Another buncha things on games I did, with most of them I beat.
Just beat Mega Man ZX Advent on DS. Its a 2D MetroidVania style Mega Man game many generations after 200X with a new hero based on Axl from X7. You do missions that often go through 4 areas in a zone like oil field or scrapyard and bat 8 animal like robots and 5 rival Mega Men. After you beat em you can copy its forme and play as it. Each one you unlock gives access to new areas from its abilities like rope climbing or flight. B is Jump, Y and R are each a weapon, A is some kinda super move that I never really used and uses up all your ammo, L is a Speed Rush, X opens the Forme Change menu to cycle through formes to use, but it can be done on the Pause Menu and with the Touch Screen. You can hold Y/R to build up Power in Attacks and Release to Fire. You can get an E Tank and Food to refill life anytime and Subtanks to build up Life to use later. There's Life and Ammo Bar Extenders hidden in areas you gotta look for and need the Copied Abilities. Its English Dubbed and the acting is so bad its good like La Blue Girl and there's Anime Cur Scenes by J C Staff who did Eiken and Garzey's Wing. Its got a bunch of Save Files and you can pay game money to refill Sub Tanks and unlock Warp Points that you return to from the save points. Its got great Graphics and the Music seems like an 80s anime at times with that good Mega Man feel. The start is lineal but you can choose what boss to do next later on. There's a Fire/Ice/Electricity Triangle for doing more damage to bosses, but its usually easier to blast with the peashooter or homing attack. Its the kinda game you can play for a mission, beat, and take a break to do in chunks. I liked it and had a good time doing it. There's a lot of different characters with personality and the story is different if you play as the guy or girl. I used the guy as I didn't like the girl name as I had an awful landlady with it. It has many callbacks to past Mega Man Games and is a good sequel to ZX 1. Glad I did this. Its great.
Just played Pinball: 66 Hiki no Wani Daikoushin Aka Revenge of the 'Gator Aka Pinball: Revenge of the 'Gator on Gameboy. Its a Gator themed Pinball game from HAL who did Kirby where its an endless game of Pinball. The D Pad moves the Left Flipper and A is the Right one and Start can pause. You got a 2 player mode if you got a Link Cable, 2 Game Boys and 2 copies of the game and the main game is getting points. You got a few screens for layers of the table and gotta keep the ball from going to the bottom of the bottom floor where a Gator eats it. You get 3 balls and I think you can get more by getting past the top floor and beating a Mini Game but I didn't get there. Its got good graphics and controls pretty well. Its got nice music ad good animations with the Gator theme of reptilian parts f the table and Gator heads and Gators all over. I usually like games you can beat, but this is nice to play for a bit as you wanna keep trying to do better. Its more fun and plays better than Kirby's Pinball Land as it didn't annoy me like that one did. There's cool things like hitting the side Gators to summon Gators to plug he holes you an fall in and go lower. Also is a few Gators that open their mouths and Warp you to another part of it, or back to the ball launcher. You fire balls out by holding A and releasing. I played the Japanese version as I got a cartridge of it a while ago and did it on my Game Boy Player for GameCube. Is a pretty good game and I'm glad I did this one. Even if I can't beat it, its fun to play for a while and enjoy the ride.
Just beat Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise on PS4. Its a Beat Em Up based on the Yakuza series but as an alternate retelling of Hokuto No Ken. I never did Yakuza but this is like Shenmue with similar things. You go around doing missions and sidequests and have a lot of things to do like a Casino, Hostess Club Manager, Dr with a Rhythm Game, and Bartender. Its got great graphics and the music and voices fit pretty well. You can go to the wasteland in a car and go places and there's a money system to pay for things. You got Skill Orbs to upgrade a Skill Tree to get new power ups or abilities and certain colored orbs gotten from leveling up are used on different areas. There's Talismans to make from things found in the wasteland that can be used once then gotta recharge or pay to refresh and food heal or clothes to boost stats. You got quick time events in games or fights where you press the right button to do more damage. I loved this one and unlike many games, I wanted to keep playing it and do sidequest to see more. Its really got that Hokuto No Ken feel with the twists I didn't see coming and layered characters with sad stories. So far, this is my fave PS4 game and I quite enjoyed it. The camera is a bit tricky as it moves and if you recenter it or move with the other A Stick you can lose track of who is where. It teaches you what to do as you go on and more unlocks as you go further. You can even get Sega Games like Outrun and Space Harrier like in Shenmue. You get unlimited tries and save spots but if you bite it, you restart the fight with the same items you began but full life. There's car racing and a colosseum but I hardly did those. You can check past instructions to see how to do things and I learned R3 is the Right A Stick and it can be pressed like a button. Sega went all out in this and the story is a great alternate take on it, with a great ending that goes back to how it began. I don't normally like 3D games but I'm glad I played this one.
