So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Ugh, Punch-out!! is really kicking my ass. The first 3 fights I basically have down pat. Don Flamenco really should be easier but he is so annoying to fight that sometimes I lose my cool and end up totally screwing up and he gets flukey win against me. I can't even complain about it either as the whole gimmick of that fight and character is to frustrate the player into making a mistake, it's begrudgingly great game design.

Things get really bad once I hit Mr. Sandman. His attacks are super quick and you have a tiny window to dodge them. I can dodge his attacks pretty consistently now. The big issue is his special Dreamland Express. In the first round he will delay a long time and you have to watch for him to flash and then dodge three punches. I don't know what the timing is to dodge after the flash but it's can't be more than 2 frames. Unfortunately dodging this attack is the only way to do decent damage to him. In Round 2 you can expect the Dreamland express every time he or you go down. You also can't just keep dodging and hope to get lucky, he seems to wait for you to come out of a dodge before initiating it if you dodge too early. I seen some one in a video dodge it with constant dodges. Maybe they were doing quick dodges. Worth a try.

Anyway the odd time I beat that guy and get to Super Macho Man. Super Macho Man is fine, his attacks are much slower than Mr. Sandman and way easier to dodge. The issue is his super spinning move which I don't have the timing for. I think in this case I need to actually slow my dodges down and listen to the sound each punch makes and dodge then but hard to do under pressure. One time I got to him without losing a fight and on the third loss the game punts you back to Don Flamenco.

First Tyson fight.

Didn't go so well.

**** yes!

I don't know how the **** I did it. It was a pretty slow second round. Was doing well, knocked Tyson out in the first 10 seconds but nowhere near doing the damage for two more knockdowns so 1:30 hits, he does the wiggle eyebrows signifying a flurry of punches coming and a chance at a star, I'm a bit late so throw a punch hoping for a star and he goes straight down. WTF that never happens.

So he got back up. Holding my own but don't have the time to put him down. Gets ready near the end of the round wiggling the eyebrows again. Again a bit late I throw a punch. And he goes straight down again TKO. What the hell!

I was following you can beat videogames tips, he was saying throw a uppercut at the eyebrow wiggle but i could never carry the uppercut to that stage as I'd always take at least one hit. Looking it up on line with stupidly good timing you can put him down with a punch. So I fluked it but **** it I'll take it!

Anyone wanted to give it a try it's all about surviving the first 1:30 in round one. After that it becomes an extremely tough but fair fight. Don't be too put off if you go down twice in that first 1:30. If you can survive it you have a very good chance and you get a few more knockdown recoveries than most other fights give.

I can give up videogames now. I've peaked.

Mad world annoyingly is one of those Wii games that was released in totally unoptimised 50hz in Europe and ruins the experience. I've been meaning to pick up a ntsc copy.

And that's Turtles finished. It's a real mess of a game. The final corridor of death would have been infuriating if I was younger and didn't know how to complete it. Thankfully shredder is a push over with the scroll sub weapon so didn't take a single hit.

Nice. Always meant to go back to that game. I'll probably play the expanded SNES version.

The considered controls of the game just really appealed to me. It's probably why I love the first Tomb Raider as its essentially PoP in 3D.

Played a good bit of Crash Bandicoot 2 last night. It's the one game in the series I've the least amount of familiarity with. I've heard it held aloft by the Sony faithful as a nintendo-esque masterpiece and one of the best platformers of all time.

From my time playing Crash 2 I can conclude one thing, the people that praise this game need to play more platform games, especially nintendo ones because this game is very mediocre.

Now it is a big improvement over Crash 1 but that game is not good.

I like the hub design, it means you aren't stuck on a stage. The level design so far, while not exactly spectacular, at least has variety and there so far hasn't been the god awfulness of some of those Crash 1 levels. There's a new slide move which adds a bit more complex movement to the game but kind of only complicates things.

Now for the bad. Going for secrets is a lesson in awful game design. They aren't well communicated to the player and many are hidden off camera. It's just really unfair. The first boss was also complete gash. There's also still issues with Crashes design, with levels asking you to walk into the camera if you are going for secrets. At least the game doesn't completely negate you progress getting all crates when you die once like Crash 1 does.

So far it's perfectly cromulent.

And they say crime doesn't pay and yet we have the Tories making millions in the UK and pantry boy paying for a pantry through the proceeds of Crash Bandicoot 2 theft.

I think twilight princess came at the perfect time for me. Got it day one of the Wii and for the longest time there wasn't a whole lot on the Wii so I had plenty of reason to sink the ridiculous... 40 hours I think?... Into it. When the wiiu remake came out I didn't get it because I knew I wouldn't be willing to put that time into it.

When I think back to it there's not a whole lot that stands out about it. Wind waker or ocarina made more of an impression and I did remember thinking it felt like a ocarina remake.