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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: September 01, 2023, 11:34:41 PM »
Well, then you might as well add Tunic for me as well, because I played and 100% it for the first time this month via the PS4 physical release that came out at the start of the month.

Seems a lot of us on this Nintendo website played that game this month for some reason.  ;)

So for me that would be Tunic, Process of Elimination, Death's Door, Dead Cells, and Balan Wonderworld.

Boo-yah! That's the spirit! Don't worry, *slaps original post*, this bad boy can fit so many finished game titles in it. Don't be shy, anybody else.

Tunic has come up a lot. Should I have been playing Tunic.....?  :o

Well, that brings the total of games beat this month up to 36! Not too shabby. Especially when it was looking so quiet for the first half of the month. If anyone else has something to add to the total, please post about it quickly. After this weekend, I'm ending the upkeep of submissions.

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: September 01, 2023, 11:30:11 PM »
As a quick wrap-up on that previous post:

Maestro! Green Groove - When trying to see what DSiWare might be worth picking up before the eShop closed, this title came up on a couple lists. Nintendo Life seemed quite enthusiastic about it in their Best of DSiWare list and stated: "Maestro! Green Groove manages to take two very different gameplay styles and combine them into one of the most unique and enjoyable gaming experiences available on the system to date. Not only is the game extremely playable, it also features some absolutely diabolical challenges in the later levels that should challenge even the most seasoned gamers." Their review as a 9/10. Sounds like it would be worth playing, right? Well, not quite. It would seem in my haste to look up titles worth getting before it was too late, I missed this later portion which states: "Although the game only features one area from the retail release (which never saw release in the US, with only a limited release in Europe), with all of the extra goodies and rampant replay value, you'll more than get your money's worth out of this wildly enjoyable DSiWare release." I guess that explains why it was the same 4 songs done over three times in a row except the levels went easy, normal and hard through each set. Don't know how much more of a complete package the retail game would have been but I have doubts it would make things better.

When looking up the game on Gamefaqs, there is absolutely no information on it so I don't know what all these extra goodies are supposed to be but that seems like a lie to me. The only thing about the game that I see is under the Board (forum) section. There is one topic for the game with no replies. The title is Quite possibly the worst video game i've ever played in my life. and the opening post to go with it is "Stay. Away. From this game". I will add that if you didn't purchase this before the DSiWare shop closed then you made the right choice.

Basically, you strum some lines on the screen at a certain point to play a note and to make the main character, who's always running from point A to point B, jump up or jump down. Sometimes you tap an enemy on the screen to further keep the beat. It's so-so in the beginning easy section and becomes a bore by the end. Definitely the worst thing I played this month. Snap judgement rating: 1/5 stars.

Mighty Milky Way - Remember Nintendo Power? This poster still does. I remember this game sticking out in a way few DSiWare games did as they would dutifully list and talk about software being released for that service. Later, having played and had a positive experience with the Mighty Switch Force games, it just made me want to go back and see what the other titles in this "Mighty" series were like. Finally pulled the trigger on getting it before the eShop closed. Having played it now, I see why it hasn't been ported anywhere since appearing on DSiWare. One, it does need a touchscreen. Second, it's not a platformer but more of a puzzler using gravity to get to the goal each level. I almost wondered if this game didn't do more with gravity than the Super Mario Galaxy games. I guess it's just a much greater focus here but some puzzles are about other planets interacting and swinging the main character along their orbit for a bit until a new stronger force takes them away because they can't land on that planet or need to avoid a tricky area. It's definitely something I consider more casual pick up and play in that, after doing maybe 5 or 6 puzzles, you may want a break and come back to later to do some more. Never really hooked me to keep on playing unlike Mighty Switch Force. I did laugh at the unexpected ending which helped give the game a bit more positive experience than I may have felt about it at time. Snap judgement rating: 3/5 stars.

Kirby's Blowout Blast - I know this was supposedly an enlarged mode from a mini-game in Planet Robobot. How much was added, enlarged or different from that game, I'm not sure on since I've still yet to play it. It's starting to become a source of great shame for a person who says they are a big Kirby fan. I really got some catching up to do on the series over the past decade. Planet Robobot, Battle Royale, Rainbow Curse, Star Allies and some other smaller spinoffs like this that I've yet to play. Supposedly Planet Robobot is supposed to be the best of the lot so I've been saving that one for later. Still, I guess that stuff is a bit moot. When I'd first seen Blowout Blast, I thought it was it's own little game for the 3DS system as part of a Kirby celebration happening. Unlike other stuff such as Kirby Fighters and Team Kirby Clash, Blowout Blast gave the impression of being perhaps more deeper than those and just seemed like a better gaming hook. Having played it, it's pretty short if you just want to get through to the credits. There are certain goals to be accomplished for each level like collecting all the coins in a level or not taking any damage to add some challenge and that will help in getting a high score for a gold trophy. Levels are pretty short though probably taking around three minutes or so to complete. I haven't seen everything this game has to offer yet so this snap judgement rating is very snap but, at least by providing some color, 3D effect and Kirby music, it helped stand out as a more positive and fun time this month. 3.5/5 stars.

