1st September 2010, 12:53 AM
From last week
Wii - WiiWare
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Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth - Easy difficulty, 9 lives per continue. Played through this with my cousin, alternating between deaths/levels beaten. Pretty good game, though short as with all three ReBirth titles. Lots of fun 8/16 bit-style Castlevania gameplay and scenery, a great mixture of elements from numerous classic Castlevania games, and more... it was kind of easy, with 9 lives and Easy difficulty the game was not a tremendous challenge, only a moderate one, but it was fun, and I'm sure I'll replay it in a higher difficulty, no question.
I really wish there was a level select though, it's so stupid that you have to play the whole game from the beginning every time... even the very first Castlevania had saving, if you played the Japanese FDS version, and every console game in the series since then has had it! And you get infinite continues, so there is no excuse. The game isn't long enough that this is a huge huge problem, but it is annoying and stupid. Other than that (and the length) though, good game.
I mean, Gradius ReBirth had level select, from any checkpoint too and not just level beginnings... oh well.
From today
Genesis
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Trouble Shooter (Easy difficulty) -- Trouble Shooter was one of the first Genesis games I got in 2006, and I've always really liked it, but I'd never managed to beat the game. Well, I decided to give up and just play it on Easy instead of Normal like usual... and beat it on my first try today. Not quite as satisfying as if I'd played on Normal, but still, I did have to use both continues and nearly died late in the last level, so it was needed. It's definitely a good game, decent but not great graphics and sound with good, interesting, and somewhat unique gameplay and a great sense of humor. It's too bad the sequel wasn't released in the US, though at least the translated ROM does now exist -- the two games do have stories, and wouldn't be quite the same without the entertaining text between levels.
So yeah, good game, definitely play it.
Wii - WiiWare
--
Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth - Easy difficulty, 9 lives per continue. Played through this with my cousin, alternating between deaths/levels beaten. Pretty good game, though short as with all three ReBirth titles. Lots of fun 8/16 bit-style Castlevania gameplay and scenery, a great mixture of elements from numerous classic Castlevania games, and more... it was kind of easy, with 9 lives and Easy difficulty the game was not a tremendous challenge, only a moderate one, but it was fun, and I'm sure I'll replay it in a higher difficulty, no question.
I really wish there was a level select though, it's so stupid that you have to play the whole game from the beginning every time... even the very first Castlevania had saving, if you played the Japanese FDS version, and every console game in the series since then has had it! And you get infinite continues, so there is no excuse. The game isn't long enough that this is a huge huge problem, but it is annoying and stupid. Other than that (and the length) though, good game.
I mean, Gradius ReBirth had level select, from any checkpoint too and not just level beginnings... oh well.
From today
Genesis
--
Trouble Shooter (Easy difficulty) -- Trouble Shooter was one of the first Genesis games I got in 2006, and I've always really liked it, but I'd never managed to beat the game. Well, I decided to give up and just play it on Easy instead of Normal like usual... and beat it on my first try today. Not quite as satisfying as if I'd played on Normal, but still, I did have to use both continues and nearly died late in the last level, so it was needed. It's definitely a good game, decent but not great graphics and sound with good, interesting, and somewhat unique gameplay and a great sense of humor. It's too bad the sequel wasn't released in the US, though at least the translated ROM does now exist -- the two games do have stories, and wouldn't be quite the same without the entertaining text between levels.
So yeah, good game, definitely play it.
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