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CLOUDBOND007 It plays very traditionally so far, which I like at the moment. It's really a blast from the past except for the visuals. You see enemies before you fight them, so you can avoid or initiate a back attack. I think there's eventually a way to defeat weak enemies outside of combat. Combat itself is a simple turn based system except that you seem to mainly fight using your living shadows. This image illustrates the concept: http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/68256/blue_dragon_qjpreviewth.jpg The graphics aren't anything mindblowing, but they're pleasant enough. It mostly achieves the look it's going for, which is anime in 3D. The worst aspect are the Toriyama designs being so unoriginal but I got used to the main character being Goku. Pretty much everything at all plot related does happen in a cutscene, but they're nicely done and the transition between those sequences and the playable parts is mostly seamless. Voice acting is very mixed so far. It doesn't bother me much but I know people are going to be horribly annoyed by the main character's voice in particular. You can change it to the Japanese voices, but I can never stand doing that.
CLOUDBOND007 There are monster fights in this game. If two enemies are nearby within your targeting area, and if those kinds of enemies dislike each other, they'll fight you and themselves. For example, I had a giant rat enemy that would spend each turn eating one of the bug-type enemies. Using this targeting system (which projects a circle around you while exploring to show it's effective range) you can battle one particular enemy or battle every nearby enemy in a multiple-round marathon fight.
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Kairobi King I've been playing Brandish and I got up to and beat the Rakshahsa boss. It's not a very good game (graphics are ugly as hell and some music is very good, but a lot of it is lame), but it's a little more interesting and challenging than the average adventure/RPG. Mapping is a pain in the butt because you're always facing up and the whole screen rotates instead of your character.
CLOUDBOND007 the annoying detective flipped Whenever he'd do that magnifying glass thing, it looked more like his eye was popping out. The Simpsons game. It is so horrendously bad in every way. Let's never speak of it again.
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Flying Omelette Oh, man, through the power of emulation, I figured out the reason for some of this game's graphic glitches...It's very difficult to explain without pictures, though, so I'll have to update that section of the Oddities...
CLOUDBOND007 In Blue Dragon, I got a fourth party member and found that I had to go through some cave to get to the Forest of the Dead. The cave's boss gave me a couple Game Overs. But there was a checkpoint right before, so I didn't have to do any backtracking. Right before the boss, if you don't walk past it, you'll find Fira (same idea as in Final Fantasy) so I made two characters into Black Mages and let the other two attack or heal as needed. The Fira just blew this thing away. It starts off with four heads and the fight gets easier as you knock each one out. Now I'm at a village outside the evil forest. Each major area of the game has a warp pillar, and at most point throughout the game, whether you're near a pillar or not, you can warp to any of the ones you've found. However, if you were to warp from the middle of a dungeon, you'd have to walk all the way back again unless that dungeon has it's own warp pillar. A lot of the complaints about the game are that not much happens for the first dozen or so hours, but it seems like a lot of oldschool games in that way. You get sidetracked by all sorts of minor problems, like a village of sick people that I'm trying to help now. The game's main villain has been directly responsible for everything so far, so it's not entirely random. http://www.cb007.com/images/nene.jpg Nene might not seem like an interesting villain, but he's mysterious and cruel enough to be fun to hate. I don't know if he intended it just to get a response or if he really feels this way, but there's an early line of dialogue he has when asked why he would destroy the main character's village year after year. This is a glitchy game, also. I had it freeze once completely and I couldn't even get the Xbox menu to work without powering down. The voices stopped working once. The music cut out completely another time. Both of those required restarts. Just now during that boss battle, there was this REALLY loud garbage type noise which I guess was a sound effect that glitched and came out wrong.
TaroSH Later in the day I fired up Earthworm Jim: Special Edition. I made it to the Intestinal Distress level (third to last, but second to last is just an Andy Asteroids bonus level) and had to turn it off because I had class coming up. But this one has a password system, so I can just pick up where I left off. It's identical to the PC version, but I don't have to play it with a keyboard. Most of the changes are trivial, some are annoying, and the Big Bruty stage, while pretty, isn't much. I had forgotten just how gorgeous this game is, although they might have touched up the graphics in this version. Man, the Tube Race was the bane of my childhood. Today I did it on my first try with 20 seconds left. Did they lengthen the time, or have I just gotten that good?
CLOUDBOND007 The quality of the writing is that of a weak to mediocre episode of the series. The fully animated scenes look great, just like a regular TV episode. The in-game engine is really mixed. Sometimes it feels like you're in the cartoon and sometimes it feels like you're in a budget PS1 game. It's really pathetic, but I think I'm mainly still playing it for the achievement points.
pOrn Sigma I came within a hair of beating the fourth boss with most of the prisoners. I knew it was going to die soon so I got careless, took a missile, then when I respawned shot it about five times and it blew up. : (
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CLOUDBOND007 Playing the Simpsons game (or trying to) I kept getting a dirty disc error message when I'd try to start the next mission. I cleaned the disc and it doesn't look scratched, but it still doesn't work. No big loss, though, I've already said that the game isn't very good. But what's really got me down is that I spent about 45 minutes if not longer in a Blue Dragon dungeon only to have the game completely freeze out of nowhere while I was walking around. I wasn't entering combat or changing areas. I was just walking, and then everything froze in place and I was done. There were no save points. So I'm really at a loss as to what to do right now. I was enjoying this game quite a bit and I really have no way of knowing what the culprit is here. Since I've had it freeze twice in 6 hours without warning, and combined with the other issues I've had with this game, I'd have to rate it as effectively unplayable if it's not my console at fault. I don't have time to waste redoing hour long dungeons because of bad coding. But damn, I really like it.
CLOUDBOND007 Update: I beat the boss of that area (Forest of the Dead) and was able to cure the sickness in that village. I now have to go through some mountain area or something. Still undecided about going back for treasures, but I'm leaning toward not bothering with that. The boss was pretty tough. He beat me the first time. He does this move where he summons a bunch of creatures that take forever to kill and heals himself while you're dealing with them. You can stop him by attacking the crown on his head for some reason, but every time I would do that, he would do this attack that would do severe damage to every character. Eventually I got lucky and he didn't do that for a couple of rounds. I did have to waste one of my rare healing items to pull through.