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles - And now we come to the big one of the month and a title I've spent some time with. Where to begin? I'm not sure. Which is why I think I'm going to skip posting anything about this right now.  ;D Done a lot of typing already tonight and it's time to move on to other things. I will give it a snap judgement of 4/5 stars so you can at least have that comment on the game.

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: September 01, 2023, 10:36:48 PM »
So, Backlaugust is at end. This year's Backlaugust has made clear to me that I'm just not in a gaming mode these days. Part of that could be what I've been playing but, compared to the last few years before this one, I'm just finding it hard to get enthused about turning on any system to play a game. My attention and enthusiasm is elsewhere in different things. At the time I last posted on August 10, I ended up not doing any gaming until Aug. 21 and that was just to play Fortune Street with some old friends of mine who were in town visiting. We used to play that a lot together. I forgot how great that game is. I didn't really get back to my Backlaugust stuff until Aug. 25.

Instead, I continued to watch a bunch of movies and ended up going through all 12 episodes of the show Slow Horses and just about all of Ted Lasso. I'm halfway through the second to last episode of the series so will probably wrap that up tonight. Been reading some books and doing some organizing in my place. Just so many projects and tasks I've wanted to do or need to get done.

When I last posted in this thread, I had just begun the opening of the last chapter in the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. I was into the 3rd world of Mighty Milky Way and at least halfway through Maestro! Green Groove. The way things were going, I was wondering if might get as high as 20 games beat during the month. However, I just wasn't feeling that engaged with most of what I was playing and it felt more like a chore. Plus, it just didn't seem like there was much interest with other users this year for the event which further sapped motivation to stay focused and keep playing through stuff.

Seeing other users start to post more later on started to get me feeling more like getting back into the event. Although learning that we may have split participation with Discord when RABicle posted about it here was sort of disappointing. Looking up that thread on Discord, it seems like we've created two small threads now instead of having one big one like usual. This fracturing of media has got to stop people! Yet, after seeing some posts and getting a spark to get back on the Backlaugust train I'd start thinking about playing through the same 4 songs in Maestro! Green Groove or chipping away at more puzzles in Mighty Milky Way or watching the next episode of a TV show I was enjoying, and gaming was losing that choice every time. Playing Fortune Street didn't help because all I wanted to was just start playing more of that again. It may be the best thing I played this month. Nothing like in person multiplayer.

In the end, as the deadline for the month approached, I finally got back at things. Played through more of Ace Attorney Chronicles on the 25th and probably got a third of the way through that chapter. On the 27th, I got back into Mighty Milky Way. Beat it on the 28th. Then returned to Maestro! and played through the last quarter of that game to beat it. I then booted up Kirby's Blowout Blast just to give myself a different flavor of gaming. It was a nice palette cleanser for what I had been playing up to this point. Beat it in a couple days just pretty much storming through the main levels. Will have to go back to it and complete everything. Finally, I went back to Ace Attorney. Played through a large chunk on Wednesday and yesterday, right around 10:30 PM, I rolled credits on it beating it and letting me just reach double digits for the month with 10 games beat. Still have some Accolades to acquire though.

And that's it for the month. Not sure what I'm going to do next my for my gaming. It's just unfocused right now. A big part of me wants to go back to XCX. It's been so long (two years!) since I took a break on it but it's what I most feel like playing and getting back into. Ready for more grinding there and wrapping up the main story at least. And yet, I've got a bunch of movies on tap I want to watch and TV shows to check out. I've got Netflix and Apple TV both for the first time in my life and working my way through a bunch of things on those services. I did a tally and I'm now over 150 new movies I've watched for the first time this year. I'm just a media consumer right now, it feels like. Must consume more content. Everything but games it is feeling like. Wasn't this a fun post to read.

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: September 01, 2023, 10:00:10 PM »
after clearing out another recent release with Process of Elimination (one of the strangest visual novel detective adventure games I've ever played, but a recent release so it doesn't count here),

Too bad! I'm counting it! Like I've said before, I don't care too much about when a game released. If you beat a game during August, it pretty much counts. (With the caveats you haven't beat it on that system already and you didn't already beat the same game during this month on a different system). Gotta get these forum numbers for games completed up somehow!!!

