What Games Have You Completed? (2021 Edition)
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"It should be so lucky to even draw any comparisons to a Quantic Dream, even in a negative. It's games like this that make you realise how talented David Cage truly is."
Ah now, you've gone too far.
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Game|Platform|
- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
- DuckTales Remastered|PC
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Yakuza goes JRPG.
The thing about Sega and RPGs is that they as the company is very arcade and action game focused they never really make many RPGs, which is a shame because nearly every RPG they make is fantastic. The Phantasy Star series, Panzer Dragoon Sage, Skies of Arcadia, Valkyria Chronicles. They're all incredible. It just baffles me to hear the likes of the creator of Panzer Dragoon Saga lamenting that he didn't make it an action game. Dude! You made one of the greatest RPGs of all time! Yakuza: Like a Dragon is up there along with all the Sega RPG greats.
While it might surprise people that Yakuza going JRPG works so well, it shouldn't be a surprise since Yakuza has always secretly been an RPG, right down to having random battles. The new battle system is pretty much a straight up Dragon Quest clone. The job classes you can take are pretty much Dragon Quest jobs and the battle system has the same emphasis on status effects and buffs that DQ has. There's a few 'Yakuza' elements like how the party can use items in the environment, but it's pretty much dragon quest. That's no bad thing considering how good that battle system is. My only complaint here is that the battle system only comes into its own in the end game with some really tough boss battles that are a joy to figure out and over come. The contrivances the writing goes to to try and explain how the new battle system fits within the more grounded Yakuza world are some of the best parts of the early game. The turn based combat is explained by someone asking why Ichiban lets enemies hit him before hitting them back.
Speaking of the new protagonist Ichiban, he is the star of the show. He is just a bundle of positivity that is infectious and has the right amount of stupidity offset by just good nature. He's just a damn nice guy. Kazama will be missed but Ichiban is a more than worthy successor. I'd go so far as to say I prefer him.
The story is the usual japanese TV drama writing. Basically it's kind of crap. There's some very convenient plot twists and it's very silly but it's carried out with such flare that I never really minded and just let myself be swept up in its wild ride. The side quests are where the game shines. The game is laugh out loud hilarious and most of the humour is in the side quests. It's worth doing them all just to see how deep the crazy gets.
As with all Yakuza games the setting is a real stand out. The open world is small but its packed with so much detail. There's a tonne of minigames to do and unlike other RPGs like say Final Fantasy VII where the minigames are just all universally awful, all the mini games in Yakuza are well made and loads of fun. There's so much to see and do and it's very easy to get distracted from the main quest just messing around and spending all your money in the arcade.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is one of the best RPGs I've played in a long time. The main story can drag a bit with over long cutscenes but avoiding the story and getting up to mischief and exploring the city is where all the fun of Yakuza is.
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GAME: Heart of Darkness
PLATFORM: PlayStation 1
If you've ever played the original Prince of Persia, BlackThorne, Flashback, Another World (especially) and liked them, then you'd enjoy this.
I first got this game for Xmas 1998 when it came "bundled" with my first ever PS1.
I never took to it as a child but as I got older I learned to love it more.
I've seen the ending of the game (thanks to my chip cartridge) and I've played the final level (thanks to the same cartridge with cheats enabled) but this was the first time I ever beat the game from beginning to end.
It's a cinematic platformer more akin to Another World but not too indifferent to the other aforementioned games.
I managed to stream the whole thing live, which I was personally delighted with - now I can see the whole thing whenever I want -- immortalised.
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I remember the hype for that game. It looked insane at the time but kept getting delayed more and more. By the time it was released it looked old hat and platforming and games had progressed way past it.
It was a big deal at the time that Sega paid for timed exclusivity at the time to try and save the Saturn but the game was so delayed it came out after the Saturn was abandoned. I remember reading about it next to a resident evil 2 preview so the writing was kind of on the wall for Sega at that stage.
I heard it's a decent game just extremely difficult and just couldn't love up to its hype.
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Game|Platform|
- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
- DuckTales Remastered|PC
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon|PC
- Asterix|Master System
Asterix
I'm kind of surprised by this one because it's a bit of a hidden gem. A Sega developed platformer made only for the European market and it's really good.
Is your standard 8 bit platformer, although one of the best 8bit platformers I've played. What really stands out is how gorgeous it is. The sprites are big, colourful and detailed and really capture the look of the comic. There's some gorgeous intermission screens as well. This might be the best looking 8bit game I've seen.
After the first two stages you get a choice of either asterix or obelix for each stage and depending on the character the level can be totally different or you'll take a wildly different route through an existing level. Asterix can use a variety of potions with differing effects and can slide into small gaps while obelix can smash his way through destructible scenery.
There's a few design niggles and slow down but it doesn't detract from the fact that this is one of the best platformers on the master system. If there's one flaw it's the naff music.
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I didn't cheat by playing a load of fighting games! 😋
I'm actually finding the thread is making me focus on finishing games a lot more than I should. I think having a good mix of RPGs and short retrogames is helping me keep the numbers up but I'm also liking that I'm getting around to these games whereas I'd be putting them off previously.
Now to play an entire evening of 1 hour long visual novels to smash your total! 😆
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Game|Platform|
- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
- DuckTales Remastered|PC
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon|PC
- Asterix|Master System
- McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure|Megadrive
McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure
So what am I doing playing a game that's very obviously a Corporate piece of propaganda masquerading as a videogame?
Well one of my favourite developers is Treasure and this is their first game. I always thought it was their second as it came out as their second game in the west. Basically when Treasure was formed they took this game on for Sega to fund their passion projects. Treasure would go on to produce classics like Gunstar Heroes and Dynamite Headdy for the Megadrive.
I always bounced off this game as I played it on the default difficulty where the enemies are damage sponges and you take way too much damage but dropping it to beginner makes the game way more fun.
While this game is far from Treasure's best work they definitely didn't phone it in. The game really shows off the team's technical chops in many places, right from the start the Treasure logo scales and rotates on to the screen, an effect the megadrive should not be able to do. It looks bright and colourful with massive sprites.
The game hints at some of the wild ambition that would become a staple of later Treasure games. Levels have gimmicks that keep the game fresh and it's only towards the end when it becomes a bit more normal that the game gets a bit dull. Bosses can only be damaged by letting them take some of your health to literally chew on.
The game was obviously made by the Dynamite Headdy team. Ronald's moveset is like a proto headdy, the engine feels like an alpha test for that game and the music and humour are very similar. There's even an enemy towards the end of the game that would suggest this team also went on to develop Mischief Makers.
It's a pretty decent game that just pales in comparison to what Treasure would later produce. Treasure have done a few work for hire projects in their time and while they are never their best work (well other than the outstanding Astroboy GBA game) they never phone it in.
The story of the game is baffling. Ronald is looking for 4 pieces of a treasure map.... supposedly to find treasure? So when he finds all the pieces he finds out the treasure is on the moon. So he goes to the moon, crashes his rocket, beats the **** out of the boss who then says he is afraid Ronald was after his treasure. Then Ronald said he isn't, he is just looking for a way to fix his rocket and they all live happily every after. Tell me this Ronald, why the feck did you fanny about getting a Treasure map and going to the moon then you absolute fanny! Unless of course it's an allegory about McDonalds causing untold environmental damage and then denying all responsibility.
There is one big negative against this game. The third stage has some extremely racist caricatures of South Island natives. I think they were changed to robots for the western release and I must have been playing the japanese version of the game but it took me back a bit.
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