So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

I really didn't like the Darkness at launch. Seemed to me to be overrated based on it being an exclusive at a time when there was very little worth playing on the 360. I remember the AI being absolutely atrocious and the story being a bit try hard. I'm sure the performance is egregious in his day and age. I doubt it's aged well.

Started Deep Fear last night on Saturn. Slightly worried about this one. I had a lot of trouble before with multidisc games on saturn emulation (namely Enemy Zero) and this is another multidisc game. I looked up a youtube video and I think, this game saves automatically at the disk swap so restarting the emulator after the disc swap should hopefully work.

Anyway I only played about 20 minutes because the landlord won't put the heating on and it got too cold but I'm looking forward to seeing Sega's answer to Resident Evil. The voice acting so far might be even worse!

It never will be. It's doesn't have dogs bower.

What emulator are you using? Seems to be a mednafen bug which all the cores on retroarch are based off. Usually the game supresses the boot back to the CD player if the disc tray is opened but the emulator doesn't emulate that check and will jump to the CD player. So it makes games with no save on disc swap not playable past the first disc.

I've only seen this on enemy zero (it's the easiest game to check also as disc one is just a skippable intro). You didn't have the same in policenauts? I'm using a m3u file as well.

Enemy zero still wasn't working. Good to hear it probably won't be an issue!

So had a bit of a Saturn night. Played a good bit of Deep Fear. It's got quite a slow opening but once it gets going it's a lot of fun. It's a very impressive looking games, somewhere between Resi 1 and Resi 2, and one of the best looking games on the saturn. The CGI cutscenes are very impressive for the time, again a little better than say FF7 but not quite up there with the best Square had at the time. It's a big improvement over Panzer Dragoon Saga whose CG seemed a bit low budget.

As a game it's a little more action orientated than Resi. You have limited ammo but can refill at ammo stations. There's an air meter as well in rooms which counts down when you are in them. You switch over to a respirator when it's depleted which has a limited air supply. It adds a bit of tension and a new dynamic. I'm enjoying it but the only area it beats Resident Evil in is the voice acting which is somehow worse, especially the character Dubois who has the most over the top camp accent ever, although kudos probably have to be given for 'attempting' a gay character, although its never said so far if he is or isn't.

Had a quick spin of Radiant Silvergun again. Got a little bit further than I usually do, I usually get stumped in Stage 3 at a multi-stage boss where you are trapped in a cordoned off area that gets surrounded by lasers. Thought I got to the boss before the end of stage 3 but looking at a walkthrough I'm about halfway through, Stage 3 is over twice as long as the previous 2 stages together.

Someday I'll beat this game, but I think I'll only really have beaten it when I get to the end starting the game with base level weapons, but I'll work on that later.

Deep Fear finished. I enjoyed it but it's no classic. The first disc is more linear with small hub areas and a lot of fun. It's closer to something like Dino Crisis 2 than resident evil as you can stock up on ammo and health at ammo/health stations rather than having to ration it. The second disc falls apart a little as there's a lot of backtracking to hit arbitrary checkpoints to progress the story.

Combat is a little lacking as well. You can get new weapons but the machine guns are kind of useless and the shotguns really are the only choice for the majority of the game. The normal enemies are fun but bosses are very basic bullet sponges. The story is hokum but the voice acting is hilarious. The acting is dreadful with actors stumbling over lines making it into the final audio and there's a very offensive portrayal of a camp character. The CGI cutscenes are very impressive for the time they came out. The music is the real standout as they somehow managed to get the composer of the Ghost in the Shell anime on board. It only really plays in cutscenes but its really good.

Metroid Zero Mission is superb. The short length didn't bother me. I just loved every moment of it and it's wide open for sequence breaking if you go back to it.

Finally put fire emblem the binding blade to bed. Note to others wanting to get into the series, dont start with the second hardest game in the series!

Mother has a great ending it's just very very grindy with a final dungeon filled with enemies that are far more difficult that the final boss so you end up running past everything.

I just beat Hakaiou: King of Crusher on PS1 and I'm just in shock after it. Like what the actual **** is this game. I don't know how something like this could have gotten green lit.

It can look great sometimes but I think people saw the dream like quality it brought to Ico and Sands of Time and didn't understand the artistic choice and put it in everything. Happens with every new graphical development. 3D graphics cards brought coloured lighting meaning every game was a garish mix of neon corridors. Pixel shaders meant every wall looked like it was smeared vaselines to highlight the effect. Even during 16-bit games we had pre-rendering madness.