Did I miss your post of The Guardian Legend or something? I've always wanted to check that one out solely based on the fact that it looks kind of like Blaster Master.Sarge wrote:After playing The Guardian Legend, I was keen on anything similar. Xexyz fit the bill, and even if I don't like it quite as much, it's still quite solid. Definitely a gem, and as mentioned, it should still be pretty cheap.
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Ah, sorry, not recently; I was referring to when I was much younger. I discovered TGL through Nintendo Power, and our local video store had a copy. We loved it, and I actually own that copy from when they started selling their NES stock. Xexyz became one that my brother and I chased down after playing it.Xeogred wrote:Did I miss your post of The Guardian Legend or something? I've always wanted to check that one out solely based on the fact that it looks kind of like Blaster Master.Sarge wrote:After playing The Guardian Legend, I was keen on anything similar. Xexyz fit the bill, and even if I don't like it quite as much, it's still quite solid. Definitely a gem, and as mentioned, it should still be pretty cheap.
I really should revisit it, though.
January:
42) Freedom Planet (Milla, 82 lives lost)
43) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
44) Lara Croft Go
45) Oniken
46) Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
47) Batman: The Video Game (GB)
I've always had a fascination for this game. Maybe it's the music, maybe it's the tiny little cutesy-wutesy (did I just say that?) Batman sprite, or that he totally wields firearms... either way, it's good stuff from Sunsoft. Short, though. I was actually playing this last night on PSP, and both emulators I tried crashed at the end of Stage 2-3. Ugh. I went at it on PC this time, and it continued without a hitch. On top of that, I pulled off a no-death run! No, really! I kinda surprised myself with that one. I wouldn't say it's an overly hard game, but it's not easy, either.
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Ex's 2016 beat list:
55. Ace Combat: Joint Assault|PSP|2010|flight combat|6h 26m|4/10
Ace Combat: Joint Assault takes everything Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception did right, and does it entirely wrong. Released four years after Ace Combat X, Joint Assault does not aurally or graphically improve upon its predecessor. Rather it focuses on the two complaints people had with Ace Combat X, that ACX was too easy and too short. So in order to make itself more difficult and longer, Joint Assault uses copious asinine artificial difficulty methods to cheat the player of a fair experience.
The best planes are locked behind New Game+, the best parts are locked behind required grinding of previously beaten missions. The rate at which you can acquire upgrades is laboriously slow and unrewarding. Halfway through the campaign, each and every mission becomes a chore to complete. This is due to mission designs hinging on gimmick concepts like constantly dodging a rail gun, flying a 747 through a mine laden canyon, or destroying continued variations of the same stupid air fortress. Boss battles are infuriating due to bosses themselves having no regard for realistic aerial physics whatsoever. Especially the final boss who in a standard jet, can stop mid-air, and shift back and forth dodging missiles like a ninja, without stalling. None of your own jets can even remotely do that. Disregard if you hit the boss with a missile it magically doesn't hurt him. Also most of the missions are balanced for co-op play, with no regard to auto-adjusting to the single player experience. Which means playing these missions single player is just nightmare after nightmare.
Without going into truly excruciating further detail, Ace Combat: Joint Assault is a disgusting mess of a game. And I'm saying that as someone who's beaten six other Ace Combat games before this one. The plot is junk, you never get to fly with AI wingmen, missions are way too long, etc. Joint Assault has zero regard for actually entertaining the player or offering a fair challenge, but rather goes out of its way to be inconvenient and frankly not fun at all. (Seriously, once you reach mission 14, just call the game done. The long march of crap to finish mission 21 just isn't worth it.) Joint Assault is aptly named, because this is a two-fold assault of bad game design and joyless flight.
Edit: Just did my research and confirmed that Ace Combat X and Joint Assault did not share the same director, lead game designer, or assistant game designers. Totally different teams, and that explains everything.
55. Ace Combat: Joint Assault|PSP|2010|flight combat|6h 26m|4/10
Ace Combat: Joint Assault takes everything Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception did right, and does it entirely wrong. Released four years after Ace Combat X, Joint Assault does not aurally or graphically improve upon its predecessor. Rather it focuses on the two complaints people had with Ace Combat X, that ACX was too easy and too short. So in order to make itself more difficult and longer, Joint Assault uses copious asinine artificial difficulty methods to cheat the player of a fair experience.
The best planes are locked behind New Game+, the best parts are locked behind required grinding of previously beaten missions. The rate at which you can acquire upgrades is laboriously slow and unrewarding. Halfway through the campaign, each and every mission becomes a chore to complete. This is due to mission designs hinging on gimmick concepts like constantly dodging a rail gun, flying a 747 through a mine laden canyon, or destroying continued variations of the same stupid air fortress. Boss battles are infuriating due to bosses themselves having no regard for realistic aerial physics whatsoever. Especially the final boss who in a standard jet, can stop mid-air, and shift back and forth dodging missiles like a ninja, without stalling. None of your own jets can even remotely do that. Disregard if you hit the boss with a missile it magically doesn't hurt him. Also most of the missions are balanced for co-op play, with no regard to auto-adjusting to the single player experience. Which means playing these missions single player is just nightmare after nightmare.
Without going into truly excruciating further detail, Ace Combat: Joint Assault is a disgusting mess of a game. And I'm saying that as someone who's beaten six other Ace Combat games before this one. The plot is junk, you never get to fly with AI wingmen, missions are way too long, etc. Joint Assault has zero regard for actually entertaining the player or offering a fair challenge, but rather goes out of its way to be inconvenient and frankly not fun at all. (Seriously, once you reach mission 14, just call the game done. The long march of crap to finish mission 21 just isn't worth it.) Joint Assault is aptly named, because this is a two-fold assault of bad game design and joyless flight.
Edit: Just did my research and confirmed that Ace Combat X and Joint Assault did not share the same director, lead game designer, or assistant game designers. Totally different teams, and that explains everything.
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Sarge wrote:After playing The Guardian Legend, I was keen on anything similar. Xexyz fit the bill, and even if I don't like it quite as much, it's still quite solid. Definitely a gem, and as mentioned, it should still be pretty cheap.
If you guys like shmup action-RPG-ish NES/FC games check out:BoneSnapDeez wrote:There's a game called Ginga Denshou: Galaxy Odyssey on Famicom Disk System that's very similar to The Guardian Legend (in fact, it predates it) with the same sort of alternating shmup and exploration sequences. Unfortunately, it happens to be pretty terrible. Xexyz rules. I have yet to finish it though.
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on my wishlist brothaaaaa. It's cheap, I'll snag it when I have a chance. Surely I derped around with it via emulation some years ago.
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How bad is the language barrier on that game? I tend to avoid RPGs not released outside of Japan because I can't read/speak Japanese.
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Not too bad. It's an action oriented game.
Get yourself a Retron 5 playa, and load up patches on an SD card.
Get yourself a Retron 5 playa, and load up patches on an SD card.
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Woah, you can do that?? I've got a Retron 5, but I had no idea you could load patches on it (admittedly, I've not played around with it too too much).BoneSnapDeez wrote:Not too bad. It's an action oriented game.
Get yourself a Retron 5 playa, and load up patches on an SD card.
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Yes brah. Load up patches. Play your Japanese games in English.
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Oh man I totally missed that Batman GB clear. I still can't make it past 4-2, the auto scrolling area.
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