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buster4252 wrote:

I'll count it. That sounds reasonable for that sort of game.

I counted Townscraper as beat myself last year after doing the same.

In addition to 007 on another game is down! Peggle 2 Man, I hope (but also doubt) we get another Peggle!!

Also please add to my list of consoles. Totally forgot I picked one up last year.

I've been heavily focused on Cuphead for Frank's GotM and while I'm now up to 80% completion, it's a slow, challenging and at times very frustrating slog. I really want to finish it now though, when I do I'm going to count it towards the only already earned badge I've got, and reallocate Tianding to something else.

I beat Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest with one hand. Got all the DK Coins!
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Great game! Like DKC3, I found the Squitter stages to be the trickiest under these restrictions. It's hard juggling his jumping, web shooting, and platform creating while evading enemies. Web Woods was the worst stage, as I predicted. Now onto other games, then DKC1!

#15 down- Dead Space (PS5)- first clear toward the Raccoon City badge. It gets a little repetitive with all the grey hallways and doors you have to figure out how to unlock, but the story was pretty good, and the gameplay is better than Callisto Protocol. I’m not sure I liked it as much as the critics, but it was good.

Weekly update done!

Just beat pokemon puzzle league on n64 and earns me 1st half of brain teaser badge.

I played through Wario Ware Inc last night.

The first in the series, and probably still my favorite!

It nearly wrecked me but I finally beat Cuphead on
It's my 2nd of Feb, 5th and I want to have it count for GA-M as it was WAY more difficult vs. Tianding, guess Tianding could count towards Pile Driving, it wasn't exactly a belt-scroller, but was all about 2D and physical attacks.

Cuphead was beat for Frank's GotM and without that push I'm not sure I would've endured the torture this game could be. All of the boss fights really are just pattern watching and avoiding hits but that's just not all that easy, at least for me, to always pull off. I am SO relieved that this is over and I can refocus on other games.

I beat Super Mario Land 2, and Death's Door a few days ago, both on Switch.

Just curious but would games like pokemon green, panel de pon, and doki doki panic be eligible for the localize mother 3 badge or no cause we technically got them localized?

buster4252 wrote:
Yes, those would count. This also applies to versions of games that were ported to another system, and THAT version wasn't localized. Take Donkey Kong Land III for example; the GB version had English copies, but the GBC version released three years later was only in Japan. Beating the GBC version would count toward this badge.

SupremeSarna wrote:
Sweet, Thank you!

first victory of the year. Been busy just upgraded to 4K projector, and persona 5 is a really long game. Even casual play it's gonna be more than 120 hours I think.

Ipad/IOS - Dungeon Village 2
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I just finished Bayonetta 3. Good, but a step back from 2.

Bayo 1 8.0
Bayo 2 9.5
Bayo 3 8.0

I beat mario kart double dash on the gamecube
I also beat Super Smash bros melee on the gamecube

I beat Perfect Dark . It’s interesting.
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Having never played Perfect Dark for N64, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this conversion. It turned out to be a third-person shooter with a lot of (annoying) stealth sections and resource management. It’s satisfying gunning down an 8-bit soldier, hearing him cry “Medic!” in bit-crushed voiceover, and then looting his corpse for spare ammo or health packs. Saving hostages (all of whom are the same black guy in a red shirt for some reason) and deactivating bombs is also fun. Plus they threw in mini game sequences for variety: A car chase, a plane chase, a slow-moving autoscroller on a boat, shooting gallery boss fights on a 2D plane, and even a sniping section where you look through a scope and pick off distant targets without alerting them. Pretty cool stuff!

