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So... At the Carnival ended up being pretty interesting. It's the same type of puzzles than in the other games (none as maddening as in 3 in Three though) and there is also a meta-puzzle (though it is absolutely trivial), but it does something the other two games do not: use the puzzles to...

It's games I have so I am just making some recommendations for others: Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons is one of the greatest indie game of the last few years (controller is a must though, but I guess all PC gamers have controllers these days). Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a psychedelic...

Thanks for the kind words and likes guys. I need the support because that Cliff Johnson fellow packaged several of his games in that neat emulator thingy... so I played through 3 in Three. The game structure is basically the same except just about everything turned sour. All of the fairytale...

I guess someone got punished for not following the story properly! But it is true that in this type of game it's not always clear if some of the key actions have to be performed by the player or if they will take place automatically or in cut scenes. One becomes pretty aware of this type of...

Reading stuff on the internet is very dangerous as it makes you discover and play the strangest games... so I end up playing and beating The Fool's Errand a 1987 adventure/puzzle game for... Macintosh! In all its black and white glory! It's especially notable for its structure: the game is a...

Correct me if I am wrong, but in Final Fantasy, at least from IV onward (so the 16-bit ones), there were save points in dungeons. And in Dragon Quest, if you died, you were sent back to the latest church you went to and lost all (or half?) of the money you were carrying with you (but keeping xp...

That's more or less what I am doing except I don't run from battle. We are the heroes: we fight! :) @Xadion I think the spell names in english are severely hampered by the character limit (also equipment etc). In japanese it's a little better, with many spells having english names that sorta...

Enemy damage is so strange in this game. It feels all your average trash mob has abilities that can 2 or 3 shot your characters. It does not really make the game hard or anything, it just mean you have to heal up after every - single - fight... it's a bit tedious. Let's just say I grinded some...

@Hathe Solo chicken dinner with 3 kills? Very passive play or you just landed alone some place isolated?

Making some progress in PS IV. Early on I had the game froze twice, probably because old cartridge + old console = dodgy connection, but had no issue since. Also there is a script of the main quest on GameFAQs, so I can play in japanese and go back to read what I played through to be sure I did...

On the RPG front I am curious to see that 40min Dragon Warrior run with RNG control. I understand how a TAS does it, but what kind of wierd setup is used for a human to perform it live and even be marathon safe?

The Golden Axe vol 3 is there (Kin no ono - dai 3 kan) as is Run! Hedgehog, Run! (Hashire! Harinezumi!!), but between them are The Ceramic Soldier (Seramikku no heitai), The Naked Queen (Hadaka no Jyoousama), Motavian... something? (Motabian shikkaku) and Great Men Biographies : Dr. Ruben (Ijin...

The Megadrive is dusted and plugged so I played QuackShot (starring Donald Duck!). This is a treasure hunting platformer, with Donald disguised as Indiana Jones (using a gun firing plungers in lieu of a whip). The structure of the game is very neat. There are levels all around the world (only 4...

The silver bullet in Jason Schreier's review is: 'it’s all width, no depth'. The world in this game is pretty appealing but the game part seems like an orgy of useless and confusing systems that only allows for a myriad of numbers to slowly go up. I guess some have that itch that needs to be...

Heh! I beat Super Mario Bros for the first time ever yesterday! Being very familiar with the game through speedruns (the route using warps though) and aware of the continue code I thought this would be a walk in the park.... well it kinda is until you reach level 8. The last 4 levels (8-1 to...

I'll start it sometime this week. I need to unearth my Megadrive and check if it works, but before doing that I need to make room for it. On a side note, there are some Megradrive games that have the Genesis version on the cartridge (QuackShot for instance) and my Megadrive is modded with a...

It was a good idea to track down the japanese cover for the game, because it made me realize that there is no IV or 4 on it. So I re-checked my Megadrive collection and found out that I actually do have the game! So... to play it on original hardware on a CRT in lush RGB or to play it on the...

Section Z is a lie! There is no Z section in it! Anyway, there were some controllers and some curse words flew around, but I beat the game. This is a pretty solid game, but there is a number of little things that are a bit annoying that come with the strange systems they use for health, weapons...

@moonarchia There is a notion of exploration / trial & error, but the mechanisms are significantly less obscure: you have a choice at the end of each section as to where to go next, it's just that it's not much of a choice the first time around, more of a shot in the dark (better take notes...

