Last save point stats: Bowser's Castle Great Door Mario LV39, Luigi LV39, Coins 2809, Time 27:18
Beat it at LV39 (boy was that a long battle against Cackletta)
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
8/9/2010
Beat Pawn & Knight on Master difficulty with Hot Violet
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
8/10/2010
Beat Bishop & Queen on Master difficulty with Hot Violet
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
8/10/2010
Beat it with 99% completion (hmm, missing just one treasure chest somewhere)
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
8/12/2010
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with The Stingray
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Sly Joker
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Fighting Comet
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Falcon MK-II
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Fireball
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Windwalker
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with JB Crystal
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
8/12/2010
100% completion (found last chest in Area 2, swimming along a water current to to the next screen to the left, how the heck did I miss this one earlier, it was clearly out in the open)
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
8/14/2010
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Silver Thunder
Fastest Championship time on Synobazz with Hot Violet - 1'51"71
Metroid Fusion
8/21/2010
Last save point stats: Time 03:12 E=2099 M=250 PB=74 Main Deck
Clear Time 03:17 Rate for Collecting Items: 100%
Metroid Fusion
8/22/2010
Last save point stats: Time 02:33 E=2099 M=250 PB=74 Main Deck
Clear Time 02:37 Rate for Collecting Items: 100%
Also worked on Mario Kart: Super Circuit from 8/15 to 8/19, completing the 50cc using Mario on all Cups, including the Extra Tracks with varying rankings, tried the 100cc, beating the Super Circuit tracks only using Mario, also did some time trials as well, but as of yet, I'm not very good at this game, and I guess I'm just not into it as much as I used to be back when Super Mario Kart first came out on the SNES, F-Zero on the other hand, while feeling so cheap on Master difficulty is a rush. Might just take a bit longer to take to the Mario Kart one.
A few buddies, my girlfriend and I went on a road trip to Florida last week so I picked up Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the ride and I finished it off yesterday.
I'd already played Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, so I knew what to expect as far as gameplay goes: tons of different puzzles wrapped up in a simplistic point and click adventure. There were 120 puzzles in the main story and 15 challenge puzzles. Like Diabolical Box there was tons of variety to keep you interested and enough challenge to make you think.
There's no missable puzzles, so if you really don't care about the story at all, you can just zip through the dialog and get down to business, picking up the puzzles you didn't find at Granny Riddleton's. The story itself was pretty good, though I thought the one in Diabolical Box was better and less predictable. Either way, it was nice to finally use the passwords I got in Diabolical Box to see what it unlocks in Curious Village and vice versa. I really like that the games are connected like that.
In the end, I solved 134/135 puzzles, leaving just the final sliding puzzle. After a while it just wasn't worth it to put in any more time. Coincidentally, this is the exact same result I got in Diabolical Box. Everything, but the last sliding puzzle solved, oh well.
If you like puzzles and brainteasers and the like then I'd definitely recomend this game or it's sequels. They're especially good for a long trip since you can pause and save literally at anytime without losing any progress and without worrying about forgetting what you were doing.
Last save point stats: Time 01:47 E=2099 M=250 PB=74 Main Deck
Clear Time 01:51 Rate for Collecting Items: 100% (got best ending)
Got F-Zero GP Legend later that afternoon, played the hell out of that all to the early morning the next day, cleared several story modes, but mostly been tackling the Zero Test, which while frustratingly hard, is somehow very addicting. I love the tracks in this game, much better than the very basic designs of Maximum Velocity.
Got two more games yesterday, Gradius Galaxies and Shaman King: Master of Spirits, played a few games of Gradius Galaxies, furthest I got was to stage 7 boss before losing my last life, chosing not to use continues. This game is pretty awesome, but finding it a slight bit difficult to play on a handheld. Shaman King is what I feel Castlevania should be like, this game is great, when I had played it last year on emulator I knew if ever I got the GBA (or DS) that this was a must get. So far I'm 51% into the game, time is at 03:00 exactly, playing on normal difficulty, last thing I did was defeat Joco (one of Yoh's friends, whom was possessed by Magister), and got Mic from him (Jaguar Swipe ability - can sprint fast and jump farther when used).
super mario wii done. beat the game on Thursday (after 4 days) and got all of the star coins on Friday (5 days). great game, but still could use improvements (like secret power-ups in SMB3). Still, overall a good game.