Well i came so close to finishing Tears of the Kingdom.  Just a few more shines and major side quest left before I call it quits.  Now I did technically beat Ganondorf and watched the end credits, so I kind of beat the game, but I'm still playing because I want to do all the Shrines and most of the side quest, so I cant really cross it out of my backlog yet.

Too bad! I'm counting it also! Like it mentions in the OP, "Mark a game off your backlog when you've seen the ending or end credits". And you, Mister, have seen the end credits so this can count for Backlaugust. I've had games that I've beat in Backlaugust in which I rolled the credits but then went back to after the month was over (or even later down the road) to then fully complete to my satisfaction. I'm marking you down for this game whether you like it or not!

This backlaugust I completed... nothing!



How can I boost numbers with that?!

I did roll the credits on Yoshi's New Island on 3DS. I would probably put this between Wooly World and Crafted World in terms of my personal ranking.

Nice flex with the Yarn Poochy Amiibo. Blew my chance to get one back in 2017. I thought it and the Woolly World 3DS port were going to go on sale like the Chibi-Robo Zip Lash game and Amiibo did. There was a Toys R US with like 35 - 40 of those game bundles just taking up a large section of shelf for months. Then I went in one day and they were completely gone. Either they sent them back to Nintendo or I did miss a sale or some people decided to grab and horde them all. Not sure what. Now it is one of the most expensive Amiibos out there and less likely to get a reprint. Oh well.

Yoshi's New Island. The second game I beat in the first Backlaugust. (But this poster did fully complete the game when adding it to his Backlaugust total so a little flex of my own there. ;) ). You seem much more positive on the game then I was. Aside from maybe the bonus levels, I found it very derivative and unoriginal when compared with other games that had come before it. Not going to rehash that now but in the Yoshi series, I slot it at the bottom. Yes, even lower than N64's Yoshi's Story. However, I can appreciate that opinion on the game can vary depending on how much a person has played of previous games in the series or of the first Yoshi's Island in particular so I'll quit raining on your parade and enjoyment of it now.

Hopefully Khushrenada and Rabicle magically reappear at the last moment with a long list of games to make us collectively look good this month  ;).

Oh no!! What kind of pressure is this? I've been trying to get the forum numbers up anyway I can. Why do I have to now be the one to have played some games during the month...?

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TalkBack / Re: Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct To Air in Two Days
« on: August 30, 2023, 01:31:10 AM »
It's ok, Nintendo. I and millions of others will be buying this game. You don't need to spoil a bunch of the surprises. We're already sold. No need for this Direct.

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Wow! I'd have thought Martinet would have been able to keep going a bit longer at doing the voices of Mario and crew. No more Mario games for the Switch successor, I guess. Mario Wonder is going to wrap the franchise up. Hope it can stick the landing.

Or maybe Nintendo's planning on doing a gritty reboot for the franchise starting on the next console. Forget Angry Kirby. He's got nothing on Thoroughly Pissed Off Mario and friends.

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General Chat / Re: Accounts reaching their 20th Birthday - Caterkiller
« on: August 15, 2023, 08:27:24 PM »
All hail RAB! The true OG of the NWR Forums!

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: August 10, 2023, 07:43:28 PM »
Mega Man II - I actually beat Dr. Wily's revenge a few days ago like Sunday or Monday but just didn't get around to posting it. At the time, it wasn't my plan to also play more of the GB MM series of games. I just wanted to at least complete one and finally dip my toe into the Mega Man waters. Yet, despite starting up and getting into some other games that I listed as potentially tackling this month for Backlaugust like Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword, Mighty Milky Way, and Maestro! Green Grove, I found my mind would wander back to the GB VC games I've still got to play and wanting to get more Mega Man action. I booted up the second of the GB games. Once again, I was unsure which way to start with the Robot Master but I figured the buzzsaw looking way likely had to be the weakness for the tree looking one so I could at least go in that order.

Right away, I could tell a difference in the design and gameplay. It just had a lighter feel. Less worry of having to be ever vigilant over the level of my health bar to get to the end. Health and weapon refills were much more prevalent and I was soon hardly bothering with doing much for creating save points. It was much more easy to successfully get from the start to the end of a level and likely with good health by the time you reach the boss. The ability to slide took awhile for me to catch on and realize it was there. Afterwards, thinking about the game, there's probably more times I could have used the slide ability when fighting since so many Robot Masters want to jump around their screen. As a result, there was a point where I did run out of lives and selected the Continue option on a Game Over screen but it was no big deal since I had just reached Wily's castle and started over on it fresh with more lives and all weapons full. Also, wasn't catching on to the value of Mega Man's dog at first but eventually worked out its benefits. In the end, I played up to the Mega Man 3 Robot Masters in Wily's castle in one day and finished the game today. It was just a much more compelling experience doing more to make the levels standout on the Game Boy and I just wanted to keep playing it. A very good Game Boy experience. Snap judgment rating - 4/5 stars.