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da dick HI HI HI...HI HI. SPACE TAXI...TO THE SKY. nice CG too. wonder what's the production course.. was that "let's get it on", in that wet dream sequence? (gonna google the youtube)
Crawl and 1OOO You know, I was just reminded of another thing about Empire Strikes Back. Everyone always makes fun of that scene in Return of the Jedi where Admiral Ackbar says, "It's a trap!", but Princess Leia says the same thing in ESB.
Crawl and 1OOO I decided to start mapping the northern part of Hyrule in the Legend of Zelda, since, for some reason out of the blue, I lost Spectacle Rock! That never happened before. (I've also never made a map out of screenshots before) I accidentally left my laptop power cord at work, though, so the power cut out part way through. Hopefully it's still okay. I played a few minutes of Etrian Odyssey. I was a little annoyed when I accidentally marked a square on the map to try to get the hang of things and seemingly wasn't able to erase it. I also couldn't figure out how to drag a memo onto the map.
TaroSH So, I'm in the third case now, with somebody having impersonated Phoenix and lost a trial, the girl from the first case of PW2, and the beefy chef in a dress. And Phoenix lost the Magatama, but was still able to see the weird guy's Psyche-Lock. My hypothesis is (highlight) that it fused with him?
Crawl and 1OOO I'm up to level 3 and have mapped a decent amount of the first floor (which is also the first mission).
TaroSH Holy crap, the Queen makes the most irritating noise when you shoot her, and you have to shoot her quite a few times.
TaroSH TaroSH said: I suck. : (
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Crawl and 1OOO I also found Spectacle Rock again. I can kind of see why I never missed it before, but why I could miss it this time. You don't have to go through a maze or anything to reach it, but it is kind of tucked out of the way.
Crawl and 1OOO I missed one heart container. Really, it seems like only stage 7 is easier, action-wise, than previous dungeons. And the final dungeon is much larger than any other. Odd things: The final dialogue calls you "Link" regardless of what your name is. Most Zelda games don't do this. I didn't see Miyamoto's name in the end credits. ????? Wasn't this game his? His name isn't in the end credits of Zelda 2, either. I remember that distinctly.
Crawl and 1OOO "MIYAHON" also shows up in the credits for Zelda 2. So, he did play a role for that game, too! You learn something new everyday (or you learn that something you thought you learned before was wrong).
Crawl and 1OOO The second one, which is where I am now, is where you bought the blue ring in the first quest. I didn't know that that was where that staircase would take me until I arrived. Off the top of my head, I have no idea where dungeons 3, 4, etc., are. Or where the letter is.
Crawl and 1OOO Anyway, before beating the second dungeon, I explored the overworld a little more, got 6 heart containers, got the White Sword and the Blue Ring. Later, I beat the second dungeon (this early, the boss was a Gleeok! And it had a Manhandla miniboss) and third (which didn't really have a boss! You can get the triforce without getting the heart container or beating a boss. You can get a heart container from three Dodongos earlier, but they are option, and they respawn after dying!) I found levels 6 and 7 (and more or less remember where level 8 was from previous games), but don't remember where levels 4 and 5 are.
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CLOUDBOND007 I still have my old style blue DS, with a battery that's probably in even worse shape since it hasn't been used in probably over a year. I'd probably have to order one before I could try to sell it.
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TaroSH I can practically do the first two stages blindfolded.
CLOUDBOND007 I'm having hard iced tea, one of the rare alcoholic drinks I can actually stand. Neat, I think that makes a total of two. The new Simspsons disc came today so maybe I'll mess around with that again. This disc is perfect so if anything goes wrong, my Xbox is fried.
TaroSH There was a 300 reference... And over in Mystic Quest, I made it to the volcano.
CLOUDBOND007 There was a 300 reference... I usually enjoy the way they put in some references, but this one seemed pretty lame to me. Viola (the creepy girl) seemed like she could be really interesting at first but they never really went anywhere with it. A while back, I found these funny image edits that illustrated Tigre's day in court impersonating Phoenix. Wish I could locate those again.
Captain Ladd Spencer I still have to get that bottle back from Gumshoe, although I've already figured out what it was.
CLOUDBOND007 Her name's Violetta, actually. I don't have the game anymore, but she's gotta be called Viola somewhere. I did a gamefaqs, court-records.net, and google search and Viola is used almost all the time. I did see one that said Viola/Violetta. Only thing I can think of is that Violetta is the official translation and Viola what they were calling her before the US version came out. Edit: I figured it out. Not really a spoiler exactly, but you probably just haven't played far enough into the case to see her called that.
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da dick MW4: i can't finish the final missions in the 1st 3 worlds open to me without having enough money for heavy mecs. playing the solaris tournaments wasn't enough. solaris doesn't seem to open up the heavy-class tournies until i complete more missions. this time i'm sticking to wolf's dragoon's strength by using only clan mecs. i'm starting to notice the difference in firepower between clan and IS mecs. clan mecs almost always have more weapon slots than an IS of the same weight.clans are also usually faster, so i'm 'using' less weight for engine upgrades(i like to keep the top speed at around 90kmph) and more on weapons. however i don't think i can afford to equip them all with clan weapons only. and since i'm playing with heat management on, clan weapons aren't always a better choice because of their higher heat emission(sp?). if i still can't complete the 1st few worlds on elite with the wolfies, i'm starting yet another new game with the highlanders. never had any money problems with that sponsor, in my recruit game. highlanders seem to get paid at least a few hundred thousand c-bills more than other sponsers, per mission. don't remember if they get extra money for solaris. being forced to use more mostly non-clan stuff until late-game probably saved me lots of money too. cloudboo's new facepic is setting off my gaydar alarm.
Flying Omelette sethrashnoo wrote: I completed the Ox Tank in Alundra 2. That bull boss was really difficult. I'm almost wondering if this game is going to be like Illusion of Gaia in that the first few bosses are the hardest ones and the last few are almost impossible to lose to. The bull is one of the harder ones, but trust me, you've got plenty of challenges ahead of yourself.
