I’ve been making @boojiboy7 play just about every Genesis/Mega Drive game I can think of in the Hinge Problems discord. You saying this makes me think Popular Conciousness around the Genesis is real weird. Vectorman, Altered Beast, Revenge of Shinobi. Someone likes them I guess but you have Hard Corps, Elemental Master, Shinobi 3, etc etc. actually fantastic games that don’t hold as much Cultural Mind as those.
We are like 75 games deep the one I keep thinking about is Jurassic Park Rampage Edition which is such an outrageous response to the original JP.
Also the Genesis is 1/4th Industral Warehouse Maze by volume. Another 1/4th is Sports.
I loved Devotion, so I picked this up today. About 90 minutes in, this is great stuff. Easily in the top 3 prettiest 2D games I’ve ever played. It has a very compelling start to what looks to be a sci-fi horror martial arts story. Gameplay is difficult but not overwhelming to me so far. In most games, I suck at parrying, so I was worried about that. Crucially, in this game I find enemy animations quite readable, and for that reason I’ve been able to reasonably parry to the level required by the early areas.
I am almost embarrassed how many new games I’ve been buying lately, but damn, there really is a wealth of stuff releasing this year.
yeah, agreed on all of that. my personal favorite Genesis games seem to be obscure in the minds of most, but i think for most US owners, the Genesis was for sports games, Sonic, and like…yeah, Mortal Kombat, Jurassic Park, etc.
anyway, i made it to level 7-3 of The Revenge of Shinobi tonight. it’s fucking Godzilla! lmao
i half-forgot about the cameos in this game - i remembered Spider-Man and The Hulk, but i forgot that Spider-Man turns into Devilman in round 2, and i 100% forgot about Godzilla.
Revenge seems to run contrary to my Shinobi instincts - in most of the series, you are encouraged to not use shurikens and to avoid using ninja arts for the sake of huge score bonuses. as far as i can tell, there are moments where you are required to use ninja arts in The Revenge of Shinobi, and while i’m sure some beautiful psycho has a no-shurikens route for this game, that also seems next to impossible in this game. i got stuck on the “China Town” stage for a while because i didn’t realize i needed to use/even had a ninja art that increased my jump height. that’s on me for not reading the manual, i guess.
i think if i keep at this for another few days, it’s feasible i will beat this game soon
I have beaten it without save states and I think you’re absolutely right that it is better when you discipline yourself into focused and careful execution.
I’m trying to remember if I was the one who hated Shinobi III or not. I don’t think I hated the entirety of the game, just its utterly BS final level. That’s when I resorted to save states at the start of the level & maybe at checkpoints (does the game have checkpoints?) as I couldn’t see replaying through the whole rather hard game to see what the next unpredictable cheap shot death it’d throw at me was, or have to deal with the horribly executed hanging from pipes with poorly illustrated hitboxes section again. IMO that stage had as much bad in it alone as the rest of the game combined had good and probably while I’ll never try another Shinobi game again.
That said I can see why one would love the entirety of the game before that point.
The only version I’ve played is a later release–1.04–and it took me 7 minutes of save state reloading to make that jump. I didn’t know any ninja tricks so it was just happening to hit the exact furthest point you can jump from I guess, which doesn’t line up with any particularly intuitive spot on your sprite. And then doing the double jump just right, of course.
Since I can play it for free via my Netflix subscription (“free”) I fired up Braid for a few minutes on my phone and I’ll say if nothing else that game looks very pretty on a phone screen.
I guess the developers of The Exit 8 knew folks like myself managed to successfully run away from all of its scariest shit without being caught, so Platform 8 changes the formula by not allowing you proceed to the next train car until you’ve, in some way, dealt with the anomaly present.
So far I’ve been jump-scared…four times? Haven’t made it out yet
Yeah Netflix has games it’s so weird. Like those GTA remakes they released a few years ago got an updated lighting model that makes them actually look more like the PS2 games but the update is only in the Netflix versions lol.
Poinpy is a pretty good Netflix phone game. I love that little green scamp. It’s by the creator of Downwell!
Definitely interested in hearing recommendations on others. So many of them basically don’t work without a controller though. Like, do they really think I’m gonna play Dead Cells on my phone?
