I've always thought the imagery of the big shutter closing after you leave the core fight room with Curly's air tank to be really poignant.
It gives this sense of finality about the whole adventure you just had through the Labyrinth - a wordless "here lies Curly Brace", if you will.
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- 4 months ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: Cave Story+ (NO UNSOLICITED SPOILERS PLEASE) - Final - Deathsmiles II: Makai no Merry Christmas
- Replies: 243
- Views: 37731
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: All Of Sh@d@w - 1 - Satellite
Ah, Cosmic Fall. In terms of sheer platforming this is probably the hardest stage in the game, although there are a couple of tricks to it that can help make it slightly more bearable. One of these is that, in the second room after meeting Vector the Crocodile (at 8:25 into raocow's video today, or ...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
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Re: E-123 OMEGA AND TWO OTHERS - Or A Shot In The Dark (3/5)
The second mission here is the usual defeat 100 enemies. I only had about 90 enemies defeated by the time I got to the end of the stage, although I wasn't super thorough, and I even skipped some enemies here and there assuming there would be more than enough to get to 100 before the end of the stag...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: A Thousand Miles Of S@nics & Knockles - Friends Are There When You Need Them, They're Even There When You Don't (1/5
I like to refer to the crazy melting-walls-background place at the end of Mystic Mansion as the "Well of Woe", because you get there by jumping down into a well and I'm secretly a huge Donkey Kong Country and the Legend of the Crystal Coconut nerd.
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: A Thousand Miles Of S@nics & Knockles - Friends Are There When You Need Them, They're Even There When You Don't (1/5
I wonder why raocow never bothered to look inside the metal boxes on the right side when the track splits in two? There's level-ups inside of those. Admittedly, bum-rushing the fight with Sonic alone does work, but I also suspect this fight would go way differently if raocow ever managed to get Tail...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
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Re: A Thousand Miles Of S@nics & Knockles - Friends Are There When You Need Them, They're Even There When You Don't (1/5
the secret to the rails is to never ever ever use anyone but flight characters on them so that you can correct for jank yep, this is 100% correct. The first cannon-blasting sequence is pretty janky all-around, because the "automatic" sequence of movement is pretty much 100% guaranteed to ...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
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Re: A Thousand Miles Of S@nics & Knockles - Friends Are There When You Need Them, They're Even There When You Don't (1/5
Here's today's Sonic Heroes Fun Fact: (put in spoilers because: game mechanics about how the level-up drop mechanics work) While it may seem like the "level-up" items are dropped randomly by enemies, there's actually a pattern to them: they're dropped by every 5th "normal" enemy ...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: La-Mulana 2 - fish. it is a fish. it's true.
- Replies: 741
- Views: 83599
Re: La-Mulana 2 - just a bad use for your condiments
So, as someone who has never played La-Mulana 2 and therefore DOES NOT know the solution to the puzzle I am about to discuss, I ask the following question: In the Dark Star Lord's Mausoleum, there is a room with 32 tablets arranged in a 4x8 grid. I believe raocow reached this room today. (referencin...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: A Thousand Miles Of S@nics & Knockles - Friends Are There When You Need Them, They're Even There When You Don't (1/5
Each of the teams in Sonic Heroes plays slightly differently. Here's some of the highlights of Team Sanic (put in a spoiler just in case rao doesn't want to see it): Sanic has the Light Speed Dash as an extra mobility option. As raocow noticed, Amy can't do this; she never acquired a pair of Light S...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: A BIG BOUQUET OF CREAM-COLORED ROSES WOOOOO - Heroes - For A Walk In The Park (2/5)
In videos like this I never know whether to feel bad for raocow or laugh at him for using the worst possible strategy. This video is certainly a good showcase of how much of a difference the right strategy can make; in his winning run raocow won in 2:15. In one of his failed attempts he was over 4 ...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: A BIG BOUQUET OF CREAM-COLORED ROSES WOOOOO - Heroes - For A Walk In The Park (2/5)
Oh, we're on Heroes now? Looks like I've been out of the loop for a week and change. I don't remember when exactly I got this game; probably around when it came out to be honest, which was what, 2003? Anyway, the point is, I've owned it for 15-plus years, and I've actually gotten all 141 A-ranks thi...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: So A Fox, A Rabbit, & Knuckles Walk Into A Bar - Advance 2 - Neon Genesis Evangelion 2
The Shadow thing is really silly, it's basically a meme at this point. to me the "definitive" Shadow playthrough is "do Expert mode"then "do the bosses" then "do Last Story". although that does skip the horror of horrors that is mad matrix dark mission i gues...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
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Re: A Thousand Miles - Advance - Shinji Ikari Raising Project
And that closes the chapter of the Emeralds for this cycle. It feels a little bad that the Tails run is "tainted" by the need to find the Special Springos, but he is the objectively best character to go searching for them, so, in the end, what can you do? Now for Knuckles and Amy. Also, re...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: A Thousand Miles - Advance - Shinji Ikari Raising Project
well, that sure was A Thing that happened in today's episode regarding raocow's question from towards the end of the video: couldn't you just have lost at any special stage to check your emerald count? the game does show what you do and don't have during the "collect the score" moment afte...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
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- Views: 1066337
Re: A Thousand Miles - Advance - Shinji Ikari Raising Project
Oh lord, I remember now how much it sucked getting the Emeralds in Advance 1.
