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The thread title is clever synonyms I guess. Jet Li's Rise To Honor is a 2004 PS2 beat 'em up with a unique control style. All your face buttons are useless, hope you like your analog sticks and shoulder buttons! The gameplay is a bit simple but it's alright! The difficulty curves and lack of enemy distinction cause some frustration and some of the game mechanics are poorly implemented, but hey, I'll try to avoid getting too negative. I've played through recently so I'll manage! It's a fairly short kung fu adventure romp that tries to play like a movie. It kinda works! Plus I mean kicking people in the face never gets old??? Jet Li plays our hero, Kit Yun, a bodyguard/enforcer for a Hong Kong crime boss named Chiang. Events transpire that will take him from the waters of Hong Kong to the sunny shores of San Francisco, and then back again for a roaring finale! So please join me as we RISE TO HONOR! Videos 1: Synchronized Laughing/Polsy 2: Shoot Time/Polsy 3: San Francisco Traffic/Polsy 4: Master of Stealth/Polsy 5: Falling Jokes/Polsy 6: Dockside Danger/Polsy 7: Infernal Medicine/Polsy 8: Mandatory Sewer Level/Polsy 9: Kwantified Suffering/Polsy dscruffy1 fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Jan 18, 2018 |
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I have played this game and enjoyed it despite the frustrating control schemes. I approve of your decision to LP it and will be following the thread.  Hi-yah!
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Jan 2, 2018 23:14
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I had this game when I was younger. It gets stupid hard for a kid.
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Jan 2, 2018 23:19
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Is it me or did I hear that sound you hear at 1:01 (the end of the intro cinematic) somewhere else?
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Jan 2, 2018 23:28
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 When you punch a dude so hard his soul reverses.
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Jan 3, 2018 01:36
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I finished this game, what a nightmare. I do still love the shooting stuff.
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Jan 3, 2018 03:27
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Boy that sure is some translation.
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Jan 3, 2018 04:58
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Be sure to properly oil your guns so they don't go stale.
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Jan 3, 2018 07:56
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I've never heard of this one. Not surprising since I'm a PC-only kind of guy, so a PS2 game would have passed me by. I like that a lot of the dialogue is in Chinese. That's unusual. Usually they just go for accented English. Controls look terrible. This is a game that could have used a lock-on mechanic. Now, why does this remind me of the Max Payne Kung Fu mod?
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Jan 3, 2018 09:50
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I rented this game back when it came out and when you could still rent games at Blockbuster. I enjoyed it despite the flaws. That is, until I hit a monumental difficulty spike.painedforever posted:Controls look terrible. This is a game that could have used a lock-on mechanic. The fighting controls struck me as innovative. At the time, whether they were good or bad was open to debate. Now, it's easy to understand why the controls were bad. I have a feeling if this game came out now developers would have a better grasp on how to make innovative but player friendly controls.
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Mr. Highway posted:I have a feeling if this game came out now developers would have a better grasp on how to make innovative but player friendly controls. That's also debatable. You still get racing games with floaty controls, you still get FPS games with unresponsive controls, you still get arcade games with really weird control set-ups. And terrible cameras. I still remember hating the camera and controls for LoK: Defiance after Soul Reaver 2, because the latter had really great controls, and the former was nearly unplayable (even though the combat was a lot better).
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Jan 4, 2018 04:02
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It's time to head to the docks for an exciting helicopter chase! 2: Shoot Time/Polsy
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Jan 4, 2018 17:12
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I don't know if you mentioned this or not (and I couldn't make it out in the gameplay), but do you have unlimited ammo? There's no ammo counter, and I couldn't make out any reloading animation, so shooter sections are literally "shoot-'til-you-drop"? Wasn't there a Chow Yun Fat game out at about the same era? Also had slow-down and dual-wielding and things?
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Jan 4, 2018 18:43
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Yes, you have unlimited ammo. It'd get crazy later if you didn't. The game you refer to with Chow Yun Fat is Strangehold. Great LP here.
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Jan 4, 2018 18:51
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If only they got the animals from Super Metroid to showoff the wall jumping mechanics. Now that would have made sense!
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Jan 5, 2018 06:59
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achtungnight posted:Yes, you have unlimited ammo. It'd get crazy later if you didn't. Oh, thanks! Stranglehold seems to be a straight-up Max Payne clone. Except not quite, because I think Max Payne was based on these Hong Kong movies made by John Woo, many of which starred Chow Yun Fat.
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Jan 5, 2018 07:39
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painedforever posted:Oh, thanks! Max Payne was based on John Woo's movies and The Matrix (which itself was heavily based on John Woo's style, translated to a Western sci-fi style). Stranglehold is in a weird place because it came after both of those and may be unintentionally seen as aping them when in fact it's based on the originator.
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Jan 5, 2018 14:59
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West Coat Best Coat, or so I have been told. 3: San Francisco Traffic/Polsy e: Stranglehold is also a pretty cool game but I don't think I'll do much with that one. I think Max Payne took more from John Woo/Chow Yun Fat than from Jet Li though.
