4
« on: February 11, 2016, 07:03:00 PM »
Viewtiful Joe is one of my favorites game of all time. It was one of the first games I beat without watching my dad play the game and beat it first. When I heard that RFN was going to play through it for Retroactive, I got excited, I hadn't rebeat the game in a while and I wanted to play through it again. When I first tried to rebeat it for the retroactive, I tried to do it on V-Rated (this game's Hard Mode) and regretted it. I restarted it on Adults (Normal Mode) and had a much better time. Went through the first three levels with relative ease (the shark boss is still annoying, also when I say relative easy that doesn't mean that still didn't die often), did the level four skip (which I will talk about in the Tips part.) and then I got to Midnight Thunder Boy.
That is a HARD level, the first half of that level is probably the hardest level in the game. So much fire and jets and tanks. Luckily the train and the Rival fight against Alastor are easier. Then I reached my second hurdle, the Boss Rush. This one took a while, having to fight the first four bosses with increased health in a row without a break is difficult. It doesn't help that after those four is the hardest fight in the game Fire Leo. Beat him after a while, breezed through the final stage and then got to the final boss. The first half of this fight is Hard, but the second half is easy. What's annoying though is the fact that if you game over on the second half of the fight, you have to go back to the first half of the fight.
Now to get to the Positives and Negatives.
Positives:
I like Joe as a character. He reminds me a bit of Dante.
The Boss fights are each unique in their own way.
The soundtrack is AMAZING.
The game is relatively short.
I like the simplified dodging mechanic.
Negatives:
This game is HARD. I can't count how many time I got caught in between two enemies doing different attack patterns and then dying.
While the Bosses are fun, the mid-bosses can be annoying, especially when you fight them in a row like at the end of the first half of Midnight Thunder Boy.
The rival fight is kind of disappointing.
It ends on a cliffhanger (which luckily gets resolved in the sequel... which also ends on a cliffhanger because Capcom)
You can barely hear the dialog in the cut-scenes.
TIPS:
- The elite enemies (the ones in the black suits) can be stunned. After the first two telegraphed attacks (which are always random) they always do an un-telegraphed low attack then a high attack (or maybe it's the other way around, I forget right now), if dodge all of those attacks the will be stunned.
- Zoom is your friend, it does a lot of damage to bosses, when possible try Slow Zoom punching them to bring the pain.
- Don't bother getting Viewtiful Forever, it doesn't really do a lot of damage and ends up being a waste of VFX meter. That being said, make sure you get Sliding, Red Hot Kick, the VFX Charger, and as many hearts as possible.
- Speaking of Hearts, if you buy them and you are missing health, it will fill up your health.
-You can skip most of the submarine stage. In the beginning part with the torpedoes if you keep going to the right past where you are supposed to go you can find where the torpedoes are being fired, go through that area and then end up at the boss.
- And finally, STAY VIEWTIFUL.