Just beat Giana Sisters DS. Its a Mario Clone where you play as only 1 of the 2 Giana Sisters but can go from Blonde to Red Head Punk with a Power Up. A/B is Jump and X/Y is Fireball that goes at a downward angel when Red but unlike Mario, they don't bounce. Its 2D and you use the Touch Screen for Power Ups from Vending Machines like Gum that lets you float til you hit something or a Pop Bottle you blast to put out fires or eat through bricks. You can break bricks by jumping at em from below like Mario but only in Red Mode as I guess she's gained blood of the giants from The Bible and native American stories. Also she breaks em with her head as seen in the credits. You collect Blue Gems to get 100 for an extra guy and bigger ones are worth more. Some bricks can have hidden Gems and you can hit over and over, but it seems after the 1st hit the Gems last for a set time, so hit it as much as you can. There's also Red Gems that have a number in each level to collect and if you get em all in 1 of the 8 realms, you get a heavenly bonus level to get Gems. You don't need em though and can skip em for no issue. There's unlimited Continues and using 1 has you restart the level with 0 Gems. There's Checkpoints that keep track of how many Red Gems you got and the levels are pretty quick but you can look around for Red Gems if you want. The graphics are good and the music is great with life and whimsy. The last few levels get kinda tough but if you keep playing you can get good or lucky. The later levels have a Dante's Inferno feel with fire and caves. Some enemies you can end by jumping on or fireballs but some are immortal and you gotta avoid. There are some floors that eat away as you are on em and at times I think I fell in a pit, land on ground expect to be dead, get surprised, then fall through. Some things like fire or spikes or floor tendrils can't be killed. If you are in a bubble or Red you can take an extra hit but most times its 1 hit kills. Glad I did this one.
Just beat ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove on PS4. Its an Isometric game where our fave Homeboys From Outer Space go back to the style of the 1st game where you go around these maps looking for pieces of your Ship and going to the next area by Elevator. There's an Exp thing where doing things like uncovering the map by walking into unexplored areas, or using Items and you go to a Carrot Wiseman, like a Furry but for Veggies, to get Leveled up. At a level up you randomly upgrade stats like Health or Luck and each character you can use has their own starting stats and ability. I used Lewanda as she can use Parking Meters w/o spending Money. 1 button is action like interacting with things, 1 is open Present Menu to use the items you find. 1 turns on/off the map in the bottom and 1 checks the area for plants that have items. Items are unknown until you use or Identify em and have various effects that can help. You can save em until needed but they can be stolen by enemies. Money found can be used on people to do things and some people help while others harm you. The music is great and really 90s and the graphics are colorful and fun. It plays well and there's food to heal you and stays there once revealed until you get it. I don' often like Isometric Games but this is pretty well done. You get lives and I don't know about Continues as I only bit it once. You can hide in Sunflowers or use an item to try to get away if chased by enemies and if you need to, can jump off the edge to fall to a past area and get to the Elevator to return. There's fake Elevators that bring you down an area and hidden paths that show up when you get near em. It was made by Kickstarter without Sega and has a clean lite feel that's lively and upbeat. It takes you back to a more innocent time and makes you feel positive and wanna be nicer. There's also a Random mode where each level is different and unlockable characters by beating the game. It also has the Hyperfunk Zone from the 2nd game.
