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P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

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P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

In Training posted:

1. Dragon Quest XI - Platinum. Only draconian quest active was no xp for weaker monsters which I turned off before the final super boss so i could grind to Lvl 99.


Basically a perfect game. I played it on PC when it first came out and absolutely adored it, but dropped it after the Act 2 credits. I still think the act 3 story is weak BUT it still wound up being my favorite part of the game. I loved the free form nature of that enormous finale, where you just get your own memories of the world to guide what you do next.

Amazing squad. Amazing power curve, I think until literally the final grind of the game I was always thinking "oh nice just like 2 more levels until I unlock XX panel, which means I can move to" etc. the towns are all gorgeous and never feel like a chore to hang out in no matter how many tiems the story has you revisiting previous locations.

I jumped between a wide variety of party comps throughout the game, but by the end my absolute boss killer squad was Hero/Jade/Eight/Serena. Erik sometimes subbed for Jade if I could.keep him alive on the harder fights.

This caps off a pretty powerful series run. I started replaying the entire series with my GF a few years ago, who is a mega completionist and made us do every super boss and collect every mini medal etc. in every entry sans X (the nadir was grinding 1000+ battles on Slime Island in PSX DW7 to unlock Hero job for other party members to defeat God fast enough to unlock the spirits battle). now she's my wife and I'm ecstatic at finally seeing every square inch of XI, and the entire series, but really huge hole in my heart now that we've wrapped everything up...here's to continuing to wait for XII. DQ forever. Emotional evening.

5 > 11 > 8 > 3 > 7 > 4 > 1 > 2 > 6. But I even still like 6 it's just meh.

Did you just forget about 9? Powerful indictment if so lol

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

1) Cave Story- Normal Ending

Awesome game. Great music, good pixels, and I liked how it rewards exploration while still being mainly linear. I'll come back for the good end someday.

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

2. Project Wingman

Incredible Ace Combat clone from a two man dev team. There's some rough edges on the polish and presentation but overall the game kicked rear end. They clearly knew their limits and worked within them, and kept missions straightforward for the most part. Started to get a little repetitive after the tenth "kill everything" mission but better that than some bullshit escort mission or "shoot down this thing that spawned on the complete other side of the map within thirty seconds" like Ace Combat sometimes pulls. There's no checkpoints within missions which was fine by me since they were never too long.

Plot was simple but with enough goofy sci-fi at the right times to keep things fresh, and the final boss kicked rear end.

I played the whole game in VR and it worked really well. I noticed I flew into the ground a lot less than I usually did in Ace Combat, and some of the later fights flying through clouds of ash and smoke were disorienting in a really rad way.

I dunno if there's any chance of a sequel, but if not Namco had better take a good look and steal everything they did right here for the next AC, especially the full VR support.

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

bees x1000 posted:

FYI it looks like Magicus is back up on the app store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magicus/id1485110306

Hopefully they fix the android version too

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

3) Final Fantasy Legend

Played the WSC version, which has nice art upgrades but leaves the jank completely intact.

This game is really impressive as being the first mobile RPG, and it does a lot of fun SaGa things with the item system and powerful instant death moves. It also has a SaGa leveling system that's a complete mess and a plot that's basically the barest rudimentary skeleton.

It's hard not to compare it to the incomparably better FF Legend II but it's still good both in its own right, and as a necessary evolutionary step.

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

4) Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup

DjFe, Makhleb, 3 Runes

It's good but it's weird.

Got an octopode who is looking good right now.

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

Gradius III is absolutely wild in how much it slows down on the SNES but hell, it needs it

What was your loadout

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P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

Good soup! posted:

drat I never once saw an Alien vs Predator cabinet out in the wild and I went to an absurd number of arcades all over South Jersey/Philly for fuckin years, poo poo always made me mad

They got one at the Yestercades in Westfield. North Jersey stays winning.

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