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: August 10, 2023, 07:13:09 PM »
Kersploosh! - Nothing like a game you can beat in an hour. This game came up a couple times on other Best of the 3DS eShop listings so I decided to give it a chance. It's more of an arcade-high score type game where the only real challenge is how quick you can get the object you control to the bottom of a well. There are only 10 wells in total and 10 different objects with different stats. It's not really that challenging to unlock all the wells. Just get to the bottom of one and the next one opens. The bigger challenge and more of a completion aspect will be getting all the different objects unlocked. I've got 8/10 but a couple of the last ones will take more work. For now, I'm content to mark this as beat and work on getting the last couple objects later. I may even see if I can get the time on the wells under a minute although I think that may not be possible on the last well. Might have to shoot for 1 minute and a half there. It's a nice little time waster. Reminds of early mobile phone games in that way. Just an app you can open to engage yourself while waiting for something.

I picked up the game because there had been praise for the 3D effect but the depth wasn't as great as I anticipated. I can think of a few other games in which the 3D depth effect was more impressive or stood out more. On the other hand, what I wasn't expecting was for this game to give me a pseudo-F-Zero GX experience. I see it as a racing game in which you are going from one of the track to the other. Along there way there are boosts you can get for speed bursts but a lot of obstacles you have to avoid that could slow you down and damage your falling object to the point of destroying it. When playing some wells to shave down my time and unlock an object, it reminded of that trained precision in F-Zero GX of going along tracks and carefully maneuvering your craft to hit the speed boosts along the way and avoid other things on the track at high speeds. The way different objects can be much more difficult to control than others is like how with 40 different racing vehicles some were just more wonky than others. Ah, the days when I was an F-Zero Champ and won an Expert Grand Prix with all the racers. For reminding me of that, Kersploosh!, I thank you.

But you're still a pretty basic game. Snap judgment rating: 2.5/5

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: August 10, 2023, 04:42:29 PM »
Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge - When trying to determine which VC Game Boy games for the 3DS eShop were worth checking out, the Mega Man titles came up during my Best of the 3DS eShop series. However, I was hesitant about whether it was worth pursuing these or not. I've never really gotten into the franchise. Around maybe 16 years ago, I thought to myself, "Let's do this!". I had the GameCube Mega Man Anniversary collection for a couple years in my games library because it had always seemed like a neat series thanks to Nintendo Power. Reading those issues as a kid, it sounded like they could be cool games with Robot Masters and using their weapons against each other. Looking at these winding level layouts. Also, I was into Samurai Pizza Cats which was airing at the time and giant robots getting destroyed which influenced me to build robots from Lego and have them taken down. But never had a NES until way later and the box art of Mega Man X just didn't inspire younger me to take a chance. Anyways, popped in the GC disc and started with Mega Man 1. It was difficult but I was chipping away at getting better with the level I was playing. Unfortunately, that brief burst of enthusiasm for getting into the series faded that one evening. At some point, I popped in the GC Mega Man X collection because I know I played the opening for Mega Man X for a brief while but found that beginning rather confusing for some reason and backed away from the series again. Sometime later, my younger cousin was talking about the series and how he was interested in it. He wondered if I'd played the games or had them. I showed him the GC collections I had and he went with Mega Man X to try it out. He got farther into X then I did to the point where you could select a Robot Master and start working your way towards one. The difficulty of enemies suddenly appearing and shooting and trying to platform around it wore down his enthusiasm. I took a turn at it and was doing alright at being able to work around the obstacles and make some more progress but after a few minutes we'd both had enough. I gave him my opinion of the series at the time which is that with some older games like MMX, game design was different and more of a challenge was expected to keep people continually playing to sort of learn and memorize these levels and stretch them out that way. The best way to probably play them now was if they were released on something like the Switch SNES app in which you can rewind and get through it faster rather then repeating a level over and over. Thus, I was hesitant about getting any of the Mega Man games for 3DS but kept them on my wishlist for a few years after they did get recommended on the forums. In the end, I pulled the trigger and got all 5 along with the two Mega Man Xtreme games for GBC because I just wasn't sure whether they'd end up on the Switch app and Capcom doesn't seem to have cared about putting them in any other collection to my knowledge. There's that long and unnecessary background story.

