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I'm going to resign from adventure island and give up. I fear what might happen to whats left of my sanity if I where to continue I'm sorry younger self but I just don't have the willpower to continue.
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Nov 20, 2013 07:11
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Wow, based on reports I'm almost sad I won't be able to check out Adventure Island this week. It's amazing the response it's been getting!
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Nov 20, 2013 08:49
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I'm also giving up. My patience with this game is worn very thin, and I can't bring myself to go on despite wanting to see the craziness of 8-3 everyone was talking about. Made it as far as 7-4, so close. 
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Nov 21, 2013 20:30
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 The game broke me the first time, but I came back stronger and finally did it. It helps that I actually managed to remember enough to keep fireballs through the final level up until the last checkpoint, so I basically skipped the Spider nightmare. Edit: Playing it actually made me realise I'd played it years ago on some cheap "100+ games in one!" thing and had gotten murdered in the first few levels with no knowledge of the continue code (or manual to find it out). Mman fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Nov 22, 2013 |
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Nov 21, 2013 22:42
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 Well, I finally did it. This game was a huge pain in the rear end. So many bullshit sections.  That last part of 8-3....I must have died at least 40 times to that poo poo.
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Nov 21, 2013 23:13
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The challenge for Adventure Island is over. There will be a bit of a delay until the next challenge (my internet isn't getting hooked up at the new place until Tuesday), but I'll make sure we remain on schedule next week. Sorry for the delay.
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The move is mostly over but we're still having some work done on our internet and phone service, so this week will be given a pass. The next challenge will be this Friday and it will be for the SNES.
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Triple post, but  Super Castlevania IV adds new mechanics to the series such as diagonal whipping and whip-swinging while building on the mechanics of previous games in the series. In it, players will once again control Simon Belmont as he proceeds through Dracula's castle, avoiding traps, enemies, and pitfalls along the way as they climb up to face Dracula yet again. Your goal in this challenge is to reach the ending! This challenge will expire on  Friday, December 6th at 12:00 AM EST  Manual
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Nov 29, 2013 18:33
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I'm in. It was a while ago but I've finished the game multiple times so I guess this will be a nice breather after Adventure Island.
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Nov 29, 2013 19:00
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I'm in. Never played a Castlevania older than Portrait of Ruin (I know, I know...), so this'll be a challenge.
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Nov 29, 2013 19:35
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OK, I've actually beaten this game, so if I don't do this challenge I'll eat my hat. I'm in.
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Nov 29, 2013 19:43
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I'm in, I tried to finish this a few years ago but stopped, and this is as good a reason as any to try again.
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Nov 29, 2013 21:14
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Made it to the first boss before giving up for the night. I have only one thing to say so far: Platforming while medusa heads are flying at you
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Nov 29, 2013 21:19
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I'm in. I remember playing this, but I don't think I made it pass level 2 before stopping for something else.
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Nov 29, 2013 22:15
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I've beaten this game before, but it's been years. Count me in for
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Mikl posted:I'm in. Man are you missing out. Not even Symphony of the Night? Rondo of Blood/Dracula X? The NES ones are some of my favorites. Get on that. Also want to say that if anyone hasn't played IV, it's highly recommended. Fantastic game for an SNES launch title.
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Not in! I beat it as part of Halloween festivities this year. Good pick, though!
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Nov 30, 2013 04:01
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I've been looking for an excuse to give this game another try. Count me in!
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Mikl posted:Made it to the first boss before giving up for the night. Those do suck, but if you use the stopwatch it'll freeze both the spinning platforms and the medusas.
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Charles Martel posted:Man are you missing out. Not even Symphony of the Night? Rondo of Blood/Dracula X? The NES ones are some of my favorites. Get on that. I was a PC kid to begin with, so I didn't get into consoles until the mid-aughts. I'm (very slowly) starting to plug up the holes in my gaming collection 
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This sounds interesting. I'm in.
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Never been much of a fan of classic Castlevania gameplay but I'll give this a go.
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I'm in. This game is really fun and I've beaten it before, so there's really no excuse.
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Myriad posted:Never been much of a fan of classic Castlevania gameplay but I'll give this a go.
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Well, even though I'm sure I've played it about a billion times, I'll give Castlevania another try.
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I'm in for this one. I've beaten it numerous times but that was a long time ago. When I used to play this my college roommate called it "Brown: The Game."
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  That was actually easier than I expected, given that the game has infinite continues, and is even nice enough to make the end-game boss rush stuff a separate level rather than making you do the final sadistic platforming sequences again if you fail.
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You know, even after playing this game before I thought I'd have a pretty easy time of it. I forgot that 8-1 is when the game really seems to put on the big boy pants and start being a right bastard. Instant death spikes on wheels everywhere? Delightful!
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   Well that was a fun little jaunt. Reasonably difficult but not the horrid ballbuster the last game was. It wasn't until I was pretty deep into it that I realized how much I like this game and a lot of the level design. The environments are really pretty great, especially area 9. I just love the whole haunted treasure room theme. The fact that you can drown in gold, and you get attacked by a bat made of treasure is just wonderful to me. It just oozes style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww_PjqYQi5E While I'm on the subject, like these Sequelitis videos or not, I think this is a super informative video about Castlevania 4's strengths and weaknesses. Kind of an in depth look into the changes between the classic Castlevania games and this one. It's a pretty neat video.
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  Not much to say about this game, some of the music was really drat good and all the bosses were really easy.
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  Great game. Not as difficult as I thought, although I died an embarrassing number of times to the falling staircases in stage B.
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 This game was a lot harder than I remember it being. Thank god for the end game boss rush being split up by checkpoints.
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   Alright, finally got around to doing this challenge. Thanks for giving me an excuse to replay this game again. It's probably my favorite of the "classic" Castlevania games. It doesn't have the laser-guided focus that the original has, but it's a still a lot of fun. My only real complaint is the Death fight and the Dracula fight are too easy. They're traditionally supposed to be the hardest bosses in each game, but in this one they're kind of a joke. You can safely cheese Death by sitting to the left of the block, and Drac lets you fully heal yourself in between phases.
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  I was originally gonna try to win without continues, but I kinda lost interest in that halfway through and just wanted to finish up. It's just as well, because trying to get through B-2 and B-3 with minimal losses would've been a nightmare, and I didn't enjoy the game enough to warrant replaying everything before that over and over again.
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Finished. Holy crap Dracula was a pain. Also, oddly I had a ton of trouble with the first boss of the boss rush but not the rest of them until Drac.
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crowbb posted:Finished. Holy crap Dracula was a pain. Also, oddly I had a ton of trouble with the first boss of the boss rush but not the rest of them until Drac. Yeah that first boss is kind of pain until you get his pattern down. His hitbox is bigger than you'd think by looking at him. Also, Drac really isn't that bad. He's actually one of the easier Drac fights. In between phases, he shoots light balls that zoom around. If you hit, them they drop chicken. And he stays in this phase til you hit him twice. So you can just heal yourself this way at your leisure
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I did it. It was easier than I expected at first, but it got way harder later on.  
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Up until about halfway through January, I'm going to be posting new challenges on Saturdays instead of Fridays.
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