The worst one was definitely the Yeti King. And not only because it combined all the other problems in one mode.
It's simply the unfair 100% accurate ice snipes from the AI that keeps you constantly frozen while the Kings Fool constantly spawns at the far end of the map. That way half the time is already wasted on travel from A to B with a good chance of somebody dying on the way. And i am not talking Easy or Normal difficulty here.
And then you have to hold ground with a team while the boss summons an AoE ice attack.
It's simply not balanced and Popcap saying "we tested it and manged to do it" doesn't help when it needs more fine tuning. The game is way too random to force people into a specific well trained pattern and team composition to succeed.
The Yeti King wasn't hard, it was unfair.
The "Make It or Break It" factor of "The Kings Day Out" was the number of Sunflowers on the team, what kind of Sunflower they were and the skill level of the player using it.
Use of the Stuffy Sunflower variant with the Rainbow Heal Flower alternate ability totally changes the dynamic of the Hunt. Not everyone realizes it but having a Heal Beam on you, or receiving Healing Drops from a Heal Flower cancels or prevents the movement penalty and freezing from the Yetis and Ice-variant Zombie Heroes and with the Special Ability of the Stuffy Flower being that Zombies she vanquishes explode into Healing Drops it's easily the most valuable support character in that particular Boss Hunt.
My one win was as a peashooter with a friend playing an excellent pocket vampire flower. She stuck to me like glue and together we not only lived to tell the tale, we were the also ones who killed the champion and carried the slushy to the boss each time.
Don't get me wrong, it felt very difficult. But only when I went in later with randoms did I realize how truly difficult it was. A flower attached at the hip to a high DPS character made all the difference. I wish I hadn't been too tired to keep playing that first night. I suspect I may have been able to get the hats for the higher difficulty levels with that particular team.
