"MIYAHON" also shows up in the credits for Zelda 2. So, he did play a role for that game, too! You learn something new everyday (or you learn that something you thought you learned before was wrong).
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Okay, I looked up Zelda's ending on VG Museum, and I'd guess "S. MIYAHON" is Shigeru Miyamoto.
"MIYAHON" also shows up in the credits for Zelda 2. So, he did play a role for that game, too! You learn something new everyday (or you learn that something you thought you learned before was wrong). |
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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I forgot a lot about the second quest. The first dungeon was where it was in the first quest, as I thought.
The second one, which is where I am now, is where you bought the blue ring in the first quest. I didn't know that that was where that staircase would take me until I arrived. Off the top of my head, I have no idea where dungeons 3, 4, etc., are. Or where the letter is. |
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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FO and I were talking about whether or not it was possible to get stuck in The Legend of Zelda. I can now definitively answer 'yes'. I made it to
dungeon 7 early (it's under a bush, so you only need the blue candle, which you can get at any time). I went to a room just one or two to the right from
the entrance, which was a one way door. The door might open if you killed all the enemies in the room. But there was one dark nut on the other side of a
vertical strip of water. It's not possible to stab across the water to get the darknut, I didn't have the ladder to cross, I had no weapon to attack
across, I didn't have full life to throw my sword, and after I killed the enemies on my side (which might have been dumb, but I didn't realize the
implication at first) I couldn't even commit suicide. I had to use the reset code.
Anyway, before beating the second dungeon, I explored the overworld a little more, got 6 heart containers, got the White Sword and the Blue Ring. Later, I beat the second dungeon (this early, the boss was a Gleeok! And it had a Manhandla miniboss) and third (which didn't really have a boss! You can get the triforce without getting the heart container or beating a boss. You can get a heart container from three Dodongos earlier, but they are option, and they respawn after dying!) I found levels 6 and 7 (and more or less remember where level 8 was from previous games), but don't remember where levels 4 and 5 are. |
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Captain Ladd Spencer |
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Another game I haven't metioned my playing is Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest. It's decent, and the music is awesome. I relit the Water crystal while my DS
was recharging.
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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The battery on my DS is so weak that I always play it while it's charging. With the last Phoenix Wright games it would last maybe 2 or 3 hours and it's
not even on the brightest setting. It's probably because I'll leave it unused for months at a time inbetween decent games. Batteries for it aren't
much money but I haven't felt like going through the trouble.
I still have my old style blue DS, with a battery that's probably in even worse shape since it hasn't been used in probably over a year. I'd probably have to order one before I could try to sell it. |
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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I fired up Blue Dragon for a few minutes. I gained a level and saved at the start of the next dungeon. During the time I played, I had that thing happen where
the music cuts out. It'll be nice to get to Disc 2 so I can see if this is a disc problem, system problem or coding problem. Disc 2 doesn't look to be
in much different condition based on a visual analysis, though.
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James FP |
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I solved the Magic Square Puzzle in the Hawkseye Hills dungeon of Might & Magic! Got me some experience points and gold although I was hoping for a little
more than that. Anyway, I also played some Killer Instinct recently, trying to relearn combos with Jago and Fulgore. I used to be much better at this game back
in the day. I'm not even really sure why I devoted so much time to it before.
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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FO loaded up a Killer Instinct ROM to take some screenshots for her music article, and I gave it a try. I was embarrassed by how much of that game that I
forgot. I used to know tons of combos for at least Jago and Fulgore (and at least a decent number for most of the rest), but I forgot a lot of their details
(like exactly what their linkers were).
See how your opinion ruined Christmas for everyone!
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James FP |
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I used to be pretty good with almost everyone except Spinal and Riptor. I never really learned those two. But my best three were Jago, Fulgore, and Orchid. I
remember getting Killer Instinct Gold sometime after it came out and realizing that I didn't really like this game so much anymore. But maybe KI Gold just
wasn't as good, though I don't know why since they're so similar. I'll bet the awkwardness of using an N64 controller to play a fighting game
weighed into that, too.
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TaroSH |
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I made it to the Level 4 boss of Metal Slug X on a quarter, and came so close to finally beating Stage 3 without dying - the boss killed me : (
I can practically do the first two stages blindfolded. |
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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I love my new phone, I've never had one anywhere near that nice. Just gotta wait for the case I ordered before I take it to work.
