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6. Disgaea 1 PSP
Finished yesterday:
7. Mass Effect
Really good game. There were a couple spots where I felt my squad was underpowered for the mission, but I did only 1 side quest, so maybe that had something to do with it. If I didn't have another game coming in the mail tomorrow, I'd go ahead and start Mass Effect 2 today. Definitely left me wanting more.
6. Red Faction Guerrilla (360) - Wrapped this up today after spending about 17 hours on it. I completed most (but definitely not all) side missions. Really enjoyed it - smashing buildings and enemies with the sledgehammer did not get old. I enjoyed most of the "end game" but the last mission was a huge pain. I don't know why game designers do that.
Too bad this series was turned in a different direction and now is no longer.
#9) Enslaved- not particularly great, but not bad for $15. I got Enslaved a while ago cheap but never got around to playing it. I had a lull in my gaming, and it guilt-tripped me in to checking it out. Fun combat, stupid jumping that's impossible to screw up but looks neat, and just long enough to not wear out its welcome. The ending was more than a bit silly, though.
James
34. Resident Evil
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whoa. I really liked this. It's been a couple years since I played the first three, but I'm pretty confident that this trashes all of them. The difficulty is appropriately bumped up from the originals, allowing the standard difficulty here to give me plenty of tense stretches, and dying to reach a save room all the time fits pretty great with the game's atmosphere. Baiting and weaving around zombies is more fun in this than any of the others, and the whole crimson head thing? Wonderful. The backgrounds and models are extremely good-looking, too. I wish they had enemies bust through doors a bit more often!
I can't imagine a game with the RE formula being better than this, and I can't believe I once considered the three SH games as better than this series overall.
also i muted this game when running by each new set of windows because i'm a gigantic puss
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#10 - 999
Bought this a while ago half out of curiosity, but finally got around to starting it last week. Fascinating game. I have never really played a visual novel before, but I really liked this enough to get all the endings.
I am hyped for Chunsoft's upcoming PSVita/3DS game now. I'd like to try Ever17 too.
999 was neat.
35. Vampire Killer (MD)
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Right off the bat, this is totally not like Akumajou Dracula SFC. Crazy presentation! The music is wonderful, there are a lot of really spectacular looking effects, and there are a good number of truly memorable areas (the leaning tower, omg). I only played as Johnny Morris (on Normal difficulty, though Yoshi says I should play Expert and I plan on it), but the whip controls are probably a pretty good compromise between old and 8-way. I feel like the heart of this game is the boss battles, which isn't really what I thought of Akumajou SFC, the original, or Rondo. The stages are significantly easier in comparison. The retry structure is super-weird, too, thanks to that password system.
All in all, a pretty good game, though right now I'm still putting it below the original and Rondo.
Vampire Killer is also the name of an MSX2 game. Yore f-channigans are leading to confusion! (i seriously had to look that up, even though i know yoshi was just talking about it)
these are some face-melting f-channigans, i know. I wonder if the name being different has something to do with the game itself not totally falling in line with the other games in the series in terms of pacing. It almost seems like a faster, leaner game.
anyway, that MSX2 one is totally also on the to-do list. Next is probably Akumajou Densetsu/CV3, then MSX2 Vampire Killer, and then the one I am super excited for, the X68k one.
Is Vampire Killer the same game as Bloodlines?
yeah.
And as far as I can tell, it's exactly the same save an art tile or two, so I could have just played and talked about the US version, but my raging f-chandom wouldn't let me.