Special 7 is easily the hardest of the bunch - I think it requires basically perfect play? (Not quite, but it's close)
Special 7 is easily the hardest of the bunch - I think it requires basically perfect play? (Not quite, but it's close)
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: All The S@nics - SA² - Happy yearaversary, All The S@nics!!!
Looks like this mission 4 was quite a thing. I remember having a lot of trouble here too, to the point that I want to say this is the strictest timed mission in the game. Although, as usual it's been a long time since I've played this game, so I can't say that with 100% certainty. Also, I also must...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: All Of SOUPER Sh@dow & S@nic - Adventure 2 - Looking A Little Dehydrated There, Shadow
There's a fair number of people who say that Eggman is at his most dangerous as an evil villain during this game. Whether that's actually the case or not is something for other people to debate - but he's definitely on-point with his A-game: breaking into top-secret government facilities, stealing C...
- 3 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: All The S@nics - Adventure 2 - Talk About A Low Budget Flight!
Fun Level Facts! The final duel between Sonic and Shadow has a hidden time limit! If you take over ten minutes, the collapsing road surface will stop respawning, and will leave you without a surface to stand on. While your opponent will teleport to safety, the player will end up falling to their do...
- 4 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: A Thousand Miles - Adventures (plural) - Birdemic
I'm actually a little disappointed that raocow didn't try to explore the bottom area of Lake Rocky with the Mines before getting the Extra Armor. I would have liked to see his reaction to the super-deadly mines in that area that deal tons of damage any time they explode on screen, even if they don't...
- 4 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: Iconoclasts - I can't believe it. Humans are so flaky. I knew I should have asked the tengu about this instead.
- Replies: 278
- Views: 54537
Re: Iconoclasts - I didn't think humans were that strong.
Apparently, if the world dies in the game, the world dies in real life.
Also: "The wind sure is howling to-dayyyyyyyyyyy..."
Also: "The wind sure is howling to-dayyyyyyyyyyy..."
- 4 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: Iconoclasts - I can't believe it. Humans are so flaky. I knew I should have asked the tengu about this instead.
- Replies: 278
- Views: 54537
- 4 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: Iconoclasts - I can't believe it. Humans are so flaky. I knew I should have asked the tengu about this instead.
- Replies: 278
- Views: 54537
Re: Iconoclasts - It's not like I'm fighting because I want to be popular.
Mega props to Royal for doing a super good job making an honest effort to reach out immediately before the fight on the platform itself, particularly since Black was the one who smote his ruin into the detritus pit a few episodes ago. I don't know what the necessary conditions would have been for B...
- 4 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: Iconoclasts - I can't believe it. Humans are so flaky. I knew I should have asked the tengu about this instead.
- Replies: 278
- Views: 54537
Re: Iconoclasts - It's not like I'm fighting because I want to be popular.
honestly i was pulling for black to join the playable cast right up until robin started shoving seeds into her, at which point it was pretty obviously not going to happen anymore :cry: Mega props to Royal for doing a super good job making an honest effort to reach out immediately before the fight o...
- 4 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: Iconoclasts - I can't believe it. Humans are so flaky. I knew I should have asked the tengu about this instead.
- Replies: 278
- Views: 54537
Re: Iconoclasts - If that's the best your religion can do, you should probably just give up.
They're literally going to die anyway as far as everyone understands. It's either do something and risk dying or do nothing and die for sure. And, again, he never brings up my idea of swapping Robin out as well. At least some of it is him simply being contrarian, IMO. That's the funny thing about c...
- 4 years ago
- Forum: let's play
- Topic: All the S@nics - the end
- Replies: 9027
- Views: 1066337
Re: All The SOUPER S@nics - 3&K - Invincible
honestly? heroes should be a team sonic playthrough + someone gives him a save to play the final boss. there's just not enough different between each individual story to warrant four playthroughs. and IMO shadow should be "raocow plays through a story mode once, is given a save with everything...