Sadly, the whole experience is marred by some bad segments and the aforementioned item management. The car chase is extremely unforgiving, the fight against Hunter is practically broken in the CPU’s favor, and the section where you deactivate bombs under strict time limits is pretty taxing. The gameplay loop does get bogged down and stale when you die and have you restart the entire room, losing all acquired resources and starting from your previous amount. Used up most of your health and ammo right before a checkpoint? That means you have to deal with that lack of material for the rest of that room, and every time you die and have to restart said room. You’ll die dozens of times throughout the game, bringing the flow to a halt. Nothing’s more tedious than using grace and finesse to stealth your way through a section, only to die and need to repeat all that finesse four more times. The part where Joanna is captured and defenseless on the Datadyne ship is the worst in that regard.

Overall, it’s a mixed bag. It’s cool and novel, with a lot of fun parts! It’s also frustrating and takes too much trial and error to be consistently enjoyable. You can probably skip this one given the rarity and price.

I beat Fallout New Vegas on the xbox360 (beating this and fallout 3 gets me the vault boy badge)

I beat TMNT Shredder's Revenge for the 2nd time, with Raph this time. I've already claimed this title but was considering going for the 5x completion with it, but meh. With Raph now done, I got all 7 characters completed (most done last year) and earned the 2 achievements for maxing the characters out and seeing all the endings.
The game's decent but 7x times through solo is enough.
I do want to count if for the Pile Driving badge and along with Tianding earn that one, so that's the only change to be recorded in the OP.

legendrko25 wrote:
Great job. How did you determine that you beat those? (Since they're not really story based, I'm just curious what the goal was)

I beat Little Red Riding Hood’s Zombie BBQ ().
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Yep, the super rare, super expensive DS game… only $8 on the 3DS eShop via DSiware! It’s a vertical shmup about Little Red Riding Hood and some Japanese fairy tale guy slaughtering zombified fairytale characters. I had a great time with it, and they nailed Red’s sexy, tough-girl design (aside from the white hair—not sure why white hair on young women is so popular in fiction). It’s pretty difficult, too. I think they went overboard on the final world and the last two bosses; they were a pain. You also have to reload your gun too often, which can get repetitive. But aside from those gripes, it was unique and fun! Highly recommend you buy it before the eShop closes… unless you want to invest in a physical copy!

I would’ve counted this toward Destroy the Core, but given how cool they made Red here, I have to count it toward Girl Power. So I earned that badge.

#6- Crysis Remastered
They remastered this well. The graphical and performance boosts really enhance the experience for a 15+ yr old title. It looked great in performance +RT 60fps mode too.

My #12 is Fable Anniversary.

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I beat two games: Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars and Donkey Kong Country .
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A good MvsDK game that overstayed its welcome IMO. It's fun seeing all these miniature Mario characters and moving objects around with the stylus--not just pink blocks, but also girders, pipes, conveyor belts, and more. It's in HD, the screen is large to fit a good amount of content, and the difficulty curve is good. It has an unfortunate number of loading screens, and the bonus stages can be grueling--I had to use a guide for three of them. This game introduces an evil monkey bot carrying cymbals that possesses a Mini Mario. The possessed Mini is dangerous to the others and must be defeated by using hammers or the environment. Doing so frees the Mini from the curse, and it must now be taken back to the door with the others. This can be a real chore, but it also opens up creative applications and makes puzzles require more thought. I hope it never returns, personally.

By beating DKC with one hand, I've finished the whole trilogy with one remapped Joy-Con.

I beat Star Fox 64 3D .
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I took the following route: Corneria, Sector Y, Aquas, Zoness, Sector Z, Bolse, Venom 1. I rarely go for the true final boss on Venom 2. Star Wolf in the Wolfen II ships are too much of a pain.

Once you get everything updated, I'd also like to use Lunistice and Super Kiwi 64 to cash in on the Bear & Bird badge.

Frank wrote:

OP updated!