I finished up Batman: Arkham Asylum. I found everything found in the story mode and beat a bunch of the challenges.
At first I didn't much care for the game, but after finally getting used to all the controls and figuring out how the game mechanics work this ended up being really awesome. The story was extremely good and the idea of setting a Batman game in the asylum was absolutely brilliant.
This game was delightfully dark and Mark Hamill's voice work as the Joker was perfect. Controls give you a ton a options once you get used to them and you there is a lot of exploring you can do. By the time you have all of Batman's gadgets, I'm pretty sure there's no where on the island that you can see that you won't be able to get to.
It's not the longest game in the world, but if you want to have a really good time with an action game then I definitely recommend this one.
But I did get 200/200 on Deadrising 2: Case Zero this past weekend. Didn't mention it in the sig because it was only a $5 XBL download as a "teaser" to Deadrising 2. Tons of fun though!
Time 07:35, 99% (just can seem to figure out what I'm missing, guess I'll have to start anew and map everything out)
Shaman King: Master of Spirits 2
9/2/2010
Beat it! Clear Time 6:48:47, 90%
9/8/2010
Time 11:16, 100% (was very difficult to figure out what I was missing with this one til I realized that by combining spirits, that also adds to the percentage of completion in this game, so was able to get my 100% for this one)
After beating both Shaman King games I played the hell out of F-Zero GP Legend, finishing all of the story mode (least favorite part of this game), earned all of the racers to use in Grand Prix and Time Attack, beat all of the Grand Prix (most familiar part of F-Zero, could care less about the story mode) cups, found my favorite racer in the game, Lucy Liberty, used her to get some great times in the Time Attack (fun part of the game), got all silver and golds in the Zero Test (another enjoyable mode) which was extremely difficult, still working on getting all of them gold, but at least don't have any more bronzes. This game is really awesome, so much replay, and totally addicting, was playing it all day some days, but currently having gotten a new game, Metroid Zero Mission, taking a break on F-Zero, it was kind of wearing me out anyway.
Metroid: Zero Mission
9/11/2010
Beat it! Clear Time 7:27:57, Rate for collecting items 99%
9/13/2010
Beat it! Clear Time 2:41:51, Rate for collecting items 100%
I have beaten a few ps3 games in the past couple months. Uncharted 1 and 2 again. 3d dot game heroes. mario sunshine, and now I am going to play Metal Gear Solid 4.
Beat it! Normal mode. Clear Time 1:34:08, Items 10% (Morph Ball, Long Beam, Missiles 5, Bombs, Power Grip, Ice Beam, Plasma Beam, Space Jump, Gravity Suit [+ Varia given automatically once fully powered up], and Chozodia Mothership Map [accidently got this, wasn't about to go back and fight the Mother Brain again just to try to avoid getting this next time])
This low percentage gameplay was insane, I can imagine how much harder it will be on hard mode once I try it on that. Ridley was very diffucult to figure out how to beat. Getting through all the rooms of Metroids was quite tough with very few missiles. Blasting through all of the Zeebetite was aggrivating, being as they take more than 5 missiles to smash, had to set it up so that a Rinka let behind a missile and that it was right in front of me so that I could rapidly fire all 5 missiles plus nab the extra 2 and fire those immediately as well, each were a pain, especially that very last one, ugh, I had to save after destroying each one. And the Mother Brain, that took some patience that I haven't had to have that much of in a while, thakfully that once I finally beat her/it my escape was flawless. Later, without the suit, 1 hit by a Space Pirate and Samus is dead, with the suit, 2 hits, I made sure to save every time I reached a save room. Meta-Ridley required not only skill but a little bit of luck as well, so it seemed, okay maybe all skill, insanely crazy hard, but what bothered me most was the escape to the ship in the docking bay, nerve racking, those 2 metal pirates in particular that are guarding the door to the ship.
