there’s only one way to play Shinobi 3
expert, 0 shuriken start
I remember playing Shinobi III and enjoying it a good bit early on but would describe its last stage as hateful which really left a sour taste in my mouth. I really did not want to play with save states but I couldn’t imagine playing through the whole game with a few lives to spare just to try and remember all the cheap hits and deaths that last stage would “gotcha” you with, basically for the right to only get to the next cheap shot before having to start over once more. I believe 95% of my memories of the game were overwritten by those awful hanging jump section and that wasn’t even the worst bit.
So yeah, I recommend playing the game up to the final stage clean and then cheating the hell out of the last one even if that means simply creating a save state at the start of it to let you practice it.
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I missed this 2021 Homebrew game entirely. Looks better than most!
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hi bov
I just beat this stupid game. I gave myself 50 lives and went at it. I barely reached the ending with that. The best part of the game is as you said when you can just ignore the level design.
Never heard Tazmania (TV) nostalgia in my life and seeing these “native” mice go bad go “bet a lot of that show is extremely racist. I bet all those Disney Afternoon shows are extremely racist. I should go pirate gummy bears right now.”
New Physical Megadrive release. Just a metroidvania looking thing, but it is A New One. Same folks as Metal Dragon above.
City Connection Megadrive was City Connection, certainly.
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‘MetroidVania’, (a mix between Metroid and Castlevania - Symphony of the Night)
metrovania sounds so much better
when will people realise this
also when will mega drive asuka come out 
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I an messing with this Genesis Mini 2 I got over here dang it.
Lightening Force A stunningly beautiful game. I don’t think I like it very much. There are too many “think fast” enemies. Too many bullets lost against the background. I stare at the bosses and wonder if I am doing anything. The seemingly powerful weapons are actually pretty infective. Comparing it to Thunder Force 3 it is very stingy on letting you try the different weapons.
Robo Aleste While I also have my complaints about a lot of compile and Aleste games this isn’t very good. I feel like they got drunk on how many sprites they could have on screen at one time and just flooded the screen while your pea-shooter can’t keep up or even navigate with your giant ship. Knowing that SPRIGGAN is right there on the PC Engine and like this but better in every way. The intro was fun when it suddenly introduced 8 meter tall pilotable robots and airships to Nobunaga’s Yabou.
Sewer Shark honestly this fucking owns. The acting is great. I have no clue what I am doing and then run head first into a wall and instant credits. I’ll play more of this.
Ecco CD Much to my surprise I think I prefer the Genesis music. Saves states make it easy to take this game in bites. Thanks Genesis Mini 2! Maybe with that bonus I’ll beat Ecco!
Vectorman 2
This sucks. Trying to navigate the near unreadable screen (imagining this on a CRT and just a black blur.) The move set where you only have a diagonal shot with forward movment does not work with the enemy patterns who are frequently at 45 degrees when they aren’t just running at you. None of it feels good. I might stick with it or look up a level code or play it on the mister with invincibility just to see if any of it is good.
Sonic CD PAL
Sometimes I forget what you Europeans had to deal with. Kind of nice they left it in, just to see the 10% slower Sonic.
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this has been a problem brought up on sb before (maybe it was on sb1?) but: orange explosions mean you’re doing damage, blue ones mean you’re not
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Life on Mars now has a sort of sequel Life on Earth
It has some uh, character design
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new savaged regime soundtrack alert!
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This is the first sega cd game I ever played at my friend’s insistence. I love Sewer Shark. If I recall right you need to shoot the glowing enemies only, and turn the HOLE HOG in the direction the robot tells you to. The cutscenes with the treacherous mr stenchler and his genius secretary in solar city always crack me up cuz it’s the guy from total recall who says “don’t fuck with your brain pal”
And what’s my payback…a million pounds of tube steak!!!
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This is the correct opinion
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Good spot. I dont think thats the only unoriginal asset. I suspect the background orange buildings that are in every stage are traced from bladerunner.
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Probably best for all involved but surprised they removed the gay stereotype boss from both Streets of Rage 3 and Bare Knuckle 3 on the Mini 2.
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They also removed crucifixes from Shining Force 2. Not Soleil though, unless you play the US version. God will save you, but not your game apparently
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Warsong look I’ll get to Langrisser on PC Engine eventually, come on. I managed to finish the first battle, barely after an hour. I assume I was not supposed to let my companion die. I like how hard it is. It is much faster than Shining Force but also there are so many more units and things to keep track of. Maybe I’ll come back to it in another 20 years.
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Gain Ground owns.
Silpheed really interesting to put this against Star Wars Arcade (a bad game) and Shadow Squadron (a good game) for 32X. All 3 games have comparable graphics but the 32X ones are rending in real time. I do not like the angles on Silpheed and it never clicked what was the trajectory of anything.
Desert Strike: i lost points for not killing runaway soldiers fearful of my death machine. This has a lot more cutscens than I expected it to. Playing with save states is more fun than without because the game is frequently monotonous unless you are playing dangerously then you might just die in a second. It took me 2 hours to beat the first stage and the second was pretty similar. Feel like I’ll fire up the sequels sometime. Not like, fun but compelling. You rescue so many MIAs…
Splaterhouse 2 wow this second stage is kind of bullshit.
The Ooze is the only game with Sega Technical Instiute title card? Maybe! Like a lot of the STI games you feel them trying really hard but not being particularly gifted at anything and then you end up with whatever this game is. It always sticks in my mind with Poulterguy for some reason. I bet Poulterguy has some fun in it.
Ristar a lot to like in this game but just walking sucks.
Alien Soldier I don’t think anyone actually likes AS so much as fears and respects it. It is one of the most hardcore games ever made and will destroy you with a glance. I’ve seen one man enjoy Alien Soldier and he was not exactly a good person.
Oops I put the Genesis Mini 2 away tonight (to concentrate on other video games) before i could play Ranger X on it. That’s okay. I theoriically Own that game.
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