Completion Thread 2012: Hai! Dekimashita!

90. PS All Stars Battle Royale

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Plat. Played it an entire Saturday morning and afternoon and went to see some old friends and play Smash. Barely 12 seconds in replaying Brawl for the first time in four years and it heavily beats this game. It's weird having real-human models next to cartoony ones, or seeing Sweet Tooth or Nathan Drake burst Sackboy. Some pretty fuggo menus, too. Probably could have spent my time better.

91. Sonic Generations

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Got it off Steam. Looks great maxed out on a beast PC. Fun stuff.

ARBM: As wrong as you may be about Zelda 2, kudos on beating it. That last dungeon in particular is fucking brutal.

It wasn't that bad. Death Mountain was more trying.

Zelda II is actually a really nice game, mostly because of the music, the sound defeating an enemy produces, and downward thrust. I'm just grumpy.

#28.

Short and repetitive, but it's the turtles on Game Boy, damn it! I've always liked this one, and it was fun to go through it again since I found it this week for $5.

#29.

Not as good as Turtles in Time on SNES but still competent and highly playable. The ending sucked though.

I like playing Fall of the Foot Clan once in a while. The game is pretty great for what it is.

I wish Hyperstone Heist would just let me play that one level that is a boss rush, that part is awesome. The rest of the game is just me wishing I was playing Turtles in Time instead.

Oh man, I played the shit out of Hyper Stone Heist as a kid. Played that because I didn't have Turtles in Time.

The Last Story- Man, just man. Excellent game. People always hype up Xenoblade, but i think this is my favorite of the two. The story gets soooo stupid, but the characters are some of the best, jrpg or otherwise, and the British voices only make them the best ever. The graphics are really good! Like if you squint you'll forget you're playing on Wii. I said it once before, but if every Wii game had this level of craft, the system wouldn't have been the joke it was.

There are a few things that keep it from being THE BEST GAME EVER: the levels aren't well connected at ALL. There's no sense of cohesiveness whatsoever when you go from a random spot in the city to an underground cavern, and there's no real way to access it otherwise. Besides stuff like going to the castle from the town, it really feels like you're just warping from one place to another.
The battles can get a little confusing, and the tougher ones can get really annoying. There's usually some trick to beating the bosses, but it can get frustrating when you've spent a substantial amount of time only to get a game over. There is a satisfaction to just barely eking out a victory though, and the actual combat is pretty satisfying. It'd be nice if there was more time spent between other characters besides Shulk Elza Zael though.
The narrator is stupid, really awful, and at times it made the game and its story feel cheap. He usually simply regurgitated what you already knew, but sometimes he explained the warp between areas. The game seriously would've been better without.

Overall, so good.

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Originally Posted by Rumpy

Oh man, I played the shit out of Hyper Stone Heist as a kid. Played that because I didn't have Turtles in Time.

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After my comments last night I replayed Hyperstone Heist to refresh my memory. It's really a bit of a mixed bag. The gameplay is fantastic, it is faster and the control is much tighter than TiT, and there seem to be more foot soldiers on screen at any given time with no slowdown. But, the game is short and most of the stages are uninspired. With a little more work, I think this game really could have been great.

#11: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Loved it. For me these games are the spiritual successor to the Indiana Jones movies and are fun to play and gorgeous to look at. The audio and voice acting are fantastic as well. This time around I only played through the single player campaign mode and set a goal of finding 80 out of the 100 hidden treasures, which I did.

Now it's on to either Soul Reaver 2 or Resident Evil 0. Maybe I'll flip a coin.

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Originally Posted by Finch

The Last Story- Man, just man. Excellent game. People always hype up Xenoblade, but i think this is my favorite of the two. The story gets soooo stupid, but the characters are some of the best, jrpg or otherwise, and the British voices only make them the best ever. The graphics are really good! Like if you squint you'll forget you're playing on Wii. I said it once before, but if every Wii game had this level of craft, the system wouldn't have been the joke it was.

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On a sidenote, a couple weeks back Xseed made mention that this was by far their company's best selling game, good to know the Rainfallers stepped up.

Or the dudes banking on this being worth Earthbound cash