effervescible | Calm down, now, it's just a game...

Well, the Dullahan armor-`n-air monster killed me in Vagrant Story again. My problem is that when I'm fighting zombies and bats, I can usually time the reflect damage well, but when I face bosses like this my adrenaline shoots way up and I'm always too fast. Argh! I think the real problem is that I always project myself into the story--I'm really good at getting into things and picturing myself there. (Probably why Blair Witch scared me so much. I'd be utterly freaked if it was me.) So when I'm playing a character alone in dark catacombs, surrounded by monsters...well, the fight or flight instinct kicks in and in my case it's usually flight. *grin* It's so stupid. It's a GAME! I even played the last round in broad daylight with chocobo music playing, and I still get all shaky. I think that's why I tend to like games like Final Fantasy and Chrono Schna more, because the menu is sort of a buffer...I'm not actually doing the fighting myself, I don't have to dodge. I'm going to keep playing, though. I refuse to let a silly video game scare me. If it takes dying fifty times, so be it, I could use some desensitization here...