We play both obviously :)

Currently playing Section Z on NES, but before I am done with it let me share this gem from the game's manual: 'SECTION Z created by CAPCOM... premier world-wide arcade game designer... features colorful state-of-the-art high resolution graphics'. That sweet sweet 256x240 resolution!

God gamer still at work: Gremlins II: The New Batch: The Videogame by Sunsoft on the NES got beaten. This is actually a pretty cool video game adaptation of the movie. You get rather impressive cut scenes to tell the story, the theme of the levels, the enemies and Gizmo's weapons (you get a new...

NES game of the day was RoboWarrior a very competently executed game but that sadly is of the school of the asshole japanese game design. The prime example of that school of design is Tower of Druaga. The idea is that the game gives you no clue as to what you are supposed to do to reach the win...

I think the official definition of retro game is being old enough to drink in all 50 states. So Ultima Online is retro in 5 weeks!

@moonarchia In the US version, if you max your level, you have 12 hp, his hits only do 1 damage and you need to hit him less than 10 times, so you can just dps race him without even having to heal. In PAL you have 8 hp, his hits do 3 damage and you need to hit him 30+ times....

As I linked earlier from the Cutting Room Floor, the ending screen has been altered in the US/EU version to feature a less anime looking character, but in doing so, some of its animation (it's animation? :p) got canned. Japanese version here (spoiler obviously). US/EU version here (still spoiler).

Game Over man, Game Over. More seriously, the whole Batman soundtrack is crazy. The drum lines! EDIT: There is a whole level in Rygar where this is the music... That might be taking electronic minimalism a bit too far. This sky castle theme, on the other hand... damn.

I'ma let you finish, but Batman has the best soundtrack on the NES! There are some great tracks in Rygar (the cave music!), but there is also a number of questionable tunes! Anyway, today to test my God Gamer theory I decided to get humbled by Trojan. It's an action game with a combat system...

It seems sleep is for the weak... I thought I would play a little Rygar and ended up "beating" the game several hours later... Rygar is a 2D side scrolling action game with elements of rpg / exploration (levels are connected with each other through a hub map in top down view - a couple levels...

Continuing in my NES backlog I played through Kickle Cubicle an action puzzle game by Irem. It's a pretty sweet and forgiving game since it has unlimited continues and it makes you restart right at the level you were. Should you decide to not continue, you can even get a password for the level...

Getting the game is no issue (couple bucks on Steam), it's just the Murphy's Law effect that I found amusing. I also don't have Maniac Mansion, Nox and Earthworm Jim, but that's less surprising :)

I was checking which game I own and which I don't and of course I have Phantasy Star 1,2,3 but not IV... It also made me realize that I don't own the Beyond Oasis cart, but that I actually beat it on the official emulator! I totally forgot about that!

I did not know MXC, a comedy voice-over of japanese show Takeshi's Castle, but amusingly the exact same concept existed around here in the late '80s/early '90s with some swiss comedians doing some ridiculous voice-over for American Gladiators!

Beat Faxanadu. This game is rough. The least satisfying thing about the game I would say is that everything reset once you leave a screen. So if you beat the boss of a dungeon, a reward spawns, you leave the screen, come back, the boss is there again. This gap between the story that the game is...

I had a friend in high school that could do that, his specialty was jazz improvisation so I guess it comes with the territory. The most impressive thing for me is remembering on the fly all those tunes, even if she gets to pick and choose from the many suggestions in chat.

Zelda: I think the GBA Minish Cap is available on 3DS. Never played it, supposedly very good. Mario: not sure. Dragon Quest: I found Dragon Quest IX a bit lame, but I would recommend the DS remakes of IV, V and VI, especially V, Hand of the Heavenly Bride (a masterpiece of efficient...

Once you get the pattern of the falling blocks, it's not hard but that's so long and boring...The only up side is that it's not an autoscroller so you can turn into a bat with Alucard and get out of there earlier (or almost skip the whole thing if you have enough hearts). Anyway I managed to...

Long story short, I was rummaging through my box of NES games looking for Tetris (don't ask...) and realized, much to my surprise, that I own Castlevania III. 'Cool!', I thought, 'Let's try that!' I am not sure just yet if it was a great idea or a terrible mistake. As a very late NES game...

@McCheese The ring dropping magic one shots the hands, the end of the left to right sword swing of the hero tends to hit twice for some reason and you only need to have the herb equipped when your hp reaches zero. So just stay on the left side of the upper deck, drop rings on the hands, slash at...