My reward, another new ending. Not sure when I'll try to tackle a low percentage game on hard mode, but I know that most likely I'm going to need to grab a few more items more to help me along.
beat Zelda Oracle of Ages today. man, that was a really good game. Took me about a week total. It's my first unbeaten Zelda game that I've beaten since Link's awakening many moons ago.
beat Zelda Oracle of Ages today. man, that was a really good game. Took me about a week total. It's my first unbeaten Zelda game that I've beaten since Link's awakening many moons ago.
Very cool, just make sure you bring your password over to Oracle of Seasons so that you can get the true ending to the two games.
I got the ending with Maria staying with Richter instead of her going after Alucard. Oh well, who cares!? I beat the game, defeated Shaft & Dracula, THE END!!
Best Castlevania game ever..................so far.
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Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
8/8/2010
Last save point stats: Bowser's Castle Great Door Mario LV39, Luigi LV39, Coins 2809, Time 27:18
Beat it at LV39 (boy was that a long battle against Cackletta)
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
8/9/2010
Beat Pawn & Knight on Master difficulty with Hot Violet
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
8/10/2010
Beat Bishop & Queen on Master difficulty with Hot Violet
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
8/10/2010
Beat it with 99% completion (hmm, missing just one treasure chest somewhere)
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
8/12/2010
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with The Stingray
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Sly Joker
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Fighting Comet
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Falcon MK-II
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Fireball
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Windwalker
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with JB Crystal
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror
8/12/2010
100% completion (found last chest in Area 2, swimming along a water current to to the next screen to the left, how the heck did I miss this one earlier, it was clearly out in the open)
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
8/14/2010
Beat Pawn on Master difficulty with Silver Thunder
Fastest Championship time on Synobazz with Hot Violet - 1'51"71
Metroid Fusion
8/21/2010
Last save point stats: Time 03:12 E=2099 M=250 PB=74 Main Deck
Clear Time 03:17 Rate for Collecting Items: 100%
Metroid Fusion
8/22/2010
Last save point stats: Time 02:33 E=2099 M=250 PB=74 Main Deck
Clear Time 02:37 Rate for Collecting Items: 100%
Also worked on Mario Kart: Super Circuit from 8/15 to 8/19, completing the 50cc using Mario on all Cups, including the Extra Tracks with varying rankings, tried the 100cc, beating the Super Circuit tracks only using Mario, also did some time trials as well, but as of yet, I'm not very good at this game, and I guess I'm just not into it as much as I used to be back when Super Mario Kart first came out on the SNES, F-Zero on the other hand, while feeling so cheap on Master difficulty is a rush. Might just take a bit longer to take to the Mario Kart one.
A few buddies, my girlfriend and I went on a road trip to Florida last week so I picked up Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the ride and I finished it off yesterday.
I'd already played Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, so I knew what to expect as far as gameplay goes: tons of different puzzles wrapped up in a simplistic point and click adventure. There were 120 puzzles in the main story and 15 challenge puzzles. Like Diabolical Box there was tons of variety to keep you interested and enough challenge to make you think.
There's no missable puzzles, so if you really don't care about the story at all, you can just zip through the dialog and get down to business, picking up the puzzles you didn't find at Granny Riddleton's. The story itself was pretty good, though I thought the one in Diabolical Box was better and less predictable. Either way, it was nice to finally use the passwords I got in Diabolical Box to see what it unlocks in Curious Village and vice versa. I really like that the games are connected like that.
In the end, I solved 134/135 puzzles, leaving just the final sliding puzzle. After a while it just wasn't worth it to put in any more time. Coincidentally, this is the exact same result I got in Diabolical Box. Everything, but the last sliding puzzle solved, oh well.
If you like puzzles and brainteasers and the like then I'd definitely recomend this game or it's sequels. They're especially good for a long trip since you can pause and save literally at anytime without losing any progress and without worrying about forgetting what you were doing.
Metroid Fusion
8/23/2010
Last save point stats: Time 01:47 E=2099 M=250 PB=74 Main Deck
Clear Time 01:51 Rate for Collecting Items: 100% (got best ending)
Got F-Zero GP Legend later that afternoon, played the hell out of that all to the early morning the next day, cleared several story modes, but mostly been tackling the Zero Test, which while frustratingly hard, is somehow very addicting. I love the tracks in this game, much better than the very basic designs of Maximum Velocity.
