The order may not be 100% chronological because I'm a derp and can't even remember as far as two months ago when this list should have started.
So...I guess this is a thing!
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I had a description here, but the site ate it.
Sonic Colors is pretty rad.
Man, I hate it when sites eat shit I entered MONTHS ago.
Though this game gets quite a bit of flak from Sonic fans and non-Sonic fans alike, Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 is still a pretty fun little platformer in my opinion, even if a bit of that Genesis-era Sonic charm (which the entire game is supposed to invoke) is missing, and the whole thing is a pretty lazy rehash on the whole.
Despite the sometimes lazy level design (featuring a few too many speed boosters and Bubble Homing Attack chains) I still found myself having a good time finding my way through each act trying to get the fastest time by finding the fastest routes.
The lack of momentum can be an issue (but is easily remedied by Air Dashing), but again, it's a pretty solid platformer that I'd say you couldn't go wrong with if you happen to catch it on a decent discount on Steam or one of the consoles.
PROGRESS:
Sonic's Story: 100%
Silver's Story: 80%
Shadow's Story: 100%*
Final Story: 0%
*the game glitched out and just gave me the completion about 50% through...
Well, I will complete this game sometime this year, I'm assuming. Since I've already seen the ending to Sonic's story I thought I'd throw it in here for now.
Anyway, though the game is an incomplete and sometimes buggy mess, I somehow strangely found myself having fun with it. Not "Greatest Game Ever" kind of fun, but at the time I simply wasn't in much of a mood to play anything else, and I'd imagine that's how this game will get 100% completed someday.
I'll have a more definitive synopsis of my time with the game here once it's 100%'d.
Definitely the best in the series. Refined to damn near perfection gameplay-wise and was an absolute blast playing through it the whole way with some close interbutts friends.
I've still yet to dive into Horde or Beast mode, but the fact that those modes are there to keep me coming back with friends for some more solid ass shooty action means this one won't be leaving the vicinity of my XBORX for quite some time.
The story? Well, I guess I'll just quote Alex Navarro and say, that it "sure is a thing."
Though I bought this quirky rhythm game AFTER Giant Bomb's Quick Look first sold me on Rhythm Heaven Fever, I ended up completing the DS version before it because:
1. Remix 10 in Rhythm Heaven Fever is a BITCH.
and
2. Because I was able to take it to work with me.
My DS rarely left my hands while I was playing this game, and I still pop it in from time to time to play a few of the games I particularly enjoyed, Rhythm Rally 2 and all of the remixes being the most outstanding and fun games for me.
You can get this thing for dirt damn cheap now (as little as $8.50 on Amazon last I checked), so there's no reason not to have it and have a taste of quirky fun away from home and learn a thing or two about music in the process.
The Quick Look sold me in mere minutes. I went out and bought the game on my way back to work, skipping eating my lunch altogether.
Worth every damn penny.
This was my first Rhythm Heaven game, though I ended up completing it second. The entire game is charm on a disc. The visuals and music come together in ways that all other rhythm-based games wish they could, and the simple controls make it easy to pick up for just about anybody if they're willing to get into the groove.
I imagine if I'd played the DS or GBA games before this one, I'd have been let down, because compared to the content packed in the two games prior to this one, Fever simply falls a bit flat, and doesn't have quite as many reasons to keep coming back other than Perfects and the charming visuals and music.
I have hated 3D Mario games since the first time I laid my hands on Super Mario 64. I hated them even more with Super Mario Buttshine, and I skipped the first Galaxy altogether because I just had no faith in 3D Mario.
A friend of mine ended up getting me this one for Christmas 2010 anyway, and over the past year I started nibbling my way through it. When I booted the game up last week, I had 23 Stars, and seven days later I'd played it enough to amass the 70 Stars required to finish the game normally.
This is what I'd always wanted from a 3D Mario game. Decently sized stages that are more focused and less playgrounds. Galaxy definitely feels more like the next logical step from Super Mario World to me than Super Mario 64 did.
The camera also doesn't suck butt, so *Alex Navarro* that's a thing.
Admittedly, I had to go about some rather dubious methods in order to play the original Rhythm Tengoku game on my DS (emulators + bad sync issues + rhythm games = FRUSTRATION POLLY!) I bought a piece of hardware I may not even get much more use out of just because I didn't want my time in Rhythm Heaven to be over!
The minute I booted the game up, again my DS did not leave my hands until almost exactly one day later when I'd achieved Medals on all of the mini-games and played through most of the extra content like the drum lessons. I WANT A FULL GAME OF THE DRUM LESSONS MINIGAME!
Anyway, quirky presentation, easy to understand gameplay, and great music are what makes this series, and that's clear from the series' origin right here. You can tell there's still a little more refining to be done (which would happen in the DS sequel), but it's by all means a really damn fun and challenging game, and I hope future installments take a bit more from the GBA and DS games rather than the Wii game.
I've had this game since a shortly after it was originally released, but never quite finished it...if you can really call this a game you're ever really finished with.
Needless to say, as my time in Rhythm Heaven sadly drew to a close, I went back and slapped this into Slot 2 of my DS and spent the last couple of weeks going for all the high score challenges, clearing out all the games as high as humanly possible and finishing up the "campaign."
Such a bizarre and quirky series that I'm kinda bummed I never kept up with given all the gimmicks they've thrown at it over the years. Most titles in the franchise are out of print and going for prices I'd rather not pay, so Mega Microgame$ may end up being my only real experience with the series for quite some time unless I can find others for a bit cheaper.
Fans of the series seem to dislike this game quite a bit for being "easy." I say, those people are morons and really just don't like the idea of a game that's a tad bit more accessible than the abuse they've had to suffer since Mountain of Faith.
To me, with Ten Desires, Touhou just feels right again. While they're not as pretty or tightly choreographed as say Perfect Cherry Blossom and Imperishable Night, the bullet patterns in Ten Desires actually feel like readable patterns, and don't often feel like survival comes down to sphincter clenching luck.
I'll be playing this one a bit more to master a few more Spell Cards, try the other characters, and go for higher scores for sure.