CLOUDBOND007 In Blue Dragon, I made it back to the town you start in to find it quite different. I lost twice to a boss named Mad Eye. He's basically invulnerable as he summons three waves of increasingly powerful skeleton enemies for you to fight. While you're doing that, he's casting some fairly potent attack spells. What got me on those first two attempts (and didn't occur on the third) was that he used a spell called Tempest that was strong enough to kill the entire party even at max HP. Once the skeletons are gone, he only takes three hits to kill, and since he didn't cast Tempest, I was fine.
CLOUDBOND007 In early U.S. releases of a few Mario games, he was sometimes credited as "Miyahon", a mistranscription of the kanji in his name (? - which can be read as either hon or moto). The misread surname was Miyamoto's development nickname in the 1980s (having a nickname was a common practice among Japanese game developers at the time). That's a little confusing, though. If it was his nickname, then maybe it wasn't a mistranslation. Or did he find out about the mistranslation and then take it as a nickname because of that? Edit: I watched A Scanner Darkly. I lowered my expectations after reading some negative reviews and found it to be fairly interesting. I'm pretty sure that the visual style worked to the movie's benefit.
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CLOUDBOND007 In Blue Dragon, I made it through the valley of murals (where the murals are alive and attack you) to the town of murals where the murals are laid back and tell you stories. After some more glitches, I tried polishing the disc with toothpaste because the internet said to. So far so good.
CLOUDBOND007 Before the caravan, there was a Dullahan boss. I correctly interpreted that the hint to knock him off his feet meant to use Ground magic, which ends up lowering his attack power. After that, he was a pushover. While on the escort mission, there are these tiger enemies that are intimidating at first until you realize that their ability to kill you in one hit is not as scary as it first seems. You usually fight two at a time and after the first round, half of your party will be dead. But before they evem take another turn, you have an eternity to get yourself recovered and clobber both of them. The boss fight of this area was a party of five of these tigers, but a fifth party member joins the group. After the first round, only one character was a live, but I again made short work of them after that because of how slow they are. So now I'm at Jibral Castle Town and the story might be picking up a little bit. After the intro, it had been mostly dungeon crawling with only a little story. Hopefully that's about to change. I'm still glitch free after the toothpaste scrub. Hope that continues long enough to get me off of this disc and on to the next.
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pOrn Sigma I finally beat the third level of Metal Slug X without dying, but had done something stupid and gotten myself killed by the first boss : (
pOrn Sigma I got 4th place on the Top 10, with about 2.5 or .6 million points.
TaroSH Hahaha, the conclusion to that trial was awesome. Y'know, there's been two times I used the right piece of evidence for the wrong reason. Minor gameplay spoilers, so I'll black it out: The first was when I was debunking a blackmail letter that mentioned a red diamond the addressee received "the other day". I used a newspaper clipping that I thought would work because it didn't show Luke wearing his red diamond ring, but it worked because it depicted a blue diamond. The second was when the transvestite mentioned putting up a mirror down the middle of the restaurant, and I used the Crime Photo because I thought it couldn't have been shot at that angle if there was a mirror there. Well, it was correct because it showed a picture of a vase, but the guy the transvestite was testifying against broke the fase at his table. Although now I realize it was taken by the police, allegedly after he moved the mirror.
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TaroSH Given how way off base I was about the magatama, I'll be more surprised if I'm right than wrong, but I'm guessing Godot is (highlight) Maya's boyfriend that was killed when Dahlia poisoned his coffee, and was somehow resurrected.
CLOUDBOND007 On a side note, it looks like all the smilies died except for that one.
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CLOUDBOND007 But I decided to go to gamefaqs to see what kinds of basic strategies and tips were there. But oh man do those writers totally fail. They both include hard to read maps for no real reason. They give only a vague one or two sentence description for each area with almost no useful information and nothing you would really need to look at their ugly maps for. This might be the lamest and funniest part of all: This is the last level in the game and also the hardest; by far. If you go One of them says he mapped out levels seven and eight for his "guide" without realizing that the game was repeating itself. I know nothing of how to do really well on this game and I could've come up with a better guide than those two.
TaroSH CLOUDBOND007 wrote: Think you mean Mia's boyfriend. Er, yeah. I started the fourth case, and I really hope they didn't expect us to not tell right away that Diego Armando is Godot. I'm sure retarded people will say "their hair color is different and Diego doesn't have the ninja eye plate thing" but come on.
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Crawl and 1OOO I tried the demo of Shadow of the Colossus. At first, I didn't think it was too bad. I asked FO how many people at this board played this game, other than Codie. She said CB007 and Masked Sheik. Masked Sheik got a headache playing it. I didn't have a problem with it until I tried climbing the colossus. Then the camera did freak out. A little bit later, the screen went blank. I guess the game crashed. So, that was that.
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CLOUDBOND007 I wish I had more Phoenix Wright or Apollo Justice to play. At Ace Attorney 5's current stage of development, I probably have another year to wait, at the very least.
Crawl and 1OOO new text to HTML converter You have a program to do it for you? Of course, we could come up with a program if you don't have one....
TaroSH Crawl and 1OOO wrote: I tried out Equinox for the heck of it. I beat the first dungeon. I tried the demo of Shadow of the Colossus. At first, I didn't think it was too bad. I asked FO how many people at this board played this game, other than Codie. She said CB007 and Masked Sheik. Masked Sheik got a headache playing it. I didn't have a problem with it until I tried climbing the colossus. Then the camera did freak out. A little bit later, the screen went blank. I guess the game crashed. So, that was that. What kind of colossus was it? My rundown of them: The first four were dragged out and boring, but inoffensive (First Minotaur, Bull, Teddybear-Monkey Swordsman, Kirin). The fifth, a crow, was bloody annoying. The sixth one, another minotaur, is easily the best one in the game because it's the only one with any intelligence. From the seventh on is when I started fucking hating the game. As for my own progress, I finished the first half of the trial in PW3, then went back to Mystic Quest when the DS battery went low. The two-headed dragon boss was kicking my butt the other night, so I leveled up some (also probably didn't help that I didn't have much White magic left). I went up four or five levels before refighting him, and beat him easily. I'm up to the Deku-Mana Tree.
