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Ack wrote:I am happy to have the Ultraman: Towards the Future skull and will never play that game ever again.

I watched my buddy beat this game when it first came out, my god, I've never seen anyone get so enraged at a game.

Kidpanda wrote:

Ack wrote:I am happy to have the Ultraman: Towards the Future skull and will never play that game ever again.

I watched my buddy beat this game when it first came out, my god, I've never seen anyone get so enraged at a game.

Play it and know our pain.

Exhuminator wrote:

Ack wrote:Get yourself more skulls!

It makes me wonder if anyone around here has beaten an Etrian Odyssey game other than myself and sir Popo.

Etrian Odyssey IV is on my Games Beaten 2015 list, although I hear it's one of the easier ones.

I've been away at Glastonbury music festival since last Wednesday, but it's time to redouble my efforts on my summer list now. I want to be at at least 6 beat by the end of July. I'm at 1 at the moment

alienjesus wrote:Etrian Odyssey IV is on my Games Beaten 2015 list, although I hear it's one of the easier ones.

It is a well reviewed game, but reliable sources tell me it's the easiest entry in the series.

Decent

Now on level 24, the last of the Neptune missions. After this it's all Pluto, all the time, baby. I expect the game will throw a few more curveballs at me before it's over, but I'm almost in the home stretch. At this point, I've gotten used to the set pattern: explore until I find the blue key and door, then explore the blue area for the yellow key, then clear out the yellow area for the red key, then clear out the red area and then go back for hostages before taking out the reactor and escaping. After the first couple of levels where the different keys are introduced, this is the pattern for every level of the game. The challenge after that comes down to types of enemies thrown at you and room arrangements, and really at this point most of the enemies aren't a challenge on their own. In groups they can be nasty, but they pale in comparison to drillers, red and purple hulks, and PTMC missile launchers.

Popo, that enemy you were talking about earlier, was that the cloaked driller or the purple hulk armed with a fusion cannon? Because frankly they both suck.

It was the cloaked driller. The giant purple hulks (minibosses) are nasty, but it's a different kind of nasty. They just one shot you if you get hit, but they're giant and highly visible.

Cloaked driller is that scream from hell, then your shields drain, and you don't know where it's coming from. And you can't homing missile it from around a corner.

Yeah, level 22 has a room that can spawn them. At one point in that level I entered and discovered ten drillers, three of which was cloaked. I survived somehow, but it involved a whole lot of sliding around like a wavelength and unloading just about every missile I had.

1. Super Mario Bros 2 (WiiU VC)
2. Super Mario World (SuFami)
3. Yoshi’s Island (SuFami)
4. Contra III (SuFami)
5. Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PSN)

6. Golden Axe III (Steam)
7. Mega Man X (SuFami)
8. Wild Arms (PSN)
9. Gunstar Heroes (Steam)
10. Silent Hill (PS1)

Finally had another chance to play Silent Hill again, and I thought I would try and just finish it in one go... which I actually managed to do! Unfortunately I really started to not enjoy it that much, since I kept on having to use a guide (mostly because of confusing puzzles and no map in the last area :l) and I also died from the fridge monster and had to do a ton of work over again. So unfortunately it didn't really end on a good note for me :/ Oh well. (oh and I got the Bad+ ending gah)

Next I'll be doing Wild Arms I think...

laurenhiya21 wrote:Next I'll be doing Wild Arms I think...

It'll be interesting to see what you think of that one.

I tried to get into it for the first time in 2009, and it didn't stick with me then. Maybe I was just in a poopy mood though.

Exhuminator wrote:

laurenhiya21 wrote:Next I'll be doing Wild Arms I think...

It'll be interesting to see what you think of that one.

I tried to get into it for the first time in 2009, and it didn't stick with me then. Maybe I was just in a poopy mood though.

I played it a few years back and didn't care for it much either. The 'western' setting is incredibly underutilised, and other than one or two small sections it feels like your typical JRPG world - castles and grassy plains and all.

That opening movie soundtrack is pretty great though!