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What Games Have You Completed? (2021 Edition)
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(The state of me having to use a blurry screenshot to post my list just so I can have it in a table).
GAME: Angry Video Game Nerd: Adventures || PLATFORM: PC
I got the original version as well as the sequel, before I realised that they were updated and repackaged in a Deluxe bundle, serving as a remaster in the process. So I picked up the Deluxe versions and made a start on the first game.
Very challenging 2D action-platformer that's a lot of fun at the same time. If you're a fan of AVGN you'll enjoy the many references it has as well.
Great game overall.
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#45 Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle || Nintendo Switch
I thought that maybe this time might be the time I actually enjoy it.
Nope, it's one of the biggest piles of garbage I've ever had the displeasure of playing from the 16-bit generation. I've had the actual game itself since I was 6 years old and I never liked it that much even back then. The Janken minigame is probably the worst thing about it. You don't fight the level bosses, you play Rock, Paper Scissors against them and if you lose, you lose a life, which is absolute bullshit especially if it's something as random as f*cking Rock, Paper, Scissors.
The only time you do get to actually fight a boss is at the very end, but you still have to play RPS against him before that even happens, and they gave him four arms because, you know, Rock Paper Scissors.... ugh.. 😠
The controls are horrible; very slippy and awkward to control. I spent about 20 seconds trying to reach an item that was up on a platform all because I kept slipping off the lower platforms. The hit detection is almost non-existent. No wonder it almost went completely obscure thanks to Sonic. Sonic and Mario are exactly how platforming should be done. Alex Kidd was a bad game then and is an even worse game now. Why I beat it yesterday, I'll never know. I was waiting for visitors to come to my house and I decided to play that while I waited. Since I was playing it on the Mega Drive Collection on Switch, you're damn right I abused the save states.
It was even more jarring considering I had just beaten AVGN Adventures prior - a much more solid platformer by comparison.
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I think the Maegdrive game was never fondly remembered and thrashed by everyone. It's the Master System one that everyone likes and even at that it's because of nostalgia as for master system kids it was their not quite mario. It's not a great game.
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#47 | AVGN II: ASSimilation (AVGN I & II Deluxe) | PC
Gameplaywise it's almost the exact same as the first one. A lot more was added to this game including double the collectibles and the new addition of upgrades. It maintains the non-linear style of the first game in that you can complete any level in any order. So many references to movies, games and AVGN episodes, even more than before.
It's definitely a lot harder as well, with most of the challenge being trying to get some of the collectibles as they're placed in ridiculous spots that require a lot of trial and error to get to.
I loved all of this. Got 100% as well.
#48 | AVGN: Tower of Torment: The Final Chapter | PC
Forgot this was added. Basically an extra level you unlock for completing both games. I can see why it was added, as the character who ends up being the final boss was strangely omitted from the two games despite being a fairly well known character within AVGN's content.
Basically an extra chapter to AVGN II. Not sure if I should've included it as a separate game but it is featured as such, so I'm counting it.
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- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuskTales 2|NES
DuckTales 2
Another amazing platformer from Capcom. It's quite a late NES game so is a bit of a looker. However the soundtrack isn't as good as the original but still great. The same DuckTales gameplay is present and it's still as nice to control as ever. There's way more secrets to find now in an attempt to increase the longevity of the game. Level design however just isn't as good as the original with levels not feeling as open or memorable.
The only mistake this game makes is being the sequel to one of the best platform games of all time. Take on it's own merits, it's a top tier NES platformer.
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- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
Turok Dinosaur Hunter
This is a game I've often dismissed. It was the first big N64 game released after the Mario 64 and Pilotwings launch titles and at the time reviews were very warm but not glowing, scores were in around the 80 mark. I thought the reception would be inflated as there was very little on the N64 at the time, kind of like the awful Disruptor on PS1. And it was from Acclaim who were vendors of garbage.
I tried Turok on the N64 a couple of years ago and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The excellent Night Dive port of the game was a great excuse to finally finish the game and I'm really pleasantly surprised, it's a great shooter. Turok really has a unique look and feel to it, it's a very bright and colourful world. Plenty of fog as well if you play on N64! Each of the eight stages are massive, they start off fairly linear but really become open and sprawling towards the end with a final stage that is labyrinthian. Plenty of secrets to find. There's a few too many jumping sections but with a keyboard and mouse they are far more manageable on PC than on a gamepad. The weapons are all fantastic. Turok hails from a time before FPS weapons got boring so there's a huge amount of variety. The standard bow, pistol, shotgun, rifle all feel great. The alien weapons are fun to mess around with and have excellent particle effects. One of the weapons really dates the game, every FPS at the time had to have a weapon that aped the railgun from Eraser and Turok's particle effects do a great job of it. There's a great variety of enemies with some exceptional animations for the time. Death animations and gore effects loot great. There's even some good boss fights, although the penultimate T-Rex fight is very weak to the power of circle strafing.
