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- April 7th, 2024, 4:36 am
- Forum: Volume 13
- Topic: 633: Tekken series
- Replies: 3
- Views: 21126
Re: 633: Tekken series
If Michiel's on this one, I imagine he could guess that my TEKKEN main is Bob. I don't know what pulls me to these round fighters, but I played Birdie in Street Fighter V and Wario in Super Smash Bros. from Brawl onwards, so the pattern continues. Unlike Birdie and Wario, I'm not actually able to do...
- April 7th, 2024, 4:27 am
- Forum: Volume 13
- Topic: 624: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1466
Re: 624: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door feels like a game where the developers were told one thing over and over again: "Make it longer." In terms of Mario's RPG adventures, only the likes of Mario and Luigi: Dream Team feel like it demands more retreading old ground than this GCN venture. Ge...
- January 16th, 2024, 10:09 pm
- Forum: Volume 13
- Topic: 630: Untitled Goose Game
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5938
Re: 630: Untitled Goose Game
Credit where it's due, Untitled Goose Game accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. That said, I feel a little sad to see so many people actively enjoying it. Maybe I'm just getting soft, but having a game where the prospect is to worsen people's lives isn't too thrilling. Ironically, I tend to ...
- January 16th, 2024, 9:02 pm
- Forum: Volume 13
- Topic: 636: Vampire Survivors
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5629
Re: 636: Vampire Survivors
There must be something wrong with me, because every time I do a run of Vampire Survivors I have to force myself to stay awake. It's active enough. There are plenty of stakes (pun not intended). But around the ten-minute mark or so, I find myself dozing off or otherwise struggling to remain invested...
- December 19th, 2023, 10:03 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Luigi's Mansion 2)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12045
Re: 567: Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Luigi's Mansion 2)
https://gonintendo.com/contents/30114-l ... by-mr-beanNoMoreSpearows wrote: ↑January 17th, 2023, 11:33 pm Playing Luigi's Mansion 2 is like trying to binge-watch the entirety of Mr. Bean.
Hey, wait a minute!
- June 6th, 2023, 11:19 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: The Street Fighter thread
- Replies: 592
- Views: 394057
Re: The Street Fighter thread
I'll be waiting a while to sink my teeth into this one, considering I don't have a machine that can run it (how did it even run V to begin with?). That, and no one quite replaces Birdie in terms of both gameplay and aesthetics. Manon comes close, though, at least in the former category.
- May 31st, 2023, 6:51 pm
- Forum: Videogame Music (VGM)
- Topic: The videogame music thread
- Replies: 1260
- Views: 1632510
Re: The videogame music thread
Tomorrow begins the sixth year of my annual month-long blog about video game music, with 2023's installment taking selections from Sound of Play's storied history. If you want to revisit some selections the hosts and community found especially interesting, or just need to waste a few minutes in the ...
- May 9th, 2023, 7:52 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Whatcha Been Playing?
- Replies: 11723
- Views: 7408794
Re: Whatcha Been Playing?
At what point is Advance Wars meant to click for most people? I will say I'm playing the Re-Boot Camp version, so I have the benefit of Casual mode and its willingness to give me an extra tank or what have you, but I still feel like most of my victories come less from an understanding of the map and...
- March 20th, 2023, 9:36 pm
- Forum: Future Console Specials
- Topic: Our next console special podcast recording (TBC) - PlayStation Vita
- Replies: 19
- Views: 240908
Re: Our next console special podcast recording (TBC.5.23) - PlayStation Vita
Hardware-wise, the Vita is just a Nintendo Switch with functioning control sticks and a smaller screen. It's serviceable, it fits in my pocket, and it can be used freely and unconditionally without my having to worry about a character walking to the left despite my not inputting it. But it is throug...
- February 27th, 2023, 10:07 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Games Completed 2023
- Replies: 399
- Views: 2720415
Re: Games Completed 2023
I finally finished Dangonronpa . I'm not too sure how I feel about the ending... Has anyone else played the sequels? Do they pay-off what gets setup in the first game? Danganronpa 2 sort of does. Ultra Despair Girls doesn't. The anime Danganronpa 3 attempts to fill in some gaps from the first two m...