I beat WWE 2K15 on the xbox1

#7 for me is Cysis 2 Remastered
The sequel , while more COD than Far Cry from the previous installment, it was pretty and polished enough and sounds pretty robust on a surround system. It's a little more linear than the previous game and that may be an issue for some, but I think it's just fine. And with all the flooded open world games nowadays, sometimes all that's needed is a straight path to victory in a focused shooter, even one that's dated as this with it's almost fresh coat of paint. Some technical issues I've encountered though such as action prompts appearing out of context as well as some frame drops here and there and inconsistencies within the audio mixing, sometimes the sound effect are too loud, while the dialogue and music is too soft. I'm also not a fan of a return to a silent protagonist here after having the main character Nomad speak in the previous game, but I think in Crysis 3 they have the main protagonist speak again, which I'm looking forward to.

After the hell that was Cuphead for me in the first part of the month, I'm almost done with another title, pretty sure only the final boss(es) remain so I'm looking forward to getting another one done.

I beat Minish Cap on Switch. Already have 25 hours on the GBA app thanks to that game. I fused all the kinstones but didn't feel like looking for the last few heart pieces. (One is that damn cucco lady.) I also forgot that the light arrows were missable. Oh well.. started up Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the only game in that series I never finished.

BloodPuppetX wrote:

Yeah, the Cucco heart piece is pretty darn hard to get.

How are the light arrows missable? I don't remember how exactly you get them.

@Scott, you have to free Gregal from the spirit possessing him before going up into the clouds.

Interesting. I didn't know you could just miss out on that completely.

I beat Red Dead Redemption 2 on the xbox1

I beat Star Wars Episode 1 Racer .
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This game is very difficult, even with boosting. But through course memorization and serious perseverence, I got it all done. I even beat one Sebulba race without using the boost mechanic, just by pummeling his podracer and using minor shortcuts to get slightly ahead!

As much as I want to count this toward GA-Man, I think I'll put this one toward Race Drivin'. I've never won that badge.

Scott wrote:

You also can only get the Mirror Shield after beating the game. Minish Cap is a weird one.

Finally got my 3rd of Feb, 13th overall, 2nd
8 Doors Arum’s Afterlife Adventure (you can shorten to just 8 Doors)
Want to count this towards the Metroidvania badge

This one landed on a list of solid Metroidvania games to try and I like that genre so it was on my radar when Amazon Games gave it away as part of their Twitch Games monthly giveaways. It's an interesting tale of a young child (I think girl, but I've also seen the main protagonist referred to with male pronouns, I'd say they looked female, longer hair, dress-looking attire, but it really matters zilch) who's father dies before his time and so the child heads to the afterlife to bring them back. You play entirely in this version of the afterlife and the color pallet is only black-white-grey and red (a very small amount of pink too). So it has a unique look, you slowly get skills and weapons just like any game in this genre and it was clearly influenced by Hollow Knight with many aspects like the map maker/seller and others. Controls weren't as crisp as I would've liked but I think that's a bit from me and how I prefer to play. One really oddity was this port, I used an X1 controller connected via USB cable and the game's options showed a key-config for that controller, but not only were the A/B and X/Y buttons flipped, which wasn't a big deal since I believe the game was made in Japan, but the triggers/bumper were all goofy. They showed again the LT/LB & RT/RB but they didn't seem to line up with what I assigned them to. I had them used for next/previous weapons as well as switch character and dash, but what the UI shown and what the buttons did after adjusting did not sync up - very strange. Also some cutscenes you could skip and you got a prompt to hold a button to do so, but the box where the button label should've been shown was just blank.
Most boss fights took me multiple tries but a platforming section near the end was really annoying as ultimately (once I figured it out) you had to do a nearly exact, precise set of inputs to ascend a spike covered vertical shaft and the margin for error was near zero - thankfully there was a save/heal prayer stone right at the bottom, but the precision of this sequence especially with timing, was BS. The final boss sequence was annoying too as it was lengthy and triggered my too often default foolishly aggressive approach. Without trying to spoil anything, though the game has very little about it online so I don't think it's too popular, I had to play the finale so many times that I became really good as the first 3 phases and reached the 4th with full health a couple of times and yet still failed... it was tough but I felt I could get it and was very relieved to finally pull it off.

Final beat Persona 5 after 125 hours.

Persona 5 Royal -

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