La Mulana: HELL TEMPLE (Steam):
I've basically spent my entire weekend playing in
one excruciatingly hard sequence and the worst part is rooms after that are not as hard but if you mess up and fall down you will be sent back and will have to redo the hard part again.
It took me most of my saturday to learn how to get to where i stand here:
The other half i spent trying to learn how not fall off it because of charging monsters in the next room.
Then i spent my Sunday trying to learn the right jumps here:
Progress is extremely slow because one little slip up and i am redoing previous spike room again and that requires from 3 to 15 retakes (STILL, after basically spending a entire day in there).
This is unbelievably hard and grueling, dark souls my ass.
Caesar III:
It's 216 BC, i am governor of Miletus and Caesar seriously hates me. I've stupidly imported too much marble and overspent. Took two loans from him and couldn't return the debt (was a bit too busy trying to, you know,
feed my people and repel barbarians).
So Caesar's all like: "okay, i'm through with you" and sent an army to arrest me. I am still deeply in debt but thankfully i have built an efficient weapon infrastructure and organized trade with other cities so that will give me some money (too bad traders come too infrequent).
But the most of my weapons goes to building an army. Two infantry legions and one
unit of skirmishers.
Despite hating my guts and sending punitive detachment after me, Caesar still sends requests to me to deliver certain goods in time. Fish, weapons, furniture, whatever i got. Had to built and entire new industrial district for furniture alone. And i can't even use it myself, because people start demanding furniture only after they get enough pottery and i can't get that because i have no clay around me and should import it. Which i am not going to do because i am trying to make money, not spend it.
I raised taxes a bit and decreased monthly pay and also started to turn off industries more often. After i sent furniture to Caesar i turned that industry off completely to save on wages and that also freed me more men for building weapons.
So roman legionaries finally came. I knew where they will be coming from and placed my guys there. At first i wanted to cut down all shrubbery around me but then i noticed soldiers can't go through it, so i decided to use it. I placed my infantry legions in the bottleneck between two trees and put skirmishers behind them.
And it worked, it was like
Thermopylae in miniature. Three heavy legions one after another trying to come through and dying under the rain of javelins.
Caesar instead of getting more angry at me, started to respect me more and my favour with him gone up, kinda funny but makes sense from gameplay side.
So now i've largely fixed my economy, amassed a good army and now all i have to do is to do all Caesar's deliveries and shower him with gifts to get in his good graces and i should be set.
Rayman Legends (Xbox 360):
Whoever called these levels "8 bit" has obviously no idea what 8 bit is. Filters are very disorienting, sometimes i even started to feel physically ill a bit.
Last "8 bit" level is very cruel because filters become so intense in the very last second you can't see a thing and don't know what to do. I had to redo regular filterless version of this level to see what i need to do there after failing three times on the last meter.
Apart from that timed invasion are also pretty tough, i got lucky on few and got golds on first tries but most of them require many playthroughs.
Infiltration Station invasion is the last level where i STILL can't get gold on, despite trying for a few hours. Apart from that, i got diamond cups on all worlds.
Though, i didn't touched Origins levels at all and will have to do those to get all 700 lums. Doing every other level nets you around 400 lums, leaving 300, almost half for playing rehashed levels (no, i am never letting this go, Ubisoft).
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS):
Seriously loving this game. It moves swiftly, constantly throwing new mechanics at me. Everything in it is based on drawing scribbles on maps which is inherently fun.
Romanos shooting range min game is super fun.
And now i know where Ridiculous Fishing stole it's gameplay idea from.
Ghost and Goblins Arcade (MAME):
My strategy to make enemies disappear with a screen border is just as successful here as with Ninja Gaiden. The best strategy to beat red devils is not to fight them but to wake them up and then jump off of descend to somewhere making as much vertical space between you and the devil as possible and that will make the devil disappear.
Using this strategy and after finding the best routes i can safely get to level 5 on one life.
Level 5 is probably the hardest, especially that one place where you need to climb up but golem is standing right on top of the ladder so you wait until he moves to the right all the while enemies keep respawning. Even the music changes in that spot to be more dramatic.
The worst part is when you climb the ladder and because of controls you sometimes get stuck at the end and can't move out away from the ladder for a second leaving yourself with literally your pants down against the monsters.
Level 6 is funny at how seemingly impossible it is, it's filled with level bosses now turned mooks. Still i figured some robust strategies.
I looked up NES game playthroughs and it seems to somewhat different from arcade game and seems to be even harder with more troll items spread around.
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