I gave it mainly to point that after all this time, it is Dr. Wily's Revenge that has ended up being the first Mega Man game I have ever beat and played all the way through. In 2023, it's probably going to be pretty rare to find other people who will make this game their first real entry into the series. Going back 32 years to the wild days of 1991 with this one. Booting it up, I have no idea what order I should be facing the 4 Robot Masters on my screen. I started with the top left one since it seemed like it had some kind of cutting ability or weapon. Right away, the game is smacking me around all over the place. Getting knocked around and depleted. Soon learn that enemies dropping health is pretty random and seems kind of low. Platforming feels a bit rough too as Mega Man doesn't always seem to be the best jumper or sometimes the levels have obstacles to make a needed jump tough. Quickly decide that I'm just going to have to start Save State scumming. Every time I was about to go to the next part of the level and load the next screen for it, I would create a save point. Then if I got knocked around a bit and lost health, I'd figure out what I had to do on that screen and reload that save state until I took care of the enemies or platforming I needed to do without getting hurt too bad or dying and then create a save point before the next screen to shift into view for the level. Eventually work my way to my first boss fight and just play out a war of health attrition between us. But after an attempt or two, I had finally taken down my first Robot Master in the series. Now which of the three do I want to try next? Later on in the game, it turns out you have to face a bunch more Robot Masters but they're basically back to back to back boss fights. It was at that point that I looked up a FAQ to see what I should be doing. Reading over it, I discovered that I'd pretty much gone the complete opposite way you are recommended to face the 4 robot masters. In a way, it doesn't matter since it is all one big loop but it had felt to me like the levels got easier as I went along. Part of that could be from me better understanding some of the mechanics of the game but, I swear, the Elec Man stage had much less enemies compared to Cut Man and was more about jumping and doing some platforming along the way. I may have unknowingly made the beginning way harder. Got some information on the order of taking out the 5 Robot Masters you have to face halfway on the way to Wily. Continued on and took down in Wily in about 4 tries. And with that, it is accomplished. I can now say I have beat a Mega Man game.

Early on, I was shaking my head and sympathizing will all the young kids who must have gone through so many batteries to try and beat this game. At least they gave them passwords to help with the process. Yet I would think anyone who would have beat that game would have been a legend back in the day. Surprisingly, though, as I kept progressing into the game, I found myself enjoying it more and wanting to come back and play more of it out of the other games I am currently playing on the 3DS. It became a screen by screen challenge / mystery of what do I have to do and then how do I do it well. I began to understand the mechanics and weapon systems and that further helped me get more into the game. On reflecting about it, I may not have felt this way if I couldn't play it with save points. Also, the presentation / story is pretty bones. There's probably something in the manual but in-game you are given no reason for anything. It's like you are just confronted with 4 Wanted posters. Pick a candidate and hunt them down. No reason given for doing so. Then after you do that, you go to some old guy's weird looking castle/laboratory and trash his place, beat him up and leave. The end. The credits throw a bunch of the enemy's names at you which is about the only lore you will get. At least it gives you a chance to know the names of the 5 Robot Masters you face off with in Dr. Wily's castle because that isn't done at the time you meet them. Just have to have played the NES games and know this stuff by heart, I guess. Anyways, despite the long journey it took to get here and the odds against it with its level and enemy design, somehow I ended up walking away with an overall positive feeling about the game. Snap judgement rating of 3/5 although I wonder if I'm being too generous here...

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Random LOL of the day thread
« on: August 09, 2023, 05:44:43 AM »


Boom! Roasted.

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TalkBack / Re: Other News From The Pokemon Presents
« on: August 08, 2023, 06:20:19 PM »
Quote
that had you asking "when do we get to the fireworks factory?"

It's not about the destination. It's about the friends with attitude who get bizzay consistently and thoroughly that we made along the way.

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Kind of disappointing. I'd noticed we were coming up to 4 months since an N64 game had been added to the service and that last game was Pokemon Stadium. To have the next release be Pokemon Stadium 2 is rather meh to me. Give me DK64, you cowards! Oh well, got plenty of other stuff to play so not like it's really anything to care that much about.

Still, I had wondered how soon it would be for N64 additions to slow down after the pace of about 1 per month last year and it didn't take long for that to happen with only Goldeneye, Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon Stadium 2 being the only additions for this year so far. It may now be a pace of a game every three months now.

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: August 06, 2023, 06:25:19 PM »
Huzzah! Other people have now posted games! I was beginning to wonder if this was going to just be a lonely Backlaugust for me! I realize that I was thinking of Kentucky Route Zero at first when I saw lolmonade's post about Road 96. I'll have to look that one up that since I don't remember hearing about it before.

