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CLOUDBOND007	Game Progress Topic Theta	Lead	[-]
Posts: 9847 (01/03/08 11:25 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Time to kill the old beast. No new game progress, although I probably will play some more Mario tonight. I do think it's very good, my favorite of the 3D Marios at this point (around 20 stars collected). It plays more like one of the 2D games than I really thought possible. You're sacrificing some of the fun of exploration that was present in Mario 64 and Sunshine (once you pick a star from the level select, you're pretty much on a set path to that star), but I think it's worth it to see the gameplay go back to it's roots somewhat. Watching DBZ on DVD has been a mixed experience. Everything from the beginning of the show up to about 25% of the combined Namek+Frieza sagas was recently redubbed. The dub sounded good and was pretty accurate when I compared it to the subtitles. Very little censorship, next dimension stuff, heck, etc. But then at that 25% point, it switched to dubbing that was done years ago when the voice actors were still in the early stages of learning those characters, and it was very awkward. The dialogue also varies much more from the supposedly accurate subtitles, sometimes wildly. It's weird having the dialogue be censored while the animation is not, so there's this sometimes unnaturally tame dialogue combined with visuals featuring copious amounts of blood and gore. Archive update CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS Last Edited By: CLOUDBOND007 01/04/08 12:33 AM. Edited 1 time.
TaroSH		#1	[-]
Posts: 2047 (01/04/08 12:19 AM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I read this as "Game Progress Topic Theata" I thought Chatting Parodius would be more up my alley. Man, I hope there's a way to turn that yakking old man off. Well, it's easier to keep track of, but it's a little dull, too. I played as the flying kitty!
da dick		#2	[-]
Posts: 1600 (01/04/08 3:08 AM) and my bird can sing too! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	der langrisser: i think it's impossible to get everyone to their final(5th) secret class without using the level skip cheat or maybe the healing trick. so maybe i can make a more well-balanced team, with everyone in their 4th class by scenario 21, if i make sure none of them are promoted to classes which lead to their 5th class(es), especially mario with his superior stats. in warsong, it's impossible to make a ranger and get everyone else to their 3rd class. i guess the writers of these gamefaqs must have used the level skip cheat to get their whole team to their final classes, since they all only recommend the best classes for each character. i remember the warsong faqs suggesting some class promotions which are weaker but faster to get to, but such suggestions are non-existent in der langrisser faqs. wonder if they all cheat, or they just don't think in a very practical way. anyways, completed the light path. my number of kills for each hero seems to be much much lower than the indie path. i guess it's mostly 'cause i had only 6 heroes to use for half of the indie game. strangely i didn't see any mention about the war being called "art of swords war" in the light ending. maybe that was just a little honorific of sorts for completing the more difficult paths. that is, overall more difficult. the last scenario for the light path(well, the 2nd of the 3 ways the light path could end,chose to defeat boser 1st, then sonya, then kaiser) was more difficult than the imperial path(yeah, 2nd of the 4 ways the imperial game could end). the kaiser is tougher to kill than calais/jessica, but that's not why it's harder. it's the layout of the final scenario in the light path. it forces me to kill almost everything before i could reach the kaiser's throne. in the imperial one, i was split into 2 groups, but the way to calais was wide open. that and the game got too damn easy once i've obtained both the langrisser and alhazard. for the indie path, i also got to use both swords but there was no one else but elwin who could use it. leon could also use the langrisser in the imperial path, so i would equip the alhazard on elwin. the cutscene was prettier but a little shorter than the imperial and indie ending. showed the langrisser being commanded by the shrine maidens to seal away the alhazard and poop both swords disappeared. then some talk about working for peace, as the absence of the empire would make the various countries go to war again. and mario ,for some reason, thinks the best way to make peace is to go on an aimless roadtrip. what a bum. the epilogue said that he would eventually win some reward for settling some dispute between 3 states, visit liana's orphanage, buy it off her, and grab her along for another roadtrip. i guess that's suppose to be a happy ending for him. well, before that epilogue, there's a scene of calais chatting