How a Video Game Boss Should Behave

"None of you read a walkthrough to prepare for your battle against me! You want to kill me without even reading a walkthrough?! Ha! That's suicide!"

The silver-winged, red-armored me kept shouting "You are not prepared!" arrogantly from midair. The panicky squadron below me was such a familiar sight.

In a cooperative player vs. AI video game, what gave me more of a headache than a difficult boss were garbage teammates who recklessly started fighting the boss without having even read a walkthrough. In this world, too, these types of garbage teammates were common.

Dark priests would attempt to use negative energy spells against the undead, fire mages would attempt to throw fireballs at fire elemental creatures, idiot assassins would try to use stealth against true sight Beholders, and so on. Every year, the fairies' monthly magazine's most popular feature was forever the portion titled "The funniest 100 ways to die this year."