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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by Lemonade on August 31, 2025, 10:03:04 PM »
hat is one of the hardest trophies in the whole game.

I dont really care about trophies/achievements. I have never gone out of my way to get one.
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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 941: Consider Deleting the Last Five Minutes
« Last post by pokepal148 on August 31, 2025, 06:20:48 PM »
As someone who is at the tail end of Johnny's illustrious(?) career as host of this show in my relisten, I am shocked to hear that Johnny's audio setup might have caused problems for this show. This is completely unprecedented of course and there is absolutely no record showing that this has ever happened in any previous episode of this show nor any implication that it might have happened frequently enough for it to be mentioned on this show, especially on episodes he wasn't present for like 103. I ask that you remove this blatant slander immediately.
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by M.K.Ultra on August 31, 2025, 05:10:04 PM »
I have one last game to add to the list. I just finished up Iron Man VR on Playstation VR. The game has 12 chapters and I had been doing one a day when I could with plans to finish last week. When I tried to fire it up for chapter 11, the headset was not working. It has malfunctioned before with the displays in the headset working intermittently, but this time I could not get it working with any adjustments. I went to the local video game repair shop and they "respectfully declined" citing an absence of parts. Apparently this is the typical cause for these headsets dying and so all the broken ones have the same broken part  :'(. I starting looking at buying another on from GameStop or sending it to Sony for repairs and then gave it one more try and it started working again. I was able to finish the last two chapters today just in time. The game itself is pretty solid with some fun flying and shooting. Surprisingly the flying did not make me motion sick and the game really takes advantage of the move controllers. I only got 28/42 of the trophies and while I plan to go back and get more, I am not sure if I have the patience to get all of them. Somebody should really port this to PSVR2 as I think it deserves the upgrade.

Overall a pretty solid month and with six games that might be a personal record. Feel free to post about anything completed in August throughout the next few days. I will total up the games and post the leaders.
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by M.K.Ultra on August 31, 2025, 05:01:40 PM »
Yeah, I'd like to get back to Stray at some point. Got really frustrated trying to do a challenge on that first level where you try to complete it without getting hit, and ended up just putting the game on the backburner.

I think I know the challenge you are referring to. That is one of the hardest trophies in the whole game. I recommend saving that for later. After playing the game you can revisit individual chapters to work on challenges like that.
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by broodwars on August 31, 2025, 02:36:39 PM »
Finished Stray just in time for the end of August. Thats now the third time I have played through it since it originally launched on PC. I love it. The Switch version obviously doesnt look as good as the Series X version, but on Switch 2, it runs great.

Besides the cute cat, I just really like the world design of the game. Its kind of post apocalyptic, but things look cool with neon lights in the city, or creepily lit underground sections, or gross infected parts you have to run through.
It has interesting characters too with all the robots you meet. Its a good story too. Overall great adventure of making your way to the outside of the bunker.

Yeah, I'd like to get back to Stray at some point. Got really frustrated trying to do a challenge on that first level where you try to complete it without getting hit, and ended up just putting the game on the backburner.
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by M.K.Ultra on August 31, 2025, 01:47:25 PM »

I was able to win the final mission and beat Advance Wars yesterday. More specifically, I beat the campaign of Advance Wars via Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp on Switch. I played on the Classic mode and had a completion of 64% after the 22 hour run. This was my first Advance Wars game and I quite enjoyed it. While it is similar to Fire Emblem, having all the units just be vehicle or generic infantry allows you to really think of them as disposable and shift your strategy. There are some nice options to turn off the music and animations to speed things up. Way Forward also put in some nice cut scenes and tutorials to modernize the game. I am not sure if I will go back and 100% this but I am definitely looking forward to playing the second campaign.
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by M.K.Ultra on August 31, 2025, 01:39:33 PM »
Finished Stray just in time for the end of August.

Stray and Little Kitty Big City  :o You had a double header cat adventure!
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by broodwars on August 31, 2025, 10:37:16 AM »
Might as well add one last game, myself. Haven't 100%ed it yet (and I don't know if I will), but I have rolled credits on it: Tamarin.

To be blunt, this is a spiritual successor to Jet Force Gemini, one of my favorite N64 games, made by former Rare devs (including David Wise on the music) so however bad it may be I needed to try it myself. I took interest in this game after it made an appearance on Rerez's Just Bad Games series:

http://youtu.be/DtG8QNC5DiQ

This game feels like 2 badly mismatched games forced together: something akin to a Banjo game and Jet Force Gemini. You spend half the game running around fairly generic open areas collecting Fireflies and completing challenges in order to power doors that take you to other areas. Aside from some absolutely infuriating coin-collecting challenges, these sections are generic but not too bad. The most annoying thing is if you die, you lose any collectibles obtained since your last checkpoint. This makes the later areas absolutely infuriating since there's some pinpoint platforming required over instant-death pits.

Then there's the other half of the game, where Tamarin gets handed an arsenal of guns and you run through a series of corridors shooting ant soldiers ripped right out of JFG. In these sections, you lose all your 3D platform movement abilities, which gets really annoying when the game hides collectibles behind obstacle sections that you can't use jumping dives or crouch jumps to clear.

And because it seems every spiritual successor to a Rare game is determined to not learn one major lesson from their predecessors, let's talk about Birds. Remember how much everyone loved the Tribals system in JFG, where shooting sections would contain lots of little furry hostages you had to save before the Ants killed them, forcing you to leave the area altogether and reload it all? Yeah, the Birds are Tribals, and they work the exact same way, but with the added bonus of also occasionally picking up and flying across the room to new lethal perches. and yes, the ant soldiers absolutely will gun them down if you don't kill them quickly, and you DO have to leave the entire area and reload it if you fail (or die, which resets back to your last checkpoint). Unlike JFG, you don't have to save ALL of them, but every 3 you save can be planeted in a birdhouse in the platforming areas for a Firefly and you need 40 out of 60 Fireflies to clear the game so yeah...you need most of them.

And yes, if you don't reach a checkpoint before you die, you lose any birds you've saved since your last one, which is all sorts of fun when the later areas are full of ants sporting shields and hand grenades.

I actually had a decent time with the platforming sections, but the shooting sections just got incredibly monotonous towards the end, despite there only being 3 of them, and the end of the game has you backtracking through all 3 of them in 1 sequence so that's just wonderful. Nintendo's playtesting is sorely missed here, as the shooting sections become utter mazes where it's hard to tell where to go to progress, and several times I ran into the end of the area before I was ready.  And while Wise's music is pleasant enough, it doesn't even come close to the quality of the worst track in the JFG soundtrack.
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by Lemonade on August 31, 2025, 10:26:55 AM »
Finished Stray just in time for the end of August. Thats now the third time I have played through it since it originally launched on PC. I love it. The Switch version obviously doesnt look as good as the Series X version, but on Switch 2, it runs great.

Besides the cute cat, I just really like the world design of the game. Its kind of post apocalyptic, but things look cool with neon lights in the city, or creepily lit underground sections, or gross infected parts you have to run through.
It has interesting characters too with all the robots you meet. Its a good story too. Overall great adventure of making your way to the outside of the bunker.
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General Gaming / Re: Backlaugust 2025 - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
« Last post by Lemonade on August 27, 2025, 08:31:36 AM »

I just learned that there is a physical version of the game through Fangamer so I deleted it from my wishlist and plan on picking that up next month.

Yes, I actually preordered it on Fangamer and then later learned that they also published it physically in Australia too. So I could have just preordered it at EB, instead of importing it.
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