with the goddess o light. some stuff about the langrisser and alhazard disappearing from the world forever, along with the gods, and calais the avatar of light will just hang around in the celestial realm to observe and no longer interfere(sp). hmmm... sounds similar to the god-killing indie path ending except no mention of furry blood-thirsty monsters living in peace and harmony with hummies. the epilogue.right. hein still got kidnapped by cho anikis. wtf?!!? i wonder if it has anything to do with his high number of kills? liana , as i've said, starts an orphanage, and eventually ran off somewhere with mario. her twin, lana, dies from a horrible disease while trying to find a cure for it. scott goes off somewhere for hardcore training after getting his ass kicked. keith retires but got killed by some monster. stupid cherie ran away from home and was rumoured to have been killed by a dragon after challenging it. lester became a flithy drunk, but later became flithy rich after defeating a sea monster, and used the money to finance his bucaneering(sp?) ways. 5 bad(including possible aniki buttsex) endings out of 8? what the hell? the bloody-minded indie ending doesn't sound so bad compared to this. maybe it does have something to do with the score/ number of kills for each character ... nope. after replaying the last indie scenario, i beat it without getting sonya killed(meaning zero defeats for sonya), and noticed that her epilogue was slightly more positive as it says that she became welcome in the village she previously tried to wreck, instead of the worse ending which mentions that she still has trouble being accepted by monsters as she's a half-human. so to get a good ending for every character, i have make sure they're never defeated in any scenario.that's much harder to do compared to warsong. i guess rohga will always have a sad ending in the imperial path if sonya isn't talked out of the darkside. elwin/mario will always have at least a fairly good ending since it's game over if he's ever defeated in battle. don't remember if i ever got liana(light path) killed. i guess not, since her defence was pretty good as a sage. the heck. i don't like most of the characters enough to want good endings for them.near impossible to get good endings for esto and osto in the indie path, as there's scenario where they'll turn against me, until i defeat boser. for my game, i beat them both before going for boser, as he's pretty tough to beat when he holding the alhazard, sitting on a throne(40% defence bonus), and guarded by arch-demons. hein's pretty hard to keep alive with his low defence. i only got sonya killed once for the last scenario as i usually kept her at the back, but got impatient. replayed the imperial ending again and found out that the 2 treasure chests contain a runestone and a flame lance. for the indie ending, there's a dragonslayer(+7 attack) sword under some statue.not useful at all without using the level skipping cheat. maybe i'll check it out just to see the different endings? hm... should move on to romancing saga, or maybe back to irritating BOF2 or earthbound... but i really like playing as a hero , carrying a bigass phallic sword, commanding a variety of troops, and showing off my in-game manliness... right. oh, and noticed that the light ending(in boser's castle) allowed me to buy more dragon armour for about 2000GP each... i rant too much.
Crawl and 1OOO		#3	[-]
Posts: 10475 (01/04/08 6:59 AM) "Here I Come to Save the Day!" Mighty Crawl is on the Way! The Fuzzy Physicist Administrator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	One of the more unexpected gifts FO got for me for Christmas was the Beavis and Butt-head set. I'm a good ways into it. It's not the full series -- it's about 2/3 of it. Mike Judge said that 1/3 of the series was good, 1/3 mediocre, and 1/3 terrible, and he left the terrible third off. I don't know if I agree with his judgments. I thought the one where they found a mouse in a bottle and the one where Beavis wore roadkill on his head as "fur" were funny, but they're not on the set. Anyway, it's kind of mixed. It can be funny, and even kind of addictive (some episodes are only about 5 minutes long, so it's easy to watch a lot in a row), but it can get really repetitive, too. There's only so much "huh, huh, huh" and "That was cool" that you can take. I think the series got better when there were more characters for them to interact with, and when the joke was more about making fun of Beavis and Butt-head than when it was glamorizing them. Or when they do a "You said ..." joke and it's clever or unexpected ("We need this television to entertain us." "You said anus") than just "You said hard". I asked FO if she knew anyone like Beavis and Butt-head in school. She was like, "Um, I don't know, uh, maybe...?" My answer is a little more decisive. From about 6th grade on, at least about half the kids in my classes were basically Beavis and Butt-head.
