It wasn’t a victory that filled me with joy that I kept my championship, it actually left me with a pretty sour taste in my mouth. I literally said the words “How the fuck did that happen?”. I let off a jab, it connects, square on the nose, the sweaty warrior crumpled into a pile on the ground in front of me, the fight was over. My opponent charged in for the knockout blow, I reacted, by pressing every button possible, in no particular order, very quickly. A hard roundhouse kick to the face, I was staggered, my digital self stumbling backward. I was, for lack of a better term, having the shit kicked out of me, I avoided being taken to the ground but I had little opportunity for offence. I say that because exactly the same situation can happen in the opposite direction. Citing that old familiar phrase that no two fights are ever the same, I however found it difficult to get behind this particular piece of game design. Some people will absolutely get a kick (sorry) out of this. This can be incredibly frustrating, especially when I used the exact kick myself, and landed it, well, a couple of times throughout the match and my opponent barely stumbled. You can dominate your opponent for four rounds with skillful striking, dastardly dodging and a great ground-game and then get knocked out clean with one ludicrously lucky kick despite very little prior offence out of the other corner.
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