While I streamed Yoshi's story this weekend, I had a serious old man moment. Most of my viewers who engaged talked about how much they enjoyed playing Yoshi's story as a kid and how they still love it today. And then one of them asked me, "did you play that when you were in high school?" With just a slight insinuation that I seemed too old to have been playing it back on the N64.
I thought about it for just a second and realized, no, I didn't play that until I was in college. And then I paused a little bit longer and remembered I actually didn't play it until right after I graduated college. So yeah, a bunch of 30-year-olds were making me feel old today. Fuckers.
This weekend, I've been playing Sonic the Hedgehog 1 (Genesis). I beat the game but was unable to get all of the Chaos Emeralds in order to see the good ending; I got five of them, so not bad. I will make another attempt soon.
I've also been playing Ninja Gaiden (NES). My hands, thumbs and wrists all hurt. Fuck this game.
This weekend, I just kind of goofed off with a couple of games after finishing South Park. I played a little of Halo Infinite and started a game of Ninja Gaiden II Black.
Aside from Yoshi's Story and Snap, I've been playing Vampyre. At least I'm trying to. I think I'm trying to complete missions too early because I constantly die. Plus the damn game has crashed on me 3 times.
I'm still diligently working my way through M&L Brothership. The game gets better once Bowser and his minions are introduced. Their writing is much more witty, their story is somewhat engaging and the battles are better too. Too bad they only pop up after about 20 hours. Their chapter also seems to have already ended.
There's been a story reveal that was obvious from the very start and was revealed in such a deadpan matter that even if you were totally clueless you'd still not have cared. Anyhow, I'm currently 30 hours in and I think I'm close to the end. I've uncovered all fo the map and seem on my way to the villains stronghold. Here's hoping the game doesn't send me off on some kind of wild goose hunt around the discovered islands or something and just lets me get to the boss.
I'm thinking of playing an older M&L RPG after this, to see if the earlier ones were indeed much better, or if I've just become much harder to impress. On the other hand, I might want to play something else as a palette cleanser first.
Ninja Gaiden NES is brutal. Level 3 has these crazy birds constantly attacking me while jumping from platform to platform. Why am I still playing this?
Ninja Gaiden NES is brutal. Level 3 has these crazy birds constantly attacking me while jumping from platform to platform. Why am I still playing this?
Ninja Gaiden was hard even by the standards of the time. Even with Nintendo Power to help as a guide, I don't think I ever made it past the fifth level. The the next NES games in the series got even harder, and I just avoided them like the plague. The third one is supposed to be completely brutal. If I remember correctly, it's supposed to be one of those games where they made they increase the difficulty of the original to make the American version harder.
Ninja Gaiden was hard even by the standards of the time. Even with Nintendo Power to help as a guide, I don't think I ever made it past the fifth level. The the next NES games in the series got even harder, and I just avoided them like the plague. The third one is supposed to be completely brutal. If I remember correctly, it's supposed to be one of those games where they made they increase the difficulty of the original to make the American version harder.
Yeah, I remember them doing that because we had game rentals and Japan didn't. Contra Hard Corps Japan has a 3-hit life bar, the American version didn't. Just punishment for us cheap Americans.
Yeah, the NES Ninja Gaiden are incredibly tough. I did beat them back in the day but not sure I could do it today without some sort of help from things like save states. I probably could eventually but I really don’t have that kind of patience anymore.
I thought about it for just a second and realized, no, I didn't play that until I was in college. And then I paused a little bit longer and remembered I actually didn't play it until right after I graduated college. So yeah, a bunch of 30-year-olds were making me feel old today. Fuckers.
This weekend, I've been playing Sonic the Hedgehog 1 (Genesis). I beat the game but was unable to get all of the Chaos Emeralds in order to see the good ending; I got five of them, so not bad. I will make another attempt soon.
I've also been playing Ninja Gaiden (NES). My hands, thumbs and wrists all hurt. Fuck this game.
This weekend, I just kind of goofed off with a couple of games after finishing South Park. I played a little of Halo Infinite and started a game of Ninja Gaiden II Black.
Been playing Ninja Gaiden II Black this weekend. Man I love this game. Graphical upgrade is quite nice.
What system are you playing it on?
I'm still diligently working my way through M&L Brothership. The game gets better once Bowser and his minions are introduced. Their writing is much more witty, their story is somewhat engaging and the battles are better too. Too bad they only pop up after about 20 hours. Their chapter also seems to have already ended.
There's been a story reveal that was obvious from the very start and was revealed in such a deadpan matter that even if you were totally clueless you'd still not have cared. Anyhow, I'm currently 30 hours in and I think I'm close to the end. I've uncovered all fo the map and seem on my way to the villains stronghold. Here's hoping the game doesn't send me off on some kind of wild goose hunt around the discovered islands or something and just lets me get to the boss.
I'm thinking of playing an older M&L RPG after this, to see if the earlier ones were indeed much better, or if I've just become much harder to impress. On the other hand, I might want to play something else as a palette cleanser first.
Nothing but Doom for me this weekend.
I need more weapon mods but can't find those units to unlock them. Got the BFG last night.
Ninja Gaiden was hard even by the standards of the time. Even with Nintendo Power to help as a guide, I don't think I ever made it past the fifth level. The the next NES games in the series got even harder, and I just avoided them like the plague. The third one is supposed to be completely brutal. If I remember correctly, it's supposed to be one of those games where they made they increase the difficulty of the original to make the American version harder.
Yeah, I remember them doing that because we had game rentals and Japan didn't. Contra Hard Corps Japan has a 3-hit life bar, the American version didn't. Just punishment for us cheap Americans.
Yeah, the NES Ninja Gaiden are incredibly tough. I did beat them back in the day but not sure I could do it today without some sort of help from things like save states. I probably could eventually but I really don’t have that kind of patience anymore.
I beat the first Ninja Gaiden but I could never complete the other two. I also beat the arcade game.
I'd forgot about the arcade game. I think there's an Arcade Archives version on Switch too.
Thought it released in March.