Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Getting further one amazing place at a time. I love this game.
Yoshi's New Island (3DS)
This game still sucks but I wanted to play something on 3DS that I haven't already played that much.
I discovered a new thing about it though, when you die a few times in a row (like I did in a part that was really cheap designed and you just had to make blind faith jumps and there were insta kill spikes you had to know beforehand to stick the landing) it gives you a cheat automatically so you can fly indefinitely in the level you're in, too bad they didn't just design the game better so there weren't tons of cheap deaths, they already give you a fuckton of extra lives, I have over 80 lives and I've died plenty of times due to cheap level design, but they respawn so you can literally die three time and gain 9 lives because there's usually around 3 lives every single section of every level, so die in one section once and you're more likely to gain 2 or 3 lives from that death than actually lose 1, it's ridiculous, and adding that infinite flight cheat powerup they give you when you've died like 3 times in a row, I just may have found the easiest game in the world, I don't see how anyone can not complete this game, which isn't a bad thing in itself, it's great that they have the game balanced so everyone can play it, skilled players and complete beginners, but it would've been infinitely better had they designed a good game first rather than a shitfest or garbage level design with poor and very limited controls and an unfinished art design.
Seriously, the original Yoshi's Island on Super Nintendo and the enhanced GBA version are both ten trillion times better than this crap.
Azure Dreams (PlayStation)
A generic action adventure game with some mixed visuals, the 2D sprites are nice but the 3D environments are quite bland, and there are so many forced tutorials I feel like I've played through an entire game already but I'm still just at the very beginning, what a horrible way to start a game, I sure hope it picks up soon or I won't bother, I got many better games to spend my time with, like Illusion of gaia on Super Nintendo that I began playing last month.
Dreams to Reality (PlayStation)
An odd and obscure 3D platformer with flying mechanics. It doesn't have the best controls or visuals ever, but I kinda like it so far. I don't know how inspired the developers were by the Saturn game Nights into Dreams but they sure have a lot in common.
Pax Corpus (PlayStation)
Really awkward controls in this one but kinda interesting, I like it but I only have a russian version, making it harder to play for sure when you don't know what the fuck is going on.
Psycho Fox (Master System)
Not loving the momentum of the controls, you have to work up speed to make jumps, this is rather cumbersome in a platformer, a good game otherwise. Looks good, sounds good.
Thrill Kill Full Uncensored NTSC-U (PlayStation)
Still my favorite fighting game of all time and still the #1 reason why EA remains at the top of my permanent boycott blacklist.
Monster Racer (PlayStation)
Given the time of year I decided to give this Halloween inspired kart-esque racer another try. I haven't played it more than once when I had just bought it and I didn't think much of it.
I can say now after having played through the main mode that it's really not much more than I initially thought, actually it's nothing more at all, it's exactly what I thought when I played it the first time.
It's still a generic kart racer style game and it's nothing special in any way, the visuals are solid enough and the controls work, the music is completely forgettable and uninspired, the sound effects and as stock as can be and mostly unfitting and lame for what they are suppose to be representing, the levels and playable characters are unoriginal and bland and the powerups are unbalanced, some last way too long while others are completely useless, the only powerup that really matters in the turbo boost as it can make you lap the other opponents, it's literally that overpowered. That's easy mode at least, normal on the other hand is so hard you'll try using every trick available just to not end up in last place, I still haven't gotten better than second last on normal, it's a huge leap in difficulty from easy to normal, to say the least.
Anyway, I decided to record a playthrough of the adventure mode, it's available as a playlist on YouTube by clicking here.
Also here are the individual videos:
Botanic Garden
Port
Mad Jungle
Egypte
Castle
Museum
Mine
Iceberg
Teath Pass
Volcano
Botanic Garden (reverse)
Port (reverse)
Mad Jungle (reverse)
Egypte (reverse)
Castle (reverse)
Museum (reverse)
Mine (reverse)
Iceberg (reverse)
Teath Pass (reverse)
Volcano (reverse)
WILD WILD RACING (PlayStation 2)
The most classic PS2 offroad racer of them all, I love this game and I really needed to play a good racing game after having played so much Monster Racer lately.
I recorded a replay of a random Time Trial race.
LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars (3DS)
Just picking up where I left off earlier this year, I haven't gotten very far in this one yet.
Gale Gunner (PlayStation)
Basically Virtual On on PlayStation. I like it. It's a lot better than the N64 equivalent, whatever that was called, I forgot.
S.C.A.R.S. (PlayStation)
Just playing some of my favorite kart racer ever, after having suffered through the deeply flawed mediocrity that is Monster Racer I need to play some good racing games to make up for all the suckiness I've endured, plain and simple.
Bakugan Defenders of the Core (PlayStation Portable)
This game turned 8 years old on the 26th (NTSC-U release) and 29th (PAL release) so I'm celebrating with some awesome monster fighting goodness.