Flying Omelette		#4	[-]
Posts: 17126 (01/04/08 7:35 AM) Shy, my Oni Brass! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	We're almost done watching The Muppet Show Season 2. This set included the Valentines Day special, which was sort of a pilot episode that was made and aired before the series began. Gee, it seems like it took awhile for the concept to get its footing. I have no idea what the point of that special was. For one thing, it's "hosted" by a completely extraneous character who never made it into the series. He's a muppet like the one in the pitch reel, only with sunglasses named "Wally". There didn't seem to be any point to this muppet other than that he types on a typewriter, and even that amounted to nothing. The weird thing is that Kermit is in this special, so it's like it has two lead characters. It also had no plot and a couple of really creepy moments like Mia Farrow singing to a dog muppet and George the Janitor admitting to being in love with his mop and then participating in a song about it. The first seasons DVD set contained the other pilot episode. That one had Nigel (who became the pit orchestra conductor) as the host, but at least some research reveals a reason for that - Jim Henson was afraid that Kermit might not appeal to an adult audience because he was associated with Sesame Street. But I have no idea what the hell is up with Wally. Another thing about the Valentine's Day special is that I don't even really understand the concept. The other pilot and the actual show are pretty distinct - the Muppets are working in a theater putting on a vaudeville style show. But the premise of the Valentine's Day show seems to be that there are just some muppets in a house. The muppet "technology" has improved over the first season. I rewatched the Season 1 opening and noticed how "ghetto" it is compared to Season 2's opening. When the lines of chorus girls and guys come out onto the stage, their mouth movements really aren't synced with the lyrics of the song. At the end of the segment, when the muppets are all sitting on a tiered stage that rises up kind of like a wedding cake, the ones on the end aren't moving at all...until the end when they robotically raise their arms. Also, it would appear the opening was filmed before they had a lot of muppets constructed because the Trumpet Lady appears in both the orchestra and in the chorus girl lineup. Season 1 also had a lot of moments where muppeteers would become momentarily visible if you were looking for it. I've been specifically trying to spot errors like that this season, and aside from one moment where the arm sock on a chicken became visible when it stood up too high, I haven't spotted any. They even sometimes light the stage in such a way that the muppets' shadows will be on the wall. You'd think that could easily lead to a muppeteer's shadow being casted on the wall, too, but so far I haven't noticed any. They also had a scene where Petula Clark danced with a very tall muppet that was not just a person in a costume. He was manipulated by muppeteers dressed in black against a black screen, which is a technique they've used a lot on this show and Sesame Street, but that was the largest scale I've seen it done on yet. "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues Last Edited By: Flying Omelette 01/04/08 7:40 AM. Edited 1 times.
Crawl and 1OOO		#5	[-]
Posts: 10475 (01/04/08 8:33 AM) "Here I Come to Save the Day!" Mighty Crawl is on the Way! The Fuzzy Physicist Administrator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yeah, that was so much larger than Petula that at first I thought it was a smaller puppet that was superimposed next to her, but then she started grabbing it -- and you could see the large cables that were used to manipulate it, which did not spoil it at all, because you realized that it WAS a giant puppet, and people were somehow getting the thing to dance in rhythm by pulling cables, which must have been a tremendously difficult act of puppetry. It's weird that the show advanced technically so much in one season, when you consider that Jim Henson had supposedly been working on muppets for 30 years before The Muppet Show. I'm not sure exactly where that figure came from -- he was only 53 when he died, and that was 9 years after The Muppet Show finished. But The Muppet Show definitely started several years after Sesame Street. See how your opinion ruined Christmas for everyone!
Flying Omelette		#6	[-]
Posts: 17126 (01/04/08 8:29 PM) Shy, my Oni Brass! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I wonder if part of the reason is that he was only really trying to do simple things before The Muppet Show. The focus in Sesame Street is on the education and the focus in commercials is on the products, so bizarre and complicated muppet mechanics may not have been necessary for those. I think another part of it might be that the success of the show after the first season allowed for a bigger budget. That can easily be seen in the improvements to the various muppet designs. "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues
Flying Omelette		#7	[-]
Posts: 17126 (01/04/08 10:34 PM) Shy, my Oni Brass! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Crawl and 1OOO wrote: Anyway, it's kind of mixed. It can be funny, and even kind of addictive (some episodes are only about 5 minutes long, so it's easy to watch a lot in a row), but it can get really repetitive, too. There's only so much "huh, huh, huh" and "That was cool" that you can take. I think what I've seen of Beavis and Butt-head so far is funnier than what I saw of Ren & Stimpy. "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues
Crawl and 1OOO		#8	[-]
Posts: 10475 (01/04/08 11:14 PM) "Here I Come to Save the Day!" Mighty Crawl is on the Way! The Fuzzy Physicist Administrator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yes. Ren and Stimpy and Rescue Rangers were two DVD sets I got that I didn't even get all the way through.
