The continuation of my moaning from the sad thread about Wii Sports Resort's Table Tennis:
YES I BEAT LUCIA! SHE'S DEAD AND GONE FROM MY LIFE FOREVER! I finally have my Table Tennis dignity back!
Granted, it was in an 11-point match, where the AI is inexplicably dumber for some reason, but I BEAT HER! EAT IT LUCIA! 11-5 too!
I was half-expecting that when I scored the final point against her, she'd start trembling, and light would pour out of her eyes and mouth as she screams, and she disintegrates piece by piece as all the souls of Table Tennis players she'd devoured over her centuries long lifetime fly out of her body. The island shakes and rumbles, and the volcano erupts, spewing ash and lava all over the island as the tourists flee in terror. Your character flees to the nearby beach where the Seaplane from the Island Flyover game is waiting, and you jump in and start taxiing away as Lucia explodes into a ball of light and hatred. You character narrowly escapes the explosion, and deftly avoids the debris clogging up the air, and gains altitude just in time to see all of Wuhu Island sink into the ocean.
Yeah, half-expecting. Instead, you're given the Table Titan stamp award, and allowed to progress up the ranks to the next rank, Superstar.
Getting the maximum rank score of 2500 was really disappointing, since Lucia is literally the last 'predetermined' player at her skill level, and everyone else is random player from earlier on, except with massively beefed up skills and attributes, and they STILL don't pose as large a challenge as Lucia. Even more disappointing, is that whenever you hit 'restart' (which I do reflexively now when it looks like I'm about to lose), you don't face the same person again, you face another random Mii, with completely different attributes and playstyle.
It was saddening, since it didn't feel like I was beating people on a detailed rank ladder anymore, I was just gradually beating down the Wii Resort hivemind. It kind of took the fun out of getting the max rank of 2500.
Still, so happy that I beat Lucia.