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I am going to stream the fuck out of this fucking garbage
EDIT: I AM GOING TO STREAM IT TONIGHT. 8 YEARS IN THE MAKING. BRACE YOURSELF.
https://twitch.tv/bachelorsoft
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Try playing as Krunch
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Jokes on you, as Conker was made back when video games had cheat codes you just have to google which stage you were on and enter the cheat code to go right back there.
I know this as the game bugged out on me on the second to last stage and soft-locked me when I finally decided to play through it a few years back. I was pot-committed enough to see it through to the end, don’t be like me!
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i got the xbox remake of conker as a gift when i was a kid and the big booby sunflower part is maybe the only time ive ever been embarrassed to the point of like wanting to run out of the room while playing a game in front of someone. my dad was making this face like it was the stupidest thing hed ever seen in his entire life. its such a cringe game…i regretted asking for it
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Lucky Luna is a little platformer you play by swiping left and right, with the titular Luna moving faster/further depending on your swipe strength.
What’s interesting is there’s no jump button so every level is a vertical descent. There’s pearls and doodads to collect along the way and you’re encouraged to replay levels to try to do perfect runs where you collect them all and get faster times, etc. You have to keep your eyes peeled for secret side passages, as well.
It’s not devoid of challenge, and in lieu of lives, dying sends you backwards a bit and you have to collect some of the pearls over again.
It’s one of the games available for free if you have a Netflix account, hence why I’m trying it out. I might pick away at this game until I get tired of it.
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I just checked to see whether anyone kept an archive of at least some of that damn letters page… http://www.raregamer.co.uk/scribes/
As an aside, there was this one letter that I remembered reading back in 2000 that I thought was genuinely on to something. And sure enough, here it is:
I remember the reply outright confirming this theory, but in actuality it seems it just left it hanging. Guess I misremembered that part.
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Tetris Effect: Connected (PS4) - ohhhh I really love this…
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Dabbled in… Sanfrancisco Rush 2049. I forgot that the cars spin out if you tap the brakes at all. I also forgot that you spend every race trying not to make any sudden steering inputs lest you lose control or lose speed. 1st place AI car seems to traverse the track perfectly. You actually have to take apexes like you do in a real car, so in that way this has the most sophisticated driving simulation that I remember the N64 having.
I thought “I never played through the circuit mode of that game” and there’s a good reason for that I guess, you’d only ever do a single race and lose, or explore in time trial mode.
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Oh wow! I didn’t know about this and the added Classic modes, neat.
Update:
Double wow, this is even better than I’d hoped: in Classic Score Attack you can turn ALL the FX off so it’s just blocks. Less flashy than NES Tetris! = D Superb!!! There is no video on YouTube that I could find–or even a FAQ anywhere–showing that you can do this–there sure as heck is gonna be one tomorrow!!!
Update:
This is basically the best Tetris mode ever, someone finally did it.
Although it does a single firework blast right in your eyes when a player taps out. I guess they had to Mizuguchi it up somewhere.
The NES music remix is kinda wild, I actually like it a lot.
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just wanted you to know i wasted an hour of my life trying to find this on wayback (i did not find it)
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the last 10+ DKR related posts (here+the N64 thread) give off a vibe of a deep-rooted DKR-related trauma that Rare seems to have triggered in a whole generation of gamers?
I only know one (and only one ) person in RL that would go to bat for DKR even after having pretty much mastered it (gotta ask whether he has ever 100% it 
) … seems like we all have our DK64 or DKR that has burned all bridges of goodwill to Rare
(plus: guess that’s a new episode of faux gamer podcast ‘What Would Freud Say playing [title]’)
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Finished Legacy of Darkness. Just Fantastic. Was a crackling demon for the later 5 stages. Then went ahead and beat Henry mode. Yes! Haha Yes!
Then that didn’t unlock the original characters.
So i started Castlevania 64. This is worse.
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(Performance is very bad in some browsers. I had the best luck with Chrome.)
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Getting into Yakuza 0 actually, playing on Hard and it’s addressing my complaint I’ve had for the past three entries that the combat has become way too braindead. It’s good!