I'm having hard iced tea, one of the rare alcoholic drinks I can actually stand. Neat, I think that makes a total of two. The new Simspsons disc came today so maybe I'll mess around with that again. This disc is perfect so if anything goes wrong, my Xbox is fried. |
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TaroSH |
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I finished the trial in PW3 and started the second investigation. I cracked the computer woman's Psyche-lock, and tried to do the creepy girl's but
either didn't have everything I needed or just couldn't figure out the first one. I'll try again tomorrow.
There was a 300 reference... And over in Mystic Quest, I made it to the volcano. |
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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There was a 300 reference...I usually enjoy the way they put in some references, but this one seemed pretty lame to me. Viola (the creepy girl) seemed like she could be really interesting at first but they never really went anywhere with it. A while back, I found these funny image edits that illustrated Tigre's day in court impersonating Phoenix. Wish I could locate those again. |
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Captain Ladd Spencer |
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Her name's Violetta, actually.
I still have to get that bottle back from Gumshoe, although I've already figured out what it was. |
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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Her name's Violetta, actually.I don't have the game anymore, but she's gotta be called Viola somewhere. I did a gamefaqs, court-records.net, and google search and Viola is used almost all the time. I did see one that said Viola/Violetta. Only thing I can think of is that Violetta is the official translation and Viola what they were calling her before the US version came out. Edit: I figured it out. Not really a spoiler exactly, but you probably just haven't played far enough into the case to see her called that. My "decisive evidence" (with spoilers)
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sethrashnoo |
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I completed the Ox Tank in Alundra 2. That bull boss was really difficult. I'm almost wondering if this game is going to be like Illusion of Gaia in that
the first few bosses are the hardest ones and the last few are almost impossible to lose to.
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da dick |
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der langrisser:
used level skip on my indie game and played the scenario where sonya suceeds in summoning chaos. chaos sucks. he/it seems to have the same spells and troops(arch demons) as gayleon/boser(w/alharzard equipped), but with crappier stats and troop bonus. what's worse/better is that he doesn't sit on a throne tile like the kaiser and gayleon, so my wario could kill him/it with just 1 hit. i don't know why i'm still come back to this game. the music annoys me and i almost fell alseep a couple of times when replaying it. MW4: i have to restart my elite game. lost way too much money in the earlier missions by employing the cheapest pilots and mecs, and using them as cannon fodder(most of them died with their mecs) while i did most of the work. i can't finish the final missions in the 1st 3 worlds open to me without having enough money for heavy mecs. playing the solaris tournaments wasn't enough. solaris doesn't seem to open up the heavy-class tournies until i complete more missions. this time i'm sticking to wolf's dragoon's strength by using only clan mecs. i'm starting to notice the difference in firepower between clan and IS mecs. clan mecs almost always have more weapon slots than an IS of the same weight.clans are also usually faster, so i'm 'using' less weight for engine upgrades(i like to keep the top speed at around 90kmph) and more on weapons. however i don't think i can afford to equip them all with clan weapons only. and since i'm playing with heat management on, clan weapons aren't always a better choice because of their higher heat emission(sp?). if i still can't complete the 1st few worlds on elite with the wolfies, i'm starting yet another new game with the highlanders. never had any money problems with that sponsor, in my recruit game. highlanders seem to get paid at least a few hundred thousand c-bills more than other sponsers, per mission. don't remember if they get extra money for solaris. being forced to use more mostly non-clan stuff until late-game probably saved me lots of money too. === cloudboo's new facepic is setting off my gaydar alarm.
"How can we jump over our shadows when we no longer have one?How can we
pass out of the century (not to
speak of the millennium)if we do not make up our minds to put an end to it, engaged as we are in an indefinite work of mourning for all the incidents, ideologies and violence which have marked it?" - THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM OR THE COUNTDOWN , Jean Baudrillard. |
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Flying Omelette |
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sethrashnoo wrote: The bull is one of the harder ones, but trust me, you've got plenty of challenges ahead of yourself.
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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I've cleared a few more Simpsons levels since I got the game back. One has Marge leading a bloodthirsty mob to stop the violent Grand Theft Scratchy, one
took place in a videogame parody world (it wasn't funny), and the one I'm in now is about stopping an alien invasion led by Kang and Kudos. It's
weird how this game has Comic Book Guy pop up and make fun of videogame cliches like hitting switches and breaking crates. But then the game uses those things
in the same predictable old ways.
