Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Final Fantasy VII Remake, Part 9 - In Nobody We Trust

Today on FFVII: After a fiery but mostly peaceful plate collapse, our heroes step out into the shattered world. ...there will be punch and pie.

Friday, December 18, 2020

Final Fantasy VII Remake, Part 8 - Mahatotariat

Welcome back to Peter Jackson's The Hobbit! Because they took a small amount of content and padded it a lot. Starring Tifa, Aerith, Barret, and Other.

Friday, December 11, 2020

Alien Vs. Predator (Super NES, 1993)

Today I'm going to take a quick look at a game that actually features Xenomorphs rather than look-alikes or knockoffs. I also wonder why there aren't more Versus properties like this. There's Robocop Vs Terminator, but why not Terminator Vs. Aliens? Or Robocop Vs Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket? The possibilities are endless!

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Trials of Mana, Finale - Strange Sunset

I've got the normal game finished, but now we have new remake additions to do. That's right, this version of the game has a "postgame", but really it's more of a new endgame. You have to go through this to get to New Game Plus. Let's get to it. Also: Dark tights, oh yeah.

Friday, November 6, 2020

Kick Master (NES, 1991)

It's time for me to play the raddest NES game of 1991. Some people are masters of punching. Some people are masters of elbowing. Some people are just masters of blocking with their face. Not this guy. THIS... is Kick Master.

Sunday, November 1, 2020

Raid 2020 (NES, 1989)

Time for what the pros refer to as a "shitty game". When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the 9mm Uzi for a bit. It's just a badass-looking gun. What's with the drugs though? I've never seen a prescription bottle with a poison sign on it, though in some cases that'd be a lot more honest.

Winners fight drugs? I hope you actually "fight drugs" in this game. Like one boss is a giant line of coke or something, on your quest to rescue the president who is a hovering crack pipe.

Sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends! ...Or not.

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Trials of Mana, Part 7 - Total Carnage

Isabella lets Jessica out of prison only to drag her through the desert as Trials of Mana finally resumes. Their hair colors are coded like Jedi lightsabers.

Monday, September 28, 2020

Mega Man X6 Playthrough

More Mega Man videos as I replay one of the worst games. Why do this to myself a second time? I don't know.

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Yakuza 6 - Boss Fights

The last game of the Kiryu Saga and the last one of these I'm doing. The boss fights in this game feel a bit like a fighting game, while previous installments played more like brawlers.

Thursday, August 27, 2020

Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones (NES, 1990)

This is BY FAR the toughest Double Dragon game. I mean, damn. They really overcorrected after the easier second game. This game is so hard that Nintendo Power's coverage of it is just a high-pitched scream.

Friday, August 21, 2020

Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES, 1988)


This is it, Double Dragon TWO. The Reckoning. Does that make this Quadruple Dragon? .....I'll show myself out.

Sunday, August 16, 2020

Prehistorik Man (Super NES, 1995)

Time for a BLAST FROM THE PAST. They made Game Boy and SNES versions of this game, but it's safe to say the SNES version is the one to play. While the Game Boy version has five levels, this one has 23. In other words, this is Prehistorik Man: Definitive Edition.

Been wanting to check it out for a while, so let's get a look at it.

Monday, August 10, 2020

Trials of Mana, Part 5 - TNT Nitromyte

Angela with a confident power-walk across the bridge. Unf. Also, an apology is necessary because Angela in general is NSFW.

Friday, August 7, 2020

Double Dragon (NES, 1988)

Time to check out one of the finest beat 'em ups on the NES. This game got the street fighting genre rolling on consoles. Later games like Final Fight and Streets of Rage would refine the formula, beating this series up and stealing its lunch money. For its time, though, Double Dragon was the trendsetter, the prototype. More on those other beat 'em ups at a later date, because right now we're goin' ham on the OG.



Thursday, August 6, 2020

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Highlander: The Series 3x19 - Mortal Sins

Today on Highlander: Not just a good episode, but a particularly significant one in terms of plot developments. This was also the highest-rated episode in the series up to this point in terms of TV ratings by a good margin. Though it'd be topped a few weeks later for "Finale" and then that'd be topped a bunch of times as it went on. The ratings really shot up during S3 and this is about when they hit their apex.

