Saturday, April 20, 2024
Castle of the Winds Part I - A Question of Vengeance (PC, 1993)
Friday, April 19, 2024
The 1000 Games I've Beaten (#355 - 373)
Thursday, April 18, 2024
The 1000 Games I've Beaten (#337 - 354)
#337 Lufia: The Legend Returns (Game Boy Color) – Spring 2010
Kind of a mediocre GBC game, but it works well and it has its moments. I wish we could have seen what the original planned "Lufia 3: Ruins Chasers" game on Playstation would have looked like, instead. I spent a lot of time level-grinding in this game and farming bombs to use against the optional superbosses, which are both early in the game fights with Gades. Most of what I remember about the game is that particular struggle, not so much anything after that. I made sure to beat both of the Gades-es. Spent more time working on the optional Gades Quest than I did on the actual rest of the game.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Rockman 2: The Power Fighters (Arcade, 1996)
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Rockman: The Power Battle (Arcade, 1995)
Friday, April 12, 2024
The 1000 Games I've Beaten (#324 - 336)
#324 Shadow of the Colossus (Playstation 2) – Winter 2010
Being largely shut-in during a brutal winter, I wanted to catch up a bit with the PS2 generation, which I'd missed a lot of. A big part of that was this game, which was hands-down the prettiest PS2 game I ever played. It looks more like a PS2.5 game, almost closer to the PS3 than the PS2 visually. More importantly, this is a game with a ton of heart and soul, and that shines through on a constant basis. Just an amazing game to see in action, even at this point with the PS3 around.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
True Lies (Super NES, 1995)
Friday, April 5, 2024
The 1000 Games I've Beaten (#314 - 323)
"Hey Yo! Bebe's Keeeeds!"
The iconic title screen theme that heralds the arrival of one of the greatest video games of the 16-bit era. In this game you choose between a crippled spastic boy and a slightly-less crippled spastic girl and battle the forces of an evil robot in an amusement park.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
The 1000 Games I've Beaten (#299 - 313)
#299 Persona 3 (Playstation 2) – Winter 2009
This was an interesting, challenging game that was unlike anything else at the time. I'm not really into Japanese High School Simulators and there are about 1200 of them, but I really liked the mysticism and occult they worked into this game. The battle system heavily emphasizing elemental weaknesses was a lot of fun and the whole thing just felt very unique. Mostly enjoyed the dungeon crawling and battles, plus the Persona fusing to see what'd happen.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Ranking the Lord of the Rings Vol. 1 (SNES) Fellowship From Best To Worst
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Ninja Gaiden Shadow (Game Boy, 1991)
Friday, March 29, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
DuckTales (Game Boy, 1990)
Another classic from the Game Boy Player's Guide that I wanted to check out for a long time. The six-game Capcom/Disney series on NES was pretty awesome and something I'd really like to do more with. This, however, is probably the only Game Boy port I'll play from that set, due to it being in the guide and me trying to check out everything from it. Duck Tales! Woo-ooh!
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
The 1000 Games I've Beaten (#284 - 298)
#284 Final Fantasy IV Advance (Game Boy Advance) – Winter 2008
2008 was a bit of a new beginning. Went to college on a part time basis, was doing better in general than the previous couple years, and had most of my backlog obliterated from the 2007 finishing-fest. Probably the last time I was ever "caught-up" on games (except the Zelda Crusade, of course). Played a lot of new stuff in 2008. Today we've got the entirety of 2008 in one post.
Monday, March 18, 2024
Ranking the 80's and 90's RPGs I've Finished
Note: Counting 2000. One can technically say 2000 was the end of the decade, and either way I feel like the real changeover from retro to modern happened in 2001 with the advent of the PS2/XBox generation. So Dragon Quest VII just barely gets spared from being on the list and probably scoring pretty low on it.
If something I played is a recent remaster/port and very close to the original, it counts as me playing the original for ranking purposes. Like the Langrisser games, or Romancing SaGa 2. If it's a full-on remake it doesn't count, like the completely-overhauled PSP remake of Ys 3 doesn't count as me playing OG Ys 3.
Saturday, March 16, 2024
The 1000 Games I've Beaten (#268 - 283)
Friday, March 15, 2024
Shadow of the Ninja (NES, 1990)
One of the trio of games I got to play (some of) the first time I ever saw an NES. Which makes this...possibly the first NES game I ever played. It was either this, Super Mario Bros, or Destiny of an Emperor. Then in 2007 I actually played through it. It's been ages, so it's high time I took a gander at it. Going to see if it brings back any memories of that first time holding an NES controller. I bet this WAS the first one I played, because it had "ninja" in the title and I was like 7. Definitely would have reached for this first out of the three games. Also it's from Natsume, so that's pretty cool. Without further ado...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Shatterhand (NES, 1991)
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
The 1000 Games I've Beaten (#256 - 267)
#256 Mega Man Zero (Game Boy Advance) – Winter 2007
An interesting and respectable spinoff series begins here. Having Zero be the main character of a series was a no-brainer, and controlling him is nearly as fun as it is in the X series. I say nearly because the game's a little slower than the PS1 X games, and I'm not crazy about Zero's redesign. Yeah, I know there's a story reason for it, and also the story reason kinda sucks. If they'd just gone with the existing Zero design and moveset for this, the series would have been better off for it, so there was no good reason to change it up. The guy you play as is barely even recognizable as Zero.
Friday, March 8, 2024
Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath DLC (Playstation 4, 2020)