Kirby's Dream Land 2 - For me, this is the first really strong entry when looking at the release history of Kirby games. I know many people like Kirby's Adventure for the NES and point to that as a top entry but I don't like that game. I don't know what it is about it but whether it is the NES version or the GBA remake of Knightmare in Dream Land, I find myself getting bored of the game very quickly whenever I play it and feel I'm always having to force myself to play more of it. Maybe someday I'll sit down and try to figure out exactly what it is that bothers me about the game but that day is not today. I don't quite have that problem with KDL2 although I find I'll want a break after a couple hours but that's not unusual for any game. I like the addition of the animal helpers and how they add different twists to the copy abilities and level obstacles like being able to fly against strong winds or swim against strong currents. They help add more challenge in getting some of the later Rainbow Drops. Sort of the equivalent of Yoshi and add more protection for Kirby. Collecting stars in the levels to get extra lives is your equivalent of collecting coins in Mario. Something that wasn't done often in Kirby games. Perhaps KDL3 is the only other game to do that. I'd have to think on that but I like that touch as it helps add something to the levels. You likely want a lot of extra lives if you didn't have the ability for Save States as a couple of later levels and especially the final bosses will definitely require quite a lot of lives and retries as you familiarize the patterns and work out how to take them down. I also managed to get 100% completion for this game for the first time. It's only the second time I've really played this game since a few years ago when I played it in Kirby's Dream Collection for the first time. Came close to 100% then but never got back to finishing that. Save states also helped speed things along in that regard. Snap judgement - 3.5/5 stars.

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Oh yeah.... I remember the trailer for that. I'd forgotten all about that game until reading this. Congrats to both those games still releasing before Metroid Prime 4.  ;)

So, if those both get released within the next couple months, what is the next indie type game that has been revealed yet unreleased after a long time? Hollow Knight 2? Party Animals?

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: August 04, 2023, 06:33:46 PM »
Xeodrifter - Beat and complete. Pretty easy enough to get all the power-ups along the way so I was able to completely finish the game which I don't usually do in Backlaugust. I had wanted to pick up this title for some time since years back when I'd first beat Mutant Mudds. I think Insanolord may have recommended it as a good follow-up or maybe it came up during my best of the 3DS eShop threads. In any case, I just knew it was a take on the Metroid formula and that was about it. The problem was that despite knowing it used to go on sale, I didn't see it go on sale for years while tracking 3DS eShop sales and having it on my Wishlist. Finally, as the eShop deadline approached it went on sale and I snapped up during that shopping frenzy.

I'm glad I did as I think being able to play it the 3D effect adds to the experience and it turned out to be a pretty fun and addicting game to play. I liked the fact that the game really doesn't offer you much explanation for things and it is pretty much up to you to figure it out. At the start, I went to a couple planets before finding the one to start with. Later on, I noticed that there were numbers to the planets on the bottom screen but the game leaves it to you to figure out these details and learn. Although this also meant that I ended up making things a bit harder for myself as the game went on due to not fully understanding the way the gun power-ups work. I didn't realize you could combine powers to make them more powerful. I also didn't realize I could just hold down Y and the gun would keep shooting automatically. I was also tapping Y to shoot around maybe the 5th boss or a bit after that. But I suppose that's like any Metroid game. Once you've learned things on your first run like where some power-ups are or the map then you are much more proficient on subsequent runs. Playing it again, I think I'd be able to really power through it without a very low loss of life on that second run. In the end, when comparing it to the Metroid series, I'd say it gave me vibes of the 3DS Samus Returns game. Snap judgement rating of 3.5/5 stars.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen
« on: August 03, 2023, 04:40:30 AM »
Does anyone watch TV anymore?

No. TVMan is dead. You killed him. There is only YouTube man now.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen
« on: August 03, 2023, 04:39:00 AM »
Yes, I got around to Severance late January of this year after hearing so much high praise for the show last year. I quite enjoyed that. I was sort of taking it slow at first. Watching an episode once every two days or so but then around the time of the 5th episode I just wanted to get on to the next and went through the last batch of episodes in the last two days. Too bad since it seems like it will be a long wait for the second season now. For awhile in February, it really stayed in my mind as I wished I could see more of how it may play out but now so much has happened in life since then that I'd pretty much forgotten I'd seen it until you posted this which is wild to me since it's definitely some of the best TV I've seen this year along with Yellowjackets Season 1 and The Bear Season 1. I should check out Season 2 for both of those shows now that I think about it. Oh, and Kobra Kai. Watched all 5 seasons of that too.