Overall Turok surprised me and it's a fantastic old school shooter but with it's own look and feel. Well worth playing and it's great to play a FPS that has a lot of fun with it's weapons (I know ratchet and clank does as well but meh.... I just don't get those games).
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- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
Professor Layton and Pandora's Box
I enjoyed the first Layton game but wasn't totally enamoured with it. Pandora' Box is more of the same and while it's very much improved over the original, it's still not as amazing as it should be.
In this game Layton and Luke are on the trail of a mysterious box that is said to kill anyone that opens it which leads them to a mysterious train and town.
The puzzles again are the star of the show and are mostly excellent. There's two types of puzzles I didn't get on with though. One is a checkers type puzzle and others involve moving a chess knight around a board. These are perfectly fine in their early iterations but the later larger ones are insane as you have to make 50 or more moves perfectly to complete them.
The music as well has been greatly improved over the first game where it kind of grated after a while. There's a few fun new minigames as well, One has you helping a fat hamsters and the tea mini game was good as well other than the NPCs getting thirsty being based on RNG.
The biggest downfall of the game as it was with the first one and every other Level 5 IP game is the story. As proven in other level 5 games like Ni No Kuni and Rogue Galaxy and also the near riot he started with Gundam fans because Gundam AGE, Akihiko Hino is an awful, awful writer. Pandora's Box in fairness is a lot better than Mysterious Village but it suffers from the same issue. For a game based on solving mysteries there's no real incentive or push in the story to solve said mysteries. It needs to dangle out story vignettes and cliffhangers like Ace Attorney does but it never becomes at interesting. The main plot just like in the first game is all wrapped up in the final few puzzles after being totally absent for most of the run time. At least the ending doesn't fall totally flat like in the original but there was a lot of potential here squandered and it just isn't satisfying.
So Layton yet again has great puzzles and very poor writing. The strength of the puzzles does at least make it well worth playing. It's just a shame that there's an amazing game that could be built around this concept that just can't be realised when you have a hack like Akihiko Hino working on the writing.
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I had the same issues as well. It's a great game but far from the best Metroidvania ever. The map is just too big with teleport options being way to sparse. The end game is kind of a let down as well, you get to a point where you are so powerful and know the game so well none of the enemies or bosses are a challenge but you still have half the game to beat and you feel like you are just checking areas off for the sake of completeness instead of actually exploring.
As for the Godseeker DLC. That can **** right off.
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- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
Ape Escape
All Monkeys caught and true ending.
Sony's attempt to take on Mario 64 on the PS1 and while it comes no where near that absolute masterpiece Ape Escape at least does it's own thing and is quite a unique game and stands out from the also rans like Spyro and the Rare N64 games.
Ape Escape was made to really sell the Dual Shock controller. This is before anyone knew what to do with the second analogue stick they slapped on there. The obvious answer is to use it for a camera but instead the left stick moves the protagonist while the right stick is used to control a variety of gadgets in pretty clever ways. It makes the gadgets interesting to use as they take full advantage of analogue control but it also means the Camera and it's controls are god awful. All the whingers whining about Mario 64 need to shut up. That game is a masterpiece in camera design and logic compared to this **** show. To make matters worse the camera is constantly aiming at the ground in an attempt to keep the very poor framerate up.
The PS1 was never going to compete with the N64 technically in these types of games but Ape Escape plays to the consoles capabilities. The draw distance is terrible but levels are broken into smaller areas. And while Ape Escape follows the same collectathon aspect of similar Mario 64 knock offs, this time the collectables are monkeys, monkeys that will make your life hell and are full of personality. The game does some really interesting things with monkey behaviour and placement so they never become boring and these little guys are the stars of the show.
Ape Escape is on the verge of being great. It's compelling despite it's flaws and has enough inventiveness to surprise unlike Spyro and those Rare N64 games. However it's let down by the camera. Every mistake and death in this game will be down to that annoying camera. It's a testament to how well the rest of the game is designed that I felt it was well worth powering through these annoyances to see what craziness the game had in store.
It's a minor PS1 classic but one big thing bothers me. Why is it called Ape Escape when you are quite clearly catching Monkeys who aren't part of the Ape family?
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- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
No One Lives Forever
Missed out on this series as it came at a point when I didn't have a modern PC. Heard so much about it for years but of course it became impossible to find. I'm fed up waiting on an official released so took matters into my own hands.