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Far Cry 5 (PS4) - fascinating, ultimately not great. the guns and world design are pretty good, the vehicles are fun, some of the music is cool, but the writing is awful and you get forced into the plot repeatedly. it’s funny, if they just let you do your own thing and stop literally kidnapping you to monologue at you it would be a much better game.
the graphics are very, very pretty (PS4 Pro version running on PS5 here) and it runs pretty smoothly
i nearly have the platinum trophy, does anyone with ps+ extra want to help me with that at some point? gotta do 3 quests in co-op
this game could have been more interesting just by committing to the fishing and hunting stuff more. there’s fishing, but it’s barely there. the mechanics are very basic; there’s no fish radar, time of day doesn’t affect anything, there’s only a few kinds of bait (no lures or weights) and they are all just categorically for one type of fish or another, very “correct answers only” stuff. there’s bowhunting but no real mechanics to make it work properly. it’s just far cry in montana clothes. they didn’t commit to the bit
the AI is hilarious, though. they can drive you around in this one, and they can even fly planes and helicopters. they are mostly pretty good at it, but sometimes they randomly land or get stuck and give up lol
i love how often wild animals interrupt things. you’ll be trying to sell off your stash of skins and fish and suddenly everyone starts yelling “WOLVERINE” and freaking out, it’s great. i really like telling jess to shoot people, you can pretty much take out an entire base with boomer + jess hands-free by having him mark everyone and her just off them one-by-one with the bow
i really can’t overstate how poor the writing is, though
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Finished the Beginner Circuit which unlocked…one more track. The Circuits are where you race each track forward and back, for a total of 8 races. The cars are so hard to control that I was using the walls to realign the cars. Several tracks I had to restart. Some of the shortcuts are beneficial and some…aren’t. You can adjust the stats for each car and clearly acceleration and top speed are the ones to get. Once I maximized my car’s top speed, getting 1st place was trivial in most races.
Each track has 16 coins on it, and I think you can grab these in practice mode instead of having to grab them during a race, and some are only accessible when driving the track in reverse. I’m not sure if I want to hunt all of them down, or keep driving the circuit to unlock extra tracks.
I find a lot of the “Optimistic Futurism” of the game to be kind of appealing. Feels like i’m driving through a render of something on a trapper keeper.
Lastly, i’m so glad controllers got analog triggers because holding down one of the face buttons for the gas pedal super sucks.
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Yeah in the convoluted history of CV64, Legacy is a prequel. In the prequel you rescue Henry from his dad. Then I guess he joined the church and 8 years later at the time of the original Castlevania 64 you get to play as him as an adult rescuing children. Time to examine all the buck-wild geography we made for you gamers, including two levels from CV64 you didn’t play in the main game of Legacy.
But yes he has A Real Gun so you can just shoot vampires till they die.
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Over the weekend I decided to play Bright Memory: Infinite as a break from all the RPGs.
The first thing the game gets you to do is some QTE stuff while flying into the combat zone. I messed up the second one and got ‘missed window to descend’ … Game Over. Immediately put me in mind of Night Trap where the dude pulls the plug if you take a one second too long to press the start button.
The game kind of feels like Crysis if it starred Haruka Sawamura. The plot is nonsense about a black hole and ancient Chinese warriors. It kind of reminded me of Spriggan sort of (the anime film, not the Compile shooter) with the whole ‘secret agent with powered exosuit that fights armed forced over ancient artifact’ thing. The game itself is pretty fun though, and only around 4 hours (it crashed like 3 times in that runtime though).
Looks pretty good on the Switch as well for the most part. There’s kind of a weird like… sweaty porno vibe to it though. Probably mostly due to the ‘Skins’ menu which is full of costumes that look like they are designed by dudes whose only interaction with women is in strip clubs. Makes me feel like I’m playing one of those Steam Unity porno games like that Bed and Breakfast thing.
I was playing on hard, but until the bosses start showing up in the second half I only really died to dumb instant death ‘failed to follow the critical path’ stuff. I think they were trying to channel Dark Souls with the bosses though, because they were pretty tough. Definitely some Hinge Problems in there too, I got stuck on a plane wing because the guy I needed to kill before I could cinematically jump over to the other side was somewhere I couldn’t see.
Also I am still playing Star Ocean: First Departure R. I have reached Asmodeus, and have hit another wall. Thinking of ditching the game here, seems this game expects grinding and min maxing for specialised encounters. I think most of my team are 10 levels below where they should be and don’t have proper elemental immunities and so they just get massacred in seconds by the boss.
The battle system is annoying because it feels like it’s just button mashing but you’re still expected to use strategy somehow. There are enemy types that just flank you and stunlock you to death and there’s almost nothing you can do about it. And others that both multiply and petrify you. These enemies always show up when you’ve almost reached the save point after like 30 mins of exploring.
this game really expects you to delve deep into the whole skills / crafting systems but all of them are heavily reliant on RNG that seems designed to just waste your time. I also got stuck in Asmodeus’ dungeon because the path you need to take is completely obscured by an upper walkway. Playing this game just seems be more frustration than fun, mostly gives me the feeling I am doing everything wrong and missing something obvious.
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