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: August 03, 2023, 04:28:12 AM »
Also, I figured out hard mode for Kirby's Dream Land. Looking at the message again, I needed to press those buttons while on the title screen. So reset the game, entered them and started it up. Those enemies are OUT FOR BLOOD!!! They ain't waiting for Kirby to come at them. They are taking the fight to him. It's clearly going to take some effort to get through that game now. Fortunately, for the purpose of Backlaugust, I can worry about that for next month while I move on to getting the credits for some other games. Definitely curious to find out what hard mode Kirby will be like when I get back to it later.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Downloads - August 3, 2023
« on: August 02, 2023, 11:34:19 PM »
Oh! The footnote is on the actual website article page.  :-[

Am I just the only one who mainly reads Talkback items just from the Forum threads created while most everyone else reads them direct from the website? Or are there others like me out there?

I've got the forums bookmarked so I just click on that bookmark and browse through the forums each day. Check out the new Talkback threads/articles that way. Rarely do I click to read it from the actual site unless it is a special kind of article like Best of List where there might be multiple pages. 

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: August 02, 2023, 11:29:26 PM »
No, I did not. :o It just said something about an Extra Game mode by pressing up, select and A. I was wondering if that was something different but when pressing them altogether on my 3DS nothing happened. I tried a couple different configurations in case B or Start needed to be pressed and had been mapped incorrectly. Nothing was happening so I just gave up and figured that was just to reset the game and allow you to start it over again. That ending screen surprised because I don't remember seeing that come up when I first played through the game on the 25th Anniversary collection. Wow! Learning Kirby stuff after all these decades!  :D Now I got to figure out how to make it start this hard mode....  ???

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: August 02, 2023, 06:21:34 PM »
Well, allow me to draw first blood and get this month rolling.

Kirby's Dream Land - 3DS VC. I debated for most of the time when the 3DS eShop was open if I should bother buying the first couple Kirby Dream Land games especially the first since it's pretty short and nothing too special. Plus as it was deadline for the closure, at that point, the Switch GB app had already been announced making it seem further irrelevant to get. Yet, I also reasoned that, things could change in the future. Maybe there would be times were I didn't have access to the app or Nintendo shut it down and changed how they handled their older games. And the only other version I had of it was the port of it for Kirby's 25th Anniversary collection. I'd much rather just pull out my 3DS to play it then go through all the time of getting it loaded on the Wii U. I was also buying a few other Kirby games like Kirby's Blowout Blast and had a bunch of other Kirby VC games so I decided to add them and really make the 3DS a strong Kirby game machine for myself. And now that decision has paid off by allowing me to beat the game for Backlaugust this year. Everything works out for Khushrenada!  8) ;)


Playing it again, I reminded that I really don't know the game as well as I think I do. My main exposure to Kirby's Dream Land has been Kirby Super Star and it is that version I have played way more and am more familiar with. I'm pretty sure the first time I ever played the actual original GB version was when I played it in the 25th Anniversary collection and was surprised to find out there was a world/level that had been excluded in the Superstar version with a Blimp boss battle. Totally surprised me. Playing the original again now for maybe only the second time is still a bit of a surprising experience. It's strange to not have the copy ability and levels just aren't what I expect. I don't think I made the connection that the spicy curry item in Smash Bros. comes from this game. I'm pretty sure that's the spicy curry that you in eat in a couple levels and then seem to shoot out some flames with. I feel I learned something new playing this. The challenge is still pretty mild though it would also probably been a bit harder if I didn't use the 3DS VC save states to help move things along faster. When thinking about versus other GB games, I still put it on the positive side of titles worth playing and think of it as the equivalent of Super Mario Land. Overall, it will get a quick snap judgement rating of 2.5/5 stars.

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: August 02, 2023, 03:52:36 AM »
Now you may be wondering from my previous post (since I know all anyone wants to do here is read my walls of text) just what all did buy to add 61 games to my backlog. It's your lucky day because I will tell you. First there's regret. Got my money's worth there. ;) But also the following:

Dsiware

Dragon Quest Wars
Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!
Chronos Twins
Dark Void Zero
Escapee GO!
Extreme Hangman
Maestro! Green Groove
Rayman
Mighty Milky Way
Mighty Flip Champs!

