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Decided to play through Earthworm Jim 2 on Difficult for the first time tonight. And uhh, suddenly it's a video game. Levels I've been able to beat through random face-smashing since I was a kid, suddenly making me learn them. The Puppy Love levels actually requiring the use of the dive button ever. And OH MY GOD THE FINAL LEVEL. You pretty much have to play absolutely perfectly to get to the end fast enough, unless I missed something huge.
I also took the time to look around in the levels as I never bothered to as a kid, found some areas I've legitimately never seen in like fifteen years. Fun times.
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YelseyKing wrote:I FINALLY DID IT!!!!!!!
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I FINALLY UNLOCKED THIS LITTLE BASTARD!!!
Now I may die in peace. 8-)
How long did it take you?

Took me about 1 and a half hour.
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so i recently bought ep 1 of revelaitons 2
and man the game has so much freaking meat
as in beat the short somewhat episode? unlock hard mode, unlock time attack, unlock invisible enemy mode, unlock so much
and the raid mode is literally gaming bliss filled with SO MUCH content its insane
im playing this 1 episode for like 4 days and im not done holeeeeee
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FluffiMasta wrote:How long did it take you?

Took me about 1 and a half hour.
Took me about the same, though I probably tried around eight separate times going back a couple years or so. Still, glad to finally have it *done*, so I can move on with the game.
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TheFinalSentinel wrote:I wouldn't say great, but they're not completely terrible.
In fact, I kinda have a soft spot for Phantom Hourglass.
Spirit Tracks, not so much. :/

Also screw touch controls; they'd have been much better otherwise.
I think you're spot-on with my assessment of the game so far. It really hurts going from The Minish Cap to Phantom Hourglass because you get to see the drop off in just about everything. I can still play it and currently think it's passable, but the look, the sound, the dungeon design, being forced into using silly gimmicks like all touch-based controls that lowers the overall difficulty and having to make noises to get a required ship part on the cheap that just make me scratch my head.

It's the very weak dungeons that are bumming me out the most after having played the Temple of Droplets and Palace of Winds in the last week. This game feels like it's on par with the respectable Dragon Ball: Origins, but this Zelda, yo. You know what I mean? Anyway, I'm up to the Temple of Courage, which is the third dungeon in this game that exists.
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The transport gimmicks in the DS Zeldas are shit and the central dungeon gimmicks in the DS Zeldas are also shit
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i'm at the abyss
gonna grind in it a bit before challenging the abyss lords and the destroyer

(RomaSaGa3)

also, re: DS Zeldas, every time someone says something about PH and ST I just feel the urge to stay as far away from those as possible because they always sound absolutely terrible
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I guess the main reason I like those games so much is that they were my first Zelda games. Lackluster childhood, I know.
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The DS Zelda games aren't THAT bad.
Phantom Hourglass had the Temple of the Ocean king which was tedious and kind of unfun since you had to do the same sections over and over again throughout the game.
Spirit Tracks basically fixed that so the only real obvious issue I could see with Spirit Tracks is if you don't like the train travelling, and I could understand that.
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also, i've been playing VIP1 on and off for the past few weeks

so far, worlds 1-3 beaten without tools
at Jungle River (world 4)

places i felt i was close to cracking thus far:
  • the secret exit of Divin'. lol (the despawning key + the time limit + physics glitches)
  • the normal exit of Wow~! It's Cold! (i was expecting it to be way harder than it turned out to be)
wish me luck on the next worlds

