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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2020 16:05:04 GMT -5
Xeogred Turok I'll give you, but I can go back to Perfect Dark for the bots or Golden Eye for 4 player nostalgia fun. I wouldn't say any of them hold up well on their own today, even including the remasters. Doom 64 though is one of the games in my opinion that actually hold up super well today. I'm always shocked when I see someone panning it (I never bothered with reviews for it bitd) and wonder if we even played the same game.
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 13, 2020 16:12:00 GMT -5
The limitations of Doom's (1,2,64) pseudo 3D style with 2D sprites/textures and OG's like myself who never play with mouse aim, yeah it is what I'd call absolute mechanical perfection. The feeling I get playing Doom is unlike anything else. I feel locked in like I'm controlling a Doomguy power armor mecha unit doing God's work cleaning up demons. Timeless. If you sat me down in front of an N64 with Goldeneye or Perfect Dark though yeah, I'd still have a blast. I'm in the camp that likes Perfect Dark more, even if the Farsight and Laptop Gun were ridiculous.  Goldeneye might have a tighter campaign though, Perfect Dark's got some weird levels. I was able to beat both on 00 Agent back in the day. |
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Post by Ex on Oct 14, 2020 0:40:21 GMT -5
Alright, I finally beat my first game for this theme:  Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth is a WiiWare action-platformer developed by M2, and published by Konami, in 2009. ReBirth is very loose remake of the 1989 Game Boy title Castlevania: The Adventure. The story here takes place century before the original Castlevania, starring an ancestor of Simon Belmont named Christopher Belmont. In this game, Christopher must ride a magic unicorn pony and plant rainbow seeds across the land. Just kidding, he's got to obliterate legions of rotting undead and whip Dracula straight back to Hell. The Adventure ReBirth plays like a classic Castlevania (not a metroidvania) with six stages. The first five being stages having mid-level and end-level bosses. The final stage is just a multi-form boss battle with Dracula. As is tradition, the player uses a whip to primary attack, along with secondary weapons, and carefule jumping across perilous pits.   +Feels and controls like a classic Castlevania. +OST is pretty good as expected. +The gothic atmosphere is maintained well. +Bosses are well designed and generally fun. +Very challenging on Normal or above difficulty. -Graphics can be amateurish occasionally. -Later stage designs are sometimes unnecessarily sadistic. -Randomly generated aerial enemies lead to unavoidable hits at times. -Stages can too long for their own good at times. -The final boss didn't need to have three forms. Two was plenty enough.
You can tell this game was not developed by Konami. M2 still did a decent job of emulating the classic Castlevania formula, but it's obvious they weren't masters of the form. Mainly in the realm of balance. When this game released, a whole lot of critics complained about the difficulty. Many resulting to Easy mode to even reach the final boss, and most still couldn't beat Dracula even on Easy. I have now beaten every 2D Castlevania that I know of, and ReBirth is definitely up there concerning difficulty. Normal difficulty here was challenge enough for me. As such, I wouldn't recommend ReBirth to series newcomers - this game's too brutal for that. I also wouldn't recommend fans (if they exist) of the original The Adventure to expect this game to be a legit remake. I would however, recommend ReBirth to oldschool fans of this series, who are hungry for a more harrowing take on the classic series design.
Unfortunately, as is the pitfall of exclusive console digital games, it's very difficult to legally play ReBirth now. Because this was a WiiWare exclusive, and the WiiWare channel no longer exists. So legally, if one didn't buy this game before the WiiWare channel shut down, one would need to purchase a Wii that already has it installed from the WiiWare channel. Not a great solution. But that's the price of the digital gamescape future folks. Losing exclusives like ReBirth due to such a format... is far scarier than any old vampire.
Ex's time to beat: ~4 hours or so, due to many retries. A straight run is probably 45 minutes.
Ex's rating: 7/10 |
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Post by EasyHard on Oct 14, 2020 2:52:49 GMT -5
Xeogred Rhomaios : I still love N64 shooters, as in Perfect Dark (my 2nd favorite game of all time), Turok 2, Turok, and Goldeneye. That's my personal order, but they are all super high in my personal rankings. Same tier of love for them as Quake and Doom 1/2.
(I kind of dislike the Turok 2 remaster though -- too many unwelcome changes to guns and levels!) |
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 14, 2020 16:56:00 GMT -5
Xeogred Rhomaios : I still love N64 shooters, as in Perfect Dark (my 2nd favorite game of all time), Turok 2, Turok, and Goldeneye. That's my personal order, but they are all super high in my personal rankings. Same tier of love for them as Quake and Doom 1/2.
(I kind of dislike the Turok 2 remaster though -- too many unwelcome changes to guns and levels!) Did you ever play Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.? That was one of the weirder N64 games I owned as a kid. |
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Post by EasyHard on Oct 14, 2020 17:12:44 GMT -5
Did you ever play Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.? That was one of the weirder N64 games I owned as a kid. No, and I think I only learned of it a few years ago. Is it any good? My impression is that it is poorly rated. |
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 14, 2020 17:16:50 GMT -5
Did you ever play Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.? That was one of the weirder N64 games I owned as a kid. No, and I think I only learned of it a few years ago. Is it any good? My impression is that it is poorly rated. Well I liked and played it a lot, that old case of it just being one of the games I had in my limited library at the time. I haven't played it in probably dang near 20 years though, so no idea if it holds up. I want to say it was certainly more comparable to Turok than Goldeneye/Perfect Dark. Skimming a video, I guess it even used the Turok engine so that makes sense now haha. The hit detection on hitting enemies looks weird. So I guess if you still like N64 shooters and Turok, maybe you'd dig it. |
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Post by Ex on Oct 15, 2020 8:48:32 GMT -5
After putting 2 hours into Silent Hill: Shattered Memories on Wii, I've decided this game is not for me. ( This review captures what I think about the game pretty well.) Rather than finding the experience to be unnerving and intriguing, instead I find it boring and annoying. So I'm with Xeogred on this particular SH entry. To eBay it goes.  I then proceeded to put an hour into Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon, a 2009 Wii released developed by Tri-Crescendo. I've often seen this game billed as a "survival horror RPG", and I can see where that concept is coming from. It's interesting thus far. |
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 15, 2020 11:02:13 GMT -5
After putting 2 hours into Silent Hill: Shattered Memories on Wii, I've decided this game is not for me. ( This review captures what I think about the game pretty well.) Rather than finding the experience to be unnerving and intriguing, instead I find it boring and annoying. So I'm with Xeogred on this particular SH entry. To eBay it goes. Did you look up the ending? Hated the twist. This whole game just didn't feel like "Silent Hill" at all to me. Some generic 2000's horror with the name slapped on it.
Bad track record with the whole series and you in general so far though haha, so I wonder if you'll like any of them. I wouldn't bet on SH3 or Origins, since mechanically they play like SH1-SH2 still. But I know you'll give everything a fair shake so who knows. SH4 isn't going to be a homerun for most, but it's completely different so maybe that would be a plus for you.
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Post by Ex on Oct 15, 2020 12:28:16 GMT -5
Did you look up the ending? Hated the twist. Yeah I did. There's actually five different endings, but I know which one you are talking about. I wasn't impressed. I agree. It didn't even feel like a horror game to me honestly. No tension at all while exploring. Then the chase sequences were just dumb. But I did like SH2! A 7/10 from me means I enjoyed it overall. I still plan to try SH3 and SH4 eventually. My brother really loved SH4, and he has decent taste. |
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Goldeneye might have a tighter campaign though, Perfect Dark's got some weird levels. I was able to beat both on 00 Agent back in the day.
