Luckily, you can 'reboot' with a button combination input. The game has an enemy, the Rezbit that actually uploads some sort of virus effect directly into Samus' suit, causing the game to lag like hell, turn off all displays, and fill the screen with snow static.In all games, static fills the screen if Samus is too close to electrical enemies or is hit with some static-inducing attack during one boss fight in Metroid Prime, destroying the enemy's weak spot causes it to explode with such brilliant lighting that Samus's visor overloads, requiring her to switch visors until it recovers.The Metroid Prime Trilogy includes various ways to impair your vision.In Light Crusader, being poisoned doesn't do Damage Over Time like in most games, but instead switches around controls.However, the effect isn't active inside dungeons. The screen shrinks to only half the normal size which can often get in the way of what you're trying to do. In Majora's Mask, the screen gradually shrinks when the morning of the next day approaches in order to heighten the tension of the time limit.In The Wind Waker, one of the things a Poe can do, including King Mook Jalhalla, is to reverse the direction your Control Stick makes you go.

The side effect is that all of Link's directional buttons are reversed. When fighting Ganon at the end of the linked storyline of the Oracle Games, halfway through the fight he will magically change the room you are fighting into a nauseating pulsing-blue theme.He'll no longer be able to walk in a straight line and you'll have to try to navigate while Yagami veers off in random directions and trips over objects. Judgment: Drinking alcohol until Takayuki Yagami reaches his limit will affect the controls.Each time you break one of the stones, the smoke is released, which for a few seconds turns the screen dark and cloudy and reverses the player's controls. In Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future, one of the boss fights, Mutaclone, contained a number of egg-shaped stones filled with yellow smoke, and the player is required to break them in order to take down the boss's force field and proceed with the fight.In Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey, Clockwork Bogs slow everything and turn the screen green.Another endgame stage also has disconnected top and bottom halves, meaning that everything above the midway point of the screen (most of the time, this includes the upper torso of your character) appears several character widths to the left of their actual location, making for some exceedingly hard jumps even without any enemies to bother you which you'll invariably run into regardless. In stage 5-1, if either John or Eric gets hit by the pollen, then the player's horizontal control are reversed, and in stage 6-3, the entire stage is upside down, and the player's vertical controls are reversed. Also present in 1994's Castlevania: Bloodlines.Barlowe in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia not only has a freezing attack, but said attack disables the pause feature as long as you're frozen, preventing you from, for example, busting out potions if your HP is running low.Cadaver by the Bitmap Brothers reversed your directional controls when you drank an alcoholic potion.In Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, equipping the Convex Glasses accessory will zoom the screen in, making it harder to see around you.The final Boss Battle of Beyond Good & Evil starts off relatively normal, but as the battle progresses the screen blurs, the controls are reversed, and everything happens in Slow Motion, representing the effects of the boss's More Than Mind Control on her.If the Interface Screw is caused by the player character consuming a mind-altering substance, that's Intoxication Mechanic. If the player's controls have been temporarily limited in order to focus their attention on exposition, that's Expository Gameplay Limitation. If this is done because the player character has been injured in some way, that's Injured Player Character Stage. Can be utilized by Multiplayer Only Items. Sometimes used as an intentionally created glitch. If such a status effect is available for the player to use on enemies, expect for it to either do nothing at all due to the lack of an interface between the AI and the game, or cause deliberate Artificial Stupidity to compensate for this. If it makes the game noticeably more difficult to play, then it can be considered a form of Fake Difficulty. However, done poorly, it may break game immersion and cause frustration. When it's done well, it can be entertaining, funny, or even terrifying. An event in a video game where the controller buttons are switched around, or the player's display is interfered with.

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