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Jan 6, 2018 16:20
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"Goes on for too long" describes this game to a T. They're recreating every classic action movie scene they can think of, with some decent success I might add, but then they make you do them for a couple minutes longer than the novelty lasts. The cover may be awkward but the gun sections so far are short and punchy.
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Jan 7, 2018 11:11
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I think it’s really noticeable with the bikes. There’s not a ton of combat variety, so even when they add a new twist it goes on for so long that it either gets dull or stretches credibility. I wish we didn’t have disappearing bodies so we could see the goons and motorcycles piling up.
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Jan 7, 2018 17:39
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I think that's the only part where enemies on motorcycles even show up. Kicking them off thus becomes a Level Gimmick instead of a new mechanic. That is both good and bad.
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Jan 7, 2018 17:40
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I was one of those players who didn't know you were supposed to kick the people off their motorcycles. I just thought they were a stage hazard until no enemies spawned outside of them, several minutes after I should've known.
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Jan 7, 2018 18:35
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It keeps happening, every game I play has a stealth section/component. 4: Master of Stealth/Polsy
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Jan 8, 2018 18:20
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STEALTH! I honestly don't know what is more comical; the pile of motorcycles at the end of the last level, silently bashing someone over the head with a trashcan or repeatedly swinging Michelle in to your opponents.
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Jan 8, 2018 19:55
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In case anyone was curious, "ho hing dai" translates as "Good brother" or "Good friend". Also, Sung Lung is criminally underused. Edit: Holy poo poo is that dude wearing basketball shorts over baggy sweatpants? chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Jan 8, 2018 |
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Jan 8, 2018 22:44
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Such a master of stealth that you can throw garbage cans at people and nobody notices. Goddamn, other games should let you do that. It would make the stealth sections more fun.
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Jan 9, 2018 06:10
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Well, to be fair, the trash can was explicitly to make noise so the second guy would look at it. Nice of the developers to work in that one scene from Romeo Must Die.
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Jan 9, 2018 06:29
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The ignominious end of William Soon. 5: Falling Jokes/Polsy Alternatively: The Assassination of William Soon By The Coward Kit Yun
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Jan 10, 2018 19:49
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I found Kit a new weapon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrJRSf55zsE
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Jan 11, 2018 01:33
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Aw, Chi. Well I guess I can add the gunfights to the things this game makes you do for way too long now. Nailguns don't have 3 minutes worth of novelty when you're just shooting the same things over and over. Also the big wrenches are called pipe wrenches so I guess you're technically correct in that they don't make monkey wrenches that big  I have no idea why someone made this video but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bltVBmVUYm4
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Jan 11, 2018 07:38
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I'll fully admit my shame in not knowing the difference between pipe wrenches and monkey wrenches. I don't wrench much. I have finished recording everything for this game (it's kinda short). So there's that! I hope you are all enjoying it so far, the worst is yet to come! From here the game ramps up the difficulty pretty fast.
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Jan 11, 2018 10:22
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Who's ready for a difficulty jump?!?! (it wasn't me) 6: Dockside Danger/Polsy
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Jan 12, 2018 22:37
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I remember when I played this game it had English dubbing for all scenes if you want to flip it on. I understand why Scruffy is keeping the Hong Kong scenes in Catonese, but I wanted to point that out. Next level is my favorite. 
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Jan 13, 2018 00:06
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Scruffy, what's the greeting you're giving in each video?
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chitoryu12 posted:Scruffy, what's the greeting you're giving in each video? I speak a bit of Mandarin, less and less with each passing year. I'm saying "Hello, friends!" The pinyin works out to nǐmen hǎo péngyǒumen, characters would be 你们好朋友们. Granted, Mandarin may not be the best pick when the game is in Cantonese, but you've got to work with what you've got.
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There's a whole lot of RAT-A-TAT-TAT in the last half of the video, so be warned for volume I guess! 7: Infernal Medicine/Polsy
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Jan 14, 2018 12:48
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Yay! Scruffy's one-liners are coming back!
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Jan 14, 2018 16:08
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If the Evil Laugh didn’t expose her, the high heels should have. Nobody sensible wears high heels in a job where you have to be on your feet a lot. I’m surprised she could fight so well in them. I mostly like this level for the Hard Boiled homages and the Nurse Boss.
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Jan 14, 2018 21:40
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I was disappointed to find that Buckethead never actually wrote a song about Jet Li. This is the closest I could get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL3tcDNZUiQ
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You didn't have to stick to trash-based one-liners. You were in a hospital, and you did use a gurney. There were others that you could have done... "Take a load off!" "Good thing you're already at the hospital!" "I'm the surgeon, and this is the operating table!" "Hope you've got insurance!" (not sure if that would work in the context of Hong Kong) (While breaking someone's leg) "Have a break!" (Follow-up comments about Kit-Kat optional, and depend upon sponsorship.)
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