8 Ways You Can Accidentally Break Popular Video Games

by Danny Meegan

1. The Locked Pyrosphere Door - Metroid: Other M

Through no fault of your own, it's possible to run into a fully game-breaking scenario in Wii exclusive Metroid: Other M, with the only solution being to start the darn thing from scratch. Or weep in a corner.

Occurring in the Desert Refinery section of the game, the problem of the locked Pyrosphere door is, admittedly, a rare problem to run into. But, at the same time, if you aren't aware that it's a possibility, it's ridiculously easy to trigger unintentionally.

Shortly after acquiring the Ice Beam, player character Samus will be trapped in a corridor and forced to battle a group of Dessgeegas. Upon defeating them all, the nearby doors will open, and you can progress forward. However, at this stage, if you choose to backtrack to the room where you first got the Ice Beam, then head forward, the door in the basement of the Refinery will remain permanently locked, leaving you unable to make progress.

The Pyrosphere door issue was so disastrous that Nintendo even set up a program to let affected players send their saves in for repair. This was obviously not an ideal solution though, and your best bet was to hope that this issue didn't happen to you, or try and avoid it altogether.

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Encountered any other ways you can accidentally break games? Let us know in the comments section!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!