Blog:One Broker vs An Insanely Overpowered Goddess

This is a little story about me fighting Lunatic Mati. Hope you enjoy!

So Janis constantly talks about Mati is the best Dark Witch fight in the series, and I called bullshit. Personally, I think Zizou from Dark Witch 2 is my favorite fight, but I digress. Recently (November 2nd, 2022), Janis brought this up again, talking about how great the Mati fight was in Lunatic mode, and I challenged myself to face off against Mati, Lunatic style. Now, you know how I heel about Dark Witch 3 already. Personally, I think the game kinda sucks. But I was willing to play the game, even for a little bit. Even as Day, the worst fucking character in a Dark Witch game. The problem? Aside from Dark Witch 3 as a game, I actually didn't unlock Lunatic Mode yet. In 3 you have to get all the Syega. So yeah. I'm not doing all that. Thankfully a gracious outside sponsor, named DupliFox, gave me a near 100% save file. I installed it into Citra. However, Dupli warned me about the horrors of Lunatic 3, and that I would probably dislike it. I knew I would, because I dislike 3 as a game, but nonetheless I stepped up to the challenge, and was ready to face Mati. BUT FIRST...

First Impressions of Lunatic
Dark Witch 3 is a pretty hard game of itself. For me, it's too hard. Some moments almost made me smash a controller. But Lunatic is a whole other beast. Lunatic is typically the hardest mode of Dark Witch. It makes enemies stupidly fast, no health drops, and more which I won't get into here. In 3, a bullet spawns upon an enemies death that aims for the player. It can be destroyed, but it's annoying to deal with. Given that Day has a short-ranged homing shot, we're already off to a bad start. So entering the boss arena was annoyingly difficult. If I was playing as Zizou, this would be trivial. But Day has to do some pretty awkward platforming just to get by. If you get hit, you might as reset the game. I seriously don't know why they would put this one stupid mechanic in, but I digress. Eventually I got in and it was time to get a taste of Mati's sweet, sweet blood.

Inside the arena
If you're familiar with the Dark Witch games, you know there's a boss rush at the end. You face off against the first tier bosses, and then you fight another boss, before getting the secret phase. The bosses are my favorite part of 3. 3 has some pretty good bossfights, Rio is my personal favorite, but in Lunatic mode they go insane. They're ridiculously fast and they can kill you easily. Seriously, watch Rio's fight in Lunatic, it's crazy. This was no doubt the hardest part of this run. Like I said, they're way too fucking fast to be easy. So you need to bring your A-Game for these fights. I eventually beat them all and I was at Zizou with 1 life, and 2 HP. I sent this to DupliNick, and he said I wasn't making it to Mati. I wanted to prove them dead wrong.

V.S. ZIZZY 3
Anxiously, I save stated and went in. Yeah, I save stated. Call me a bitch, I don't care. I'm already playing a game I don't like and I haven't even played Lunatic. Zizou was way harder that I thought. Usually, I got blindsighted by her tornados, and Hyper Dark Arm in this game is bullshit. I reloaded state after state, after state, and eventually I got to Mati... with 3 HP, 2 Powerup items, and 0 extra lives.

V.S. MS. MAKIN' MAC N CHEESE
Mati is usually a pushover, but in Lunatic, remember what I said about the bosses in 3? Mati took steriods while already on crack and it's not even funny. She's too fast. She jumps and slashes at you at the speed of sound, combos you out of nowhere, creates shockwaves, and uses Capacity Zero, which is basically "NOW IT'S MY TURN!" Reminder that I've never touched 3 in Lunatic Mode, so this was quite hard. I tried save state, after save state, after save state. Eventually, I caved in and accepted the truth. Mati kicked me down teh