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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition
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From Software seem to have been a fan of ridiculous difficulty even when it came to their adventure game/horror games like echo night. It's actually an easy enough game except some of the puzzles.
Nearing the end but there's one where you have to transcribe a music box tune on to a church organ so if you are tone defo then it's GameFAQs time. And then there was another when you had to send a Morse code message. Don't know Morse code? Tough **** because the game ain't telling you. Either look it up or off to GameFAQs.
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My games room for the afternoon..!
Three cabinets I immediately made a beeline for.
Batrider, Garegga and Raiden 2 side by side. A holy trinity of original PCBs.
I only realised after an hour that loads of the cabinets have a button to change to a second PCB. So the Raiden 2 Astro was actually holding a Raiden DX surprise in there too.
I think this was the highlight of the place, a gigantic Darius Burst with speakers rumbling under you. Never played it before so it was some treat.
Also had a bit of a blast of a three monitor Darius. Actually found it a little disorientating with the curved CRTs.
Then a some old favs
I think the most amazing thing about Mikado is how well all the monitors are maintained. You can tell whoever owns the place loves everything about it. The Astros have original CRTs and I only saw a couple that had some pincushioning issues and faded colours. The rest were all bright and gorgeous.
After being quite disappointed to see so many game centres in Japan now just being UFO catcher and gashapon vending spots (from what I can see there are basically no arcades as we think of them really left apart from Taito HEY and Mikado) this totally lived up to what I was expecting.
But yeah, I'll be hugging my candy cabinets once I get home as they really do seem to be a dying breed :eek:
I didn't see anything other than Astros, Blasts and Egret 2s. Couple of Dagashi cabinets and old cocktails but that was it. There must be more Capcom Cutes, Aero's, Ponys and SNK cabinets overseas now than left in Japan :eek:
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Started back into Starfox again. The Hard Route really isn't messing around. The second stage in the asteroid field is a real doozy with some nasty enemies that hide behind asteroids. At least there's an extra life you can pick up each time. The next stage Fortuna is tough as well but there's also a chance of an extra life. The big issue with this stage is they went all out with intricate polygon models and effects and it really tanks the framerate. The boss here is extremely tough. I managed to beat him for the first time last night. Next is sector z, a nightmare of rotating girders and shapes. Didn't even make it to the boss.
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Finally beat Starfox. The Hard route is absolutely brutal. The levels are absolute mayhem, the bosses are tough but that carrier you have to take on in Venom's atmosphere is temper tantrum throwingly tough. Thank god the GF is away to London this weekend or I'd be in trouble from all the swearing.
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Finished Fatal Frame 2. Fantastic survival horror game. Got a real Japanese horror vibe to it and it's genuinely scary. Unfortunately the ending is a major downer but I did like it. Going to replay in hard mode to get the second ending as it was just so bleak.
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I realised this evening that as much as I've played Strider over the years, Ive never seen it through.
Christ, its basically Dark Souls when it comes to deaths. There's no possible way to know where you're meant to go without dying over and over first.
An absolute slog, even with credit feeding.
Got there in the end though. If I was in an actual arcade, my bank balance would now be zero.
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You can get an arcade perfect version in most Capcom collections for modern consoles. I'd go with the arcade as the game is a visual feast and while the megadrive game is gorgeous for an early game it's still a step down from the arcade.
Ps1 version is emulation so should be quite close but later collections would be better.
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The jumping is a feature of Capcom games that all their games seem to have. I think it's due to Tokuro Fujiwara since he was a mentor to Capcom. Every action you take you have to commit to and you are locked into an animation or place until it's finished. You see it in everything from ghouls 'n ghosts, bionic commando all the way up to Resi 4, devil may cry and monster hunter. I've never seen it explored before in a dissertation but to me it's a Capcom House style.
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Finished Mister Mosquito last night. Really fun game that's a lot better than the budget would suggest. I'm going to continue with new game plus as it's all the same levels but the dialogue changes as you are now terrorising the family during the summer and the dialogue is pretty amusing.
One bad point is that the game is a bit, well, racist. The voice actors for the husband and wife put on pretty bad Japanese accents that I'd say have dated badly but I don't think it was acceptable even back when Mickey Rooney did yellow face in breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Finished up Beyond the Labyrinth, a stunning looking 3DS game that Konami never released in the west. Usually this is because the game isn't any good but in this case it's baffling because it's one of the best RPGs on the system. It's a dungeon crawler at heart with a simple battle system to understand that gets more complex as it adds more layers as the game progresses. The music is top tier and while the story is t much to write home about it's got some great character development.
Thankfully there's a fan translation. I know the 3DS library is awash with jrpgs (and probably way too jrpg heavy) but this is definitely one to try out and work hacking the 3DS for. Just a helpful note that theres issues with the fan translation where character names won't appear unless you do some changing of the system and rom region and change them to Japanese.
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New Zealand story is one of those games that never really gets mentioned or has a bad name because of the yanks. It got a not very good NES port. It's a great arcade game that got excellent European home ports. The C64 version is great but the Amiga version is excellent and was bundled with some Amigas.
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I only ever played the C64 version… but something tickled my brain when you said Amiga version is excellent.. so I had a look in the game room and there it is, hiding on top of my A600. Must fish it out and have a go at the weekend.
I also noted a DS version in my collection too. I am going to assume it’s awful but if anyone has played it, let me know.
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Speaking of analogue pocket I put the 3DS down and started up links awakening DX a game I've.... Don't hate me, never beaten before.
I know loads about it but never say down and finished it while owning it multiple times. I own the switch remake but I feel the old Gameboy version just feels a and works better.
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