I recorded a battle from the PSP version between Neo Dragonoid and Ingram to celebrate.
(Swedish language)
Auto Racing (Intellivision Lives!, PlayStation 2)
Playing the emulated version on PS2 using the Intellivision Lives! disc. It's daly not very good, running very slowly even on the fastest speed settings and with really bad audio emulation and audio glitches causing the tire brake noises to get stuck in annoying loops that rape the ears pretty badly around almost every turn.
I managed to record my favorite car on my favorite track though.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
The difference between the real thing and the PS2 version is almost like playing two entirely different games.
Sonic 3D Flickies' Island (Sonic Mega Collection Plus, PlayStation 2)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (Entertainment System)
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Sonic The Hedgehog (as part of SEGA 3D Classics on 3DS)
CarmaGeddoN (PlayStation)
The classic CarmaGeddoN, PSX version, awesome.
Super Mario Bros. (Entertainment System)
Wario's Woods (Entertainment System)
A puzzle game where you play as Toad. Bombs drop from above and you have to combine them with creatures to clear the area before the ceiling lowers down and crushes you. It's pretty good, sure beats a lot of other similar puzzle games from back then.
Wario's Woods (Super Nintendo)
The Entertainment System game of the same name with a Super Mario Allstars makeover.
Sudoku portable LCD game
Sudoku
just regular Sudoku on paper
Bomb Jack (SG-1000)
Perhaps not the best version of Bomb Jack ever, but a good and enjoyable one for sure.
CastleVania Legends (Game Boy)
I love this game, it's very tough but also very enjoyable. Sonia is best Belmont origin canon.
Rubik's Cube
trained and learned how to solve one in real life, my fastest time solving a cube from scrambled to all sides complete as of this post is 2m21s
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
After having learned how to solve a Rubik's Cube in real life on an actual cube I was able to solve it in this game with a time of 4:45, which is twice as long than I can do it in real life (fastest time as of typing this in 2:21) but it's far less intuitive and much clunkier with the low res and highly inaccurate touch screen control of a DS/3DS, so I still think it's a very good time for someone who just learned how to do it.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
just playing some awesome Intellivision games again
BurgerTime! (Intellivision)
Centipede (Intellivision)
Defender (Intellivision)
Pac-Man (Intellivision)
Popeye (Intellivision)
Q*bert (Intellivision)
Scooby Doo's Maze Chase (Intellivision)
this was a new one for me, another good maze game (aka "Pac-Man clone"), very typical for the time
Nightlong Union City Conspiracy (PC)
also playing some nostalgic PC point and click games, it's not a genre I like but it has a handful games I love
The C.H.A.O.S. Continuum (PC)
The Colonel's Bequest A Laura Bow Mystery (PC)
Ninja Gaiden (Master System)
Total Drivin (PlayStation)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Entertainment System)
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Mega Drive)
it's been ages since I played this, I usually just play the original Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic CD or Sonic & Knuckles or the old classics, the rest I only play a bit sporadically, sometimes a lot and then not at all for long stretches of time
Samurai Showdown (Mega Drive)
another one I haven't played it ages, I think it was last in the early 2000s on PC, the MS-DOS version
Time Trax (Mega Drive, prototype rom)
an odd platformer with some slow motion time manipulation power, it's pretty good but it's only a prototype, I don't think it ever was released as a full retail version sadly, it's not bad at all and feels pretty much complete, it's far better than many games that did come out back in the day
Scooby-Doo Mystery (Mega Drive)
an awful point and click mystery solving adventure game starring Scooby-Doo and Shaggy, with the rest of the gang being absent during the game only to be part of the intros and outros of the two mysteries the game has to offer. it's slow, clunky, illogical, unintuitive and arbitrary as fuck, the only way to solve a vast majority of the "puzzles" is to try every possible combination until you randomly find the correct thing to do, except for a handful thing you do there really is no thought, logic, rhyme or reason to anything else in the entire game, you will get stuck, a lot, and it's not your fault, the game is just extremely poorly designed, it looks very nice with good level of detail, nice animation and such, and the audio is fine as well, but damn, the gameplay just brutally murders the entire experience, just play this with a guide from the beginning if you ever try it out, and save yourself the headache
Tom & Jerry Frantic Antics (Mega Drive)
holy fucknuts this game is awful, it looks bad, sounds horrible and plays worse than just about anything else ever made, it's nothing short of a travesti it got released in this condition
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
River Raid (Intellivision)
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Just been playing some games with a friend, same as usual (Ice Hockey, Double Dribble, Track & Field II, Pro Wrestling) plus a new one, Ghosts & Goblins.
Net Yaroze Collection (PlayStation)
A Dog Tale and Blitter Boy
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive, played on 3DS as part of the SEGA 3D Classics Collection)
Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival #Reload (PC)
Also called Guilty Gear X2 #Reload and Guilty Gear X2 The Midnight Carnival #Reload.