INFPGamer		#9	[-]
Posts: 71 (01/05/08 2:30 AM) More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I don't know what's on the B&B DVD set, but I only like the "episodes" of the show. The part where they sit on the couch and watch and comment on music videos doesn't appeal/make sense to me because I don't even know most of the bands. In my viens it courses through That addictive Code Red Mountain Dew
Flying Omelette		#10	[-]
Posts: 17126 (01/05/08 9:30 AM) Shy, my Oni Brass! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The DVDs do contain some of the music videos, but they've been separated from the episodes. I never actually saw Beavis & Butt-head on MTV (I think they were most popular when my family didn't have cable), so I wasn't aware until Crawl mentioned it that the videos used to be in the middle of the episodes. I did think that one where they were arguing over whether that costumed guy in the Grim Reaper video was Wolverine was funny, though. Edit - To elaborate a little on that: I don't really think the guy in the video was supposed to Wolverine, but the conversation still reminded me of some times when I'd get into very similar arguments with people over similar things. For example, that guy at the old N-Sider board who was arguing with me and Sethra that there was no way the voice actor for Goku (Dragon Ball Z) was the same VA as Cheetor (Beast Wars), even though it certainly was (Ian James Corlett.)* I also know I've gotten into that "drawn differently" argument, too, but I don't know exactly with who or over what. Maybe it was Real Ghostbusters. It could've been a conversation like, "That's not really Egon. He doesn't look at all like Harold Ramis", and my reply could've been, "No, it's the same character. They just draw him differently". Again, that may not be exactly how it went, but I know I've had things like that happen. * - And here's another example of stupid, stupid, stupid Wikipedia editorializing. They claim Ian Corlett's most well-known role was Filbert in Pocket Dragon Tales. Best known on what planet?? I've never even heard of Pocket Dragon Tales before, let alone Filbert, and we're talking about the man who played Goku and Cheetor, as well as Dr. Wily on Captain N, and Mega Man in the Ruby/Spears Mega Man cartoon! "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues Last Edited By: Flying Omelette 01/05/08 1:45 PM. Edited 2 times.
TaroSH		#11	[-]
Posts: 2047 (01/05/08 11:10 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Oh man, Chatting Parodius is about 5x better without that screaming old man. And in Contra 3 I made it to the part of level 4 with the missiles.
CLOUDBOND007		#12	[-]
Posts: 9847 (01/06/08 5:30 AM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I finished watching the DBZ DVD's up to the end of the Frieza Saga. That's all that's out right now in the box sets. The dubbing improved again as it went on and I got my mind used to watching the English version with the subtitles meant for the Japanese version. So it's basically seeing the same stuff said two different ways at the same time (or two completely different things at once depending on how badly they translated it). So that was interesting. I had too much dislike for the Japanese audio to leave it on for very long. I wonder if I've now used the PS3 more for DVD's than for games. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
Flying Omelette		#13	[-]
Posts: 17126 (01/06/08 11:03 AM) Shy, my Oni Brass! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Flying Omelette wrote: I also know I've gotten into that "drawn differently" argument, too, but I don't know exactly with who or over what. Maybe it was Real Ghostbusters. It could've been a conversation like, "That's not really Egon. He doesn't look at all like Harold Ramis", and my reply could've been, "No, it's the same character. They just draw him differently". Again, that may not be exactly how it went, but I know I've had things like that happen. Crawl didn't quite remember what I was referring to with this, but when Beavis & Butt-head are watching the Grim Reaper video (I don't remember for which song it was), there's a part where a guy is dressed in a bear costume with long claws, and Butt-head says something like, "I think that's supposed to be Wolverine." And Beavis replies with something like, "No way! That doesn't look like Wolverine!", and Butt-head says, "Yes it is. They just draw him differently." We finished watching The Muppet Show Season 2. Most of those "Muppet interview" skits in the bonus features were pointless and why does the new Miss Piggy muppet look like she has rabbit ears? And I hate that new Gonzo muppet, too. His nose does not look like it's continuous. The curled part looks like it was tacked on later. And his hair is short and curly-looking instead of long and shaggy. Maybe it's just my imagination