How developers increase difficulty the wrong way

[EL_PATRAS]

metroid prime 3 on hypermode is totally for the birds. The bosses take one million hits, and anyone who's played it knows this is true. The game is fine till you get to the boss battles, which a re just tedious and boring.

If only more creative ways of making a game tougher were implemented, not just giving the enemys more hit points or making them stronger.