I haven't played much Guilty Gear at all, just the original on PSX a little bit before this one.
I didn't like the original very much, I found it to be a very typical and generic anime 2D fighting game, not bad per se, easily better than many others like it, just not interesting to me at all as I strongly prefer 3D fighting games.
This one is quite a lot better in every aspect over the original on PSX, it plays better, looks better, sounds better, has a better character roster and has better controls with more moves.
I'm still not into 2D anime fighting games like this, but at least this one is fairly good by the standards they go by.
Honey Peach (Entertainment System)
an awesome rock paper scissor hentai game from the 90s, nuff said really, you rock paper scissor until hot hentai babes lose all their clothes, it's just awesome
Rubik's Puzzle World (DS, played on 3DS)
Some minigames similar to Mercury but not as good, though some are decent, and a really poor Rubik's Cube mode with a lousy camera, all topped off with inaccurate touch screen controls for everything making every step a hurdle, making sure you're never actually having any fun by accident, because we simply can't have fun with Rubik's Cube game, that just can not be permitted.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed (PlayStation Vita)
Played some more Entertainment System games with a friend; Ice Hockey, Double Dribble, Volleyball and Blades of Steel.
And some even more Entertainment System games with a friend; Blades of Steel, Ice Hockey again, Double Dribble again, Dead Fox, Three Eyed Boy, TMNT II The Arcade Game and Battleship.
In light of having played so much Intellivision recently
I've decided to dedicate 2018 to be the Year of Intellivision
and so I commemorate this by making the INTV Running Man immortalized in Etch A Sketch!
FlatOut (PC)
It's choppy but playable. The sequel is a huge improvement in most ways, especially the stunt minigames, but this one's still good, better on console ofcourse where it's been optimized to run with maximal quality, but on a shitty PC like mine I'm amazed it runs at all.
Need for Speed Underground (PC)
Just one race, it's so choppy, I just don't want to play it on PC. On PC I guess it's marginally better than the GBA version due to the options for superior visual detail, that's really the nicest thing I can say about it, it makes for a very nice looking slideshow.
1NSANE (PC)
An old favorite offroad racing game of mine, used to play it a lot back on my old Pentium 4 with Windows XP and GeForce 4 in the early 00s.
It's like a PC exclusive Smugglers Run type of game.
Tearaway (PlayStation Vita)
Stopped giving Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed an undeserved try and went back to the most charming place in gaming instead, back to the wonderful world of Tearaway!
Net Yaroze Collection (PlayStation)
I love playing these games.
April 2nd:I made a trade with a friend today, my copy of Excite Bike for a copy of The Adventures of Bayou Billy and a copy of Slalom for Nintendo Entertainment System.
Entertainment System:
Slalom (cartridge only)
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (cartridge only)
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April 15th:
Not game related really but I haven't bought anything for a while now so anything of interest is worth posting at this point!
Magazine:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic + polybag with Applejack in it
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April 18th:
Took two hour long walk to a nearby shopping center today and bought some neat stuff today.
Xbox 360 accessories:
Microsoft Xbox 360 controller mini-keyboard (used)
PlayStation 3 accessories:
Sony PlayStation 3 Bluray remote (used)
PlayStation 4:
Killzone Shadowfall (used)
Tearaway Unfolded (new)
Collectibles:
TOTAKU GameStop+ Exclusive WipEout Feisar FX350 ship figure (new)
Other:
3-pack Emoji Movie suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack My Little Pony Friendship is Magic suprise chocolate eggs
3-pack Transformers suprise chocolate eggs
Magazine:
Mickey Mouse + Lego Batman polybag set 30522 Batman in the Phantom Zone
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April 19th:
Some secondhand finds today.
PC:
Grand Theft Auto 2 (Xplosiv)
Need for Speed - Road Challenge
Street Tennis
TOCA 2 Touring Cars (Sold Out)
DVD:
Ace Ventura When Nature Calls (1995)
Below (2002)
Hercules in New York (1970)
The Passion (2009)
Other:
a bucket of assorted Lego Bionicle parts
..and a movie from a movie store.
DVD:
Norm of the North (2015)
Mars 14th:
Finally found what I've been looking for, kind of, it's the wrong firmware to be useful for anything but playing physical games but I'll take what I can get at this point.
PlayStation 3:
EyeCreate
PlayStation Vita:
original OLED Sony PlayStation Vita PCH-1104 3G OFW 3.63
official Sony PlayStation Vita 32GB memorycard
Lego:
Nexo Knights Ultimate Lavara
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Mars 15th:
I went back to the local GameStop where I got the Vita yesterday to buy some games for it today, I picked up all I could find that were of reasonable price and seemed interesting enough, I have to say they were all great.
PlayStation Vita:
Deception IV Blood Ties
Killzone Mercenary
Reality Fighters
Smart As...
Spy Hunter
Tearaway
I love how the Vita has a screenshot feature!
