21st September 2023, 3:29 AM
Oh word, you still working your way through those? Are you gunning (heh) for Perfect Agent (or is it Dark Agent?) and 00 Agent? I just sought out and found your review of PD, should be interesting when I have a chance to read it.
I'd have loved to play the Prime 1 remake on the Switch, but I didn't realize it was out until I was significantly into the first game (maybe 1/3rd?). Real shame, because the videos on the tubes look quite nice, especially side-by-side. I read that Primes 2 and 3 weren't getting the same face lift, so I decided to skip buying the trilogy, since I still have the original games. Part of it is stubbornness. Damn it, if I'm a packrat, I have to reap the benefits of it.
Prime 2 continues to be an exercise in frustration. I was playing the Chykka boss and getting increasingly angrier and more hostile towards the game in the second part, where I barely had an area to dodge her projectile shits of dark matter. I kept falling into the purple "lava" while, at best, still taking 20-50 hit points with each strike.
I got angry enough to throw up my hands and say "Nope! I'm done!" and in a melodramatic fashion, took the game out of the system, yelling at it each step of the way. "This is me removing you from the GameCube. This is me putting you back in the case. This is me putting you on the shelf. You son-of-a-bitch."
And still, AND STILL! I woke up this morning, realizing that I could use the grapple hooks to traverse the four platforms and dodge the lava-puke attacks. Get out of my head! I'm supposed to wash my hands of you! But noooo. After insomnia took hold of me at 4:00am, I sighed and went back to it.
So, that worked. And once I got enough energy off the bastard, she hurled little flying insects at me that I could kill and recoup energy. It was STILL incredibly obnoxious to have to quickly grapple and get behind her to hit her with missiles, and towards the end, probably 80% of the time I'd miss my window and have to spam her with the beam again. But I scraped by.
I'd have loved to play the Prime 1 remake on the Switch, but I didn't realize it was out until I was significantly into the first game (maybe 1/3rd?). Real shame, because the videos on the tubes look quite nice, especially side-by-side. I read that Primes 2 and 3 weren't getting the same face lift, so I decided to skip buying the trilogy, since I still have the original games. Part of it is stubbornness. Damn it, if I'm a packrat, I have to reap the benefits of it.
Prime 2 continues to be an exercise in frustration. I was playing the Chykka boss and getting increasingly angrier and more hostile towards the game in the second part, where I barely had an area to dodge her projectile shits of dark matter. I kept falling into the purple "lava" while, at best, still taking 20-50 hit points with each strike.
I got angry enough to throw up my hands and say "Nope! I'm done!" and in a melodramatic fashion, took the game out of the system, yelling at it each step of the way. "This is me removing you from the GameCube. This is me putting you back in the case. This is me putting you on the shelf. You son-of-a-bitch."
And still, AND STILL! I woke up this morning, realizing that I could use the grapple hooks to traverse the four platforms and dodge the lava-puke attacks. Get out of my head! I'm supposed to wash my hands of you! But noooo. After insomnia took hold of me at 4:00am, I sighed and went back to it.
So, that worked. And once I got enough energy off the bastard, she hurled little flying insects at me that I could kill and recoup energy. It was STILL incredibly obnoxious to have to quickly grapple and get behind her to hit her with missiles, and towards the end, probably 80% of the time I'd miss my window and have to spam her with the beam again. But I scraped by.