Kenta Cho seems release a new thing in flash every month
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There is just a never ending stream of 8 dollar bullet hell shooters on steam then you have the big boys stuff.
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Outrun 3DS is so perfect, what a great version. I love the cabinet sounds and the screen shake on the āUprightā HUD mode. 60 fps wow.
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I dug the witcher 3 back out and Iāve played a quest or two every night
So at this rate Iāll be done in aboutā¦ A decade?
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Just in time for Cyberpunk!
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I canāt believe how big this goddamn game is
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Daily Faxanadu update: turns out on the TASvideo site there is a password creator for Faxanadu where you can make your own customized passwords. More interestingly, you can also type in one of your own actual passwords to see what makes it up and have the choice to say remove a bugged permanent item from your inventory so your attack power isnāt permanently reduced. The world is full of wonders.
With that out of the way I believe I am approaching the home stretch and it is definitely an odd duck of a game, and will still at times annoy you with a seemingly baffling design choice, but the baffling choices do give it a lot of flavor. You can go to a town, spend 1k on a one time use key to open a castle door, and the castle is three screen long with no item or anything of benefit yet has two enemy types that donāt appear to be anywhere else in the game. Many games of the era have odd little corners that donāt actually do much of anything, but most wonāt hide them behind locked doors and this game does that more than a few times.
The leveling up system is kooky as when you have enough experience you talk to a guru (the folks who give you a password) and they will give you a new title. You donāt get any stronger or tougher in any way, but when you die or use the password you start with the EXP floor for that title and also a certain amount of money which might be more than you had on you beforehand. You can take this starting money, go buy new items, magic or equipment if it is enough, get a new password, start again and again be given that same starting money amount. Oddly enough at least some of your items become weaker when you have a higher title, in particular the winged boots that let you fly for a period of time has the duration of flight cut as you increase your level. I think it was about 30 seconds initially, not it wears off after about 10.
Plus in a game about dwarfs and elves you at one point are given a DWORF key, I am here for well placed typos.
So yeah, I like it even though it from time to time makes me want to smash my head into the wall.
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I own a mattock, and I think about Faxanadu whenever I use it. I have not played the game in years, but Iām convinced that it would remain one of my favorites if I played it again now.
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Hearing all this stuff about how buggy Faxanadu is makes me feel so much better about getting stuck. I loved that game but it was really hard.
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Nethack got me interested in the differences between mattocks and pickaxes
Mattocks are way more useful irl
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Faxanadu is only a bit buggy (I mentioned the worst one), it is just opaque as hell combined with one of the worst password systems ever devised.
Anyways, I beat it today! In an absolutely fitting turn the final area before the final boss is basically the Lost Woods in Zelda, except filled with enemies. The correct path is guarded by what looks like a hive hanging from the ceiling that constantly spawns ghosts to attack you (max of three on the screen at a time). Due to its location you canāt really jump up to attack it, you would need to be able to swing your sword from the ladder which is an ability you sadly donāt have.
ā¦Except that if a ghost hits you while on the ladder and you happen to be pressing the attack button you will be able to get a swing off (I didnāt figure this out, I looked for help after burning through several healing potions). This clearly feels like a glitch; I canāt see an actual proper non-glitch way to kill it.
In factā¦
Faxanadu: This clearly feels like a glitch; I canāt see an actual proper non-glitch way to kill it.
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Yeap, that hive thing was as far as I got. I think I had to fall back on a Counselorās Corner bit in Nintendo Power to manage the maze.
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If it makes you feel better (or potentially worse >_> ) I believe there are only three more screens in the game after that hive, so aside from the final boss you pretty much saw everything.
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Turns out I should have given up trying to make Doom64 work in an emulator and just downloaded the standalone years ago. It works very well and Doom64 is really cool.
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Tonight I played chrono cross just long enough to get to the first town
then I just left it there in the background as a pretty animated wallpaper with chill music
i canāt find my ps1 memory cards and uhhh i donāt want to put much time into a 2-disc jrpg if i canāt save
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Doom 64 EX works great and I played it through on my PS3 controller and it was great. The music is really unsettling. They really go whole shrug on those first 4 levels being dark and then ease off of it.
The bonus levels are hilarious and the secret levels are all good experiments. The pitch black red hallway in stage 2?3? is the maybe narrative highlight but I did not expect this game to do as much environmental level design as it does.
The final boss is really fucking hard and I kind of cheated to beat it. I canāt imagine beating it with an n64 controller.
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Iām pretty sure I cheat-coded my way through Doom 64. Itās funny up until a certain time I really donāt think I ever played any FPS game sans cheat codes, though this game was probably one of the last. Goldeneye made me go legit.
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I definitely played Doom 100% of the time with IDDQD until high school
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My first brother and I played games with dying by gritting our teeth and doing it over and over. We ended up really having no interest in cheatcodes except for sheer novelty. It took my second brother several years before he stopped playing with god mode on if it was available.
ā¦I helped my sister jump death pits when she was younger because she was terrified of them.
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iāve been playing nioh and really, really enjoying it even though the alpha did nothing for me and the safewords ālootā and āgrindā come up way too often in discussion (not really sure why by the end of the story, is this a postgame thing?)
also watching many game overs at the final boss of saga scarlet grace on twitch
Is there anything to Saga Scarlet Grace other than battles? Everytime I look at gameplay footage all I see are long battles.