but those changes along with the way they "explained" him in Muppets From Space seem like they're trying to "normalize" the character, whereas before the whole point of Gonzo is that he was weird and inexplicable and did really bizarre things (like eating a tire to the tune of "Flight of the Bumblebee".) It's hard for me to say if I overall liked Season 2 more than Season 1. Season 2 improved in the technical areas (better-looking muppet redesigns, better intro, less mistakes where puppeteers become visible, and more complex muppetry for some sketches), but I think Season 1 may have a larger quantity of memorable songs. The amount of really funny sketches and jokes seemed like it was about equal for both, although Season 2 may have improved here, too, but I'd probably have to rewatch Season 1 to be sure. Season 2 had more Bunsen & Beaker and Swedish Chef sketches. Season 1 had a sketch in almost every episode where Fozzie would tell bad jokes in a standup routine while getting heckled by Statler and Waldorf and lot of times these weren't very funny...almost to the point of being painful in some cases. In Season 2, it seemed they only did those sketches if they actually had some funny material for Fozzie to work with. Two sketches that cracked me up the hardest were the "Animal bowls overhanded" one and Dr. Teeth's Cheesecake song (I'd post the video for that, but it's funnier in the context of the entire episode). Season 2 also had a lot more recognizable guest stars, although the quality of the show isn't always determined by the popularity of the star. Man, it's sort of been a rude awakening realizing how much I ripped off this show with my original RAU comics. I'm beginning to wonder now if the whole reason I started writing those comics was out of frustration from the show being canceled. It's not just the premise and setting I ripped off, but I have a feeling I may have copied entire jokes, too. I hate to toot my own horn, but I think there may be one area in which I was better and that's in the strength of my female characters. After awhile, pretty much every female character who wasn't Miss Piggy faded to background (characters like Miss Mousey, Mildred Huxtetter, Hilda the Seamstress, Zelda Rose, and Wanda). Janice (of the Electric Mayhem) hung around awhile, but became less prominent in Muppet-related things over time. I have to wonder if some of those characters would have hung around longer had Eren Ozker not quit the show after the first season. I theorize that Hilda at least would have stayed around because she seemed like a favorite of hers. "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues Last Edited By: Flying Omelette 01/06/08 11:12 AM. Edited 2 times.
Crawl and 1OOO		#14	[-]
Posts: 10475 (01/06/08 12:33 PM) "Here I Come to Save the Day!" Mighty Crawl is on the Way! The Fuzzy Physicist Administrator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Another thing about the new versions of the old muppets is that the new actors can't do their voices correctly. Gonzo is particularly bad. He's got a deep voice and sounds kind of like Harvey Fierstein, giving the impression that he's gay. Miss Piggy seems like she's spaced out on drugs.
TaroSH		#15	[-]
Posts: 2047 (01/06/08 7:14 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I had started Miracle Warriors a few days ago, and I'm trying to get the shield that lets me get the final party member. What version of this game is Kurt playing? There's only three pieces of equipment for each character - you can buy a dagger or sword from the shops, as well as armor and a shield, and they're all the same for everybody. Then some kings give each character the "best" weapons just for you having found them, or else I already had enough fangs when I talked to them that it only seemed like they gave them to me just for having the right person, then you have to get their best armors and sheilds by beating a boss monster in caves (a wolf called a Senpi for the armor, and a winged snake called a Hanj for the shield). Maybe the final guy is different, I haven't gotten him yet, but I'm sure his equipment will also be free. Well, then you can pay 60,000 gilder to have that best weapon upgraded, but that's it. I've had hardly any funding problems - once I had to sell all my fangs because I was running low on cash after buying that weapon upgrade, but now I've got over 200,000 gilder and all I'm having to buy is Healings and Herbs. Battles aren't fast, but they also aren't slow. And the level grinding isn't nearly as bad as Dragon Warrior. Also, while I really like the overworld theme the rest of the soundtrack is actually quite annoying. I'm not saying it's a good game (it's really not bad, either. It's okay, I guess), but that's almost as bad as when GameInformer said it took hours to get to the tower in Tao's Adventure when it took ten minutes.
