You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?

Deaths for me usually follow, "I think I can make that jump."

I think death are worse if it's a bunch back to back in a game that was relatively easy up to that point. That just makes it seem like there's some weird balance issues, which can be frustrating because then it seems less like my fault and more like the game's. I'm perfectly fine dying to my own incompetence because I can get better with practice, but when it's the game's fault, there's that sense of, "Why am I even playing this?"

 

Gosh, there were a bunch of times where I lost, but the most memorable one for me was the final boss of Bravely Second.

Spoiler: I recommend playing the game first, it's pretty good

I had no idea what expect from Providence's first form when I first got into it. I was doing fairly well in fights for the most part, I was decently leveled, and I felt confident that I could take this despair-hungry crow.
...And then it decided to cast Mandate of Heaven, a spell I'd never seen before. I know it blatantly told me to use this character to strike at another in my party, but I wasn't sure how or why at the time, and it was charging back up its Brave Points. When I didn't do as instructed, the boss wiped my entire team in a single blow with Divine Punishment. I was so confused.
Not wanting to lose face against this frankly unfair blow, I decided to see if I could cheese the attack with the Bishop's Calm skill to stop all incoming damage. And it worked. I beat the first phase of the boss pretty easily after that. The second phase is a different story (I still beat it just fine, though the fake-out of nearly deleting my save files almost got me).

Since then, most of my experiences with RPGs have me thinking outside the box and be a lot more strategic to defeat tough bosses and enemies. Boss keeps charming your strongest fighter? Give him an accessory to prevent it. That's just one example.

 

My worst death in a video game was probably in Kirby Planet Robobot a few months ago. I’d been trying to beat the True Arena for weeks then, but it was really difficult. This true arena was a lot harder than previous true arenas for some reasons probably because the final boss has 4 different phases to it anyway so I was on the last phase of the final boss. I defeated the boss, but it has one last attack that it does before it dies. If you get hit by this attack, it does over half damage to you. So I was running around, trying not to get hit. I accidentally jumped too high and got hit by the attack and died. I was so salty that I didn’t recover from the salt until I beat it (which was a few days later, but still)

 

Confession time--when I first got FR/LG, it took me six tries to beat Brock (I counted), because I didn't know he got Rock Tomb in the remake.

This is why I typically save right before and right after a boss--so if it is a tough fight, I DON'T have to do it again!

If a boss is killing my party too often, I do a little research to fine tune my strategy--this sometimes means walking away from the game for a bit.

If a boss is TOO hard, I may stop playing altogether.

 

In my latest Nuzlocke, my first encounter was a shiny Mismagius, which wiped out my starter (this was before I'd even gotten Pokeballs).

Another memorable death was against the Apsalus II, in MS Saga: A New Dawn. There were two issues at play: as the team had started learning more defensive skills, the bosses had started becoming stronger and having more brutal strategies, and yet I hadn't adapted to vary my own strategies to deal with said bosses; second, I had made the mistake of trying to keep the party balanced stat-wise rather than leaning into their own individual strengths, so they were overall much weaker than they should have been. Eventually I started over again and after learning the Apsalus' strategy I was able to get past it and eventually complete the game.

 

"I wonder if this fire will burn me?" Something I say in videogames far more often than real life (though still sometimes irl). Yes, whether it's a low-mounted torch lighting my way across a bridge, or the pyre upon which my fallen ally is being cremated, a burning monster who I just ignited with a fiery shot, or just a vivid game of the-floor-is-lava, you can bet I'm going to try to find out if it's hurts to the touch or not.

"It was a calculated risk," I will say as my HP reaches zero outside of a combat situation, "but I am bad at math".

 

Going through a long dungeon thinking the boss will be easy to compensate then dying to one of the hardest bosses in the entire game.

This happens often in JRPGs

 

Any True Arena.... with Stone! In my Kirby Super Star Ultra copy, I make it all the way to Wham-Bam Jewel, but I always lose in that round. Once, I made it to the second to last round where you fight Galacta Knight, but I lost near the beginning of the fight. In my Triple Deluxe copy, I always lose on the round with Dark Meta Knight. In Planet Robobot, I always lose very early on. In Star Allies, since both Arenas have effectively been replaced by The Ultimate Choice, I'm trying to do Soul Melter with Marx and a team of healers, but I always lose at Void Termina's first phase.

 

One happened yesterday that is super

I was playing MH rise and in the last few seconds got melted by the Bazelgeuse I was fighting in the air for the last cart.

STYLE POINTS.