3DS VC Games

Pokemon Crystal
Kirby's Dream Land
Kirby's Dream Land 2
Harvest Moon
Mega Man Xtreme
Mega Man Xtreme 2
Harvest Moon 3
Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge
Mega Man II
Mega Man III
Mega Man IV
Mega Man V

3DS eShop Games

Kirby Fighters Deluxe
Tank Troopers
Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre
Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers
Weapon Shop de Omasse
Tokyo Crash Mobs
HarmoKnight
Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe
The Denpa Men 3: The Rise of Digitoll
The Denpa Men 2: Beyond The Waves
The Denpa Men: They Came By Waves
VVVVVV
Fluidity:Spin Cycle
Ketzal's Corridors
Aero Porter
Kersploosh!
Liberation Maiden
Kirby's Blowout Blast
Xeodrifter
The Starship Damrey
Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation
Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale
Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword
Gurumin 3D: A Monstrous Adventure

3DS Streetpass Games

Slot Car Rivals
Market Crashers
Feed Mii
Mii Trek
Ninja Launchers


Wii U eShop Games

Affordable Space Adventures

Switch eShop Games

Baba is You
Shantae and the Seven Sirens
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

Switch Physical Games

Xenoblade Chronicles 3
It Takes Two
Bravely Default 2
Octopath Traveller 2
Crusin' Blast
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Plus, there was some DLC for a few games. Woo-ee. It's hard to believe the 3DS eShop is gone. Still would regularly check in on it for so long. Still some titles I wonder if I should have picked up. (And that's the regret I was talking about earlier.  ;D ) As might be expected, there's a bunch of games from that list which I will be looking at tackling through for this month.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Downloads - August 3, 2023
« on: August 02, 2023, 03:31:45 AM »
Quote
Venba ($14.99*/$16.99: Monday)

What's with the asterisk? Nothing else has one and there is no footnote that it leads to.  ???  ???

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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2023! (Forums Aren't Dead Yet?) Edition
« on: August 01, 2023, 05:55:12 PM »
For myself, I'll guess I'll bring up what's been going on in my gaming world which is... not much. I started the year of by tackling a game I've wanted to get to for some time which was Paper Mario: Color Splash. I played and completed that within January. I wrapped up Picross 3D Round 2 in February. I may have attempted to try beating Hollow Knight completely in under 20 hours around that time but can't remember. In any case, I haven't touched the game since I last had attempted that. During the great eShop shutdown of March, I downloaded a whole whack of titles for the 3DS and a little bit for the Wii U. By the time that purchasing frenzy was over, I had a bunch of games I needed to organize and update my Backloggery with but I put it off until now. Yesterday and today, I finally went through and updated my account. I went from the 666 games I'd had since the start of January this year to 727. Yowzers! Of course, that also includes a few Switch eShop and physical games I bought after the eShop shutdown. Still, that's 61 titles added and I've hardly done much gaming to take anything off the backlog.

I've puttered around a bit with the NSO stuff. Been playing Mario Golf 64, Yoshi's Story and Mario Party in the N64 app but haven't really finished any of them. Been playing a bit of WarioWare and Super Mario Advance 2 on the Advance app. Started Joe & Mac and Harvest Moon and played and completed DKC3 on the SNES app. Have played a bit of Tetris and Super Mario Land 2 on the GB app. As you can see, it's just small little bits of gaming piece meal here and there. Played a little bit of Tetris 99 to keep up the platinum points for purchasing new Switch player avatars. Wheel of Fortune on the Switch keeps getting played when my family is in town.

At one point, I looked at my Backloggery Account and wanted to complete some stuff from last Backlaugust that I beat but didn't 100%. So, I played a bit more Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 and got close to unlocking most of the costumes but then let it fall to the wayside again. I almost wrapped up BoxBoy + BoxGirl and unlocking all the costumes there except I need a second player to help me finish the Balloon Challenges for the Two Player section. Something I may be able to arrange soon but it also remains just short of completion. I thought enough time had passed since I finished the first half of the Great Ace Attorney so I think around late May or start of June I began playing the second half. However, I've only gotten as far as starting the 4th (or second last case) yesterday. Not sure if I want to try and power through the rest of that game for Backlaugust or not.

The one thing that did suddenly dominate my gaming time was Civilization 3. I wanted to go through the Civilization games to remind me of what they were like and the evolution from 3 to 4 to 5 and then see about getting into 6 now that I had it on the Switch. Instead, I've just been playing round after round of Civ 3. It was the title I most played back during the GameCube days when I seemed to have the time for long gaming session. I still like so many things about it even now. Finally took a pause on it a couple weeks ago but I've done about 4 rounds that I think might average to around 20 hours a game so that's what I've been doing while my backlog grows and swells.

I definitely need to start checking some titles off.  ;)

On the other hand, my movie watching has really gone up. I've seen 125 films for the first time this year which totally surprised when I reviewed my movie list a few days ago. At this rate, I may get to 200 before the year is over. Now, some of that is because of length. There are 4 Harold Lloyd shorts which can range from 12 to 30 minutes. There are also a few movies I've seen which are a little over an hour long like Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome or Nancy Drew... Reporter which has definitely allowed me to see multiple movies in an evening. But it is always the same old balance for me. Either my gaming time goes up and my movie watching time goes down or vice-versa.

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