by:

Bad luck always finds the most unlucky.

"F*ck!!! AGAIN?!!!"

That second,

The PTSD from Cat Mario kicked in.

"No way... this ga is insane!"

Just seconds ago he’d been steamrolling enemies and feeling like a god.

Now a massive BOSS had dropped in, one that barely flinched even with tons of damage.

And he had nowhere to run.

Watching him flounder, Liuliu perked right up:

"Ooh~ Zhuangzhuang~ Whatcha gonna do now~?"

"Wasn’t this supposed to be an easy stress-relief ga? What happened~?"

"Why can’t you damage the BOSS, huh~?"

Her voice was pure sarcastic venom!

The audience lost it, laughing their heads off:

"LOL I’ve never heard Liuliu this petty before!"

"Sweet sweet revenge!"

"I’m dying. Classic sisterly love."

"Nothing like sibling bonding~"

"Sis is full on savage today!"

"Zhuang Wangye’s face must be turning green."

"But seriously, that difficulty spike is brutal."

"Maybe the devs intentionally designed a chill first 10 minutes as prep?"

"Boiling frog strategy, huh?"

"Dmn, sounds like sothing a Cat Mario dev would do."

"Yeah, that dck dev really gets into players’ heads."

"RIP..."

Then—

Zhuangzhuang, who’d been flexing so hard earlier, was now cornered.

With piranha plants behind him, he had no retreat.

He could only watch as the giant mantis BOSS crept closer.

SNAP!

The mantis swung its blade-like arm. In the blink of an eye, Zhuangzhuang’s wizard was decapitated.

[GA OVER]

BAM!

Zhuangzhuang slamd the table, screaming in frustration.

"AAAAHHHH I was just starting to have fun!"

"One more ti!"

"I’m not taking this lying down today!!!"