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I had an idea that might help cut down the frustration with the finicky platforming: what about using the levitate code to save yourself when you fall off a ledge for no reason but when you do so, levitating so high that you take fall damage. It makes the imprecise controls a little less punishing, ...

Oh no! Joe got ahold of the Wave Bee!

Memerific or not, Illuminati Tape is freaking hilarious.

Leet wrote:

Mata Hari wrote:YYEeaah he said Vectrex

There is one that I really hope he will say but I don't think he will (the

Mattel Hyperscan

)

i'm hoping for the Pokemon Mini myself

Waiting for the cathode ray tube amusement device

The treasure is the spirit of a demon sealed away 1000 years ago.

Finished the game today. It took me bit to figure out the final boss (doesn't help that I never played the original). There were a few situations where Samus' near lack of mercy invincibility got me caught in some nasty combos, but this was an incredible game.The developers introduced some really ne...

Two days ago, DoctorM64 released Another Metroid 2 Remake. I was going to post a link to the download site, but Nintendo, being its usual lovely self, ordered it taken down. Thankfully, the game was available for a bit before Nintendo got their filthy hands on it. The developers spent years on this ...

A third of the galaxy is infested by slime monsters, but Earth's okay so who cares!

Not sure what my overall opinion of this game is. It's definitely beyond my skill level though, that's for sure. I will say, I thought the teleport mechanic was really cool and gave the game some unique personality.

There are so many little things that would've made that segment not hatred incarnate: checkpoints, not having the stupid robots, having spikes care about mercy invincibility...I think just not having spikes be instant death would've made a HUGE difference. And that last room just doesn't know when i...

Insta-kill spikes are frustrating. Insta-kill spikes whose sides kill you are kind of ridiculous. Insta-kill spikes whose sides kill you and ignore mercy invincibility in a game where you can get knocked into them by recoil are just plain stupid.

When it comes to electricity, it's actually the current that kills you, not the voltage.

Also, it appears that our protagonist just took out the ship's main power source.

I seriously think there should have been a better indicator that the boss was being healed.

Dammit raocow, that's not a parasite. A parasite benefits at the expense of the host organism. This is clearly a symbiote , thank you very much. Parasites are a type of symbiote. Cappy would be a mutualist...which is also a type of symbiote. I played through the first world, and I like what I'm see...

Those Volcano Lotuses (Loti?) right next to the ledge could be slide-killed.

morsel/morceau wrote:I guess elevator should be lift (do even North Americans go on a ski elevator?).

No, we call it a ski lift.

raocow was phasing through saws today because Yoshi is immune to line-guided enemies.

So, Dark Jerry tomorrow?

I think you could've jumped onto one of the roofs in town. It's the one just left of the fountain, probably less than 1.5x Jerry's height. It might've been possible to use it to get to other rooftops. As whole this game looks really fun so far. I'd probably pick it up myself, but I don't have a part...

ZephyrBurst wrote: Now is one of the best times to throw requests at me.

It might be a good idea to require pressing the jump button to fall through a platform so you have a choice of whether you want to fall through or just duck.

Ugghh. That elevator segment was horrible. It's blandness and emptiness lure you into a sense of complacency, getting you killed, and making you have to repeat the bland, empty segment over and over again. And putting that infinite loop in the first part of the level is just mean.

Let no one ever complain about Mario swimming levels being too slow again..

Also, scorpions are arachnids, not crustaceans.

What is it that makes Mario/Boon die when hitting a wall at high speed? Do you partially clip through it only for the game to suddenly realize you're inside a solid object or something?

Calaca is not going to mess around anymore; if anything, he might be the toughest boss in the whole game. You would hope so. What's weird is that I think X'tabay is the second hardest and she's the first boss. That was my impression as well. I had very little trouble with any of the other three, bu...

Pipe-Lakitu reminded me of Goombella calling Sky-Blue Spiny eggs "pipes" in Thousand-Year Door. Then I remembered that there are in fact Lakitus in pipes.

Are you freaking kidding me. I spent at least half an hour on that Yoku block section before realizing I just needed to take a break.

What were those larval Yoshis eating to mature? It looked like they kept trying to eat the munchers.

For the record, the heart is an organ, but it's composed primarily of muscle tissue.

I'm guessing the blue power for Juan is a shoulder charge, right? No, he uses his fist. I always like it when rao plays a game I can follow along with. It's interesting comparing our play styles (and disheartening to see how much I suck in comparison). That being said, this one hasn't been too bad....

Okay, cosplaying as a Ninji because reasons.

If you were by chance serious about it, raocow, I vote no on the Mario coin run. From what I've seen, those tend to make LPers frustrated with otherwise enjoyable games.