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  1. Metroid Dread

    Similar story here but in my case it was Pokemon Sword... back in 2019. Almost two years since then and that was previously the last boxed Switch game I'd bought. Things changed only this year when I got Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair last month and now followed by this. Pandemic definitely had an effect on Nintendo's release schedule. I don't think I'll be leaving that long a gap anytime soon.
  2. Metroid Dread

    https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/10/metroid-dread-studio-hit-with-allegations-of-poor-organisation-and-management?fbclid=IwAR1EmC2qOmZTdekFVSWVPnRmu_sj_pbJK3vFPlNusV_TCUdEXIiBnxQl3co The MercurySteam controversy continues...
  3. Metroid Dread

    https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/metroid-dread-developer-leaves-names-out-of-credits-ex-staffers-say/ Looks like some people aren't particularly happy about not being credited...
  4. Your 2021 Gaming Diary

    Metroid Dread is now finished. Absolutely loved it. Might replay the game on Hard mode at some point or try and go for all the hidden endings, if I can be fast enough that is! That being said, there are still two games left on Switch that I still need to finish. One of them is Pokken Tournament DX and I'm going to do that as part of the next Gaming Anniversaries video. The other is Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair which is not tied to any particular video production so that's going to be the game I focus on finishing next. Not withstanding the fact that I also need to finish Super Castlevania IV! So in terms of games played and finished this year its currently looking like: Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Ratchet & Clank (2016) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Nier Replicant Metroid Prime Hunters Shadow the Hedgehog Deltarune Chapter 2 Metroid Dread Games played for video purposes but not fully and jumping to finished files for the endings: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Metroid Other M Metroid Fusion Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Sonic Heroes Sonic and the Secret Rings Sonic Unleashed Sonic Mania Games I have got this year that I still need to finish: Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair Games I'm interested in getting at some point: Castlevania Advance Collection Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Elden Ring Pokemon Legends: Arceus
  5. Metroid Dread

    Regarding the EMMI I think they did a fair job of making each one feel unique. Some of them had different abilities to freshen things up a bit. I also hear that you can just rush these sections of you want to which I'm sure speedrunners will no doubt be trying to do a lot. Should probably mention I've finished the game. Ending was really good though it did post a question.
  6. Metroid Dread

    Had a marathon of a session today and I now have all the powerups. Going to explore ZDR a bit to try and get all the upgrades before making my way to the final boss before I think of taking on the final boss.
  7. Well, I'm about to spoil some of the games CUBE hasn't done yet (though he's counted board games and a few compilations which I didn't but) I couldn't think of anywhere else to post this. Sorry CUBE. Seriously, there are lot of really obscure Sonic games out there that are technically official.
  8. The Best Gaming Music Ever.

    I have a full playlist of Relaxing game music that I use to help with anxiety issues. May I recommend Satorl Marsh from Xenoblade Chronicles? Auto include in any type of this playlist
  9. Your 2021 Gaming Diary

