BlackRoseAngel
The EVIL Ice Cream Lady
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It was time to uninstall that years ago.
;u; you could always play with me... I'm not a crappy toxic player
I revel in being positive.
I love me some Animal Crossing
Hello! I'm streaming NES Battletoads at http://www.hitbox.tv/drewski just for funsies.
I am really bad (actually bad, not just humbly bad), don't expect to see a cool-ass speedrun. More like some dude who can barely get past level 3.
edit: more like fumbling to get the stream to work
I actually think Battletoads has some of the better design among hard NES games, aside from the limited continue system (which is the only thing I feel that warrants actual frustration), but emulators fix that problem. :) Like... it's difficult and cheap, but it's never really tedious or boring either.
The only real issue I have is that it places too much emphasis on memorization+execution rather than reaction+execution (Mario 3) or planning+execution (Castlevania). The game was clearly rushed in some areas (collision detection on some enemies and platforms is just awful) and the bosses suck, but I still think it gets more flak than it deserves.
I've never really played past the first or second level in that game, but that sounds like planning to me.
Nothing in Ninja Gaiden is really cheap until the very last stage, or possibly even just the last boss. Jaquio's fire balls + deleted checkpoints are pretty much the main reason people think that game is so hard.
That being said, said fire balls are very random IIRC so you can't really memorize it. It's pretty much a reaction thing.
Problem is that the game actually cheats and takes away your sub weapon once you kill the Masked Demon lol (had to look that up to remember why I didn't do that in the first place). You can skip the Masked Demon the second time, but that still means replaying the stage again and losing a chance at a 1 life clear. A friend of mine has a 1 life clear of the game on Youtube, and the Jaquio battle was pretty rough lol.
Oh you no missed it? That's pretty great. I should probably go back on that game and try to play it more "seriously" some time. Bil vouches that it's actually pretty great when mastered like that.
Will have to wait though, right now I'm on a Contra binge. Currently trying to 1 life clear Hard Corps.
Valkyria Chronicles coming to PC at some point, courtesy of Sega themselves.
https://twitter.com/SEGA/status/526884918677471232
If you've never played this game, play it. It is SO good. Definitely one of the hidden jems of the PS3s earlier days.