CLOUDBOND007 You have a program to do it for you? Well, I mentioned that I used to let ezboard do it for me by previewing a post then viewing source. I figured that now I'd just get everything ready in Wordpad like usual (remove signatures, etc.) then run it through the converter instead of doing the ezboard trick. But it botched up the job nicely. For whatever reason, maybe I messed it up, it didn't do the italics on quoted statements so I just went back and fixed every. single. one.
Crawl and 1OOO What kind of colossus was it? I had assumed it was the first one, but I guess it's possible that a demo doesn't need to be a first level. Anyway, it was a big statue with a club. It might have been a minotaur, but either its head didn't look like one or I just didn't get a good enough look. Its legs might have been kind of bull-like, now that you mention it: Possibly bent the "wrong" way, and its feet could have been hooves.
TaroSH If you fought it in a dusty canyon, that's the first one. If you fought it by some ruins, that's the sixth one (although in the full game, it doesn't have a club and you fight it inside some temple instead of outside. All the 'bullshots' I see of this one show it outside, and often with the horse). But in either case, you fought one of the less irritating ones. (Why does Yuku keep turning my posts into a wall of text when I go to edit them?)
CLOUDBOND007 (Why does Yuku keep turning my posts into a wall of text when I go to edit them?) I think I've noticed that happening if I use quick reply and edit that post later.
Crawl and 1OOO If you fought it in a dusty canyon, that's the first one. That's probably it. I rode the horse to a little notch in a cliff, then I climbed up it, and the colossus was at the top.
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da dick MW4: i don't think i need anything other than the atlas mecs for the later missions. i guess i could do "circle of death" with a sunder(only assault class which can turn their torso 360 degrees quickly) better than the AI(even on elite), but the superior firepower and armour of an atlas makes it much easier to handle and keep alive. played around with a few custom "wave" games and found that the bushwhacker fitted with the same weapons(but with much lower speed/armour) as a madcat still outlasts a madcat. must be its smaller profile. or maybe the AI always goes for the bigger/stronger targets first? saw:
MaskedSheik I tried the demo of Shadow of the Colossus. At first, I didn't think it was too bad. I asked FO how many people at this board played this game, other than Codie. She said CB007 and Masked Sheik. Masked Sheik got a headache playing it. To be fair, I was playing it on a crappy TV that didn't handle the bloom very well.
TaroSH I completed the investigation with Edgeworth in the fifth case. Did somebody on the staff expect the average player to be retarded or something? First Armando, now "Iris".
TaroSH And the first half of the trial with Edgeworth against Franziska, which was amusing.
CLOUDBOND007 Edit: And that's not meant as a hint. Iris isn't a Transformer.
Flying Omelette I managed to beat Pincha after several tries. He has a simple pattern and once I figured it out, he wasn't hard. I went back into the dungeon and found another hidden room that yielded a white key. But as I suspected, all that did was open a white door between two rooms I had already been to. Since the only room I was missing was Room 09, I started checking for hidden doors around Rooms 06, 07, 08, etc. Actually, there was a subtle hint for that secret door and I did manage to find it. But I think the first time I played through this game, I couldn't find the weapon in this dungeon at all. I kept telling myself that I should go back and look for it, but Atlena is kind of a pain in the butt to navigate and the water in front of the screen was somewhat headache-inducing, so I couldn't bring myself to do it. But when playing on an emulator, I was able to turn off the background layer that has the water, so I wouldn't be bothered by it.
CLOUDBOND007 I've been playing a few rounds of Burgertime each night and I think somehow I'm getting worse at it. Edit: I finally beat my high score (up to 76,000-ish but level 6 has me stumped.) I was dominating this session until that point.
da dick new text to HTML converter... i think they're some converters at http://www.tinyapps.org you could check out if you haven't done so. MW4: i've been config-ing my madcats all wrong. they have lots of weapon slots so maxing out their speed wasn't ideal. they're made for scrapping(more offence than defence), preferably(sp?) at long range. same thing for the madcat mark ii, except it needs to be even slower as its engine upgrades cost way too much weight, and it has much less laser/omni slots for lightweight laser weapons. realised the shadowcat is not the popular mec known as "timberwolf"(clan name). it's the madcat. but according to the faqs and forum i've read, it still seems to be the preferred mec for jump-sniping(couldn't quite master this techique). replaying the mission for the neutral ending(but still recruit difficulty) again, i found that a lance of madcats were able to survive the whole mission without a scratch. still, i wasn't able to complete it as fast as when i was using 5 atlases, 2 daishis and a fafnir.
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CLOUDBOND007 I got my new PSP today. It is glorious to behold. I got Daxter and Lumines II with it but I have some other PSP games I haven't played yet sitting around.
CLOUDBOND007 With that out of the way... The new PSP is a lot lighter and a bit smaller. More comfortable to hold. Instead of an eject button, the disc door just snaps open when you pull on it gently. There's no longer a speficic place to slide the UMD in. You just rest it in there facing the right direction and snap the door closed. It's not as fancy but also should be less prone to wear. Mine has one stuck pixel in the upper right but it's not too noticeable at all. It's something I've come to expect from modern handhelds. I tried the Liberty City Stories disc I had from a long time ago but it doesn't work. I even cleaned it but it seems to have died somehow so I just threw it out. I don't really get it since UMD discs can't really get scratched and it didn't seem especially dirty, just a little dusty (which I cleaned off). Everything else works fine so the system arrived in good shape in the end. I haven't played Daxter but I tried Lumines II, Burnout something, and a couple of movie discs. I love the silver look and it obviously isn't going to show fingerprints and dirt like the black one does. Next game I want to rent or buy for it is the Disgaea port. It's got some new goodies and I never finished it originally anyway.
Captain Ladd Spencer Crusty crap on a crab, with all the dialogue I've slogged through I'd swear Hideo Kojima was involved with this game. And I got to Iris' secret. Seabu lied, she is a Transformer.
da dick started the maximus chase quest. the enemies are easy compared to the enemies near the water gate. and this quest is suppose to be only accessible after i've sealed the water gate(and only if black/herman is still recruitable). after this i should be able to access the wind gate, but i think i might go waste more time in the waterrfall dungeon, and try to get all my characters to learn all the most poweful weapon techs. so far, only kat learnt the most powerful big sword tech "nature dance", but i'm going to try to make her learn "earth cresent" anyway. it's suppose to be just as powerful but cost 2 WP less. only Muse(weak stats), Paul(missed recruiting him in early game), Yan Fan(his STR sucks),Shonen(need sara to recruit) and Sharl(i don't want to give him the silver arm) are suppose to have a higher chance of learning that move.