- February 25th, 2023, 7:53 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Games Completed 2023
- Replies: 399
- Views: 2720415
Re: Games Completed 2023
Thanks to the addition of Game Boy games on Nintendo Switch Online, I finally played Metroid II: Return of Samus. I can definitely see why it's such a fan favorite. It's not the best in terms of raw gameplay, but it more than makes up for it in terms of atmosphere. It feels, for all the world, like ...
- February 22nd, 2023, 7:36 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Switch Recommendations
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4421
Re: Switch Recommendations
In terms of exclusives:
- the Mario + Rabbids duology
- Cadence of Hyrule
- Snipperclips: Cut it Out, Together! if you have someone to play with
For the NSO libraries, don't overlook Fire 'n' Ice and Kurukuru Kururin, though the latter is only available if you get the Expansion Pack.
- the Mario + Rabbids duology
- Cadence of Hyrule
- Snipperclips: Cut it Out, Together! if you have someone to play with
For the NSO libraries, don't overlook Fire 'n' Ice and Kurukuru Kururin, though the latter is only available if you get the Expansion Pack.
- January 18th, 2023, 12:57 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: F-Zero series
- Replies: 5
- Views: 27414
Re: 591: F-Zero series
In my mind, there are two types of F-ZERO games. On the one hand, you have titles like the Super NES original and Maximum Velocity . These are ones where victory is handled primarily through expert handling of your vehicle and knowledge of the course layout. Even when you're in first place you aren'...
- January 18th, 2023, 12:10 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
- Replies: 13
- Views: 46029
Re: 590: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Superstar Saga remains the only game in the series where Mario and Luigi can switch places. I can understand why this was removed in future games. It's a bit tedious to have to add another button when wanting to do one overworld traversal technique over the other, and in terms of characterization, ...
- January 17th, 2023, 11:33 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Luigi's Mansion 2)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12045
Re: 567: Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Luigi's Mansion 2)
One room in Luigi's Mansion 2 is beaten by climbing up the correct staircase several times in a row. In terms of gameplay, this is absolutely atrocious. It's mostly luck, it doesn't correlate much to Luigi's abilities, and every failure just intensifies things. But the gameplay isn't the point here;...
- January 17th, 2023, 11:05 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Golf Story
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9702
Re: 583: Golf Story
At the very end of Golf Story , the camera on the world map backs out, revealing that throughout your adventure you've been running around Australia, or a facsimile thereof. Initially, I considered this to be just a little nod to Sidebar Games and their country/continent of origin, but I think it go...
- August 20th, 2022, 10:09 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Whatcha Been Playing?
- Replies: 11723
- Views: 7408794
Re: Whatcha Been Playing?
A year after playing the demo, I've beaten NEO: The World Ends with You . I hesitate to say "finished" considering I have a bunch of things to do, namely due to the Ultimate difficulty not being unlocked until the postgame. It is a significantly better game to play than the original. Thing...
- August 12th, 2022, 10:22 pm
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Metroid Prime
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12073
Re: 539: Metroid Prime
The best decision made in Metroid Prime was to allow the option for the game to outright tell you where something of note is located. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, especially considering I don't think it can be turned off in Metroid: Zero Mission , but as someone who struggles with first-pe...
- August 3rd, 2022, 12:25 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Cuphead
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8155
Re: 533: Cuphead
Typically I play Cuphead in the "safest" possible method, by which I mean I equip the Smoke Ball and Chaser and focus more on avoiding enemy attacks than going for high damage and fast times. This method doesn't always work, since they don't apply for the airborne bouts, but it's the one t...
- August 3rd, 2022, 12:15 am
- Forum: Videogame Discussion
- Topic: Whatcha Been Playing?
- Replies: 11723
- Views: 7408794
Re: Whatcha Been Playing?
I'm ranked #44 on the Global Neon Rankings for the Switch version of Neon White . What a weird experience. I love the earlier levels, the one where there are few variables and as such the challenge is finding the best way to use each element. But as the game progresses and you start getting Soul Car...