In Blue Dragon, I made it back to the town you start in to find it quite different. I lost twice to a boss named Mad Eye. He's basically invulnerable as he summons three waves of increasingly powerful skeleton enemies for you to fight. While you're doing that, he's casting some fairly potent attack spells. What got me on those first two attempts (and didn't occur on the third) was that he used a spell called Tempest that was strong enough to kill the entire party even at max HP. Once the skeletons are gone, he only takes three hits to kill, and since he didn't cast Tempest, I was fine. |
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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Wikipedia regarding Miyamoto:
That's a little confusing, though. If it was his nickname, then maybe it wasn't a mistranslation. Or did he find out about the mistranslation and then take it as a nickname because of that? Edit: I watched A Scanner Darkly. I lowered my expectations after reading some negative reviews and found it to be fairly interesting. I'm pretty sure that the visual style worked to the movie's benefit.
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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I bought my first ever cell phone game because I was curious as to how it worked. I ended up with Burgertime Delight which features the full original
NES/Arcade version and an updated one with new levels, enemies, traps, and powerups. The controls are iffy as you might imagine, but there are different
difficulty options to compensate. This could be really neat for my lunch breaks.
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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Completely out of the blue, I found my disc with the demo of Shadow of the Colossus on it. Will I play it? Maybe.
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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You dare not play it. Not even to review it fairly. Understand, Crawl, you would use play this game from a desire to do good... But through you, it would wield
a power too great and terrible to imagine.
In Blue Dragon, I made it through the valley of murals (where the murals are alive and attack you) to the town of murals where the murals are laid back and tell you stories. After some more glitches, I tried polishing the disc with toothpaste because the internet said to. So far so good. |
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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Finished the second part of the Valley of Murals and ended up in a mission to protect a caravan. Mostly did a pretty good job although it did take some damage.
I think there's an achievement point for perfection, but I'm not that obsessive. Most of the achievements in this game are lousy boring ones like
getting to level 99, anyway.
Before the caravan, there was a Dullahan boss. I correctly interpreted that the hint to knock him off his feet meant to use Ground magic, which ends up lowering his attack power. After that, he was a pushover. While on the escort mission, there are these tiger enemies that are intimidating at first until you realize that their ability to kill you in one hit is not as scary as it first seems. You usually fight two at a time and after the first round, half of your party will be dead. But before they evem take another turn, you have an eternity to get yourself recovered and clobber both of them. The boss fight of this area was a party of five of these tigers, but a fifth party member joins the group. After the first round, only one character was a live, but I again made short work of them after that because of how slow they are. So now I'm at Jibral Castle Town and the story might be picking up a little bit. After the intro, it had been mostly dungeon crawling with only a little story. Hopefully that's about to change. I'm still glitch free after the toothpaste scrub. Hope that continues long enough to get me off of this disc and on to the next. |
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Crawl and 1OOO |
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I watched The Terminator with my brother (he never saw it before), and about half of Terminator 2, theatrical version from the Extreme Edition set (and holy
crap was that a pain in the ass to deal with). FO was doing something else at first, but then seemed to get interested in T2. I might post more about it
later.
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Flying Omelette |
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Well, I don't know what else you wanted me to do.
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CLOUDBOND007 |
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That's funny, T2 was on TV tonight. I just finished the first disc of Blue Dragon. The dungeon was a tiny bit tedious, but there were some decently
challenging bosses and lots of fun story and action sequences. It's been a long time since I could say I finished the first disc of something. It's a
nice little milestone event even though it's hard to say how long each disc might be.
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pOrn Sigma |
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I finally beat the third level of Metal Slug X without dying, but had done something stupid and gotten myself killed by the first boss : (
![]() It's time for revenge... |
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pOrn Sigma |
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I got through the first three stages without dying. Then I made it to that beefy guy with the machine gun in the final level.
I got 4th place on the Top 10, with about 2.5 or .6 million points. ![]() It's time for revenge... |
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TaroSH |
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I finished the third case of Phoenix Wright 3.
Hahaha, the conclusion to that trial was awesome. Y'know, there's been two times I used the right piece of evidence for the wrong reason. Minor gameplay spoilers, so I'll black it out: The first was when I was debunking a blackmail letter that mentioned a red diamond the addressee received "the other day". I used a newspaper clipping that I thought would work because it didn't show Luke wearing his red diamond ring, but it worked because it depicted a blue diamond. The second was when the transvestite mentioned putting up a mirror down the middle of the restaurant, and I used the Crime Photo because I thought it couldn't have been shot at that angle if there was a mirror there. Well, it was correct because it showed a picture of a vase, but the guy the transvestite was testifying against broke the fase at his table. Although now I realize it was taken by the police, allegedly after he moved the mirror. |
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