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CLOUDBOND007 Edit: In other gameplay, I put an hour or two into Lumines II and it's starting to come back to me. I still feel that these games completely blow Tetris away in pretty much any way you can compare the two. The Xbox 360 version is the weakest link because of the controller's damn near useless d-pad, though.
TWEETER911 Crawl and 1OOO wrote: Why? FUN.
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sethrashnoo After much trial and tribulation, I beat the Dunn Webb dungeon and Spider Boss in Alundra 2. I like how this game uses interesting change of perspective sometimes. Some areas become sidescrollers, like that one in the Ox Tank that was reminiscent of the arcade Donkey Kong. Dunn Webb had a few spots like that, too. So, I took a boat ride and I'm now in Puerto Medusa. That part where Alexis pretends Flint is her little brother to get him out of trouble with the pirates reminded me a lot of Loro pretending Nucleo is Dante Razeena to get him out of trouble with his past self. Is this what inspired that scene?
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Flying Omelette sethrashnoo wrote: So, I took a boat ride and I'm now in Puerto Medusa. That part where Alexis pretends Flint is her little brother to get him out of trouble with the pirates reminded me a lot of Loro pretending Nucleo is Dante Razeena to get him out of trouble with his past self. Is this what inspired that scene? I had actually forgotten Alundra 2 had a scene like that, but that's another staple of 80's cartoons, too. Unfortunately, I can't think of any other specific examples, which is why I never posted it in the "Laws of Cartoons" topic.
da dick gave the axe to black, and passed the devil armour and shield from robin to him. with those thing equipped, he might be more powerful than even harid. but the double WP/JP cost for using devil king gear is still a pain for long dungeon treks.hmm, also gave me the glory staff which can teach/use the 'bless' tech. i guess the bless thing increases stats. not sure if i should dump it for the plain ol' life cane, which gives free low-level healing. screw that. i've already mastered 'focus'(with boston),so everyone in my party can self-heal. the masquerade epee(supposedly 35ATK when 'awakened' into a big sword) doesn't seem to be nearly as powerful as the dragon scale sword(43 ATK), i currently have. i think it's does a couple hundred HP less damage(while using nature dance) than the dragon scale(using satsuki rain). don't feel like getting the ultimate big sword since i read it's only 40 ATK. so i'm currently equiping both the masquerade and dragon scale on kat... just don't like having a pretty powerful weapon stuck in the storeroom. WP is suppose to rise faster when i use 2 different weapons anyway. gave the much more powerful sword "7 star sword" to harid. after a few battles he opened up the sword special tech "star burst"(7WP) which is suppose to turn it into a 60 ATK(!!as powerful as a zerosword from Frontier!!) sword. after that, he can do a a total of about 1800 damage using just a normal attack(with silver hand, he gets an extra hit with the falchion sword which is also equiped on him). after doing the cheapass royal ring trick to earn infinite money, i bought some new armour including 2 sets of war god armour from xuan city which cost 9999 creds each. i remember frontier had better bargains than this, or maybe i'm just nostalgic(sp?) ha, while playing an older version of the newer game. gonna try beating the earth gate under devil king's palace/ruins. should be harder than the water one. forneus wasn't too tough once i gave the team armour which were immune to water, which were easily found near forneus. i don't see any earth resistant gear in the ruins. if i can't beat him, i'll try looking for the fire one in the jungle maze. i do have 3 fire-blocking shields. i think the fairies in the jungle have some equipment which can make me immune to wind attacks.
TaroSH Flying Omelette wrote: I had actually forgotten Alundra 2 had a scene like that, but that's another staple of 80's cartoons, too. Unfortunately, I can't think of any other specific examples, which is why I never posted it in the "Laws of Cartoons" topic. It happens in Aladdin when the Princess takes the apple from the merchant and can't pay.
CLOUDBOND007 I got about seven rounds into the Vs. CPU mode which is less brutally insane than the original game but still REALLY hard at the point I'm up to. There are some other interesting things to do, time attack, a mission mode, a puzzle mode. It feels like a much deeper game than the original. I don't think I'm going to finish Blue Dragon, the longer I spend away, the less interested I am in continuing it. Plus I found a walkthrough with story details to satisfy my curiosity. It was all fairly predictable anyway, I would have been disappointed.
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da dick wandered around some ancient caves after defeating some demon which took over the thieves' cave, and found death, who seems to be some statue worshipped by undead. i think death was more powerful than the earth devil lord clone. won a death fragment off him/her/it. could make the ultimate bow using that frag, but i don't have bow user. made a death ring. not sure if i wanna equip it permanently(sp?) since it turns its user into undead(can't heal, get undead weaknesses/strengths, and regen in deady places). then again, that list said that the ultimate bow turns its user into an undead too. annoying. trained up a bit in the rotten ruins and found another flamebeast hide to make into another flame shield. didn't bother to solve elephantman's curse which is related to these ruins. also learnt the ultimate spear tech, triple thrust. strangely, robin learnt it before thomas did. guess it has to do with him having higher dexerity(17:14 or somewhere there). currently still tr-. the ultimate wind spell should work well with black and his devil gear. the spell would give him unlimted HP/WP/JP but cause him to lose 1 LP each time he's hit. risky in very interesting way. betting his life for temporary invincibility.
TaroSH I need to start signing the High Score board with goofy names like CAT or AXL. It's a little boring with all the scores being "SNK" or "CLM". Then I spent fifty cents on that tank in the subway of stage 5. Bah. I may have been losing focus because I was starting to worry what time it was and I didn't want to miss my Japanese midterm. If anybody cares, I always play as Tarma (and I guess everybody who plays this game at my school does, because he's the one being used whenever I spy on somebody else's game), but once I used Fio because I went over one too far.