Just beat Sonic Mania on PS4. Its a 16 bit style 2D platform game where you play as Sonic, Tails and/or Knuckles and go fast through 13 levels with 2 acts each and a boss at the end of each act. 3 buttons are Jump but holding down/Jump makes you do a Spin Dash to boost off when you release it. Knuckles glides by jumping then hit/hold jump and climbs walls gliding into em. Tails I didn't use but I'm pretty sure flys tapping Jump a lot. Sonic can Peel Out holding Up and Jump hen release, and either a quick shield by Jump in air, or Drop Dash where you Spin Dash when you land but I only used Knuckles. Triangle in a jump goes Super when you got 7 Chaos Emeralds and 50+ Rings which makes you faster/invincible to spikes/enemies but can drown/get crushed/bottomless pitted/run outta time. You get 10 mins to do each act and there's checkpoints you revie from when dead that let you in a bonus level if you have 25+ rings when hitting it. If you get all Blue Spheres its a Silver Medal but Rings/Spheres gets Gold. Medals unlock abilities/extras. There's 8 Save Files and can't change characters in em and after beat once you can choose levels to do. Emerald Levels are Big Rings hidden in levels and you gotta catch a UFO to get the Emerald by getting Blue Spheres to speed up and Rings for Time. Its tricky but not too hard after a few tries. There's Shields that defend you from elements like fire/electricity/drowning. As long as you have 1 ring you survive damage. If hit you spill rings but can catch em. The graphics are great and like advanced Genesis and the music is wonderful. Most levels are remixed past Sonic games but creative like Go Nagai reusing ideas in Manga. There's many refs to past games and it controls fast and well. Its just like the 90s Sonic. Continues are earned by doing well in Emerald Levels and the game is either Easy or I'm good at it. Down when moving makes you roll and you end foes jump/rolling into em. There' DLC but my PS4 ain't online. Great Game.
Just beat Sonic Colors: Ultimate on PS4. Its a remaster of the Wii game where Robotnik made a theme park of enslaved planets and you gotta fee these space daemons that grant you their powers. You can choose what buttons do what and you can jump./double jump, Boost, Stomp/slide and use Whisps. You unlock these energy beings that turn you into things like a Rocket or Laser and use their powers to get past things. As long as you have 1 rung you survive hits but the rings scatter but they are harder to collect than other Sonics. You can't Spin Dash or even Roll but Boosting busts through enemies. There's a homing attack by spamming Jump the same shifts from 2D to 3D pretty naturally. You can get the Chaos Emeralds by getting enough Red Rings but its not needed and You got Tokens to but outfit changes like gloves or shoes. The music and graphics are good and you get un limited tries but biting it sends you back to re-get the items. But if you have a Tails Head you keep em and he saves you from falling. Its not too hard but kinda annoying. The Asteroid Coaster took over 20 mins as I kept falling off the coaster when jumping. Eventually I found you gotta jump when its gong up. Plus the final level took over an hour with cheap deaths and no checkpoints. Most of it isn't too bad but I didn't care for the Whips much and hardly used em. They made a Pink Whisp that lets you climb the walls and spin dash but it wasn't so great. There's warnings when you are over a pit which isn't really needed and if you jump into the score at the end of a level you can break out rings/Tails Icons/Tokens. The credits go on far too long and even has a copyright notice in it as well as the music running out and half of em being in silence except your jump sounds. Its not so bad and I liked a number of things, but often it bugged me and wore out its welcome. Some levels can be beat in like a minute but others tool a while to find out where to go. Its got good speed and colors. Glad I played it.
