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by sheeldz
February 1st, 2024, 11:47 am
Forum: Volume 13
Topic: 637: Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Replies: 5
Views: 1925

Re: 637: Sonic 3 & Knuckles

There are very few games in my life that have been as important to me as Sonic 3 and, later, Sonic & Knuckles. Being a Mega Drive kid in the early 1990s was a feast, but being all in on Sonic is hard to describe to those who aren't old enough. He just was cool, and whilst that's hard to fully gr...
by sheeldz
February 1st, 2024, 11:37 am
Forum: Volume 13
Topic: 630: Untitled Goose Game
Replies: 9
Views: 4318

Re: 630: Untitled Goose Game

Odd one this because whilst I don't really like Untitled Goose Game, because it just isn't my kind of game, everyone else in my family adored it. The kids love causing chaos in the town and it has racked up nearly 50 hours of playtime on our preferred platform, the Switch, on account of it being the...
by sheeldz
January 31st, 2024, 12:52 pm
Forum: Volume 13
Topic: 636: Vampire Survivors
Replies: 11
Views: 4097

Re: 636: Vampire Survivors

Vampire Survivors is game that boils down the bare essentials of what makes games work, in my brain, and then concentrates it up like a bottle of Robinson's squash. The gentle "what am I doing" curve that moves up towards "ah, I get it" to the final "oh, right, now I get it!...
by sheeldz
January 11th, 2024, 4:38 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Hi-Fi Rush
Replies: 5
Views: 4153

Re: 603: Hi-Fi Rush

Look, cards on the table, I'm a lapsed drummer, and in theory rhythm games should be my bread and butter, but from Elite Beat Agents to the dance off in Pikuniku, I'm dreadful at them. And I put that down to those games being about matching the melody, not the beat. Enter Hifi Rush, a game that hit ...
by sheeldz
September 11th, 2023, 10:35 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Norco
Replies: 6
Views: 36740

Re: 596: Norco

Norco is the most vibe filled video game I've played in a long time. For context, I didn't play that many point and click adventure games in the 1990s, but caught up on some of the best in recent years, and Norco is the distillation of the genre and felt like it smartly played with the tropes and th...
by sheeldz
July 26th, 2023, 2:33 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Halo Infinite
Replies: 11
Views: 28829

Re: 593: Halo Infinite

This has to be a review in two parts: The multiplayer is just Halo gameplay perfected. I don't engage with the online competitive stuff and I'm too old to understand Battle Passes, but with four of my mates and loads of bots the games have been a mixture of hilarious, infuriating, and very very fun,...
by sheeldz
July 26th, 2023, 2:15 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Sonic CD
Replies: 8
Views: 31175

Re: 584: Sonic CD

Easily the worst Sonic game from the classic era. I can't quite put my finder on exactly why there is something no quite right with it, but to me it felt like a strange game to finally getting to play. It feels, at it's worst, a bad ROM hack. That being said, of course, it was the holy grail of the ...
by sheeldz
October 28th, 2022, 12:14 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: A Short Hike
Replies: 11
Views: 4106

Re: 550: A Short Hike

A Short Hike is a game that I found to be a really enjoyable time with no taxing elements, and exactly the kind of comfort food game that I have returned to several times, just to wander amongst the gorgeous national park map, full of nooks and crannies and secrets that just organically fill out the...
by sheeldz
September 2nd, 2022, 9:36 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Game suggestions for the podcast
Replies: 2123
Views: 1442108

Re: Game suggestions for the podcast

Immortality.

It's a perfect CnR podcast game.
by sheeldz
May 27th, 2022, 10:25 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Replies: 15
Views: 6326

Re: 541: Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Sonic 2 might be the second game in the series, but it was the last of the Mega Drive games I played, and that has undoubtedly coloured my opinion on it. After the transcendental introduction to gaming that Sonic 1 was, I got Sonic Spinball next, then Sonic 3, then Sonic & Knuckles, and then Son...
by sheeldz
May 27th, 2022, 10:10 am
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Psychonauts 2
Replies: 11
Views: 3827

Re: 528: Psychonauts 2

This should have been a slam dunk - a 3D platformer with inspired design and story is like catnip to me, but this just didn't land at all. In all fairness, I've never played the first game in the series, but I found the controls to be obtuse and difficult to get to grips with, and borderline unusabl...
by sheeldz
January 27th, 2021, 2:11 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Sonic the Hedgehog
Replies: 29
Views: 17195

Re: 473 - Sonic the Hedgehog

For me, gaming begins with Sonic the Hedgehog. I remember seeing the Mega Drive I hooked up to a tiny telly in my Uncle's bedroom in my Grandparent's flat, and watching a cool cartoon that... wait, suddenly you could move the character around yourself? I was transfixed. I distinctly remember, with c...
by sheeldz
September 10th, 2019, 7:37 am
Forum: Off-Topic Discourse
Topic: The "Introduce yourself" thread
Replies: 758
Views: 704259

Re: The "Introduce yourself" thread

Trouble is I struggle to get round to looking for new stuff, generally falling back on The Orb or GYBE, so this is great. Do you post a track list anywhere? Sadly, the terms of my license that I have means I'm technically not allowed to. If you listen on Mixcloud, it'll come up most of the time. Bu...
by sheeldz
September 9th, 2019, 4:04 pm
Forum: Off-Topic Discourse
Topic: The "Introduce yourself" thread
Replies: 758
Views: 704259

Re: The "Introduce yourself" thread

Hey everyone, long time listener, lurker for a year, and final poster. What did it? The Dreamcast special, and Donkey Kong Country, both I said I would start talking about. I'm from Glasgow, and I'm a bit of a lapsed gamer. Was obsessed with my Mega Drive, then Dreamcast, and then... fell away. Came...
by sheeldz
September 9th, 2019, 3:53 pm
Forum: Videogame Discussion
Topic: Donkey Kong Country trilogy
Replies: 11
Views: 7912

Re: 389: Donkey Kong Country trilogy

As a kid that never had a SNES, the lands of Super Mario and Starwing always seemed great, but I had Sonic, so who cared really. But Donkey Kong Country was different. I found it to be one of the best things I'd ever seen, and then one of the best games I'd ever played, and at every high-school lunc...