Flying Omelette		#16	[-]
Posts: 17126 (01/06/08 7:27 PM) Shy, my Oni Brass! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I wondered if maybe we were being too hard on Kurt and I felt kind of bad about going off on him for that Killer7 review, but we aren't the only ones who have been calling him into question lately. Another thing about the new versions of the old muppets is that the new actors can't do their voices correctly. Gonzo is particularly bad. He's got a deep voice and sounds kind of like Harvey Fierstein, giving the impression that he's gay. Yeah. And the way the muppet looks (the short curly hair instead of the shagginess and the pink shirt) looks gay, too. I don't have a problem with muppets looking/acting/sounding gay, but it's like this is a totally different character now. I guess the people writing for him now don't go for his whole chicken and cow leg fetish. Miss Piggy seems like she's spaced out on drugs. The person performing her in those mock-interviews almost seemed like he/she(whatever) was breaking character. Like with the way she was pronouncing words like "luge" and "louvre". That seemed more like an actor making fun of the way the words sounded with her voice then something the actual character would say. And I now wonder if the reason for the rabbit-like ears is because they're trying to give her a "Playboy Bunny" kind of look. At this point, I really have no desire to see any of the other movies that feature the modern versions of these muppets (such as Muppets Wizard of Oz). "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues
da dick		#17	[-]
Posts: 1600 (01/06/08 11:24 PM) and my bird can sing too! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	der langrisser: finally succumbed to using the level skip cheat. with items like the rune stone and masaya sword, and useful stuff available even in the 21st scenarios of different paths, i would think the game designers wanted people to use the level skip code. well actually, i still don't understand why they put useful items in the last scenarios. after using the level skip code to replay any last scenario, it's still not possible to save game after i've completed it and the credits roll. i found that the level skip code doesn't work on the "resume"(continue) savegame. i'm gonna use my indie path save to replay the point where i choose to go indie or dark. that's should be the level where liana and lana will join the team and get their levels re-averaged when they join. then i'll skip to the last dark scenario. i had a look at the other dark scenarios. only the last 2 differ from the indie scenarios, and they look much easier with weaker enemies. the last dark scenario does look like a clone of a pretty difficult scenario in warsong. the enemies are all holed up in fort surrounded by water, there's only 1 narrow entrance into the fort, but the fort can be accessed from the sides by units(infantry, fliers and ghosts) which can move across castle wall tiles. right now, i actually have a new light path game where i'm trying to get everyone to reach a class which doesn't have a secret 5th class(differs between characters). that and i wanna try to go down the storyline where i'll get to fight chaos.feel like dropping that game and just use level skip and my seemingly invincible trio of hein, rohga and mario(from indie path game) to beat chaos. ... beat the dark path. my memory's fuzzy.i had a look at the dark path scenarios again, and found that only scenario 17 is the similar the indie counterpart. instead of having to defeat imelda(as a queen) in 20 turns, for the dark path, i have to defeat a weaker vargas(as a general) in 20 turns, and that's with lana and liana helping out the last dark scenario was a bit harder than i thought. after defeating calais, she'll summon the goddess of light, who will in turn summon garrett/ledin from warsong. that was unexpected. with the goddess and ledin made brillant team together. killed my rohga and esto. in the last indie scenario, the goddess summons both sieghart(from some ol' eldea game) and ledin, but they were teamed up with the weaker shrine maidens(liana & lana), while the goddess stood far apart from them. the ending cut scene was appropiately(sp?) evil. with the goddess defeated, langrisser loses its power and boser pops out to shatter it into piece. then he turns the sky black with alhazard. then it cuts to some scene of villagers commenting about fish and animals "fading(?!?) away". the epilogue says that wario eventually ruled over the humans for boser and killed off lots of people who rebelled against him. sonia became fawned by the humans who once abused her, and thought she finally avenged herself. for getting defeated once, rohga's "bad" ending was just a sentence saying that sonya treats him coldy. bleh. other than that, he continued fighting for boser. dark princess lana married boser and sat on some throne of bones as the queen of darkness. liana was defeated once before, so her bad ending was that she commited suicide after boser's mind control spell worn out by accident. osto and esto still die, eventually.
