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This was my first experience with the Panel De Pon/Puzzle League series and naturally it became a lifelong obsession for me. I utterly adored this game and played it to absolute death, becoming pretty darn decent at it if I do say so myself. Looking back on it, it's actually now one of my least favourite entries in the series, owing to its rather janky presentation (you can literally see and feel the seams where it switches game engines from Intelligent Systems' Panel De Pon 64 game code into NST's bolted-on Pokemon Puzzle League code). It feels like a hack of another game... and that's because that's exactly what it is... ... in fact, the original Panel De Pon 64 was actually recently just found! Someone got their hands on a beta development cartridge containing the original PDP64, before it was cancelled and later ported to the Gamecube as part of the Nintendo Puzzle Collection! Note that the game remains undumped, so this is the only known copy in existence However, despite my issues with PPL's overall janky feeling, it's still Puzzle League and it still plays very well in the actual gameplay department; which means that it kicks arse. It's crazy fast and frenetic, and it rewards fast thinking in a way that no other puzzle game does. While it makes the player have to think several moves ahead of their opponent, it doesn't require the player to spend so much time setting up chains in advance as seen in Puyo Puyo. In that respect, the closest analogue to Puzzle League's gameplay is probably Magical Drop (and its own lovingly made knockoff, Money Puzzle Exchanger; which is also a great game for the NeoGeo BTW!). However, Puzzle League's gameplay doesn't end with its kick arse multiplayer battle mode, because it also shines as a single player puzzle experience; as the core gameplay lends itself surprisingly well to limited-move puzzles too. It's a surprisingly malleable set of core gameplay mechanics. It's so sad that the series ended proper in 2007, but we did at least get a little tease of life in Animal Crossing New Leaf Welcome Amiibo of all things! But that was just a minigame (and not a particularily good version of Puzzle League at that either, featuring gameplay that is pretty slow and unresponsive). Come on Nintendo!!! Bring back Puzzle League already!! If Famicom Detective Club of all things can get a revival, surely Puzzle League can!? -
Added to the first post @BowserBasher, glad to have you aboard Nice and diverse pledge, too! Weirdly I've played only one of those games and it was a few hours of Nightfire on PS2, feel like it's one my dad picked up from a charity shop or pre-owned from GAME or Gamestation along with some others. Can't remember much about it if I'm being totally honest so I'm particularly looking forward to hearing your thoughts if/when you get around to it! -
Very glad I got to watch the Crazy Taxi run live. That was amazing! Laughed so hard when the music had to cut out when they went back to the menu or restarted $2,557,012 total is pretty impressive. Just about squeaked past AGDQ 2024's total. Very nice! Still have to go back and watch many of the VODs, but I doubt anything is gonna top that Crazy Taxi run
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I mean, you don't even need to go as far as Event mode. It is the same Lucario. Same voice actor and all. And they still use that voice in the other Smash games. Mewtwo is a weird one, though. It has actual spoken lines in the Japanese version. (Again, same voice actor as the movie) But it never got an English dub in Smash Melee, so they just took the Japanese voice, and removed all the actual words for other languages. Another funny Pokémon based one is Kirby. Kirby tends to do his voice impression shtick, even with English dubs, but one that weirdly slipped through the cracks is Jigglypuff. Charge up Rollout, and Jigglypuff says "Jiggly", but Kirby says "Purin" instead, even in English. -
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Right, I weren't going to join in as most of the games will be playing are just going to be new Switch games, but at the moment there's not a lot I've seen that I'd be playing. So it would have been like two or three. But then I thought I'd include some GC games (as I've been able to play them using Dolphin) so I've been looking at some I never had and am wanting to play them. So I've got 10 here, top row are Switch plus one NSO N64 game, and the rest are GC games. OxenFree II - I picked this in a sale recently, well last year, as I loved the first one and this was like a couple of £ so I jumped on it then but have never got around to playing it just yet. Stray - I remember seeing this somewhere, and thought it was a neat little game and possibly right up my alley, but then seemed to forget about it. Came across it again recently and have now been looking to purchase it as it's usually only around £25 - £30. No More Heroes (1 and 2) - Right, so I picked these up from the eShop a few years ago when I had been given quite a bit of money on gift cards. They were in a sale and I had heard they were decent. I remember I started the first one but as usual with me, new Switch games get released and I move on to them, but for some reason I never came back to this. And I've never touched the second one. So I hope I can change that. Banjo-Tooie - I did actual start playing this on NSO when it came out and I think I've done the first two or three levels. I never finished this when I had it on the N64 (at least I don't remember finishing it) so I am wanting to give it a go again. Hopefully I can get back into it and give it a go. Onto old GC games. I never had any of these so am wanting to give these a go. 007 Nightfire - Of the 4 Bond games on. GC that I could see, this seems to be one of the more favoured ones. So I've put it on the list of games to try. I know nothing of it so will be going in blind. P.N. 03 - I remember seeing this in magazines and liking the look of it. I don't remember why I never got it, maybe it just didn't then get the attention I thought. But anyway, I've forgotten most of what I saw of it, but I've always wanted to give it a go. Eternal Darkness - Another one that passed me by. Well, I did get this as a Christmas present one year from a friend but I don't think I ever got around to playing it. I know there's a lot of stuff that happens which involved the memory card or time and something with a sanity meter, so I'm not sure how/if that still works in the emulated games. Either way, it was supposed to be good so I'm now wanting to get around to playing it. TimeSplitters: Future Perfect - Whilst looking up games I may have missed on GC. I came across this (along with TimeSplitter 2) and thought it looked like a game I'd enjoy. Know nothing of the games so will be going in blind. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds - I was a huge fan of the show but I never knew about this around the time I had the GC. Looked it up and it seems to be decent so I wanted to give it a go and see. So hopefully I'll get around to at least half of these. @Julius just so you can add me to the first post.
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