Ack wrote:Hey, don't feel bad. It sounds like it could be fun to get the hang of and a real badge of honor to beat.
Final Fantasy V
I've finished the pyramid and am saved right outside it. Since enemies in the desert give around 4 job points and there is a town nearby, I may just grind out the last jobs for my melee characters and let that be that.
Keep going another 5 minutes in the story and you'll get back the airship so you can get back to Bal Castle and its awesome basement.
Haha, awesome.
Honest question, Popo...about how much do I have left to do in the game? Is most of the final world's content optional?
Ack wrote:Hey, don't feel bad. It sounds like it could be fun to get the hang of and a real badge of honor to beat.
Final Fantasy V
I've finished the pyramid and am saved right outside it. Since enemies in the desert give around 4 job points and there is a town nearby, I may just grind out the last jobs for my melee characters and let that be that.
Keep going another 5 minutes in the story and you'll get back the airship so you can get back to Bal Castle and its awesome basement.
Haha, awesome.
Honest question, Popo...about how much do I have left to do in the game? Is most of the final world's content optional?
Once you get the airship you could go straight to the end dungeon. The rest is optional content; getting the other three tablets (which gets you three legendary weapons of your choice each), getting an amazing Blue Magic spell, getting the best White, Black, and Time magic, and getting the best summons.
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Exhuminator, I'd never heard of the King's Field games until you mentioned them here, and your synopsis above (fall into pit, die, find hungry plants, die) made me giggle and inspired me to check out King's Field II on YouTube.
Interesting stuff! Both this era (PS1) and genre (first-person adventure) are things I don't have a lot of experience with. I'm looking forward to hearing more about what goes on for you!
Thanks for the kind words regarding Mother Brain, you guys. I thought I could just bludgeon my way through, but in reality I needed to take my time and persist in freezing the Cheerios. It really tested my ability to keep cool. I lean cautious and do much better with situations in which I can take stock of what's going on; here you were thrown into the thick of it immediately as there was basically no safe place to stand and every enemy thing ping-ponged you dramatically into more enemy things. Any type of delay was bad, and you don't get the time to think.
It was interesting and intense, but I will say that I do dislike these sorts of setups where the level is clearly designed just to give you the finger. I was also haunted by the knowledge that every time I failed I'd have to spend ten minutes grinding up my health again before heading back to Tourian. I'd already gotten that one Energy Tank towards the beginning, thus depriving myself of an instafill en route to the showdown. I will forever leave that tank untouched on subsequent playthroughs until it's Mother Brain time, because holy crap, the health grind was pretty aggravating. But hey, I still loved the game, and Metroids have always been cute! They're also way bigger than I thought, actually.
Poor little guys. What did they ever to do anybody? Besides destroy every living thing on some planet?
Do we ever find out more about Mother Brain in subsequent games?
BogusMeatFactory wrote:If I could powder my copies of shenmue and snort them I would
Great read, but tread lightly. Like many HG101 articles, spoilers are dropped willy nilly with little regard to the reader's own experience. Also that article is missing one KF game: http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1994/
King’s Field: Pilot Style is a mini game whose story takes place in the period between King’s Field 2 and King’s Field 3. Pilot Style was given away as a promotional item at a game show in Japan and went relatively unnoticed. It only takes about an hour to complete, but it is an interesting tidbit in the King’s Field world.
Since it only takes about an hour to complete, Pilot Style is a nice taste tester for the series I suppose.
Key-Glyph wrote:Poor little guys. What did they ever to do anybody? Besides destroy every living thing on some planet?
I thought they were terrifying in Metroid. They could kill you so quickly! (They are also great in Metroid Other M and Metroid Prime.)
Key-Glyph wrote:Do we ever find out more about Mother Brain in subsequent games?
Yes. See Metroid Prime 3 and Super Metroid.
Also, if you have not done so already, be sure to play Metroid Zero Mission on the GBA. It is an enhanced remake of the original game, and IMO, it is one of the very best 2D entries in the series.
Chrono - stuck in the future, haven't had much time to attempt this, since I'm off tommorrow I'll try to get a little bit further...
DKC - since I am able to take this on the go I've powered through to bouncy bonanza where i'm stuck now, I hate both of these levels. Not because they're bad but because I have them memorized when running through it and still screw up on timing....
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bogusmeatfactory wrote:Ever feel like a wild gazelle in the wilderness?
Wow complete turnaround for me in King's Field II. The game starts off crazy hard, but I found a bunch of treasures hidden around the front of the island, which I sold for much cash. Then used said cash to buy some decent gear from a rather cheery elf. Once I had decent equipment, I was able to withstand the local enemies and quickly gain levels. I'm now cruising along slaying everything in sight with no problems. So while the first hour of this game is quite hard, the evolution curve to reaching capable sustainability is definitely shorter than the first King's Field. But man is this island a confusing place to keep straight in your head. Right now that's the hardest part for me. All the areas have backdoors and hidden chutes that lead into each other, creating a recursive environment. Very "metroidvania", and very different than the level tiered first King's Field and rather linear King's Field IV. At least now that I'm not dying every 5 seconds I'm actually enjoying myself. Until that is I reach the lower levels and start getting my head handed to me by demons and who knows what. Also the skeletons in this game are bastards! Straight crazy berserk bastards. They are my nemesis.
Key-Glyph wrote:1. Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
2. Metroid (NES)
3. Super Mario Bros. (NES)
4. Phantasy Star III (GEN)
5. Earthworm Jim (GEN)
Aww yiss.
Regarding Mother Brain... I just really needed to calm the @#*& down. I get way too panicked at final bosses sometimes.
Congrats on the list. Thinking about doubling it since it's still June?
I have the same issue. I've actually found I do much better playing many games muted. It eliminates tension and turns it into a timing problem. (Not that I play games that way, just something I've noticed)
