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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition
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I've started Castlevania Order of Ecclesia in between being absolutely absorbed by Elite Beat Agents.
It's the only handheld Iga-vania I never beat. I was really excited for it but when I played it something was a bit off about it.
It's not a bad game but it has some issues, mainly that enemies and especially bosses take way too many hits to put down. The game also have a very different structure to the other Castlevania games. Its more a call back to Simon's Quest than SotN so stage layouts are a bit weird.
I'm going to stick with it and beat it. I might also replay the other two DS vanias as I never played the new game plus characters which apparently are very different experiences from the base game.
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It would need someone to care enough about the game to romhack it. Not even the sonic perverts will touch it, and they all seem hell bent on the historical revisionism that sonic heroes is good.
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Up to the final mission on sweatin' difficulty in elite beat agents. It's making me hate the rolling stones after I just fell out with Bowie.
It's driving me mad but at least you can skip the song intros, ready steady go drove me insane in Osu Tatake Ouendan.
The worst thing is I have to play it again at the higher difficulty.
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Beat sweatin' mode and unlocked the elite beat divas hard rock mode for the ultimate challenge. I'm a good bit in but at the final 4 stages which give the most issues so I guess I'll be stuck here.
The hard rock mode has the same icon patterns as sweatin' except they mirror them, make the icons smaller and give you half the time to react to the icons appearing. It's a real ball buster.
I did enjoy circle of the moon when it came out but it retrospect it's a bit weak. There's boss fight with two dragons that near killed my progress in the game.
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Oh of course there is but it's not as customisable as you'd think. And while there might be broken combinations, the DSS system is also based on totally random drops so by that point you only have a few cards to play with and I had nothing but junk.
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Finally last night I beat Jumping Jack Flash on the hardest difficulty in Elite Beat Agents. I'd been trying on and off for days. It's absolute insanity. Even when I had most of the song off by muscle memory there were always moments when my execution was just off. The penultimate stretch in the song is a series of very fast stretches of 13 notes, each punctuated by a spinner. Absolute pain in the ass as you really have to spin like crazy to complete the spinner. You don't really have time to hit the next note so you have to stop the spinner early to move to the next note string.
On this attempt my fingers were getting very sweaty on the final spinner so they were right down to the nub of the stylus but I managed to keep it together.
Haven't felt this sort of an achievement in a videogame since I beat Mike Tyson.
The only bad news is that there's still Ouendan 2 to beat...
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There's definitely signs of the spinners when you catch the light right!
What makes the final difficulty so hard is that only perfect '300' hits will gain you back meter. '100' hits seem to loses net meter and '50' hits might as well be a missed hit.
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After a rocky start I'm really getting into Castlevania Order of Ecclesia. The game starts tough with two boss fights that take way more damage than they really should but once you get past that it gets really good.
There's a bit of Simon's Quest DNA here with each stage being its own mini metroidvania and all interconnected. There's also a town that you fill up with villagers that gives side quests that expand the shop inventory.
It looks stunning as well, it might be the last example of traditional pixel art from a big Japanese developer.
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About a year ago I was dared to play Kingdom Hearts RE: Chain of Memories by a... Friend. Not sure I can call them a friend anymore but I guess forcing this game on someone is not grounds for dismissing a friendship.
I decided to finally get this game off my backlog and I'm mixed about the game but it's mostly bad.
It's remaster of a PS2 game which was a budget remake of a GBA game. It has kingdom hearts combat but also throws in card mechanics. It's sounds ****, and it kind of is, but it also kind of works.
The problem is that there's an actual good battle system here. Boss battles are excellent and I have to admit the last few boss battles were challenging and a lot of fun. The problem is you have about 30-45 minutes of the same random battles over and over between boss fights. It really drags the game down. The move to 3D apparently doubled the length of the game, although this remaster did add extra balancing.
There's other issues, it being a Kingdom Hearts game means the story is absolute ballocks.
I beat Sora's story which opens up the very difficult Riku story so I'm not done with the game yet but I did make sure to drop the game difficulty ro easy this time as those random battles are hell to slog through.
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Playing some games on the original Nintendo Switch this evening.
My original Revenge of Shinobi cart I got for my birthday in 1992. Peeled off label where my mam tried to remove the Quinsworth price sticker but failed miserably.
Was actually having a great non infinite shuriken run and the bloody game froze at The Terminator! Noooooo
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… you weren't wrong on N64 Sin and Punishment. Officially have everything I care about on N64 now and it seems like I left the best until last. On the one hand I can't believe this didn't get a release outside of Japan. On the other hand… the sequel on Wii does not appear to have sold well either. We dont deserve to have nice things over here in the west folks.
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Been on holidays so haven't been playing a whole lot. Since I was starting a new handheld game I decided to stick with the DS for now and started the remake of the first Shiren game. It's a proper rogue-like, pretty hardcore but also quite approachable with some interesting mechanics that differentiate it from other games. I've gotten to floor 18 out of I think 50 floors so far. Some runs have been a disaster where I got beaten in the very first room but runs are usually relatively short anyway. There's also a surprising amount of humour in the game and little side quests that make future runs a little easier.
Also played a little of contra 4. Right old ball buster. Its great fun but there are some annoyances with the dead space between the top and bottom screens.
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Decided to move on to Final Fantasy IX over the weekend after finishing Chrono Trigger...just occurred to me that I'm actually kind of lucky given I haven't played it far beyond the first disc. Basically a PS1 era FF game Ive never played properly.
Hooked my PVM back up for it specifically. Was trying it on th big tv with a retrotink. Looked like absolute ass. I just don't think PS1 games can really work on a big modern screen, even with good shaders thrown at it.
The PVM on the other hand is jaw dropping. The FMV videos look absolutely incredible.
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Started Tomb Raider 3 in the remake collection and the game is just mean. So many bullshit moments to catch the player off guard and it's really not a good starting off point for people new to the series. The levels are also way too big.
It's very obvious that by this point the core design team behind tomb raider was getting very burned out with the yearly production cycle and there's a lot of stuff here that feels like it didn't go through polishing during the play testing.
For instance you have the choice of 3 stages after you beat the India stage but if you choose Nevada last you will end up losing all your weapons before the final set of stages.
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I'm only really going through it because I couldn't finish it back in the day because my memory card corrupted on the second last stage. This is revenge.
I've heard Last Revelation is a real return to form for the series but never played it. Chronicles is meant to be really bad but bad in an interesting way so I'm curious.
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Tomb Raider 3 just screams 1998.
Aesthetically the game is chock full of garish coloured lighting, putting it after the late 1997 release of quake 2 and the 3D accelerator revolution on PC where coloured lighting was all the rage.
There's a level set in Area 52 with aliens and spaceships putting it around the maximum hype point for the X-Files.
The only thing that's a bit of a stretch are the forced stealth sections in the London levels. Forcing stealth sections into an engine that can barely support the main gameplay elements let alone stealth is a very post metal gear solid thing to do. MGS was released in September 1998 in Japan while TR3 had a release of November. However considering the insane crunch the game was under (and how buggy and badly designed the stealth is) it might not be a push that it was shoehorned in last minute considering how much a month would be as a percentage of total development time.
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