Goddamned Bats/Video Games/Role-Playing Game: Difference between revisions

* Thankfully rare in ''[[Vampire Bloodlines|Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines]]'', but when you go to fight the plaguebearer Bishop Vick, he has zombie minions. They take several attacks to kill, they are literally endless, and while they're not fast, they can latch onto you and render you completely unable to do anything else until you throw them off. The best way to deal with them is to run past them, knocking them out of the way with a blunt weapon such as the baseball bat or truncheon, get to Bishop Vick's room, and defeat him as fast as you can. The implication is that without him around to feed them, they die of the plague and starvation.

* There's a perfect example in the first boss (arguably a mini-boss) in ''[[Ys]] Origin''. One of it's attacks is turning into a swarm of Goddamned Bats and chasing you around/moving in your path to swarm and bite you. It's made worse when the monster splits into two and has one of them swarm you as said Goddamned Bats, while the other tries to attack you with magic or some such. The bats they turn into are even an enemy you can find shortly after the battle!

* ''[[Breath of Fire]] II'' gives us the Beak. When you first encounter it it's as the first boss of the game when your character is solo and pitifully weak, but at roughly level 30 it starts showing up in the hunting areas-- and it's ''still just as strong''. [[Curb Stomp Battle]] ensues. So why is it on this page? Because every time you encounter one in the hunting area, you get kicked back onto the world map. No big deal, just avoid... wait, is it ''chasing after you''? At speeds much faster than you can manage? Yes, these things are [[Too Dumb to Live]] and will actively commit [[Suicide by Cop|suicide by your party]], preventing you from getting any of the drops you actually went in there for. If you try going after it using the hunting area mechanics, it proves nigh-impossible to kill this way. And if by some miracle you do manage to do this? '''Another one shows up'''. And it drops absolutely nothing. Once these things start showing up in your hunting areas, you'll probably never use a hunting area again.

* Shadowcats in ''[[Touhou Project|Labyrinth of Touhou]]''. When you first face them, they will be faster than anyone in your party, even [[Fragile Speedster|Chen]]. They also know Shadowstep, which hits your entire active party and, more often than not, paralyzes at least ''half of them''. This leads to trouble if you have to fight two at once and you can't get Meiling, the only person who can cure paralysis at this point, out on the field.