Quote Originally Posted by AdvancedWind View Post
My personal opnion on that matter is that, if killing Garuda before she uses Aerial Blast is "cheating", then killing any boss in any game that has a countdown ability before it's timer reaches 0 is cheating as well. Then again, this is only my opnion. Anyways, this whole issue is being blown way out of proportion.
Yoshida has stated quite clearly that this was not supposed to be possible for Garuda, it was a dev oversight. It was clearly an exploit by anyone that did it, and once yoshi confirmed it *was* an exploit that ends any discussion about whether its cheating or not. Yoshida confirmed it was an exploit. Yes it is cheating. There is no way around it, so your opinion, while you are welcome to maintain it, is not based on the facts of the matter right now as far as game designers are concerned. The facts of the matter are that Yoshi says its an exploit, so it is an exploit. But we all knew this before Yoshi even said it. Cheating to get rewards is not something anyone should really respect, and the OP pretty much had it coming to him by making it so obvious. I do agree ppl went too far, but they always go too far.