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So I recently came up with an interesting narrative analysis for Kirby and the Amazing mirror. (SPOILERS if you haven't beaten the game):
If you're online right now, this is rather hilarious: Watch live video from twitchplayspokemon on www.twitch.tv
TL;DR: crowdsourced controls for Pokémon.
So I just bought the Humble Indie Bundle 11: http://www.humblebundle.com/
first thing after purchase: log all new items in purchase log (I use this because too many bundles to remember without Ctrl+F)
second thing after purchase: download Guacamelee! soundtrack
HOLY SHIT this is a rich soundtrack. I LIKE THIS.
You should pick it up too. Purchase deemed worth it Oh I mean I also got Antichamber which a close friend was really strongly recommending too. So yeah, purchase worth it.
That said, I actually already have Guacamelee! from another purchase (just not its soundtrack). So I have a free key. I think. Same goes with Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. If you want either of these Steam keys, speak up.
(I almost made an inevitable Conker's Bad Fur Day Carl/Quentin reference there ("speak up, or **** off!"), but it would just have been really inappropriate. ocrap i just did it anyway)
Guacamelee! looks/sounds pretty interesting. If no one else wants that one, then I'll give it a go.
For those Super Metroid fans out there: it appears that Ellsworth Air Force Base looks like Draygon, at least in Google's satellite imagery.
...what do you mean it doesn't? You're just not squinting right.
^ FYI, I haven't actually played the game yet myself; I just bought it right around the new year. I was just praising the music for not being afraid of standing out in the spotlight and setting the tone for the game (rather than having the game set the tone for the music to timidly follow). But yeah, if no one else speaks up for it, I'll send it your way in a bit. I'm doing homework right now. If someone does, we could have a melee over it
Cool. In other news, I picked up Donkey Kong Country Returns on a whim, a week or so ago. It's a... love-hate relationship. I mean, it's a fun game, really clever and creative and everything, but it just torments me so. I beat the final boss, unlocked the bonus level (but haven't beaten it; ugh, bottomless pits), and am in the process of hunting down puzzle pieces.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/stl/4192120473.html
Pac-Man Machine plus incredible story, $650 OBO.
So I've been playing Guacamelee! When I last left off, I beat Flame Face and got sidetracked by Hell, though I haven't tried any of the challenges there yet. Probably going to spend some time working on sidequests and finding secrets and such before I continue the main story. It's a pretty fun game. The platforming and the combat are both solid, the visuals are bright and appealing, and the music is catchy.
It's a good game, I'm roughly around the same place, but I don't think I'll be able to play 'till the weekend.
Man, I really liked Guacamelee! but the final few challenges (which are required if you want to get the best ending) are BALLS HARD. So I beat the final boss, but never got the good ending. Too bad.
Currently wrapping up season 1 of Telltale's The Walking Dead, and wow it's good. I can see where the ending's going, and I'm especially impressed with how they've built up the characters of Kenny and Clementine. Looking forward to finishing it up, probably later tonight.
MH3U things:
Played most ofJust beat Guacamelee!Things I like about it:
* nice music
* richly colorful visuals
* well-designed visual style and interface, in general
* funny script (with lots of references)
* nice bosses (especially X'tabay and Jaguar Javier)
Things I don't like as much about it:
* primarily about two things: combat with fighting-game-inspired/-style moves, and (especially the latter half of the game) platforming challenges. I'm not good with precision platforming, and I'd much rather have an easy-to-traverse environment, and if there's a combat focus, I'd prefer a somewhat simpler control scheme (a la the recent Ys games like Oath and Origin).
Well, to be honest, the combat's not that bad. It's pretty good. It's the platforming challenges that get me. It seems to be roughly Bunny Must Die difficulty as far as getting some of the secrets goes. And those platforming challenges are needed to get the good ending. Ehh, I'm not sure I want to smash my keyboard over this. The stuff seems to be JUST on that verge where I can barely tolerate it or feel too invested in it and thus keep on trying.