TaroSH		#18	[-]
Posts: 2047 (01/07/08 12:17 AM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I got the fourth character, and all his equipment was in treasure chests in a dungeon just north of where I got him. Then some kings give each character the "best" weapons just for you having found them, or else I already had enough fangs when I talked to them that it only seemed like they gave them to me just for having the right person Slight oversight on my part. I had to give a king 300 fangs to get the main character's weapon. But the rest of them have either given me their weapons for free, or traded for fangs without my noticing because I already had enough. And really, I have almost 10,000 fangs now. I seriously doubt I'll have to go grinding for more if I do happen into somebody who wants to trade, and if they want 10,300 fangs, enemies are dropping so many of them now it'd probably take me at most five minutes to get 300 more. If there's one complaint I have related to the fangs, it's that when you sell them you have to sell ALL of them.
James FP		#19	[-]
Posts: 2890 (01/07/08 2:04 PM) Schmendrick's Nose Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I don't remember the number of the stage, but I got to the river level in Pocky & Rocky with the Kappa enemies. That game is incredibly difficult compared to Legend of the Mystical Ninja. I wish LotMN's action stages had been this difficult, it would've been a more memorable game. I also mapped a few of the C and B area overworlds in Might & Magic. Get out of my cheese, get into my corn!
da dick		#20	[-]
Posts: 1600 (01/07/08 9:06 PM) and my bird can sing too! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	ok. no more der langrisser and warsong. gotta keep on moving. gonna see if romancing saga 3 is any good without the robots of saga3 and frontier. "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.
CLOUDBOND007		#21	[-]
Posts: 9847 (01/07/08 10:36 PM) Lunitari Mage Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I just got five stars in Mario Galaxy. I guess I'll relent and keep from describing each one in detail. I did manage to finish that speed run I was having trouble with earlier, and I started working on a tropical island themed galaxy. It makes no logical sense, it's a mass of land and water floating there in the middle of the sky somehow holding it's shape. And there are penguins. The first star there was just a boring search for star pieces but the next one was a slightly more fun attempt to steal a golden shell from some penguins. One thing that's good about this game is that it doesn't seem to be resorting to having you collect 10 red stars and 100 coins to fill out the game. The time trials (and other upcoming trials like limited health) are a more interesting way of reaching 120 stars. Compared to Mario Sunshine, this game is extremely polished. I feel bad that in Japan, those non-games the DS and Wii have in abundance (like brain training) are outselling it. CB007's Review & GPT Archive CB007's Gaming BBS
Flying Omelette		#22	[-]
Posts: 17126 (01/07/08 11:33 PM) Shy, my Oni Brass! More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	James FP wrote: I don't remember the number of the stage, but I got to the river level in Pocky & Rocky with the Kappa enemies. That game is incredibly difficult compared to Legend of the Mystical Ninja. I wish LotMN's action stages had been this difficult, it would've been a more memorable game. Those two games get compared a lot, but aside from the quirky Japanese settings, I don't really think they're all that similar. Mystical Ninja is a sidescrolling platformer. P&R is an overhead shooter (though one that doesn't automatically scroll). "My feelings hurt, but you know I overcome the pain And I'm stronger now There can't be a fire unless there's a flame" - Seal "Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end" - The Moody Blues
TaroSH		#23	[-]
Posts: 2047 (01/08/08 12:46 AM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I made it to the final stage of Contra 3, to that mole-face thing after you beat the Contra 1 Final Boss tribute. In fact, I even beat the first three stages without dying, which is a shock mostly because I always die at least once on that drill boss. The boss of stage 5 was actually kind of interesting.
sethrashnoo		#24	[-]
Posts: 2446 (01/08/08 1:12 PM) I Look Like an Egg Moderator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I just got the Great Bird in Breath of Fire 2. Sometimes it seems like this game makes stuff up to be emotionally manipulative. Why does Mina have to lose all of her memories to become the Great Bird? That didn't happen to Nina in the first game? Is this or isn't this a direct sequel or does it take place in an alternate universe? Got Shnoo? Proud Staff Member of Deathamster's Nest
Crawl and 1OOO		#25	[-]
Posts: 10475 (01/08/08 2:02 PM) "Here I Come to Save the Day!" Mighty Crawl is on the Way! The Fuzzy Physicist Administrator More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	TaroSH wrote: I made it to the final stage of Contra 3, to that mole-face thing after you beat the Contra 1 Final Boss tribute. That boss (the mole-faced one, assuming we're talking about the same thing) is a Super C Final Boss tribute. As for the stage 5 boss, on Hard Mode, that's one thing I never got a very good strategy for. See how your opinion ruined Christmas for everyone!
Captain Ladd Spencer		#26	[-]

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