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DoDonPachi is awesome, one of my favorite shmups of all time. But I play it on MAME, so I've got as many credits as it takes. :p
Back on topic, I completed Earthworm Jim 2 last weekend. I finished it once before, many many years ago when I first rented the game. Somehow I'm much more inclined to finish games when I'm sitting in front of a real Mega Drive than when I'm using an emulator.
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Awesome game. Slicing and dicing bad guys never got old, and the platforming added a nice and subtle mix to all the bloody action. I'm going to go back for some of the kill achievements, but I won't go through the whole game again on hard, as it's a rental. Maybe I'll pick up the PS3 version when it's cheap. Gotta get those trophies! __________________
I was actually presently surprised by the demo for Wolverine. I was excpecting meh since its got that whole game-based-on-a-movie aura to it, but from the intro cinematic to the end of the demo it kicks ass. I'll definitely check it out once my manager lifts the ban on game rentals.
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Damn, that Night Striker for the Mega CD is awful. It's the biggest pixel mess I've ever seen in a game. :|
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Eco Fighters, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II Special Champion Edition, Sports Talk Baseball.
Just finished Sonic Unleashed.
...would I lose all my e-cred if I said I actually enjoyed the game?
First impression - the graphics are fantastic. Even the non-prerendered stuff looks great.
Second impression - controlling Sonic during the 'speed' levels is something you have to learn, but it's definitely a rush holding down X to blast through hordes of Eggman's robots.
Third impression - I'm glad Sonic Team went for a more wry, tongue-in-cheek feel to the game's storyline - as opposed to the great big dramatic storyline of the previous game. Chip isn't a Scrappy-Doo character! Joy!
The credits made me laugh, too. Love the Chao hand-puppets.
Soundtrack is, as usual, very much up to par: Dah, dum, dah-dah-dah-dum... :-) Endless Possibility isn't a Crush 40 song (yet...), but it's a brilliant Sonic theme nonetheless. Long live hair-metal!
The one downfall I have is the same as the previous game: I'm not a fan of the 'open world' gimmick. It worked well in Sonic Adventure, but when you have to collect medals to unlock further levels it gets tiresome. I don't like being shown level entrances and being told 'you can't go there just yet!!
But overall, it's just a happy little game where you get to go really fast, smash some monsters' heads in, and beat the Big Bad at the end as Super Sonic. And that's what it's all about. Thumbs up :-)
[edit] Oh yeah - the final boss fight reminded me of the NiGHTS water level. Probably coincidence, but I noticed nonetheless!
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I regret not having the chance to play this game back in the day. Growing up I only had SFII, had never even heard of Fatal Fury.
Besides the lack of characters(which I read isn't a problem in 2), I'd say a good buy for 75 cents.
I beat Lunar: The Silver Star last night. Excellent game, I was very happy with it.
It took me nearly twenty years to do it, but I finally beat Bionic Commando (the original Gameboy remake, that is).
Beat Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, good ending. Started the Richter quest but got bored and need a break from it.
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Hell of a game. Worth the $30
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Very good game overall, but it falls far short of Sony's hype of it being a religious experience/second coming. I saw nothing that moved the genre forward, but to be fair, you don't really see that all that much in console FPS games overall anyway. I got this massive Gears vibe the whole way though, what with the whole Alpha (male) Squad, dynamic, pissed off black guy, etc. What disappointed me the most was that I finished in in 6 1/2 hours (on normal). Yeah, veteran and elite will take longer, but that's due to bullet-proof Helghast and not the overall lack of levels. Still, it's a solid game and an excellent PS3 exclusive. I'll be going back for the rest of the single-player achievements, but I doubt I'll play multi-player. I'm sure it's great, but deathmatch and such aren't my thing.
So, I'd have to say:
Gears 2 >>> Killzone 2 >>> Halo 3.
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I enjoyed this so much on zboz that I decided to play through it on PS3 on a rental. Finished with all dog tags and upgrades. I only needed the trophies for maxing out the reflexes and playing on hard, which I might do someday when the game is really cheap.
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Rented it and beat in within 4 hours. A very poor man's Kill.Switch, it has you spend the entire game basically killing the same 3 enemies over and over. It's glitchy as hell (Terminators can kill you with a single blow from 10 feet away, even if you're ducked and behind cover. WTF?), and there isn't anything that impresses or even prompts you to keep playing, other than the easy achievements. I didn't get the one for beating it on hard, because the game is so fucking glitchy and cheap in that mode that I quit halfway through. There are no health items either. No regeneration until you reach a checkpoint, and your moron A.I. friends don't cure you either.
Pure licensed garbage.
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Finished on hard with the good ending. I still have some shards to find (got all the dead drops), but I want to do an evil run through first. Awesome game and the best release on the PS3 for me so far this year. Excellent story and voice acting, solid gameplay, and really well done (aside from the typical sandbox game glitches).
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Ugh. Horrible jump controls, shitty camera, boring ass missions... the list goes on and on. I did like the whole infected city thing; it gave me a Dead Rising vibe. The game was playable overall, but it's definitely a rental or $20 purchase, not a full price one. I traded it in and got $45 for Ghostbusters (PS3), which is awesome.
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If you're a Ghostbusters fan (who isn't?), then this is the game for you. Every thing was done wonderfully: the story, voices, gameplay - it was all very solid and highly enjoyable. My only complaint is that it only takes about ten hours to go through it, and that's if you're going slow, scanning ghosts and looking for artifacts. I'm going to replay the missions to get everything I missed, and I hope to try out the multi-player (if I can find somone who doesn't mind playing with a noob).
Everyone should definitely play this game.
Finally beat Biohazard Battle for the first time on 1-player today, though I did have to move my lives from 3 to 5 (still on Normal difficulty, though).
2) TMHT - The Hyperstone Heist
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The story in this game is a mess, the stage order doesn't make sense, I played turtles in time afterwards which explained a lot. The Sega version is still an awesome beat-'em-up though (minus the story-line), controls are smooth, fast and responsive, level design is great and there's a good mix of enemies.