Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Completed: The Legend of Zelda - Oracle of Seasons

  • Finally beat a game I first got when it came out in Summer 2001 (thank you, Grandma!)
  • Needed a copy of Expert Gamer to help me finish this one off (wherever Nicole Kirk and Frank Provo are, thank you)
  • Really awesome game, fully deserves the Link's Awakening remaster treatment
  • Loved the animal friends (Moosh!) and a lot of really fun boss fights


 

Monday, June 3, 2024

Completed: NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona

  • Can you beat a racing game that can technically go on forever?
  • Won championships in all 4 levels of racing in the game so I'm counting it
  • Really fun career mode and the driving physics are great


 

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Completed: WarioWare: Touched!

  • I love any game that has an exclamation point in its title
  • I also love pretty much all WarioWare games and this was no exception
  • Games and especially the boss fights are a little simple
  • Fun unlockables as always
  • Here's a review from EGM Issue 189 because I think that's fun I don't have to explain myself to you
    (Click to enlarge)

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Completed: NEW Super Mario Land

  • Late to the party but found this awesome homebrew of Super Mario Land remade on SNES using New Super Mario Bros DS artwork. Good luck explaining that to your grandparents when you ask them for this for Christmas
  • Played in co-op mode with MY WIFE. Playing a Gameboy game in co-op is almost surreal at first
  • Retains the unique feel and control of SML really well while expanding upon everything else
  • So many cool ideas in the levels and gimmicks keep the (very short) play through interesting
  • The SHMUP sections are so much fun

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Completed: Pokemon SoulSilver

  • I had never played Gen 2 and the remakes are highly regarded - I can see why
  • Overflowing with content and things to do, if you want to do them (I did not)
  • Excluding my starter (the water one) 4/5 of my Pokemans were from Gen 1
    • Alakazam is my MVP as always
  • Pokemon games are eternally cozy. Love how the DS games look too, just like a slightly improved GBA game
  • Pokemon games are eternally grind-y too. But that's ok





Saturday, March 23, 2024

Completed: Mega Man Zero 3

  • Another fun, solid, 8/10 Mega Man Zero game. What more can you want?
  • Again, some really challenging bosses, some not so much
  • The largest amount of text I've ever seen in a Mega Man game. Zzzzzzzzzzzz
  • Pointless hub world

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Completed: Mega Man Zero

  • Really fun, I'm obviously late to the party but Mega Man games + a sword and I'm all in
  • Fun and surprisingly hard boss fights. Most of the levels were easy though
  • I'm an idiot and forgot to use elements for the first 5~ boss fights to exploit their weaknesses
    • This is the entire gimmick of Mega Man series - I'm dumb 
  • Felt a little validated when I re-read the EGM review (see below) from back in the day about how hard the game was. Without the save points in the Legacy collection I would have definitely gotten annoyed fast of having to replay the whole level each time I died at a boss