If You Buzz That Thing One More Time... by solarjeraniums |  |
GAMES ROOM - Sometimes, there are games out there that are probably specifically
designed to torment its players. Now, I try to play the featured game everyday
just to make a few extra Neopoints. There's nothing wrong with that. I can usually
get around 2k in a day off of them...if the game likes me. It's great because
you can have fun and make a little extra money if you need it. Then the day came
when The Buzzer Game was the feature.
You'd think with such an inconspicuous name like that, it would be a game that
the average Joe (or Jane) could play and get a decent score on. Buzz! That is
not true. I've laboured over that game many times but have never gotten a really
good score I was truly proud of to send. How can such a mind-blowing game like
this one be labeled as "Medium Difficulty." I think it could harm one's mental
and emotional health if that buzzing noise is heard for extended periods of
time.
If you're like me, and you hear the buzz during the first or second round,
you feel completely useless and start over in a desperate attempt to do better
with more lives, so you actually have lives to speak of when you get up there
in difficulty...if you get up there at all. This results in many (possibly)
hours on this one game you don't like anyway! AND you don't get anywhere. Well,
anywhere fast, anyway. That's not always a bad thing, but it may get quite tedious
and turn people away from the game. But where exactly does the difficulty lie?
To me, the difficulty lies in the mouse and the mouse pad. If this was real,
the control would be so much better, but it's an extension of your hand, and
that can always be complicating. I'm sure those of you who've tried to play
the game have sometimes had to start at the far left of the mouse pad and moved
gradually to the right. If you have my intelligence, you would have started
in the middle and eventually found yourself buzzing yourself out because the
mouse fell off the mouse pad with a loud clicking sound. If you were just a
little more intelligent than I am, you probably would have done away with the
mouse pad and used your desk. There would have been a large pallet to exercise
the use of. But these are for us fortunate people who even have a mouse. I have
tried a few times to play the game on a laptop with a little square you move
your finger around on. On such a tiny surface, it makes the game all that much
more difficult. The little red dot between the keys of some laptops can also
complicate the game.
Of course, the annoying Techo's incessant distractions don't help. I could
be zooming down the impossibly twisting circuit doing a great job with not getting
close to the wire and suddenly, "BOO!" His eyes bulge and his mouth opens wide
and a disconcerting noise escapes his froggy lips. Anyone smarter than I am
would have turned off the volume to eliminate this one distraction, but I am
definitely not smarter than me. He's also stuck out his tongue at me! When I
was young, sticking out one's tongue was dubbed to be the worst thing to do
to anyone, so it got my attention all right. BUZZ! I haven't actually gotten
farther than the third level to discover anymore of his tricks, but there must
be plenty more. He's clever, actually. I'm sure you've all heard of the phrase,
"I'm not touching you so you can't get mad!" It's completely true and that bothers
me.
Sometimes, it looks like I'm going to touch and I hurt myself trying to rotate
the wand so that it'll go around the wire unscathed. I've been known to climb
up on my desk and look at it sideways in hopes of going past that little annoying
bump. Okay, not little but very large. I think it's how the loop is elliptical
which makes it so much more difficult for me. I think I have since learned that
it will go through! The key words are, "I think," and I'm not completely sure
if I've fully grasped that thought. Maybe you'll have better luck with it.
Once you do get the hang of it, though, it can be quite fun. I can finish with
a few points as bonus and have the little box thing come up and say, "You have
3 lives left!" Yay! Unfortunately, I've only got the hang of it for the first
level, since I've played it so many times. I'm sure practice does make perfect.
That's probably why I can breeze through level one now but buzz myself out constantly
on the first loop of the second. I have tried many times to practice on the
second, but no one told me we had to start over when we failed!
Yes but seriously. If you're truly determined, go for it and never give up!
I've tried very many times and I've gotten the insurmountably high score of
59 points! I'm sure you're laughing at me and saying, "Pffft...I'm sure I could
do better than that." Well you can. I am almost completely sure that most of
you out there have a steadier hand than I do. Technically, nothing is impossible,
and one can always achieve something they wish to. I am determined to get over
two hundred points, as that is when my high scores will change my rank from
Beginner to...Novice, I believe. If you've even read this article, maybe you
can check my scores everyday, and one day, you will see me with a better score
than my current colossal score of 59!
As the Techo would say...
.. and the young apprentice must learn patience, and balance. The strongest
of enemies can be defeated by only the steadiest of hands.
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