Completion Thread 2013: Prove the Justice of Our Culture

[EvilMog]

#30 - Turok (360)

Not bad technically speaking; it's biggest sin is just plain ol' being boring. Turning Turok into the average space marine story with regenerating health and a ton of armored space marines to fight against made 3/4ths of the game super dull. Not good enough to warrant seeking out and not bad enough to be good. It's in that dead zone in the middle where nobody cares.

Whoever made like only 10 of the 43 achievements single player: fuck you. Seriously, fuck you. Nobody is ever going to play your crappy multiplayer campaign like it's fucking Call of Duty. Points for optimism but kill yourself.

Wow, you summed up my thoughts exactly.

[MechDeus]

If you were playing Reckoning on anything but hard from the get go, you were playing easy mode.

If you're playing Reckoning on hard you're playing easy mode.

[GohanX]

7. Castlevania

This game is good. It's dense. The whip feels great. I guess holy water is overpowered, but making it to a boss with it equipped is a feat. Other than that, it's flawless.

I thought I was a boss for beating it on two credits or so and was humbled by hard mode. Holy lord.

I always thought the game was unbeatable until I discovered how overpowered the holy water is. Now, if I get to Death with it equipped, it's on motherfucker.

[A Robot Bit Me]

It wrecks the two mummies and Frankenstein & Associate, too. Getting to either of those or Death requires clearing the entire stage without dying, though, so it's almost balanced.

[Compass]

5. Wipeout 2048 - Vita

Pretty good if you can get past the load times. Every time I thought I was done it pulled me back in. I thought I was competent at these games when Wip3out was new, but this "Beat Zico" nonsense humbles me.

6. Touch My Katamari - Vita

What a shock, another lazy cash-grab from Scamco. Which I encouraged by buying. Nothing new here except a gay rear touch pad stretching gimmick and a crappier frame-rate than I recall. More disc-locked content from the masters who may have invented it, but this time you at least have the option of sloooooooooowly grinding your way to unlocking it in-game.

7. Gunman Clive - eShop

Boring. Why do people praise this? Because it's $2? I had to force myself to finish the girl's route.

8. Donkey Kong Country Returns - Wii

I was not a fan of the SNES games but this is legit. Goddamn, this is good. Some of the best designed levels in the genre. Everything is so creative and kinetic. I even kind of liked the waggle, although I didn't touch the time trials after the first level. It was clear they were not designed for quick and repeated retries, and that I was guaranteed to be staring at hours of loading screens in between attempts. No thanks.

But I may do everything else. I'm curious what's behind that secret door requiring the orbs... I wish the remake/port was for Wii U. It's already attractive, but an HD redressing would be sublime.

9. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep - PSP

Best KH game of them all? Maybe my favorite now above Chain of Memories! I love how many mini-goals you're always working towards: leveling up skills so you can meld them and unlock new skills and passive effects, leveling up finishing moves to unlock new ones, using skills to unlock command styles, using D-Links to get those star-thingy drops to level up those. It reminded me of The World Ends With You with how so many things level up (and how the pins specifically leveled up).

I put 43 hours in to finish all three character stories plus the final segment, but I left plenty of commands unlocked, and the Arena and Culdcept game thingy practically untouched. I only got two of the eight trophies.

This has the best story in the series as well imo, although maybe that's not saying much. There are far fewer characters than I remember in KH2 and CoM (still haven't played DDD), and there isn't nearly as much WTF horseplay going on. The story actually makes sense and does a great job setting up the first Kingdom Hearts game. Aqua is cool and there aren't quite as many cringe-worthy moments. Utada Hikaru's "Simple and Clean" still gets me (although the original JP song still kills it), but the music throughout most of the levels is repetitive and insanity-inducing.

[Mzo]

Yay compass played BBS!

I did it the other way around and 100%ed each character one by one. Didn't work out too hot because I burnt out before finishing Aqua's story D=

It is seriously good, right? I even like the stupid board game.

I also agree totally re: 2048 and Touch My Katamari.

[Changeling]

Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon(3DS):

Great at first, wears its welcome out a couple hours in though. The end levels were alot more fun than the rest of the game. The game is a looker though I say meh to it. Pick it up if you like the first, I guess.

[Chux]

11. MG2SS (MSX): Wow, they really did pull an awful lot from this to make MGS, didn't they.

[Thief Silver]

1? ActRaiser - This game is so good, though I ignored as much of the sim portion as possible until the end when I wanted some more levels for the boss rush finish. Overall a pretty easy game due to the magic being absurd, though I've got most of the patterns figured out at the end of the game. Never even played it as a kid, but it was nice and didn't outstay it's welcome. Kind of want to do professional mode at some point though.

[GohanX]

Try playing the japanese version sometime, it has a translation patch. It's considerably more difficult, but not nearly as hard as Actraiser 2.