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ArfJason: Sep 5, 2011

Am2r ftw.

# ? Nov 1, 2021 23:33

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Roth: Jul 9, 2016

b_d posted:

have you played AM2R? if not, you should add it to the list

Back when it first came out, yeah. A lot of it has faded to memory, but I remember largely having a good time with it.

# ? Nov 1, 2021 23:36

Simply Simon: Nov 6, 2010; 📡scanning🛰️ for good game 🎮design🦔🦔🦔

IGgy IGsen posted:

I beat Castlevania Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance. I played the latter before and I beat it again today. Aria of Sorrow is next, can't wait.

I'm on a bit of a Metroidvania kick lately so I've been playing quite a few of them. I got this whole list and everything.

Hell yeah. I've bought the Collection because I'm on the same kick, already up to the Walljump in Circle. I've dabbled in it twice but always lost interest at some point despite generally liking it, this time I'll beat it for sure, and I really want to try those extra modes. Got a lot of cards already, I think they upped the drop rate? Good stuff.

# ? Nov 2, 2021 00:11

IGgy IGsen: Apr 11, 2013; "If I lose I will set myself on fire."

Simply Simon posted:

Hell yeah. I've bought the Collection because I'm on the same kick, already up to the Walljump in Circle. I've dabbled in it twice but always lost interest at some point despite generally liking it, this time I'll beat it for sure, and I really want to try those extra modes. Got a lot of cards already, I think they upped the drop rate? Good stuff.

I'm not sure they upped it, I barely got any on my playthrough. But you get a password (Use "Fireball" as your name) after beating the game that gives you all card, so I just decided to play around a bit with them before calling it quits. There's some pretty fun combos in there, maybe I'll go back and do a full run with all the cards. Out of all the GBA Vanias this is the one I didn't beat before. But it's pretty good. I still think Harmony of Dissonance is a pretty big step up, if only for the fact that you can endlessly dash and slide and it feels fast and good. Though I understand why a lot of people are down on that one.

Also, I accidentally sequence broke and went through an area that you need a specific upgrade for without that upgrade. I skipped two whole areas that way... though I did go back and finished them anyway. Love that the game lets you do that. But it was REALLY difficult and took me quite a few tries.

# ? Nov 2, 2021 00:45

Evil Eagle: Nov 5, 2009

Kongming posted:

You should play the other, better, silent hill games that came out before that one.

Perhaps. I really enjoyed this one though, escort quest and all

16.1) Silent Hill 4: The Room (Best Ending)

# ? Nov 2, 2021 03:13

lets hang out: Jan 10, 2015

27. Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars

# ? Nov 2, 2021 05:49

Bicyclops: Aug 27, 2004

Athletic World
lol. i can see how this would have been fun with the power pad. i had to use gamefaqs to look up the controls and i had a little trouble at first. then i set up my number pad as the power pad, made a little guy with my index and middle fingers, and made him run or jump. i thought it would be kind of a straight olympic games kind of thing, but it's actually more about dodging obstacles (in one you run through a temple with hieroglyphics on the walls and have to dodge bats, run up ramps, drop down from ledges, etc.) it's essentially a very simple platformer you would have controlled with your legs. i don't think they really figured it out, but it's cool for a first effort. if you take away the gimmick then the game kind of sucks though.

gamifying exercise is one of those things that feels like it should have already been more lucrative at some point if it ever could be. wii fit took off for awhile, but it was kind of a flash in the pan. i often wonder why there isn't a treadmill out there that has a little screen and some kind of mach rider like game, but i guess the sensors for telling what your body is doing besides running would be expensive and that it'd easy for people to injure themselves dodging or jumping or w/e. probably it would just end up like that daniel kaluuya episode of black mirror anyway.

Section Z
this was unexpectedly cool! i expected it to be a platformer for some reason, but it's a shmup. the powerup system is sort of a simple version of gradius's, but all the powerups are hidden in specific places. B shoots to the left and A shoots to the right, and firing in both directions is important. instead of "one hit and you die," you start with energy, which is your health (you can also get a shield). you get more maximum health when you beat most bosses, but it does NOT recover when the max goes up or even when you lose a life to an OHKO. the only ways to get energy back are some rare drops from enemy formations that give you 3 back or to find some secret rooms that give you 2 - 15 back (by the end you have about 90, so, basically, it's the most precious resource). the game has 59 "sectors", and at the end of most of them, you have a choice of two doors. sometimes a door takes you backwards, and some doors are locked until you defeat a mini-boss in one of the sectors, so there are times you have to cycle back to levels. this part of it was an interesting twist, and i guess it's NOT in the arcade version. it feels like an intentional choice - when you're playing at home, you can write down where the doors go and get better as you go, but it doesn't feel like they're cheating you out of quarters. the bosses were tough (i had 7 energy left at the end when i beat it).

it was cool to play a shmup that has a little bit of an exploration aspect. for the time when this was released, i think it's a hidden gem.

Kid Icarus is next.

# ? Nov 2, 2021 19:41

big deal: Sep 10, 2017