16th March 2008, 6:56 PM
Well, back at school now, but before I went back I was able to get to the store one more time, and they had a bunch of new NES stuff in including a lot of good games... didn't want to spend much, so I just got some $3 stuff, but I got three.
Image Fight (average shmup... got to the (first?) boss of the last level, but it's pretty much impossible and if (when) you die it's pretty much impossible to get through the second half of the last level to get to the boss again without powerups... you pretty much get one shot even though you have infinite continues and continue at the midway point of the level if you reached it (if only it also had "continue at the boss..."). Oh well... (Oh, and the music ... only kind of works... too.) But I wanted a shmup, so it's worth it anyway.)
Bucky O'Hare (pretty good and well known action-platformer from Konami, of course)
Crystalis (dead battery, as I expected, so I'll either have to leave the system on to play it or play it all at once... oh well, it's good (and cheap) enough to be worth it anyway.)
Oh yeah, and because I hadn't taken by Virtual Boy home, I was finally able to play Vertical Force just now. The game is just like the rom, obviously, but with some okay 3d effects (could have been better done, really... mostly just two levels with a background...) and a really good soundtrack (most VB games have no sound in either emulator, annoyingly... and both Wario Land and Vertical Force have pretty good soundtracks. The graphics may look "Game Boy" colors-wise, but apart from that, technically, I think the GBA is a much better comparison.). Good game, even if (on the easy difficulty, anyway) it does indeed seem easy like the reviews say. :)
The main problem (besides the somewhat lacking VR elements... while I don't completely agree with the AVGN's Virtual Boy review, he is right that not enough games used good VR elements in a "VR" system...), really, is that it's five levels long and isn't very hard on easy. I got to the boss of level three with no trouble... though there are two more higher difficulties, and reviews say that you need to play it on hard to get the real ending, even so, it's still short and not one of the harder shmups out there (for instance, you have a health bar). It is fun, though, so that stuff doesn't matter that much really. :)
Image Fight (average shmup... got to the (first?) boss of the last level, but it's pretty much impossible and if (when) you die it's pretty much impossible to get through the second half of the last level to get to the boss again without powerups... you pretty much get one shot even though you have infinite continues and continue at the midway point of the level if you reached it (if only it also had "continue at the boss..."). Oh well... (Oh, and the music ... only kind of works... too.) But I wanted a shmup, so it's worth it anyway.)
Bucky O'Hare (pretty good and well known action-platformer from Konami, of course)
Crystalis (dead battery, as I expected, so I'll either have to leave the system on to play it or play it all at once... oh well, it's good (and cheap) enough to be worth it anyway.)
Oh yeah, and because I hadn't taken by Virtual Boy home, I was finally able to play Vertical Force just now. The game is just like the rom, obviously, but with some okay 3d effects (could have been better done, really... mostly just two levels with a background...) and a really good soundtrack (most VB games have no sound in either emulator, annoyingly... and both Wario Land and Vertical Force have pretty good soundtracks. The graphics may look "Game Boy" colors-wise, but apart from that, technically, I think the GBA is a much better comparison.). Good game, even if (on the easy difficulty, anyway) it does indeed seem easy like the reviews say. :)
The main problem (besides the somewhat lacking VR elements... while I don't completely agree with the AVGN's Virtual Boy review, he is right that not enough games used good VR elements in a "VR" system...), really, is that it's five levels long and isn't very hard on easy. I got to the boss of level three with no trouble... though there are two more higher difficulties, and reviews say that you need to play it on hard to get the real ending, even so, it's still short and not one of the harder shmups out there (for instance, you have a health bar). It is fun, though, so that stuff doesn't matter that much really. :)
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