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TaroSH Phoenix Wright 3... I'm half tempted to just download a walkthrough and let it lead me through the rest of the game by the nose. I've completed one testimony a day the past two days, and then I already got fucking sick of it.
TaroSH I didn't feel like putting any more time into Mystic Quest, still didn't feel like PW3, so I popped Panzer Dragoon Saga in and got the Solo Wing dragon, just to have something that isn't as fuckugly as the Light Wing dragon. Then I decided to beat the game with it. Oh man, how did I think that was Edge in the epilogue? At one point the person in the cloak sticks there hand out and it's all thin and femenine, and the man they're talking to says "The person you're looking for, is he really worth risking your life for?"
CLOUDBOND007 I've completed one testimony a day the past two days, and then I already got fucking sick of it. You're at the point where I decided this was my least favorite PW game. The ending is good though, so keep at it.
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CLOUDBOND007 After that, there's one final witness and some events which renewed my interest in the story a little bit. It kind of fizzles out at the very end, though. If you want to use the guide for the testimony you're on and the following one, go for it. I would consider doing the last one yourself unless you're low on health and at risk of a Game Over.
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TaroSH CLOUDBOND007 wrote: If you want to use the guide for the testimony you're on and the following one, go for it. I would consider doing the last one yourself unless you're low on health and at risk of a Game Over. I'm a coward who saves during testimonies and before Psyche-Locks and when I feel a "answer my question and present evidence" coming and resets if I'm wrong. So, I almost always have perfect life bars at the end >_>
CLOUDBOND007 There might be part of this game at the end that has you lose your entire life bar if you guess wrong, so keep an eye out for it and save. Then again, I might be thinking of another PW game.
TaroSH That was the sacred urn case (maybe there's another coming up). At the very end when you're trying to prove Look At Me was at the CEO's office at the time of the murder, the judge tells you you have one chance to Press the correct bit of testimony.
da dick found this website dedicated to mostly 2-d shooters while looking for info on knights of xentar. the witcher was reminding me of that game and cobra mission. some say that knights of xentar was almost as good as the 1st or 2nd final fantasy.
TaroSH Now I'm on the last witness, the testimony entitled "The Killer" where the witness says why she thought the second person was a man. The judge said "Spoony Bard".
Facilitypro We're at the "double dungeon" portion of the endgame. There are two dungeons you must clear before you can move onto the next tier of the game. We've cleared out one of them, and have one boss to go on the other. This might be the hardest fight I've seen so far on WoW. (In fact, I hear the next several fights in the upcoming dungeons are jokes, comparatively.) It's easily a 20 minute fight at minimum, more than doubling the usual boss fight length. There are 5 phases to make it through. After about 3 weeks (I estimate about 30 attempts total), we've made it to phase 5, so we're almost there. It's one of those "pay attention to 9 things at once" fights that Blizzard likes to throw at people every now and then. You fight Kael (boss) and his 4 cronies. In Phase 1, you fight the cronies, one at a time. This is pretty much a gimmie. Not timed, so you can take as long as you want. In Phase 2, Kael spawns the 7 weapons the advisors were holding, and you fight all 7 at once. When each weapon dies, you can pick it up and use it for the rest of the fight. Each weapon gives you special abilities that you need to use in the last phases.This phase was tricky. It's timed (2 min), so if you fall behind the next phase will start, ready or not. But we've pretty much got it now. Phase 3 is where it gets hard. Kael resurrects all 4 cronies and you have to fight them simultaneously. They haven't gotten any stronger, but there's a lot going on, and it's easy not to notice things like the guy with the giant axe moving towards you while you're trying to heal someone else. There's a lot of communication going on in this phase. This phase last 3 min. At the end of the 3 min, Phase 4 starts, and Kael joins the fray. At this point, if things are going well, we're finishing off the last one or two of the cronies when he becomes active. I have to tank Kael. Yet again, there's even more crap to pay attention to. He spawns phonexes around the room, and drops area-instant kill spells that you have about 3 seconds to move out of. Three seconds is plenty of time to react, but it's easy to get distracted by everything else going on. He's possessing people and we need to break them out of it. My (and my healers') big challenge is surviving his move of shooting three 50k (base damage) damage fireblasts at me, when I only have about 20k health. When he hits 50% health, phase 5 begins. He loses some old moves (the possessions and fireblasts) and gains some new ones. He periodically makes the room 0 gravity and you have to float around for a bit, avoid some of his blasts, and stay away from other people (who will chain his blasts). Supposedly it's a very easy phase. We didn't do so hot our first time seeing it, but we got a feel for it and I think next time we see him he's going down.
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TaroSH The ending was pretty good, and that photograph in the amulet was awesome.
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TaroSH And I beat Mystic Quest. I liked it, but mostly for the kickass soundtrack and graphical touches. The final boss's background was impressive. I also like the way enemies deteriorate as you bash them up, and some even do weird things, like when get the chimera-type enemies down to half the goat head falls and the dragon and lion heads get pissed off, then you wack it some more and the snake head drops and the lion howls. Or the freaked out look the gargoyles with two swords get when you get them down to half and break their swords. Or what happens after you supposively lop off both of the Hydra's heads. The battle system's mostly a Dragon Warrior clone, but I'm actually not turned off by this unless I'm getting into fights every few steps (like Lufia and Albert Odyssey).
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TaroSH I'm not sure what to play next. Since I'm on Spring Break I'll probably throw in some home Metal Slug Xing for balance. FO's shrine is making me want to play Equinox, but just finished an SNES game, and I've been neglecting some other consoles. I do need to get back to Goldeneye (which I haven't played in a month or two when I was running around trying to find the bulletproof vest in the Statue Park, and when I had finally found it my brother had me drop the game to go run an errand for him) and Gaiares...
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TaroSH Oh really. Now that you mention it, I remember hearing that some time ago, but didn't remember it when I fought him. Then I guess I did it the Hard way.
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CLOUDBOND007 I'm only getting 3 to 4 hours of charge right now but since I play the thing at home, I could just plug it in with or without a battery in there.
TaroSH The main bug I need to work out of the trick I thought of for the third boss is when it sends out those fireballs on the propellers. Either that, or I just may have to go back to navigating through the bullets if I decide this really doesn't work.
