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- Bushido Blade 2

For some reason, the idea of one hit kills intrigued me to play the second version. Then again, it could be because I love Japanese samurai type games. The final bosses are annoying on each side though. I found the one with the defense was a lot easier to beat then the super fast guy.

1/11 Guardian Heroes (SAT)
1/14 Sonic Adventure (GCN)
1/17 Marvel vs Capcom 2 (DC)
1/17 X-Men vs Street Fighter (SAT)
1/22 Dragon Ball Z Budokai (GCN)
1/24 Street Fighter III - The New Generation (DC)
1/24 Street Fighter Alpha 3 (DC)
1/25 Mega Man X (GCN)
1/26 Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure (GBA)
1/31 Tatsunoko vs Capcom (Wii)
2/1 Megaman X2 (GCN)
2/2 Marvel vs Capcom (DC)
2/3 Megaman X3 (GCN)
2/3 Megaman X4 (GCN)
2/4 Megaman X5 (GCN)
2/5 Megaman X6 (GCN)
2/7 Gundam SEED: Never Ending Tomorrow (PS2)
2/8 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (DC)
2/9 Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors Dreams (PS2)
2/9 The King of Fighters XI (PS2)
2/11 The King of Fighters '99 Dream Match (DC)
2/13 SNK Gals Fighter (NGPC)
2/16 The King of Fighters '98 (Wii)
2/17 The King of Fighters '96 (Wii)
2/17 Metal Slug (Wii)
2/17 Metal Slug 2 (Wii)
2/18 SNK vs Capcom: The Match of the Millennium (NGPC)
2/19 The King of Fighters '97 (Wii)
2/19 Street Fighter II' (Wii / VC)
2/22 Metal Slug 3 (Wii)
2/25 Super Street Fighter IV (PS3)
2/27 Capcom vs SNK 2 (DC)
2/27 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
3/3 Mega Man II (GB)
3/5 Super Street Fighter II: HD Remix (PS3)
3/6 Mega Man III (GB)
3/11 Mega Man IV (GB)
3/13 Mega Man: Powered Up! (PSP)
3/14 Garou: Mark of the Wolves (DC)
3/15 Street Fighter III 3rd Strike (PS2)
3/15 Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold (PS2)
3/15 Street Fighter Alpha 2 (PS2)
3/15 Street Fighter EX 3 (PS2)
3/15 Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (PS2)
3/16 The King of Fighters R2 (NGPC)
3/16 Project Justice: Rival Schools (DC)
3/17 Capcom Fighting Evolution (PS2)
3/20 Zone of the Enders (PS2)
3/21 P.N.03 (GCN)
3/21 Super Puzzle Fighter II (GBA)
3/27 Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition (3DS)
4/10 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 (GCN)
4/28 Vampire Savior (SAT)
5/3 Advance Guardian Heroes (GBA)
5/7 Virtua Fighter Kids (SAT)
5/12 Soul Calibur II (GCN)
5/13 Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland (GBA)
5/14 Dead or Alive 2 (DC)
5/14 Gigawing (DC)
5/15 Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 (Wii)
5/23 Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure (NGPC)
5/24 Mega Man 8 (SAT)
5/27 Kirby's Dream Land (GB)
6/4 Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land (GB)
6/18 Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (GBA)
6/20 Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (PS3)
6/20 Street Fighter Alpha 2 (SAT)
6/20 Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors Dreams (GBC)
7/10 Kodou Senshi Gundam (SAT)
7/10 Super Mario Land (GB)
7/16 Sin and Punishment: Star Successor (Wii)
7/18 NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams (Wii)
7/25 Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter (SAT)
7/26 Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team (XBLA)
7/27 The King of Dragons (PS2)
7/31 Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
8/2 The King of Fighters '99 Evolution (DC)
8/2 Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing (Wii)
8/6 Sonic Advance (GBA)
8/13 House of the Dead: OverKill (Wii)
8/14 Rival Schools: United by Fate (PSX)
8/17 Maverick Hunter X (PSP)
8/21 Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)
8/22 Metroid Zero Mission (GBA)
8/26 Metroid Fusion (GBA)

Metroid Fusion is a game I have a love / hate relationship with. The gameplay is great, the story isn't too shabby, and the game did a lot to expand the Metroid universe that, before Fusion, had consisted entirely of only two planets and Samus.

But there's a lot I hate about it. I hate the hand holding. I hate the linear gameplay. I hate the art direction. I hate that the SA-X encounters were so scripted - the thrill you get when the SA-X enters a room and you know you're seconds away from dying is very compelling. The developers, for some reason, did little to capitalize on such a brilliant concept.

Still it's not a bad game - but if I had to choose, I'd take Zero Mission every time.

I was gearing up to replay Metroid Fusion myself here soon, I'm sure my sentiments will be the exact same though. Especially regarding the art direction as you said, one of my favorite things about the Metroid games is that they're mostly -organic- environments, or submerged into industrialized architecture and whatnot. But Fusion from what I remember was just mostly a straight up spaceship and that was kind of boring. Hated the Fusion suit too, it just looked awful and weird.

I've only beaten it once and that was years ago, but just like some of the lesser Metroidvania games I'm sure it's still fun... that said I've beaten Zero Mission several times and yeah, it's just way better in every regard. Maybe I'll marathon both here soon.

Xeogred wrote:I Especially regarding the art direction as you said, one of my favorite things about the Metroid games is that they're mostly -organic- environments, or submerged into industrialized architecture and whatnot. But Fusion from what I remember was just mostly a straight up spaceship and that was kind of boring. Hated the Fusion suit too, it just looked awful and weird.

