13 July: Carrier Airwing (ARC / Nintendo Switch)

Credit fed through this game for the podcast on it and U.N. Squadron and Area 88.

12 July: U.N. Squadron (SNES) I had to get good at this game for the upcoming Cane and Rinse podcast recording and I had about a week to do it. Managed a 2CC with Shin and I'll be trying for the 1CC. It's doable, but I need a fair bit of extra practice, to be able to play the game more or less fault...

Truk_Kurt wrote: ↑June 28th, 2024, 10:47 am This is exactly how I feel about it. I think it's quite under rated. The gameplay was so much fun and I hope they do a sequel. Playing this has made me want to check out the Shadow Warrior series from the same team.

Same. I dislike the formulaic structure, but the combat is genuinely good.

25 June: Sunset Riders (ARC/Nintendo Switch) I credit fed through this classic for our upcoming Video Wizards podcast. Who did I pick? Cormano, of course! 28 June: The Ninja Warriors (ARC/Nintendo Switch) Credit fed through this one as well, for the upcoming Cane and Rinse podcast on the series. 28 ...

24 June: The Ninja Warriors Again (SNES/SFC) Awww yeah, again and again! I cleared the game now with Ninja, so now I've tackled each stage and each boss with all 3 characters. Doing it with this heavy felt a bit like playing Street Fighter with Zangief, playing defensively, getting in and laying the...

20 June: The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors (Nintendo Switch) After clearing the SFC original with Kunoichi, I did the same for the remake on Switch. And I'm starting to get the hang of playing with her, using her guard somersaults to safely get in close to enemies. Of course her new moves in...

16 June: The Ninja Warriors Again (SNES/SFC) Yes, I cleared The Ninja Warriors Again yet Again. This time with Kunoichi. Her basic reach is pathetic and she can't take as much damage, so you really need to learn safe approaches and rely on airborne moves a lot, which of course don't do that much dam...

Thank YOU for your interest, Alex!

Alex79 wrote: ↑June 1st, 2024, 9:04 pm That reminds me, is your shmup still coming to Switch?

Oh yes! There was just the small matter of my friend having to rewrite much of the game to keep performance and visuals on par with the PC version.

But it's nearing completion. I suspect we can announce a release date very soon.

I've been playing DoDonPachi on the Saturn (Saturn Mode) almost daily for the past 3 weeks and I'm inching closer and closer to the coveted 1 credit clear.

1 June: Devil Blade Reboot (PC) I bought this incredibly cool vertically scrolling shmup by ex-Vanillaware dev Shigatake in its release window of a week or so back and 1CC'd NORMAL mode on my 3rd or 4th try. You'd think that it must be a super easy game then, right? But the adiovisual presentation i...

30 May: Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny (PS2) Capcom were really going all in on these first 2 Onimusha games on PS2, weren't they? What a campy, borderline insane action adventure romp this second one in the series was. But it's also really beautiful with sometimes breathtaking prerendered, animated ...

28 May: The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors (Nintendo Switch) After clearing the original Ninja Warriors Again with Kamaitachi, I decided to do the same in this very fine remake. Overall, it's an easier game in many ways, but the final boss was more of a pain in this one and took me countless ...

26 May: The Ninja Warriors Again (SNES/SFC) I never got to the ending of this amazing 16-bit single plain beat 'em up by Natsume, because I seldomly pressed continue after losing the single life you get, thinking I'd eventually clear it on one credit. And I did get pretty far! But since my time is l...

Jobobonobo wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2024, 10:10 pm
May 1: Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu Shōgun Magginesu (Go for it! Goemon 2: The Strange General McGuinness)

I want to be like you, no Baloo.

I have the cart for this too and I NEED to give it a full playthrough.

18 May: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo Switch) I spent a lot of time (about 120 hours) playing the second open world Zelda last year, so a month or so back I felt that it was holding up progress on my backlog and I had to work towards some kind of conclusion. I could have just m...

Oh yeah. There was at least one untranslated PS1 game (2D graphics) that I played an illicit copy of at a friend's back in the days. One of the playable characters was this weird caveman dude in green garb. And then Konami gave it another shot with the 2 N64 Goemon releases. I prefer the overall gam...

Mar 17: Legend of the Mystical Ninja[/b] I briefly played the Goemon games back on the N64 but was not too sure what to make of them, they were a bit full on with Japanese wackiness for me to understand what was going on. But now I want to give this series a proper go and I think the first Goemon t...

I think the remaster of the first game is on Gamepass, too. I had hoped they might do a Master Chief Collection type treatment on the series, but it doesn't seem like they are. I might need to grab me a copy out of the remaster, should I want to play through the game a third time. If only for the s...

Pleased to see some Evil West love in here. I really enjoyed it too and also thought it was like a third person Doom 2016. I get what you mean about the rinse and repeat cycle of it but it didn't bother me too much as I just enjoyed the core combat so much. It's made me interested in the Shadow War...