i wonder how Missingno. will treat me
badly, i presume

i don't expect to beat that one toolless (or at least without farming for 99 lives in To Chase a Shell or something)
same with ( ^ω^) Smooooth~
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after an hour and a half i finally managed to three-star the egg cup in mario kart 8
i don't know why the AI on that cup hates me so much. but they do. and it nearly drove me mad
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Three more dungeons down in Phantom Hourglass yesterday, so I'm on the sixth now with the Temple of Ice. The Goron Temple was the best of a weak bunch so far since tracing a path on the DS screen with Bombchus was actually fun, and the boss incorporated that mechanic along with another that I thought worked well.
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Ori and the Blind Forest, utterly beautiful 2D metroidvania that also happens to play really damn well. In love with it currently.
i've honestly never played a video game in my life
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Anybody ever tried out Crypt of the Necrodancer? I bought it a few Steam sales ago and just tried it for the first time on a whim. The music is amazing, and the gameplay is like a mixture between a rhythm game and a roguelike. If you're a roguelike fan, it's definitely worth a play.
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Gradius V. Had the best run yet, in spite of several stupid mistakes (mostly in Bio and Asteroid).
Made it through Liquid with far less deaths than I was anticipating for my first time, but choked right as I was about to kill Circle Core. Seriously, took down Rolling Core on my second to last life, was doing SO damn well against Circle Core with that life for so long before the choke. Image
Last life kinda caught the tail end of the choke. :/

I feel like next time, I can probably make it to Boss Rush 2 with at least 1 credit left, assuming I don't do dumbs in Bio and Asteroid. (Seriously, fuck those regrowing walls in Bio though. My first time, I somehow made it past them with only 1 death, but now I can't figure out what the hell the way to go about it is or how I did so damn well.)
I have no delusions that High Speed Zone my first time would have been anything but a slaughterfest. :P

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Necrodancer is fantastic, got it a while back and played a fair bit of it, I'm sort of waiting until the final release to play any more though, don't want to get burned out on it too soon.
i've honestly never played a video game in my life
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i beat Romancing SaGa 3 woo

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Tatyana scored the last hit with Super Gravity (strongest earth spell)
the Destroyer was way easier than I expected

here's something i noticed btw
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got the golden crown back in dq3
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Second half of Phantom Hourglass is definitely making up for the lull that was the majority of the first half. I thought it was going to be dreadful at first, but it's getting back to being an okay game that's still a disappointment coming off of the GBA one.
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Augh, I was choking so hard my last run in Base of all levels. Cell hacked away even more, and I ended up dying in the intro phase of the boss in Asteroid.

On a non-Gradius V note, Brawlhalla is pretty neat. The fact that there's a neutral charge attack really fucks with my Smash Bros. instincts though.

EDIT: As I play it, Brawlhalla has quite a few issues that need to be addressed. My first and foremost complaint, the movesets—or at least for the characters I have played—need a bit of a tune-up in consistency. For example: Diving diagonal up is a strong attack, but diving diagonal down is a weak attack... why? That... I can't even fathom the decision behind that.
Also, I'm not a fan of the hitstun in it. I don't know what it is, but it just rubs me the wrong way for some reason.
Most of the rest just falls under tweaking and fine tuning.

It's still in beta, so I guess it gets a bit of a pass, but it just doesn't feel good to me right now.
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went through the pyramid, saved gupta and tania, got the black pepper and got the ship

all in dragon quest 3
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So I finally beat the first gym in a pokemon fangame called pokemon reborn.
Took the help of two layers of toxic spikes and a lot of good fortune to succeed (took 4 attempts).
Oh and the reasoning why? Electric gym with pokes that love to paralyze you and sonicboom you. Blargh the pain.
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Today I played Gradius 5 for the first time (screw roman numerals). It's amazing. I'm so happy.

Made it to stage 4 and quit just before unlocking my 4th credit.

Edit: WHAT THE SHIT WHY DID I POST A POST TWICE
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Today I played Gradius 5 for the first time (screw roman numerals). It's amazing. I'm so happy.

Made it to stage 4 and quit right as I unlocked my 4th credit.
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Saturn Moriya wrote:Today I played Gradius 5 for the first time (screw roman numerals). It's amazing. I'm so happy.
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You should also check out Gradius Gaiden if you haven't. It's probably my favorite of the series. Still need to get past Moai Zone though...

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