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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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ErickRPG wrote:

Are you counting this toward the Days Gone By badge?

SupremeSarna wrote:

not yet, I need to look at all the badges and start keeping track. I honestly don't even know what that is yet.

I beat Mega Man Powered Up . Thanks to @SideSwipe for the sale!
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This is a pretty snazzy remake of the worst classic Mega Man game, Mega Man 1. Now it’s worth playing, sounds nice, and doesn’t look gross. There’s voice acting and two new Robot Masters: Oil Man and Time Man! It’s pretty difficult in places, but a good ride overall. I played some of the challenge stages, too—those are serious trials!

It’s a shame I bought it too late to download the free Roll DLC and promo stages. I’ve heard downloading them from other users on the Internet is super easy for PSP games, and since they were free content anyway, I don’t think anyone at Capcom will get too mad. Heck, I’d gladly support a Switch rerelease of this game that contained it from the get-go.

I’ve earned the Run & Gun badge.

#3 Metroid Dread

Avoiding and running away from the EMMI was exhilarating. Oh so satisfying to finally take one out. The boss fights in general were great. I appreciated the old-school challenge of learning attack patterns and best ways to dodge attacks, as well as the counter system. The end boss in particular was a lot of fun.

The back tracking is really easy once you are fully equipped. I'd recommend playing through until closer to the end so you have most abilities and teleport paths and only have to backtrack through the stages once. Once I figured out the map squares flash where hidden walls are, I had to go for 100%. For $60, I'm getting every last drop of Metroid goodness out of it.

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It's always refreshing to see other people who enjoyed Metroid Dread as much as I did

Dread still calls my name and wants me to buy a

Slickriven wrote:

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I finally got a PS5 about a month ago. I've already played and beaten:

Astro's Playroom
Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

Currently playing through Days Gone

Hope you enjoy it! I loved Days Gone.

bonham2 wrote:

So far, so good. I think I'm playing it super slow. I don't know how far I should be, but I'm doing every side mission and really taking my time playing it as much of a stealth game as I can. I'm only up to the 2nd town.

Ninja Jajamaru: Legend of the Golden Castle on Switch. Beat this in a few hours - it's basically a Zelda clone, and a pretty good one.

bonham2 wrote:

You're joining for the year? Cool! Please send me your system list and I'll get you registered.

Slickriven wrote:

It's great. And I'm someone who didn't beat the 3DS Samus Returns. It's really good.

OP updated! Better late than never.

I offer a warm welcome to @bonham2 for joining. I didn't think we'd get any more players, but I'm always happy to be wrong. Happy gaming!

I beat Viva Piñata Party Animals on the xbox360 (beating this and monopoly plus gets me the chance time! Badge)

I finished Link's Awakening on Switch. I loved it, but I hope I never see an orange/blue crystal switch again.

Game #6 - Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (PS4) ... with as much hate as Unity got, I was sure I'd like this one more ... but I actually preferred Unity. Syndicate was alright but there were numerous freezes and outright crashes which I never experienced with Unity.

Last week, for Frank's Game of the Month, I finished Cuphead for the Switch. Despite being ridiculously difficult, it's also incredibly well-crafted and addicting.

Number: 5
Full Title: Cuphead
Platform Played: Switch
Collection: N/A
Native Platform: Windows, Xbox One, Switch, PlayStation 4
Original Platforms: Windows, Xbox One
Applicable Badge: Grown-Ass Man (1/2)

I've spent nearly the entire month playing Final Fantasy VI, and I haven't reached the game's de facto halfway point. It's probably going to be a while before I move on from that, even with the Games of the Month about to rotate. I've switched to Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line on the mobile front. I have no idea when I'll be able to pick up Crisis Core again.

I've also added PSVR 2 to my platforms list.

I just realized that I'm missing two systems from my system list if it's not too much trouble to add them: PSVR and PSVR 2. Thanks @SupremeSarna!

My #13 is Resident Evil 0.

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This is the beginning of my quest to play through all the Resident Evil games, 0-8 and finishing with RE4 Remake at the end.

Resident Evil 0 is the prequel to the Resident Evil mansion incident and is odd in that you control two characters, Rebecca and Billy. There are a couple puzzles that involve their co-operation, and of course they get seperated at times, but in all it doesn't really add much to the RE formula. Gameplay is a lot of inventory management and walking/loading through doors. Add in a puzzle that can only be solved by looking up a guide, a anti-climatic boss battle, and I think this one will be one of my least favorite RE games. 7/10