The game has a very different aesthetic to most brown military shooters. It's set in a pastiche of 60's spy fiction. It's a comedy game but never strays into Austin Powers levels of silliness. It' a lot more grounded but that's also not to say that's still really funny. You play as super spy Cate Archer, a woman that has to live in a mans world and all the misogyny that goes with it. It's am interesting premise and the game has a lot of fun with it. It helps that Cate is a great character.
The game is built on the Lithtech engine which I always found a little bit behind the times in the late 90's. The colourful art style helps sand over the weaknesses of the engine. If there's one flaw with the game it's that like with most late 90's games the stealth gameplay is a little flakey. However the gunplay is really solid so it's not a big deal when it all goes south.
At the time of release NOLF was regarded as the best FPS since the original Half-Life and I have to agree. It's such a shame that it's stuck in legal limbo.
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- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
- DuckTales Remastered|PC
DuckTales Remastered
I both love and don't love this remaster. I love how the game looks, the 2D sprites are gorgeous and the backgrounds are 3D but still retain a painterly look that matches the TV show. I love how the game plays, the pogo stick movement is still a masterclass in videogame character mechanics. I adore that they got the original voice cast to reprise their roles. But most of all I love how you can dive into Scrooge's money pit and swim around in it.
The game is quite faithful to the original. Level layouts hark back to the original but have been tweaked to make them less difficult and expand on them. However they've also made the levels much more linear whereas I really enjoyed the exploration elements of the original.
The game's biggest sin is the amount of dialogue in the game. It really slows the pace down. Levels can take ages to beat whereas in the original you were given a time limit of about 5 minutes to beat a stage. It makes them way too long. I know wayforward were probably excited about getting the voice cast back but it does interrupt the flow of the game.
Well I say that's the crime but really it's the remix of the moon theme, it just doesn't not sound as good as the amazing NES original.
So overall it's a pretty decent remaster that changes enough that it doesn't negate the original and makes both games worth playing. It's only flaw is that it just falls short of the excellent NES original, a pantheon the vast majority of platform games can't claim to have reached.
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"It should be so lucky to even draw any comparisons to a Quantic Dream, even in a negative. It's games like this that make you realise how talented David Cage truly is."
Ah now, you've gone too far.
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- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
- DuckTales Remastered|PC
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Yakuza goes JRPG.
The thing about Sega and RPGs is that they as the company is very arcade and action game focused they never really make many RPGs, which is a shame because nearly every RPG they make is fantastic. The Phantasy Star series, Panzer Dragoon Sage, Skies of Arcadia, Valkyria Chronicles. They're all incredible. It just baffles me to hear the likes of the creator of Panzer Dragoon Saga lamenting that he didn't make it an action game. Dude! You made one of the greatest RPGs of all time! Yakuza: Like a Dragon is up there along with all the Sega RPG greats.
While it might surprise people that Yakuza going JRPG works so well, it shouldn't be a surprise since Yakuza has always secretly been an RPG, right down to having random battles. The new battle system is pretty much a straight up Dragon Quest clone. The job classes you can take are pretty much Dragon Quest jobs and the battle system has the same emphasis on status effects and buffs that DQ has. There's a few 'Yakuza' elements like how the party can use items in the environment, but it's pretty much dragon quest. That's no bad thing considering how good that battle system is. My only complaint here is that the battle system only comes into its own in the end game with some really tough boss battles that are a joy to figure out and over come. The contrivances the writing goes to to try and explain how the new battle system fits within the more grounded Yakuza world are some of the best parts of the early game. The turn based combat is explained by someone asking why Ichiban lets enemies hit him before hitting them back.
Speaking of the new protagonist Ichiban, he is the star of the show. He is just a bundle of positivity that is infectious and has the right amount of stupidity offset by just good nature. He's just a damn nice guy. Kazama will be missed but Ichiban is a more than worthy successor. I'd go so far as to say I prefer him.
The story is the usual japanese TV drama writing. Basically it's kind of crap. There's some very convenient plot twists and it's very silly but it's carried out with such flare that I never really minded and just let myself be swept up in its wild ride. The side quests are where the game shines. The game is laugh out loud hilarious and most of the humour is in the side quests. It's worth doing them all just to see how deep the crazy gets.
As with all Yakuza games the setting is a real stand out. The open world is small but its packed with so much detail. There's a tonne of minigames to do and unlike other RPGs like say Final Fantasy VII where the minigames are just all universally awful, all the mini games in Yakuza are well made and loads of fun. There's so much to see and do and it's very easy to get distracted from the main quest just messing around and spending all your money in the arcade.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon is one of the best RPGs I've played in a long time. The main story can drag a bit with over long cutscenes but avoiding the story and getting up to mischief and exploring the city is where all the fun of Yakuza is.