Got two more games yesterday, Gradius Galaxies and Shaman King: Master of Spirits, played a few games of Gradius Galaxies, furthest I got was to stage 7 boss before losing my last life, chosing not to use continues. This game is pretty awesome, but finding it a slight bit difficult to play on a handheld. Shaman King is what I feel Castlevania should be like, this game is great, when I had played it last year on emulator I knew if ever I got the GBA (or DS) that this was a must get. So far I'm 51% into the game, time is at 03:00 exactly, playing on normal difficulty, last thing I did was defeat Joco (one of Yoh's friends, whom was possessed by Magister), and got Mic from him (Jaguar Swipe ability - can sprint fast and jump farther when used).
Uncharted 1- 3 Times & Platinum Trophy
Uncharted 2- 2 Times & Platinum Trophy
Little Big Planet like 3 Times- But have only gotton like 93% of collectibles
Bioshock 1
MGS4- AWESOME!
Heavy Rain- 3 Times & Platinum Trophy
For Retro-
I dont remember all of them but my favorites were
Zelda 1 & 2
Battletoads
Contra
Conkers BFD
Zelda OoT
Mario Party 1, 2, and 3 (I have a LOT of free time and also love them!)
and a bunch of others I dont feel like listing
Castlevania 2: simons quest
Shining Force II
And for some newer ones
Alan Wake
Borderlands
MW2
DeathSpank(XBL - amazing game)
Im sure their are more but the thoughts escape me while I fight until 5pm at work.
At first I didn't much care for the game, but after finally getting used to all the controls and figuring out how the game mechanics work this ended up being really awesome. The story was extremely good and the idea of setting a Batman game in the asylum was absolutely brilliant.
This game was delightfully dark and Mark Hamill's voice work as the Joker was perfect. Controls give you a ton a options once you get used to them and you there is a lot of exploring you can do. By the time you have all of Batman's gadgets, I'm pretty sure there's no where on the island that you can see that you won't be able to get to.
It's not the longest game in the world, but if you want to have a really good time with an action game then I definitely recommend this one.
Seems like I have to rescue 4 maidens and find Shaft and beat him. ALso I have to find the alternate routes too!
beat sunset riders for MaMe with 21 credits ... was so close to the 20 credit challenge
only had to hit the last boss twice with the 1st man on the 21st credit
beat dodonpachi and progear , those were some fun shumps
turtles in time with 18 credits
xmen 4 player 25 credits
simpson 2 player 22 credits
cadilacs and dinosaurs for the 1st time 24 credits
But I did get 200/200 on Deadrising 2: Case Zero this past weekend. Didn't mention it in the sig because it was only a $5 XBL download as a "teaser" to Deadrising 2. Tons of fun though!
Shaman King: Master of Spirits
8/27/2010
Beat it! Time 05:17, 93%
9/1/2010
Time 07:35, 99% (just can seem to figure out what I'm missing, guess I'll have to start anew and map everything out)
Shaman King: Master of Spirits 2
9/2/2010
Beat it! Clear Time 6:48:47, 90%
9/8/2010
Time 11:16, 100% (was very difficult to figure out what I was missing with this one til I realized that by combining spirits, that also adds to the percentage of completion in this game, so was able to get my 100% for this one)
After beating both Shaman King games I played the hell out of F-Zero GP Legend, finishing all of the story mode (least favorite part of this game), earned all of the racers to use in Grand Prix and Time Attack, beat all of the Grand Prix (most familiar part of F-Zero, could care less about the story mode) cups, found my favorite racer in the game, Lucy Liberty, used her to get some great times in the Time Attack (fun part of the game), got all silver and golds in the Zero Test (another enjoyable mode) which was extremely difficult, still working on getting all of them gold, but at least don't have any more bronzes. This game is really awesome, so much replay, and totally addicting, was playing it all day some days, but currently having gotten a new game, Metroid Zero Mission, taking a break on F-Zero, it was kind of wearing me out anyway.
