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#17: The Root Pack
Difficulty: 1/10
Design: 4/10
Fun Factor: 2/10

Like Goopy, The Root Pack is a fairly straightforward introductory fight. Well, as straightforward as a fight against three giant evil vegetables could be. And it does a pretty good job introducing you to the basic concepts of the game. You've got dodging projectiles, avoiding a mini bullet hell in the form of onion tears, and an enemy with a hitbox that requires you to aim upwards. It is pretty much everything you want from an introduction level, and so it gets points for that.

You also get the first "different enemy per phase" fight and while other fights do that better its still interesting to see what is coming next. You start off against a potato spitting dirt clods, move on to a crying onion, and finish off with a...psychic...carrot? Is that a thing? Unlike Hilda Berg, the next phase feels like a logical continuation of the previous one, even though in this fight you're fighting entirely different enemies. This level is also easy enough it works great to show it off to people. It captures that old timey cartoon feel perfectly, and it is easy enough that most people can beat it within a couple tries so it is a lot more accessible than some of the later fights in the game.

In spite of all that though, this is just sort of a boring fight. I got the "S" rank here on my second try, and that was only because I killed it too fast and didn't have a chance to get a third parry after missing one of the incoming worms. The attack patterns of the first two foes are particularly boring, and while it works great as an introduction it is decidedly far less fun to play through once you have the hang of everything. There are a lot of fights I played through a bunch of times to get higher ranks, or because they were fun, or just because I felt like it. You don't really go back to this fight because you won't need to and it wasn't all that interesting your first time through.
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