Bully – Gary
There is nothing quite like getting revenge on your high school bully. Well, unless that revenge amounts to you easily defeating him by relentlessly mashing the punch button until the game ends.
Rockstar has never been known for ending their games on a satisfying note, and unfortunately, Bully is no different.
Gary is the protagonist’s devil on the shoulder throughout the game. He is constantly influencing Jimmy, the main character, to do things he wouldn’t normally do in order to earn acceptance from Gary and his goons.
After a long and drawn-out chase scene where you race around the school on foot as you try and catch Gary and end his torment, you find yourself on a teetering scaffold as you and Gary go head to head for one final time.
However, for all the buildup this final battle gets, the fight itself is laughably easy.
In order to defeat Gary, all the player must do is mindlessly mash the punch button until he goes to the ground. The player must then repeat this process until Gary’s health bar is depleted.
For an entire game centered around the conflict between Jimmy and Gary, the final conclusion amounts to nothing more than a button-mashing exercise and a completely unsatisfying cutscene that seems to roll the credits far too quickly.