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TaroSH I think I read Flink in about five minutes. Kind of forgettable. The I read Iron West, which was longer. That one I'll have to wait a while before making any comments on.
CLOUDBOND007 Episode 3 is, I think, very underrated by the pro review sites. Episode 4 lives up to the hype. I'm not sure it's as good as Reality 2.0 but the story was really good. I love time travel paradox stuff and the puzzles were pretty inventive. They've come a long way from the early days of the episodic Sam and Max games. Can't wait for the season 2 finale.
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Captain Ladd Spencer I was also getting my butt kicked by the beginning of the fourth stage, but found out throwing the TOZ at a missile got me the T-Missile which I have powered up from the beginning of the third stage, where it's extremely effective. Then I annhialated everything.
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CLOUDBOND007 If I get the one I'm going to bid on, it'll be pretty cool, because it's still sealed. http://www.cb007.com/images/sammaxhittheroad.JPG I love the CD Version - FULL TALKIE sticker. Update: That auction shot from 9.95 to 55.00 in a matter of seconds so I didn't get that one. I ended up buying one that has the CD but not the original box all sealed up and nice.
CLOUDBOND007 It's not as if something occurs at the halfway mark that suddenly makes the game harder. It's just that the longer you play, the more mistakes you're likely to make. And every time you reach a new level, the change in colors, speed, and visuals can take several seconds to adjust to, longer in some cases. The more of these changes you go through, especially to a skin you've never seen before, the more likely you are to mess up. I'm pretty sure that on single skin mode where everything is stable, I'm skilled enough to play indefinitely. And while I'm only about halfway through challenge mode, I feel I'm not that far from being able to beat it. Something seemed to really click for me in the past couple of days allowing me to see the game on a different level than when I played it a couple years ago. I can much more easily see a few moves ahead and plan things out where before, I was always just trying to survive from moment to moment.
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TaroSH I feel like the fifth miniboss is a checkpoint to make sure you know how to use the TOZ as a shield.
TaroSH I made it to the sixth boss.
CLOUDBOND007 I'd have to recommend it if nothing else works, though I'd be more inclined to do it on something I don't actually own. I finished the first chapter of Disgaea but I'm not really that into it right now. I played Lumines all night long last night, I was still seeing it running in my head as I was falling asleep. Update: I just ended a 80+ minute session and came much closer to beating Lumines 1. I made it to about 85% through Challenge Mode. The stage I lost on wasn't too bad but I had screwed up on the previous one and left myself no room for error. I about doubled my previous high score. I'm officially an addict now. I think it helps me to have different Lumines games available. Typically when I get a Game Over on Lumines 1, I won't feel like making another attempt that night considering how much time is involved. But I'll usually go over to Lumines 2 or Lumines Live to continue playing some more. This way, I get to have a little variety in what skins I play through while still sharpening my skills for the next attempt at the original.
Captain Ladd Spencer 2/3 of the time I can't even get to him. I usually get wiped out by that wall of enemies that flies in before him.
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TaroSH Then you get to these little enemies that you can steal the Vulcan from if you didn't already steal another weapon, then the boss is that pink and blue robot with the sword on the back of the case.
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TaroSH I finally beat that damn Statue Park in Goldeneye. Had to crank up the brightness on my TV to see it.
CLOUDBOND007 I think it loops at level 100. Even finishing challenge mode wouldn't mean real mastery of the game however, as there's one skin you don't unlock until you reach 999,999 points. My best so far is 220,000 or so. Man, that'd be like four or five hours of nonstop play. You could put the PSP in sleep mode I guess, and take breaks.
CLOUDBOND007 This may sound strange considering that it's a puzzle game, but this qualifies as one of the games I'm most proud of finishing. When I first played it back in 2004 or 2005, I remember barely being able to clear the first couple of skins (about 10 levels). I gradually got a little better but I felt like my skill level peaked with only a fraction of challenge mode cleared. As is often the case, I got bored and moved on to something else, and eventually sold the PSP and the game. So starting it again in 2008, I initially was doing about as well as I did back then. But I wanted to stick with it. I played Lumines 2 and Lumines Live to help practice, and I made sure to make at least one attempt at challenge mode per day. I noticed a steady improvement most days and on a couple of occasions, felt like I had graduated to playing the game on a completely different level of skill. These last few days were the toughest, making it to level 80 or 90 after more than an hour of play only to make a couple of minor mistakes that kill the whole run. There were a couple of times tonight when I thought it was over and I just happened to get the right pieces at the right time to save the situation. I didn't know exactly what would happen when I reached level 100. A new skin started and I didn't know if it would keep playing forever or eventually start looping. I started to have this dreadful idea of what if I die on level 100 before I know whether I've finished the game or not. It turns out that on level 104 or 105, it did in fact loop back to Shinin', the games' first skin, although the level display said I was on 100-something. The blocks were also falling at pretty tremendous speeds compared to what they normally would be at the start of the game. I made it to the second skin of the second run. My highest score is about 290,000. This is a game you can continually improve on and I'm sure that if I stuck with it (a big "if") I could eventually crack the 999,999 barrier and get the secret skin. As it is, I'm so thrilled to have finally seen every level of Challenge Mode, which I never, in a million years, thought I would manage. I'm still feeling the Lumines magic, so I'll see what I can do with the sequel. Unlike one huge challenge mode, Lumines II is broken up into a beginner, normal, and advanced series of skins. I've tried them all at this point, and each seems to be harder than the original game.
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CLOUDBOND007 I also just cleared the Base pack of Lumines Live for the first time! They were stingy so that's the only pack it came with. You had to pay to download the others. I downloaded the Advance pack when I first bought it but a couple more have come out since then. The 360's controller sucks SO MUCH for this game.
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TWEETER911 Not even Dr Who has pulled off time travel this EPIC! ... Yeah?
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TaroSH If this is a sign of what the seventh level is going to be like, it ain't gonna be pretty.
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CLOUDBOND007 The first 10 minutes (the fox bashing) was very dull, but hey....I can imagine they wanted to get their bitterness out there. I also thought there was too much Hermes stuff. That annoyed me more than anything else. The sequel isn't too far off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_with_a_billion_backs I try to get these things the second they're available, too impatient to wait for TV and save money.