Metroid: Zero Mission
9/11/2010
Beat it! Clear Time 7:27:57, Rate for collecting items 99%
9/13/2010
Beat it! Clear Time 2:41:51, Rate for collecting items 100%
Metroid: Zero Mission
9/14/2010
Beat it! same game, 2 new endings.
Clear Time 1:54:31, Rate for collecting items 99% (without final E-Tank near Meta-Ridley)
Clear Time 1:57:16, Rate for collecting items 100% (with final E-Tank)
Metroid (GBA)
9/15/2010
Beat it! Twice. 100% (all equipment, 255 missiles, all 8 E-tanks)
Metroid: Zero Mission
9/16/2010
Beat it! Hard mode, 1 new ending
Clear Time 1:56:10, Rate for collecting items 99%, same ending as Normal difficulty with same percentage
Clear Time 1:59:01, Rate for collecting items 100%, best ending so far
Super Mario 64 100%
Super Mario Sunshine 95%
Super Mario Galaxy 100%
God of War 1,2 and 3.
Call of Duty World at War
hadnt played it in 5 years. still great.
Shadow Hearts Covanent. thought the end was bad. still have to play the third installment as soon as the slow ass ebay shipper gets it here.
Metroid: Zero Mission
9/18/2010
Beat it! Normal mode. Clear Time 1:34:08, Items 10% (Morph Ball, Long Beam, Missiles 5, Bombs, Power Grip, Ice Beam, Plasma Beam, Space Jump, Gravity Suit [+ Varia given automatically once fully powered up], and Chozodia Mothership Map [accidently got this, wasn't about to go back and fight the Mother Brain again just to try to avoid getting this next time])
This low percentage gameplay was insane, I can imagine how much harder it will be on hard mode once I try it on that. Ridley was very diffucult to figure out how to beat. Getting through all the rooms of Metroids was quite tough with very few missiles. Blasting through all of the Zeebetite was aggrivating, being as they take more than 5 missiles to smash, had to set it up so that a Rinka let behind a missile and that it was right in front of me so that I could rapidly fire all 5 missiles plus nab the extra 2 and fire those immediately as well, each were a pain, especially that very last one, ugh, I had to save after destroying each one. And the Mother Brain, that took some patience that I haven't had to have that much of in a while, thakfully that once I finally beat her/it my escape was flawless. Later, without the suit, 1 hit by a Space Pirate and Samus is dead, with the suit, 2 hits, I made sure to save every time I reached a save room. Meta-Ridley required not only skill but a little bit of luck as well, so it seemed, okay maybe all skill, insanely crazy hard, but what bothered me most was the escape to the ship in the docking bay, nerve racking, those 2 metal pirates in particular that are guarding the door to the ship.
My reward, another new ending. Not sure when I'll try to tackle a low percentage game on hard mode, but I know that most likely I'm going to need to grab a few more items more to help me along.
beat Zelda Oracle of Ages today. man, that was a really good game. Took me about a week total. It's my first unbeaten Zelda game that I've beaten since Link's awakening many moons ago.
Very cool, just make sure you bring your password over to Oracle of Seasons so that you can get the true ending to the two games.
New Super Mario Bros (Wii)
Final Fantasy XIII (PS3)
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)
Trine (PC)
Rogue Galaxy (PS2)
Xenosaga III (PS2)
Street Fighter II (SNES) As Guile
Street Fighter II (SNES) As Ken
Mortal Kombat II (GEN) As Kung Lao
Ninja Gaiden II (NES)
Virtua Fighter (SAT) As Wolf
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (DC) as Ken
M.C. Kids (NES)
Ninja Gaiden II (NES)
Also beat Talespin for Game Boy yesterday. >_>
Beaten Portal (singleplayer). The song at the end is fantastic. XD
Best credit song ever. I just recently played Portal for the first time. I really enjoyed it.
I got the ending with Maria staying with Richter instead of her going after Alucard. Oh well, who cares!? I beat the game, defeated Shaft & Dracula, THE END!!
Best Castlevania game ever..................so far.
For today:
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (DC) as Ken
M.C. Kids (NES)
Ninja Gaiden II (NES)
Also beat Talespin for Game Boy yesterday. >_>
NES titles go in this thread:
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=27338
And if they aren't already on the list, they should go in this thread as well:
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=31269