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feeds@yuku.com (DEATHAMSTER) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:45:29 GMT

I started Alundra. I got off the ship and after much running around the town, I ventured off and completed Tarn's Manor.

Good god, this game is A Link to the Past with StarTropics 1's play control.

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:21:30 GMT

I played for an hour tonight and I don't feel like I really got anywhere. There were lots of gunfights and some platforming segments. I'm noticing that it's starting to blend together a little more. Like, you'll be making some precarious jumps where you normally wouldn't be interrupted but now while you're in the middle of that, there'll be gunfire from somewhere and you've got to try and find cover.

There was this one gunfight I had to replay about...

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:56:24 GMT

You see the Yahtzee review for that one?

Sorry yeah, I watched it when you first linked it and forgot to reply. It has a spoiler. I cried for hours when I learned that one of the bad guys dies. That's just not something you could ever predict.

It was funny how he leads off with the race thing and it's true that there haven't been any white enemies so far except for the main villain. Then again, for the locations you're visiting, it would...

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feeds@yuku.com (DEATHAMSTER) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:37:03 GMT

I beat StarTropics! This one had a better ending, too.

Overall, I'd say StarTropics = 4 stars, StarTropics 2 = 3 stars.

Now I'll have to find another challenging Zelda-like game since these are the only two and Nintendo's too lame these days to make another. Alundra, here I come.

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feeds@yuku.com (Captain Ladd Spencer) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:21:15 GMT

Captain Ladd Spencer wrote:

You see the Yahtzee review for that one?

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:20:04 GMT

Drake's Fortune. When I last left off, the game seemed decent but I wasn't really sure about it. Well, I played a few more chapters tonight and I'm going to stick with it. The puzzle solving and exploration is a lot like the new Prince of Persia games (minus the rewinding time part) and has been the main focus of the gameplay so far. I did experience about 10 to 20 minutes devoted entirely to combat but I think that's going to be the exception.

It's fine either...

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feeds@yuku.com (Captain Ladd Spencer) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:10:10 GMT

I finally got the Ultraverse Breakthru books, which suffered from cast overload and quickly descended into a barely comprehendable maelstrom.

I've taken a look at the Ultraforce figures, and they crack me up. There's something off about Hardcase's face, like he's crosseyed or something. And Prime's cape pisses me off. I can't even figure out how to get the damn thing on - I think you're supposed to put it on over his head, but I can't even get his...

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feeds@yuku.com (DEATHAMSTER) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:42:13 GMT

I'm at the last stage of StarTropics (the alien spaceship) but having difficulty getting through it. I do like this one more than Zoda's Revenge. It's harder and I like that the story is more of a mystery.

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:21:08 GMT

Site update for Crisis Core and GPT Iota. There's probably a million things wrong with the GPT but I'm too tired to see them if there are.

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feeds@yuku.com (Captain Ladd Spencer) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:51:08 GMT

You see the Yahtzee review for that one?

I took down another bounty in Stranger's Wrath. He was poaching some pig-like animal in a graveyard. First I had to learn that animal's call, then use it to lure him out of hiding, and to learn that animal's call I had to go fight one of those animals to have the guy teach me the call.

Then I went to the boss's hideout. At the start of the fight he retreated back into his hideout and called out some goons I had to...

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:45:23 GMT

I've played a little bit of Drake's Fortune. It's not bad so far.
PS3 exclusive...not bad... does... not...compute.

It's nothing amazing so far but at least it's got some color, controls pretty well, and the dialogue can be amusing.

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feeds@yuku.com (Captain Ladd Spencer) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:25:32 GMT

I finally got around to watching that Bender's Big Score movie. What the dilly-o?

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feeds@yuku.com (da dick) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:33:44 GMT

mousepad:
made myself a mousepad out of cardboard, magazine paper, paper mache(sp?), small piece of painting canvas, tape, and several coats of glaze. at 1st i didn't have the canvas, and the magazine paper and cardboard wasn't hard and flat enough to for the mouse to glide smoothly on it. never realised a painting canvas would make such a good surface for a mousepad. it's hard enough, flat, and has a consistent texture. it actually looks/feels a lot like the 16 dollar...

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feeds@yuku.com (Captain Ladd Spencer) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:06:31 GMT

In Stranger's Wrath (yay, I didn't type "Wratch"!) I got to the new town and found X'Plosives McGee.

To get to the new town you go through a forest area by a river. It was a little annoying, because you're surrounded by tall plants, and the enemies can see you but you can't see them. I got through this area by letting them spot me, then watching where their bullets were fired from, and firing a Zappfly at them.

X'Plosives was a pain in the...

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feeds@yuku.com (DEATHAMSTER) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:49:01 GMT

I beat StarTropics 2 and I'm now at the Ghost Village in the first StarTropics. I did the second one first because I already know the ending spoiler of the first one and knew Zoda's Revenge was easier.

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:12:15 GMT

Crash Bandicoot isn't too bad. It's a bit rough around the edges, at least the first one is, but they certainly do throw enough challenges at you to keep it interesting. It feels much more like a classic sidescroller than anything from the collect-a-thon 3D platformers. I reached the last stage of the first island but got a game over and had to continue from the last boss. I actually had about 18 lives at one point but the game froze at the end of a bonus round and I had to reset. I...

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feeds@yuku.com (TWEETER911) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:58:18 GMT

Welcome to piracy m'friend!

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:52:42 GMT

I've "acquired" Rhapsody for PS1 and I found that it's not hard to "acquire" other PS1 games as well. Maybe I'll escape from modern gaming for a while and bask in the glory of the forgotten era of the late 90's.

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feeds@yuku.com (TaroSH) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:25:34 GMT

CLOUDBOND007 wrote:
So up to this point, I've played Crisis Core and FF7. I'm now reading the mini-novel featuring mostly Barret right after the world started returning more or less to normal. It's readable. Then I'll watch Advent Children one more time and that'll be the last FF7 related thing I'm likely to look into. The other prequel games just sound so terrible that I don't see the point.
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feeds@yuku.com (Minerva K Red) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:40:58 GMT

Awesome. I got the Fire Spell in Zelda 2, so I'm ready for when "all else fails". I also learned an upthrust technique and now I have to find some lost child or some shit like that.

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:46:34 GMT

The last few episodes I've seen of From the Earth to the Moon have been a little anticlimactic. I had initially assumed that the series was going to end with the first moon landing, but that happens about halfway through the series. There was one episode that I thought was terrible, which dealt with a rivalry between two reporters covering Apollo 13. To make it worse, they were fictional. Waste of time that was.

Part of the deal with that episode was that they wanted to make a...