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GAME: Heart of Darkness
PLATFORM: PlayStation 1
If you've ever played the original Prince of Persia, BlackThorne, Flashback, Another World (especially) and liked them, then you'd enjoy this.
I first got this game for Xmas 1998 when it came "bundled" with my first ever PS1.
I never took to it as a child but as I got older I learned to love it more.
I've seen the ending of the game (thanks to my chip cartridge) and I've played the final level (thanks to the same cartridge with cheats enabled) but this was the first time I ever beat the game from beginning to end.
It's a cinematic platformer more akin to Another World but not too indifferent to the other aforementioned games.
I managed to stream the whole thing live, which I was personally delighted with - now I can see the whole thing whenever I want -- immortalised.
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I remember the hype for that game. It looked insane at the time but kept getting delayed more and more. By the time it was released it looked old hat and platforming and games had progressed way past it.
It was a big deal at the time that Sega paid for timed exclusivity at the time to try and save the Saturn but the game was so delayed it came out after the Saturn was abandoned. I remember reading about it next to a resident evil 2 preview so the writing was kind of on the wall for Sega at that stage.
I heard it's a decent game just extremely difficult and just couldn't love up to its hype.
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- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
- DuckTales Remastered|PC
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon|PC
- Asterix|Master System
Asterix
I'm kind of surprised by this one because it's a bit of a hidden gem. A Sega developed platformer made only for the European market and it's really good.
Is your standard 8 bit platformer, although one of the best 8bit platformers I've played. What really stands out is how gorgeous it is. The sprites are big, colourful and detailed and really capture the look of the comic. There's some gorgeous intermission screens as well. This might be the best looking 8bit game I've seen.
After the first two stages you get a choice of either asterix or obelix for each stage and depending on the character the level can be totally different or you'll take a wildly different route through an existing level. Asterix can use a variety of potions with differing effects and can slide into small gaps while obelix can smash his way through destructible scenery.
There's a few design niggles and slow down but it doesn't detract from the fact that this is one of the best platformers on the master system. If there's one flaw it's the naff music.
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I didn't cheat by playing a load of fighting games! 😋
I'm actually finding the thread is making me focus on finishing games a lot more than I should. I think having a good mix of RPGs and short retrogames is helping me keep the numbers up but I'm also liking that I'm getting around to these games whereas I'd be putting them off previously.
Now to play an entire evening of 1 hour long visual novels to smash your total! 😆
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Game|Platform|
- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
- DuckTales Remastered|PC
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon|PC
- Asterix|Master System
- McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure|Megadrive
McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure
So what am I doing playing a game that's very obviously a Corporate piece of propaganda masquerading as a videogame?
Well one of my favourite developers is Treasure and this is their first game. I always thought it was their second as it came out as their second game in the west. Basically when Treasure was formed they took this game on for Sega to fund their passion projects. Treasure would go on to produce classics like Gunstar Heroes and Dynamite Headdy for the Megadrive.
I always bounced off this game as I played it on the default difficulty where the enemies are damage sponges and you take way too much damage but dropping it to beginner makes the game way more fun.
While this game is far from Treasure's best work they definitely didn't phone it in. The game really shows off the team's technical chops in many places, right from the start the Treasure logo scales and rotates on to the screen, an effect the megadrive should not be able to do. It looks bright and colourful with massive sprites.
The game hints at some of the wild ambition that would become a staple of later Treasure games. Levels have gimmicks that keep the game fresh and it's only towards the end when it becomes a bit more normal that the game gets a bit dull. Bosses can only be damaged by letting them take some of your health to literally chew on.
The game was obviously made by the Dynamite Headdy team. Ronald's moveset is like a proto headdy, the engine feels like an alpha test for that game and the music and humour are very similar. There's even an enemy towards the end of the game that would suggest this team also went on to develop Mischief Makers.
It's a pretty decent game that just pales in comparison to what Treasure would later produce. Treasure have done a few work for hire projects in their time and while they are never their best work (well other than the outstanding Astroboy GBA game) they never phone it in.
The story of the game is baffling. Ronald is looking for 4 pieces of a treasure map.... supposedly to find treasure? So when he finds all the pieces he finds out the treasure is on the moon. So he goes to the moon, crashes his rocket, beats the **** out of the boss who then says he is afraid Ronald was after his treasure. Then Ronald said he isn't, he is just looking for a way to fix his rocket and they all live happily every after. Tell me this Ronald, why the feck did you fanny about getting a Treasure map and going to the moon then you absolute fanny! Unless of course it's an allegory about McDonalds causing untold environmental damage and then denying all responsibility.
There is one big negative against this game. The third stage has some extremely racist caricatures of South Island natives. I think they were changed to robots for the western release and I must have been playing the japanese version of the game but it took me back a bit.
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