It turns out the repair drone is probably the most useful of the three types. I had no idea it was a repair drone (and used to just detonate it instead) as it didn’t do anything - you have to stop firing for it to recover your ship.
While this has a cost in terms of points during regular stages I feel it makes the boss fights a bit too easy since any mistakes can quickly be repaired. But a player relying on the repair drone will take a lot longer to clear the game. It would have been cool if the developers assigned ranks to the scores above: one for time and one for score.
Finished Sega Ages Phantasy Star on Switch today in just a little over 15 hours. This is becoming my favorite version of the game. 4x meseta and xp eliminates a lot of the grind. And playing with the FM synth sound was really great, since I always wanted to hear it. Well worth 8 bucks on the eshop.
Goofy things like this is what adds to the charm of playing retro Japanese games ported to the west.
Although it still happens somewhat. You could tell the canceled Scalebound on the XB1 was trying to be tailored to a western audience and the main character came out uber-lame and cringe worthy.
Nice! I haven’t beat it since I was a kid either, and want to remedy that soon. Mainly so I can bother @Socksfelloff about it since he has some weird hate on for Zelda 2 for some strange reason… I keep telling him it’s the “Dark Souls” of Zelda games but he still won’t bite.
It’s the Darksouls Fever. I wish I’d taken a picture when I beat it back in college. Really is an awesome game when you let it stand on its own and don’t worry about the rest of the series.
I really want to play it one of these days. Zelda 1 and 2 are pretty much the only games in the series I haven’t played.
Even if a single game isn’t as good as others in the series I’m still able to enjoy it for what it is. For example CastleVania 2 had alot of great ideas and I enjoyed my time with it but so far it’s easily been my least favorite CastleVania game.
My favorite are the 8 bit games with thousands of frames of animation and modern color pallets. That ain’t 8 bit lol
They are both very much worth playing through. When I got my Analogue NT the first thing I did was fire up The Legend of Zelda and do a complete playthrough.
I actually really love CV 2. Same sot of thing. It has its own thing going and its awesome in its own right. I’ve never understood the mentality of “If it’s not the same as the last one I don’t like it.”
If you have Nintendo Switch Online, you will probably get a chance to play the last boss for the ending in one of those SP versions next month. This month it’s Ninja Gaiden and Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins set up for the last boss.
I beat LoZ 2 in middle school. I remember being the only one of my peers to do so at the time. I remember jumping up in down screaming in excitement at the time. I never replayed it.
Sometimes I wonder if they wanted to make another game but couldn’t come up with a character for it so it became a Zelda game.
Finished VB Wario Land with all the treasures today after missing them when I beat it for the first time last night. The final boss was great!
I actually preferred the ‘bad’ ending if you miss getting all the treasures. You get a coin rank (I was ranked C) and the Beavers messing with Wario was pretty hilarious!
Great game. The variety in level design is good, and its length and scoring emphasis makes it quite replayable. It’s an R&D 1 production through and through, from the high craftsmanship in the pixel art to the inventive boss and level design.
Wario Land 4 is still king, but I like this game’s structure and scoring emphasis a lot. Wario Land 2 and 3 are also excellent but don’t have the replayability of this or 4 due to their move away from action towards exploration and light puzzle solving.