8 Ways You Can Accidentally Break Popular Video Games
7. Using The Null Driver - Iji
There are tons of weapons in video games that punish you for using them, like the Bane in Borderlands 2, which emits a high-pitched shrieking sound every time you pull the trigger. The Null Driver from 2D platformer Iji also falls into this category, but is much worse than the rest because it will eventually make the game nearly unplayable.
Upon picking the firearm up, the screen displays a warning: "the wormholes generated by this corrupted prototype weapon are highly unstable. USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK." But, overconfident a breed as gamers are, this cautionary message is easy to ignore, because, really, how bad can it be?
As such, you'll plow ahead with your nifty new device in hand, but after a few pulls of the trigger, you'll realise you've made a big, big mistake.
While the Null Driver will defeat your enemies with ease, it will also turn the surrounding environment into an incomprehensible mess. Details of the world will be replaced with random images, and platforms, lifts, and backgrounds will become a jumbled array of colours and shapes. It becomes almost impossible to see where you're going or what you're doing, a scenario you could not have predicted when you first picked the weapon up.
Even worse, if you quit to the main menu and return, these effects will still remain, a detail that the game doesn't warn you about in advance.