So I beat the Cave of Madness (La Cueva de la Locura) after it almost drove me mad...then I found a Youtube video of how to get the Tule Tree's orb. Then I was like, nopenopenopenopenopenopenope.
Seriously, I've already had more than my share of messing up precision platforming sequences due to smashing several buttons together that I shouldn't have smashed.
I've yet to get the good ending, the Tule Tree is indeed obscene. However, I disagree about the combat, it really made the game stand out (compare it to, say, Dust, another game from that bundle), and a simplified version wouldn't have been as good.
It's an acquired rhythm to be sure, but it's not too bad once you get the feel of it down.
^^ Yeah, you're right. The combat is actually pretty cool. The only bit about it that really annoys me is the length of time it takes to get up after being knocked back. And occasionally it's hard for me to figure out where I am in the thick of a melee. I have to basically go by what I know of the game mechanics.
I actually really enjoyed the fights against X'tabay and Jaguar Javier. The latter, especially, felt like one of those "hard but fair" bosses.
One of the current Indie Gala bundles contains several Raiden shmups, as well as Dysfunctional Systems if you don't already have that, and a western-made (probably) dating sim, and some other stuff: https://www.indiegala.com/weekly
Also, I just found this:
No list of the games contained though, unfortunately.
Also, it seems that shift+enter still allows youtube videos to be embedded. So the problem is paragraph markup.
No.
So, a person who says he/she remotely attended (watched the stream) BitSummit says that ZUN (the guy who makes Touhou games), at a panel there with two other guests (one of them being Naramura from NIGORO, the group who made La-Mulana), mentioned his intention to bring the games to English-speaking audiences officially.
sauce: http://www.carpefulgur.com/forum/index.php?topic=2407.msg13811#msg13811
He said he was considering it anyway. Which is better than nothing.
There's a transcript of the full interview. He's pretty evasive about the topic, which could be "I have a surprise" or "I've really just been drinking beer".
Quick explanation: that game would be Serio's Castlevania Fighter, made by someone named Serio, which basically puts you in a boss rush drawn from many of the series's 2D entries, with your choice of player-character.
So, Yoshi's New Island came out. And from what I've seen in gameplay videos, wow. Congratulations, Arzest, you managed to make Yoshi's Story look like a masterpiece. And I actually liked Yoshi's Island DS as well, which at least tried to be creative. Yoshi's Story for that matter, even with its simplistic gameplay, still had some spark of inspiration.
And dammit Nintendo, I was already annoyed with you because of the Dream Team gyroscope glitch, but why did you have to slap your name onto something so lazily made? Considering I've been playing your games for the past 20 or so years, I expect better from you.
I'd have no problems with Touhou getting digital international releases. It'd probably get people to actually purchase the games, seeing as the current option is to buy the physical copies, which tend to be more overpriced than Cookie Clicker's final pointer upgrade thanks to import costs and greedy sellers.
Yeah, if Steam has taught us anything it seems to be that people's willingness-to-pay can actually be made use of with lower prices (and a sense of certainty).
So I was introduced to the orgy scene from God of War.
...can I register a negative amount of respect for this game? Please? I mean, I already had no respect for it when I heard about the scene, and then I was pointed to a video upload of it and I lost even more respect for it.
Edit: I meant God of War. Sorry. (Post previously said "Gears of War".)
God of War's pretty garbage as a beat em up, so I never had any respect for it to begin with.
But is negative respect an allowable quantity?
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Anyway...you know what's one oft-overlooked but important problem with Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow?
The hitsound.
It sounds like a tap.
I have negative respect for Metroid: Other M since it retroactively damages the rest of the franchise, assuming I don't pretend it isn't canon. Not sure if God of War is similar.
The only thing preventing me from having negative respect for Other M is that I haven't personally verified the claims that people make.
If "retroactively damages the franchise" can be replaced by "is responsible for dumbing down the beat em up as we know it", yeah, that's GOW