So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition
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Eh, About that....
Anyway to try and keep my retro cred I started Guardian Legend last night. Spent ages wandering around not knowing what to do, had to look up a walkthrough and found there's a bit of scenery you just have to blast constantly to get it to open. There's clues about that which I ignored. Anyway once I figured that out the game is flowing really well now and it's an absolute cracker.
The game is made by Compile and Irem. It's pretty much a zelda clone but way more action focused. The female cyborg you play will also transform into a spaceship at points and the game becomes a shmup. And since it's made by Compile the shooting is really solid and at full 60 FPS.
Cansee why this is considered a hidden gem on the system.
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I've been playing more retrogames recently thanks to the ease of using retroarch. It's much easier than climbing over boxes of shite and digging out my games which Sauron has left right at the back of the attic and under everything else, which I believe was done just so she can say 'why don't you sell those games, you don't even play them anymore'.
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Just played through the old Speccy version of the original Dizzy. Until you get your hands on the various items to get rid of the various enemies/hazards, it's a bit of a nightmare, with random flight patterns for the birds/bats etc. Still enjoyed it immensely, and brought me back to playing it in our neighbours house on their old Amstrad CPC464, with the eternal loading from the tapes only made that little bit better by some great loading screens.
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Up to stage 4 now of Contra 3 on Hard.
It's a bit like Gunstar Heroes in that they make a few small changes to hard mode and yet it's very well done and turns it into a very different game.
The first overhead stage though is complete and utter horseshit. The enemy placements you need to take out are a pain in the arse as they all have different rules on how to get them to open which make them super annoying. Two in particular are utter bullshit, one you have to stop shooting at tot get to open and another than you have to face away from to get to open which is near impossible to get decent damage on.
Really missing Hard Corps iFrame slide as well!
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Contra 3 Hard Mode finished. Well worth giving a go once you get over the games bullshit in the overhead stages. The only issue I have with how I played it is I never quite got the alien heart boss down and kind of brute force it with lives and smart bombs.
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Metroid Prime controls are perfect. No need to change them. People moan and moan and moan that it doesn't play like halo but the controls are basically the same as 3D zelda games only it's in first person and not third. The lock on camera is pretty much essential so that dodging works properly.
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