TaroSH Well, um, there really wasn't much to judge. I think it took me about six minutes to read the entire thing, and feels more like a teaser than an actual first issue. It opens with Prime beating the shit out of the coach at a school, claiming he touched a girl. Then Prime stops after he breaks the guy's arm, turns, and realizes he frightened a bunch of girls. He tells them not to be afraid and he's their protector and stuff. Then it's revealed this was just a testimony from the coach to some unseen government people. Then the "This is madness" guy from 300 comes in and testifies to how Prime busted his drug ring. Then there's some tangent about some other Malibu superhero called Prototype, along with four pages of Malibu Ultraverse ads. Then we go back to Prime who's flown to the Middle East and is trying to direct some army people to some starving refugees. They open fire on him, and don't scratch him, and he retaliates. Then it ends with Prime flying home at sunset, liquifying, and some kid that was inside him pulls out of the goop of his body and starts vomiting on the floor. EDIT: Oh yeah, and before the tangent about Prototype, it was a tangent about the guy from Comix Zone, and it sounded like he was beating his wife. Okay, I did some Wikipedia research before I bought the comics (and for that matter, the manual to the video game provides enough background to make sense of this), so I know what all this shit means (like why there was a boy inside him), so it takes what would have been a "WHAT the FUCK?!" down to just "What the hell?" And I guess as a teaser, it actually worked. I actually want to read the second one and see how the part with Prime beating up the coach in front of the girl who's supposed to be the "hero's love interest" character and scaring the shit out of her work out, and maybe see if it makes any more sense than this one did. But the lot I bought that has the next several books (and because of a fluke, I've ended up with two copies of the first one. I bought a collection from a guy, then went to another seller and bought some books that were missing from the other guy's collection, and then the first guy emailed me and said "Hey, I found the first issue along with a special and one from the Marvel run and I'm sending them to you!") hasn't arrived yet.
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CLOUDBOND007 Well, if you explore the contents of the disc (at first my computer didn't know WTF it even was, said audio disc) you see that it's got a thing to run it through modern Windows but it's optional and it has all the ancient crusty files I needed. I coped the entire contents of the CD to the harddrive and booted up the SCUMM emulator and it works to perfection. It's going to be hard for me to get used to the different voice actors (as I'm sure it was hard for fans of Hit the Road to get used to the voice actors in the episodic series of games). The Windows launcher actually does work, but the emulator seems to work better, so I'm sticking with that.
Facilitypro Those two bosses (Kael and Vashj) were like Mike Tyson-difficult compared to the other bosses in those dungeons. In a sense that's appropriate, I suppose, since they're the final bosses of not only those two dungeons, but a "chapter" in wow. Each one seems to have been designed to test a guild on specific types of encounters. The Vashj fight is a test on how well a guild can handle random elements. Enemies spawn from random spots on the map, so you have to be prepared for things to spawn in bad spots, or far away from a tank. The Kael fight seems to be a test of how well a guild can handle a scripted fight. Although you know everything that's going to happen, there's a lot of it happening and you have to pay attention and deal with everything efficiently. These fights are known as "guild killers" because when a guild can't beat them, there's really nothing to do to progress but leave that guild and look for one that can beat it. So people leave, weakening the guild further...repeat ad infinitum until they disband.
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Flying Omelette It doesn't look like Trolls show up in the Quagmire overworld, either. The boss, Dollop, I actually beat on my first try. I think he's a lot easier than some of the earlier bosses. Maybe the developers went a little easy this time because of how hard some of the spike rooms are. Although, one thing that's weird about Quagmire is that the keys, for the most part, are harder to get than the Tokens. There are a lot of Tokens just lying around in the open without any obstacles between you and them. This dungeon has the single biggest mystery in the whole game since 07-02 of the Ghost Ship - there's a small room that has a log that moves when you stand on it. Behind the log are a bunch of plants lining the wall in such a way that they form what looks like a doorway arch. You'd think there's a hidden door there, but there isn't. Even weirder, the moving log will slide into that archway and fit right into it. For what reason, I do not know. I suppose it might just be a spike trap, but that's rather weird and elaborate for something that simple.
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TaroSH I feel like using that level select code to jump to level 7, considering I've beaten everything up to the sixth boss without dying twice.
CLOUDBOND007 Played some more Hit the Road. It's okay but so far I prefer the more linear gameplay style of the episodic games. And the voices still haven't grown on me. And the controls are a little awkward. But it's an interesting experience anyway.
Crawl and 1OOO I can't find any original game progress posts of mine that detailed my strategy, though.
TaroSH Crawl and 1OOO wrote: boss rehash NOOOOOOO!!!!
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Crawl and 1OOO 1. Like I said, there's the issue that Gaiares's rehash prevents fluking. Bonk's Adventure is so easy that beating bosses through flukes is not an issue. 2. Would I have preferred a new boss in Gaiares rather than a rehash? Sure. But that's a rehash after a bunch of good stuff. Bonk's Adventure has a rehash, AND is missing the good stuff before that point.
TaroSH So, it's kind of like the Hulk in that you've got this guy who turns into a muscle-bound giant and is trying to come to terms with it. Except the person undergoing the transformations is 13 years old instead of an adult, the transformation is fairly human, he retains his mind when he does it although he seems a bit bolder when he's Prime, doesn't necessarily do it when he's angry (in the second issue and in a flashback, he just got really sick and turned into Prime for no real reason, though a couple other times it happened when he got pissed off), and his father knows about it and is also being traumatized by it. And Prime can fly. Some moments are really creepy, like when the people responsible for this transformation capture him and fill him in on it, and he's introduced to another transformer who turns into a grotesque monster instead of a human. That flashback of his first transformation was also kind of eerie. But there's some amusing moments, too, like one issue has Prime beating up a cartoonily drawn He-Man parody (some demon from the Mantra universe came and took on the form of the main character of Maxi-Man and the Heroes of the Universe or something). However, I'm missing issue 7. Apparently, it's some crossover with some other Malibu character called Breakthru. I don't know if I should skip it (#4 which was also missing from the initial lot was a crossover with Prototype, which didn't amount to anything), or maybe tomorrow poke around a couple comic book stores to see if anyone has it. |
