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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition
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Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »I remember really enjoying this game until about two years ago where I just felt the game was starting to become stale.
The thing that eventually killed my appeal and enthusiasm for that game is the fact it never seems to end, and all the levels get rather repetitive. I made a horrible attempt at beating that game and it just wasn't happening. My judgement was clouded by the fact I played 4 or 5 levels that were getting increasingly challenging but then it just felt samey.
Kid Chameleon is an unnecessarily long, shallow game game for its time.
That's kind of how I felt. There's loads of secrets and stuff but it just has that western unstructured feel to it. I also made an attempt at it as well and just gave up as it was just so long and nothing felt like it was changing between levels to make it interesting. It's just a game that has never clicked with me. I'm interested in finding out what actually makes it click for people or if it's just nostalgia.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »That's kind of how I felt. There's loads of secrets and stuff but it just has that western unstructured feel to it. I also made an attempt at it as well and just gave up as it was just so long and nothing felt like it was changing between levels to make it interesting. It's just a game that has never clicked with me. I'm interested in finding out what actually makes it click for people or if it's just nostalgia.
I've only ever played it for five minutes - your utter hatred over the years has completely turned me off giving it a proper go
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I feel like I have finally achieved the goal my time moderating A&R...
In all the years my master plan was to rehabilitate Sonic 3 with you all...
My work is done...
Now to spend the next 10 years getting you all to play Cold winter on the PS2....
I've actually grown rather fond of it after that playthrough and now playing through again as Knuckles. It has a very different feel to the first two games but once you get over that, there's a lot of cool stuff going on.
Maybe we should have been listening to your recommendations after all, should I now pick up that copy of Fire Warrior?0 -
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I've always really liked sonic 3. Think it's a great game, it just doesn't live up to Sonic 2. I also think S&K is a big improvement on Sonic 3 and when they are combined it's a really great game.I've only ever played it for five minutes - your utter hatred over the years has completely turned me off giving it a proper go
I actually don't know if I'm missing something that will make it click or do I really just think it's a bad game. I'm not ready to call it crap but even playing it back in the 90's I didn't enjoy it.
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Metal Arms is another game I don't get. Heard it described as a cute Halo. What I played was grand but did not stand out enough for me to play past the third stage. It's not bad, it certainly isn't Fire Warrior, I just didn't see what made it stand out from the likes of Ratchet and Clank (another serious I find highly overrated.... Maybe I think everything is overrated :eek:)
Cold Winter on the other hand I wouldn't call incredible either but as a PS2 shooter it's one of the better ones and still a blast even if it's long been surpassed by better games. I'd put it up there with Turok, another game I went back to out of curiosity and found it a hell of a lot of fun.
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Finished 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (incredible game btw and would recommend it to the snatcher fans here) so I'll be diving back into retro games from tonight. I'll keep plugging away at mischief makers but might go back to Ecco and take a break from megaman to finish off some Castlevania games.
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Was sorting through a box of games and came across Soukyugurentai on the Saturn(Jap). Actually had no idea what it was until I started playing it
The English language release was called Terra Diver.
Really nice vertical shmup and another one that the price is going up on. Looks amazing on a Sony PVM/BVM.
Nasty scanline free long play here:
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Are you only discovering Souky now? The game is awesome. Amazing soundtrack as well. The third stage when you was flying through the clouds is one of my all time favourite shmup levels.
No, I'd played it years ago but didn't recognise it from the artwork.
Had to stick the disc in and then had the "oh yeah" moment
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Back into playing Mischief Makers. Again it makes me miss Treasure games.
Their games are always so mechanically focused. They build their games around mechanics that tend to be really strange and weird but loads of fun and very deep. And there's never anything else that plays like their games. And then they just build levels around crazy level design concepts.
Mischief Makers really has a Bangai-O feel to it were every level seems to have been slapped together in a homebrew editor and logic and story are thrown out the window in favour of making something that's fun and exciting. It's near nintendo levels where every level introduces some new idea which is then abandoned in the next level for something else that's bizarre and suprising. Saying that it's not as polished as the best mario games.
Most levels are pretty sort and easy but there's a bit of longevity added as there's a hidden yellow gem on each level to find and it also tasks you with getting a good A rank time in every level to get everything in the game. It's typical for N64 design at the time were so few games of note were released on the system that they had a lot of extra challenges and collectibles to add replayability. It really works here though.
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No, there's a jump button alright. You use the c-buttons then to dash in different directions. It's a tough game to get your head around which is why half the first world is a tutorial. The dash mechanics are weird as well as you have to alternate dashing up and to the side to dash while retaining as much height as possible.
Mischief makers is a game designed around the N64 pad, it's why I got a tribute 64 which is a hori mini rip off. It works for the game but it's not as nice to use as the original pad for this game.
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