I remember the DS version being even worse but why? Don’t ask me, fuck if I remember anything else about it
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The DS one famously had a game ending bug in it, which didn’t help
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I was only able to beat X-Men: Children of the Atom on difficulty 0. ; D
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Despite it being a card game on the DS every action takes two seconds and I think you had to use the touch screen.
I remember hearing it was horrible getting it for nothing at gamestop and not being able to stomach 2 matches.
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That answers my question is the sequel better. Shame.
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I bought No Mans Sky for the PC, having long packed away my PS4 and long given up on re-installing it onto my PS4 to play through, having long given up on old saves rendered obsolete by years of updates and overhauls to the games systems.
The game immediately stuck me on an ice planet and I had to run around and grab things to get the ship to start flying. On my way I spotted this huge structure, which felt cool to find. There’s so many ambient ships flying around I feel like one of them should, like, help me but whatever.
The wonder and placid pace gives way to the recursive crafting requirements needed to Make Things Go. Ship controls with mouse and keyboard are sluggish, and the flight controls are not inverted. I forget that there’s a lot of stuff the game has to teach you with endless menus and inventory slots.
It still looks nice, I’m eager to dig more into it since it’s been changed considerably since I last put it down. It runs a lot better on the PC too.
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I have been playing Visions of Mana but I must be too old for it. It doesn’t have any interesting mechanics (to me) and I also dislike the tone.
Graphically it is nice but on PS4 Pro it is poorly optimized, with sudden delays in how things move, or objects popping in a second too late (like the smoke of a volcano, that is not there and appears suddenly 1 sec later, as if it was forgotten by the cpu)
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Incredible that they managed to preserve the spirit of Mana after all these years.
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Trials and Visions both do this on PC if you max settings out from the in-game menu and I’m too lazy to go in to an UE ini file and start smacking switches
Trials had a Switch version and the scuttlebutt is Visions was supposed to have one so actually it’s well optimized (for a nearly decade old underclocked ARM CPU)
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I’m getting back to Astro Bot and Slow-mo Casino is exactly what I wanted out of this game. What a fantastically designed level. Probably the best platforming, aesthetic design, and usage of a gimmick so far by far. Legitimately made me say “oh snap!” out loud. I wish this game had MGS5 style credits at the beginning of each level saying who were the design leads for the stage, because I’d like to know what other levels these people worked on.
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Hell yeah, that level is one of the best. I love that slow-motion backpack. Best powerup in the game, IMO. I love the feeling of stopping time to jump across scattering casino chips.
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There are so many good design elements in that level. The chips of course, but the card throwing enemies were such a good idea. And I loved the dart throwing platforming segments too.
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there’s a new Rugrats game
it’s faking being a NES game
it’s free on the Epic Game Store
that’s probably about the right price for it
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pretty sure it’s legitimately an NES game
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Free demo
512 KB ROM, runs in Mesen. The demo version anyway has four playable characters (I know nothing about Rugrats), picking different ones starts you in maybe two stages; one is a very short trot through a house, the other is a SMB2-rip-off, a fair deal longer but I’m not sure how big or if there are more stages after it 'cause I got sick of the mediocre platforming.
Nice big colorful graphics and pretty decent sound though.
Dunno if that ROM is different than whatever comes with the full version, of course you could buy it and then ask for a refund after stealing the ROM from it I suppose–not that I would advise anyone to try that. : P
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is tommy pickles traced over bonk?
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I don’t know the characters but they all kinda do a Bonk sorta thing but it’s a butt stomp or something.
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I have reported to dylan in person so now I can report to you fine people in words about Playstation 2 Video Games I have played:
Reign of Fire: this movie came out the exact point where I was a college student in Japan and I was only going to spend a lot of money on movies staring Christian Bale as Batman not Christian Bale as something else. He’s on the loading screen I can tell you that much.
Unlike the next game I can say a great deal of negative things about this game is all brown but readable. It is pretty much Halo Warthog the video game, but all your enemies are dragons. You drive up and indeed down hills with pressure sensitive face buttons being the accelerator. I was horrified to notice that widget as a fellow American Soldier in a different jeep was beating me uphill and I squeezed the Dualshock 2’s X button harder.
The game was cool until it had me do an escort convoy mission which was The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done In A Video Game. We really don’t have that in video games anymore.
Maximo sorry folks I hate Maximo. It is absurdly dark. The combat involves a skeleton falling down then you waiting for it to get back up. There are “secrets” everywhere and it encourages an obesessive searching around to collect powerups where you see none. I was confused to think “I want to play Dark Souls” in my thoughts. I think because any positive traits in this game are better expressed in Dark Souls and Dark Souls owns.
Sub Rebellion
DS Style menus and text that is weirdly personal. Reign of Fire and this are kind of the same game being a little vehicle and blowing stuff up. I didn’t like having to search around for artifacts. I did like blowing up helicopters and submarines. I honestly thought this ocean 7 years prior looked better than Aquanaut’s Holiday for PS3. It’s by IREM. Enjoyed myself.
R: Racing Evolution
I can see why people were mad this was 60 bucks at release. That said the real world tracks fucking rock. I got to drive I think a 1:1 Yokohama. Can’t wait to show Lady Rude that one. That said you get big boobed CG ladies talking about their dreams of fast racing. It’s more sim-heavy Ridge Racer but still Ridge Racer Anti-Racing in that all the other cars zoom past you at the start and you slowly play catch up on all of them one at a time and one strange error means Car 1 will never let you approach it no matter how good you drive the rest of the time. The more I look at Ridge Racer the more I don’t like how this works.
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ONE MORE BY ITSELF:
Dog of Bay
A rhythm game by cavia? Published by Marvelous about…Animal people in Dog Makeup with serious talent on the vocal tracks and produce by Ouji Horii (Sakura Taisen, Tengai Makyou).
The Rhythm Game is Cool Cool Toon levels of incomprehensible. Actually that is unfair CCT I understood just I wasn’t built to do this. In this green orbs go towards your heart in the bottom of the screen. Don’t worry about that. Then the Crystals corresponding to Up Down Triangle X sparkle. When the sparkle closes you hit the button. The songs are full length 3 minutes afairs with refrains and breakdowns while the dog face humans do pretty good 2000s MoCap.
It’s one of the more incomprehensible games I’ve ever played and I’ve played the Polar Bear that Sings Enka or the game where you stretch breasts by Treasure. The characters aren’t not sexual but who exactly they appeal to on any level escapes me. I need the Furries to way in. Who is horny for for these dog themed clowns:
God damnit I can’t find an appropriate image of the shirtless dog man J-Rocker. At least the 60s Year old Scotish Terrier doing an enka song makes sense! The dalmation fuck boi breaks my brain. We didn’t have language for this in 2000!!!
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