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Magic Sword (Super NES, 1992)

Magic Sword is an arcade beat-em-up from early 90's Capcom. They went on to make other (better) medieval-themed beat-em-ups like Knights of the Round and King of Dragons, but this one was a good start. I played it in the arcade a couple times as a kid and it was fun, but I didn't get very far. The Super NES port is easier, so we'll see how I do.

Friday, July 17, 2020

Super Metroid - Ice/Wave Beam Only (2019 Run)


For this run I decided to try something a bit different than the usual speed run. It's the "2019 run" because I didn't do my usual Summer run last year, and have to make up for it.

Saturday, July 4, 2020

Virtua Fighter (Sega 32X, 1995)

Since I played the second game in the series, why not the first? Besides that I'll take any chance I can get to play something on the 32X.

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Seiken Densetsu 3, Finale - Vicious Spiral Dive

This is it, the culmination of Seiken Densetsu 3. Seen here in the alternate universe where it got a western release in 1995 or 1996.

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Seiken Densetsu 3, Part 7 - High Tension Wire

 Today on Seiken Densetsu 3: I slay God-Beasts. Lots of them, beginning with the Son of Sun in the land of fire.

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Final Fantasy VII Remake, Part 4 - Neon Genesis

In this episode, we tool around in the slums. "AUGH" scream the flowers underfoot as Aerith clops over them with her work boots. I mean, she says she can understand the voices of all living things and the planet itself, so she should know this.

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Doomsday Warrior (Super NES, 1992)

Today I'm looking at a particularly strange fighting game for the Super NES. It's going to be painful. This attempt at a hybrid of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat may not have been fun to play, but it's ripe for a look. It's a port of the aptly-named Taiketsu!! Brass Numbers for the Super Famicom.

Monday, May 18, 2020

Seiken Densetsu 3, Part 6 - Primeval

Arriving in Mintos, it's time for the next leg of the journey with our decidedly leg-less party. Will I defeat any God-Beasts in this episode? Maybe! 

Friday, May 15, 2020

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Doom Eternal - Boss Fights

This, like old-school Doom games, has very few boss fights. The few it has are definitely a case of quality over quantity, though.

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (Super NES/Sega CD, 1994) - UPDATED

 This is a game that I was a huge fan of as a kid. It's fantastic and very unique, with a certain Indiana Jones kind of mood that very few games successfully convey. While I played the SNES version then and am playing it now, it's worth noting that in 1995 it also got released on the Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, Atari Jaguar, and Windows 95. In fact, it was the first commercial game release for Win 95. The later versions of the game considerably improved upon the SNES version, with better graphics, better sound, and more levels. I didn't know about this until very recently, because back then I didn't have a Nintendo Power to tell me about games on other systems.

NOTE: While this is a re-post, I've added new images from the Sega CD version from areas that were cut from the cartridge-based versions of the game. Any new text, mainly pertaining to the Sega CD, will be in yellow.

Friday, May 8, 2020

Seiken Densetsu 3, Part 5 - Sail Away

Took a detour into remake-land but we're back with the original Seiken Densetsu 3 from 1995. ...where did I leave off? Who's she?

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Monday, May 4, 2020

Saturday, May 2, 2020

Trials of Mana, Part 3 - Now You Must Choose

Today on Trials of Mana: Fewer Girls. Even the moon is depressed.

Perhaps the moon knows the secret to the new sound.

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

The Thing From Another World (1951)

The Thing From Another World is loosely related to John Carpenter's 1982 thriller, The Thing. I consider the 1982 movie to be one of the best sci-fi movies of all time, as well as the most chilling movie I have ever watched. It presents a bleak vision of extraterrestrial life and a terrifying existential threat to the human race. As a result, I had to check out the predecessor to that movie.

While the Carpenter version is effectively a remake of this, his version follows a distinctly different plotline that is much truer to the source material. The source material in question is a 1938 short story called "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell Jr. Still with me here? Good. So what did I think of this movie? Read on to find out.

Can it compare to the Carpenter version from three decades later? Is there too much talking? Were dames sassy in 1951? The answers to all three questions may surprise you.