For the past couple of weeks i have been playing Advance Wars: Dark Conflict on the DS. Despite a few niggles, like the never ending dialogues, i have been enjoying the game. Until last night. I was playing a mission which did not seem to end. I had the upper hand but the enemy kept churning out units from its factories. I was slowly taking its cities and thus resources to limit this building of units but it was taking too long. My DS power light even started blinking red, as in "just finish the goddamn  mission" (or maybe that the battery was  about to die on me).

And then the final blow to my mental stability. One of my air fighers was attacked by anti-air cannons but managed to survive. Barely. I had to take it back to an airport for repairs. But its path was blocked. Two of its adjacent squares were being blocked by ground anti-air cannons while the other two by infantry units holding bazookas. The game does not allow diagonal movement of squares either. So my only option was to attack one of the infantry units. But that meant that in the next turn my unit would still be there and would be destroyed by the enemy anti-air units....

I just snapped. I switched the power off. How can a game be so illogical? How can ground troops block the path of air units? I mean i had noticed it before but it was the first time the stupidity of it really hit me. I just don't understand and it is simply poor game design.