General gaming discussion

HLTB is how long it will take to see the credits. There's a whole set of levels after the credits that doubles the size of the game to about 10 hours (8 isn't realistic from my experience with the GBA game). They might have added more for the switch version.

Anyway I remember the game being a really good follow up to the 1994 Gameboy donkey Kong game, not quite a good as that all time classic but still a damn fine game. It's more puzzle platformer than Mario game. It's definitely worth 35, but 60 is a bit steep unless they added substantially more levels.

Suikoden 1 and 2 coming the 6th March and you will all be playing it and then telling me I was right that it's better than FF7.

Just saw what's on that Capcom fighting collection. Great selection of games that have been stuck on systems like the Dreamcast. The version of street fighter alpha 3 was released on the Naomi arcade board but never ported to home consoles. It has all the extra characters from the PlayStation and Saturn versions. It unfortunately doesn't have the extras from the PSP version which is the most complete version of the game, would love to see that and the psp version of darkstalkers sometime.

Kind of hard to softlock yourself in the suikoden games? The game kind of has a nice difficulty modifier where the main character has abilities that instantly kill enemies. So if you go into a dungeon with level 1 characters you just use those spells and those characters will level up fast to the recommended level for that area.

As for project justice, it's a sequel to rival schools. I think this is just the arcade version, I know the home versions of both games had loads of extra content and a whole story mode that was removed from western releases.

That new Famicom Detective club game is getting great reviews:

Nintendo just continue to embarrass everyone else.

Fell really happy for the lead developer who has been with Nintendo for 40 years and has waited 35 years to get a new game in the series out.

3/5 from Eurogamer. Not read the review yet.

Got the new Castlevania collection and had a quick go of the Haunted Castle remake and it fantastic. Makes such a crappy game so much better. I'd recommend playing with the scanlines and blur option as it's just a noisy pixelated mess otherwise. Looks fantastic with the blur and scanlines.

I've played shadow of Chernobyl and clear sky and shadow of Chernobyl was one of the best games I've ever played. Adored it. I didn't experience too many bugs as well as I played it pretty late with fan patches. Clear sky was... Fine. I think you can safely ignore that one and just play the third in the series.

Haunted Castle Revisited is fantastic if a bit short and easy. It's a great little bonus to that Castlevania collection. Went back to play the old Haunted Castle and it's as garbage as I remember.

Also played a little of Shadow of the Ninja and it's as good as all the other Inin remakes of old Natsume games. Really good fun.

Theres a Concord episode. Snigger