Yeah, I hated the way the fusion suit looked. Samus' powersuit is one of my all time favorite power armor designs. I love how powerful it looks all while maintaining sleek lines and a great color scheme. It has an almost 1960's style astronaut quality crossed with abilities out of Starship Troopers. It's part of the reason why Samus Aran is my all time favorite Nintendo character - and damn near my favorite video game character overall.

The Fusion suit just looked ugly. It looked like a compromise Nintendo made with themselves to get the game to be playable on the original GBA. To this day I don't understand why no one ever stopped during the development cycle and pointed out how hideous they'd made one of Nintendo's most iconic characters look.

Meh, at least the game is overall pretty good, though notably flawed.

I think I'll wash it down with my 23rd run through Super Metroid.

castle of illusion - sega
disney's aladdin - sega
the lion king - sega
mickey mania: the timeless adventure of mickey mouse - sega
mickey mania: the timeless adventure of mickey mouse - sega cd
disney's the jungle book - sega
dungeon explorer - sega cd
phelios - sega
doom - 32x
kolibri - 32x
mega turrican - sega
bc racers - sega cd
bloodlines x2 - sega
3 ninjas - sega cd
die hard arcade - saturn
final fight cd - sega cd
quackshot - sega
hyperstone heist - sega
streets of rage 2 - sega
twin gadgets x2- sega
gex - saturn
mario 3 - snes via mario all stars
mario - snes via mario all stars
double dragon - sega
sonic cd - sega cd
robo aleste - sega cd
snatcher - sega cd
mercs - sega
sonic - sega
symphony of the night - ps1
altered beast - sega
insector-x - sega

out of all the shmups i've ever played insector-x is my least favorite: music sucks; colors are more drab than a communist's wardrobe; the variety of enemies might be limited to 10 throughout the whole game. i wouldn't classify the game as bad, however. as long as the controls are tight, i don't think i could call any shmup bad.

as you power up your weapon most enemies - especially the level bosses - will gain strength. i noticed this pretty early on when i was able to beat the first level boss faster with the opening weapon than with a more powered up weapon. doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of powering up your weapon?

final fight cd wrote:insector-x - sega

why do you just list the console as "sega?" Sega was the company. They made a lot of consoles. Based on the titles, I'm assuming that you're referring to the Gensis/MD... but I'm just curious.

noiseredux wrote:

final fight cd wrote:insector-x - sega

why do you just list the console as "sega?" Sega was the company. They made a lot of consoles. Based on the titles, I'm assuming that you're referring to the Gensis/MD... but I'm just curious.

the dreamcast is a dreamcast. saturn is a saturn. but the genesis will always be sega to me. that's how i always called it. and now that you pointed it out, it's kind of funny. but i will fix it in the future.

final fight cd wrote:

noiseredux wrote:

final fight cd wrote:insector-x - sega

why do you just list the console as "sega?" Sega was the company. They made a lot of consoles. Based on the titles, I'm assuming that you're referring to the Gensis/MD... but I'm just curious.

the dreamcast is a dreamcast. saturn is a saturn. but the genesis will always be sega to me. that's how i always called it. and now that you pointed it out, it's kind of funny. but i will fix it in the future.

haha, every time you beat something I'm like "on the Sega WHAT?"

1/1: Octodad PC
1/1: Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter (Co-op) PC
1/6: Something Amiss PC
1/6: Sam & Max 104: Abe Lincoln Must Die! PC
1/8: Donkey Kong Jr. Arcade
1/8: Frogger Arcade
1/8: Pac-Man Arcade
1/8: Smash TV (Co-op) Arcade
1/12: Achievement Unlocked PC
1/13: Achievement Unlocked 2 PC
1/15: K.O.L.M. PC
1/26: Don't Look Back PC
1/28: Flick Kick Rugby iPod Touch
2/9: Hot Throttle PC
2/10: Pokemon Puzzle Challenge Game Boy Color
2/17: The Great Gatsby NES
2/18: Tiki Totems iPod Touch
2/18: Tiki Totems 2: Valentine iPod Touch
3/10: Elephant Quest PC
4/1: Pokémon White Version Nintendo DS
4/7: Elite Beat Agents Nintendo DS
6/8: The Curse of Monkey Island PC
7/1: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Nintendo DS
7/26: Professor Layton and the Unwound Future Nintendo DS
7/27: WarioWare: Touched! Nintendo DS
8/24: SPY Fox: Dry Cereal PC NEW
8/25: The Stanley Parable PC NEW

Total: 27

I picked up SPY Fox at a Goodwill in Alabama, and it is the only one of Humongous Entertainment's old point and click adventure series that I'd never played (other than a demo and a spin-off). There was a couple of confusing points, but it was never frustrating and is a good game to play if you want to just sit back and relax. Plus it runs on ScummVM!

emwearz had suggested to me to get The Stanley Parable, and I'm glad he did. Though the game is very short (around 10-15 minutes), there's a lot of replay value to be had by ignoring the narrator at times. I'm thinking about playing again tonight to see what other endings I can get.

~Beaten, 2011~
Resident Evil Outbreak (PS2)
Silent Hill (PSX)
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (only SMB) (GBC)
Solar Striker (GB)
Portal (PC)
Ace Combat Distant Thunder (PS2)
Psyvariar (PS2)
Ratchet and Clank 2 (PS2)
Rez (PS2)
The Simpsons Hit & Run (PS2)
Gradius (Saturn)
Life Force (Saturn)

~New~
Shining the Holy Ark (Saturn)
Scarface: The World Is Yours (PS2)

Total: 14

Now playing Def Jam Fight for NY and Shin Megami Tensei Lucifer's Call.