10 Unwritten Rules Of Gaming Everyone Knows

1. The Clues To A Second Stage Boss Fight

The cooler a boss looks and the later you face them in a game drastically increases the probability that a boss fight will roll into a second stage.

Gamers are already pretty across the frequency of multi-stage boss fights but if a video game boss has a lot of foreshadowing, a special arena, a gorgeous design, or they crop up really late in the game then just go ahead and take that health bar as a guideline and not an expectation. All this means you’re a few good hits away from a short cutscene that sees the already threatening baddie lose their crap, get even more terrifying-looking, and unleash everything they’ve got on you in one final attempt to make sure you’re the one who gets dead and not them.

This goes double if orchestral music starts swelling in the background. If that happens, find some cover and, look, just consider using one of your expensive buff potions. Just this once.