Just beat Rolan's Curse II for Game Boy on my 2DS. Its a Top Down RPG Action Game where you go around like Zelda and fight enemies and bosses. Not really any Puzzles but you can recruit up to 3 other guys to switch between with their own Life Bar. A is main attack and B is secondary like a Shot or a Nuke depending on the player but uses Ammo that can run out. Instead of EXP you Level Up with walking over Treasure Chests and Walking again over the thing you uncover. Each character has their own Level Up Treasure and it gives em More HP and Attack and Ammo. You can find but not buy Items by beating enemies and use them any time on the pause menu and Start Pauses but Select opens the Character Select screen. Good 8 bit GB Graphics and it plays pretty well but you can't move when attacking. Some characters have better stats and range and others do things like clearing paths or healing. If any character bites it you go back to the last town and are healed. You heal for free in towns with 1 guy you talk to and the story is simple but the characters have some interest for a bit. Great Music and its pretty linear but you can skip some bosses. There's save files and you can save most places except bosses I think. Some bosses you can stand and spam attack and heal when needed to Attrition through. For some reason the game is really expensive and is over 200$ in Canadian Pesos when I saw it in the shop so I did it on my 2DS. Its a pretty good game but not worth that much. Huh, its by NMK who did some Macross Games and was published by Sammy who is now Sega. Its kinda tricky at times but if you keep at it you can get good or lucky and beat it. Glad I did this one. Its got that good 8 bit GB Charm and has cool enemy designs.
Just beat Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back on PS4. After his 3D game killed him forever, he came back outta nowhere and got something new by Black Forest Games. Its a 2D platformer with 1 button Jumps, 1 does Pounce that goes in an arc that busts rock walls and kills enemies, and 1 does a mid air jump that when held lets you glide like a looser Knuckles in Sonic. You bite it in 1 hit and can get a black Shirt for a barrier and each black Shirt after is an extra guy. But you start each level with 9 guys and there's unlimited continues as you autosave and can do any unlocked level. There's like 12 levels with 4 in each area and the game can be beat pretty quick. You collect Yarn balls and there's Keys that with all 5 in each level, can unlock a Yarn Vault at the end. The jumping is a bit loose and the hit detection is off, but can work in your favor at times with things not killing you. The 2nd boss is pretty tough and you gotta time floating on vents to avoid his attacks and the final boss has a lot of moves but once you know em, isn't tough, but a long battle. The graphics are not bad and the music is well done by the Turrican guy but once the game crashed and once I got stuck in the wall by a platform moving me into ceiling spikers when I had a shield and I jumped around til I fell off the lever somehow are bit it to restart from a checkpoint. Bubsy talks and its got that Bubsy feel but you can change hot much talking he does in options. I like his jabber and think its fitting and kind fun. Its a quick game you can beat in 1 sitting like the 16 bit ones and while some parts bugged me, it was pretty forgiving with many lives and Checkpoints. Its no Sonic Mania but its not as bad as people thought it was. For a quick game slapped together to get attention from people joking of playing as Bubsy in Sonic Forces, its not bad. The levels ain't too long and there's a lot of routes to take to get to the goal. Glad I did this one. And bosses don't heal til you game over.
Just beat Panzer Dragoon: Remake on PS4. Its a remake of the Sega Saturn game by The Poles and is all shiny and new. Its an on rails Shooter where you go on an autoscrolling phantasy world with things looking like Star Wars meets 80s Anime. Its got the Vampire Hunter D or BattleTech thing of a post apocalyptic world rebuilding with rediscovered tech and can be beat in like an hour or 2 depending on how many Game Overs you get. 1 button is fire and 1 is fire but if you hold it, it targets enemy's the aim thing goes over and fires when released like the Robotech missile spray thing. L and R shifts the camera around in North/South/East/West and move/aim with the D Pad or A Stick. You get extra Continues by taking out more guys in the levels with a higher % means more Continues. The Guardian Boss was tough but once I realized you gotta not use the Lock On Shot and hammer the Peashooter while aiming Manually it was doable. You get a Life Bar but once its out you gotta restart the whole level. Its got good cut scenes and the animation and Graphics are great with nice Music. You can shoot out enemy attacks and the game is fast but not impossible. Its pretty cool and you get a code to unlock Cheats after beating it. The Final Boss isn't really tough and I beat the Level 4 Boss with a bit of life left. Some parts it seems like there's no way outta taking a hit and it can get pretty chaotic. I liked it and had some fun with some anger, but once I saw what to do it worked. Glad I did this and I wanna do the other games when remade. Oh and there's a radar that shows where enemy's are coming from.
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