    OK, when was my last Gaming Diary entry? *checks thread* *August 9* OK diary, we have a lot of catching up to do! So I played through Super Castlevania IV a bit more, all the way until towards the end of the game but never actually beat it. Production on more Gaming Anniversaries videos was getting in the way which includes actually playing the games. So I went back to Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for some recording and in the process managed to knock out a few more A Ranks. and complete a few missions. Finally, I have finished all of the level missions in the game and gotten all the emblems. The A Ranks and the Chao Garden are now my biggest obstacles to 100% but since I was only playing for footage I moved on to Sonic Heroes quickly but that was just messing around for footage. Then it happened, I played through the entirety of Shadow the Hedgehog from beginning to the end of the last story. At least it was for footage so I could complain about the game in a video straight after! But yeah, I took the path of least resistance to get all the Emerlads and as a result I could pretty much do Westopolis, Glyphic Canyon, Prison Island and Sky Troops without the sound on at all! The recording continued as I then picked up Sonic and the Secret Rings which I didn't make much progress on, just doing stuff I'd done before for footage. Things changed when I got to Sonic Unleashed, this was the first time since I beat the game that I picked it up and... this game holds up well! Really enjoyed the daytime stages and didn;t really find the werehog to be that bad when replaying. I went out of my way to get missing Sun and Moon medals this time around and in the end I stopped short of 100% completion of the game. So most of the stuff in the game I was able to unlock. This was on the Wii version btw. Then I went back to Sonic Mania and got all the Chaos Emeralds, getting the true final boss battle in the process. Hasn't just been Sonic games I've been playing although there have been quite a lot of those for the video that was in production. September saw me end my game purchase drought, I hadn't bought a new game since Nier Replicant in April but in September I picked up a game I'd been wanting to get for a while, Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair. I am currently up to Chapter 14 (Hazard Hangar I think its called) and the last I did was find the secret exit, though I did open up the entire overworld. Soundtrack is really good, it definitely feels like the Tropical Freeze sequel we never got. Level design is pretty good too though I find the penalty for getting hit isn't so great and with no lives its just easier to die after you hit a checkpoint if you only have Yooka available. Also I think the timeframe for when I picked up this game was not ideal due to the amount of Sonic games I needed to play so Impossible Lair is definitely something I still need to finish. (Didn't realise the surface was climable here) But then Toby Fox had to go and drop Deltarune Chapter 2 on everybody. I mean, come on Toby, really? So, I downloaded that and played through Deltarune Chapter 2. Progresses things in an interesting direction that's for sure. I did a pacificst route if anyone is curious, didn't kill a single enemy aside from perhaps when fighting was the only option By far the funniest moment in the entire game was this though Other interesting moments... And if THAT wasn't enough my most anticipated game of the year came out and Metroid Dread is so good. This is some of the best map design in a Metroid game I've seen in YEARS. They really managed to create a complex an interweiving map while simulatenously making the route through the game fairly straight forward. But you also have plenty of room to go off the beaten path to find all the upgrades. At first it seems like the game might be something of a procession but... I have a few non-spoilery tweets I wish to share.. So we're finally caught up... phew! Two months worth of gaming which involved the acuqistion of three new games and progress on a lot of older ones.
  10. Yakuza fans are now officially in Sonic territory. Guy also made Super Monkey Ball so he's responsible for two of Sega's biggest post-manufacturer series. Yakuza isn't really a series I've played much but I wish the new guys good luck...
  11. Metroid Dread

    Just so everyone knows, the game leaked yesterday. Videos of the final boss are out there or so I've heard. I'm actively blocking Metroid mentions on Twitter for a brief period of time (about a couple of weeks) to avoid the major spoilers for the game that have been put out there.
  12. The result: The worst reviewed Steam game in history.
  13. I will say, stuff like this was never particularly obvious when playing as for about 11-13 years or so of playing RPGs I didn't pay too much attention to how my stats were actually affecting my attack etc, there was no real obvious feedback from what I could see about the impact that my stats were having. Stuff like that is the sort of stuff I feel you'd only really find out on the internet anyway. This might be why I was able to enjoy the game a fair bit more than you did. Not a scratch on the 93% review score in ONM that basically sold me on the game though!
  14. The Best Gaming Music Ever.

    I would have loved to have seen tracks from all across the series too (I don't really like Destiny's Force that much as a tune personally, it never really stood out to me although I understand that it's in there for how often it gets played), but from what they chose, Hand in Hand, Gummi Ship, Hollow Bastion, Scherzo Di Notte, Fragments of Sorrow and Destati are my favourites. Would have loved to see stuff like Tension Rising, Darkness of the Unknown, Lock, Load and Blast, L'Imperto Oscuro, Untamable, The Tumbling and Hunter of the Dark in the game. Actually there's a lot more but I figure if they're tied to Disney worlds specifically there would be issues. I like a lot more of the battle themes in Kingdom Hearts II than ! but at least they put my favourite rendition of Hollow Bastion in the game.
  15. Everyone hates Sonic Chronicles and here I am thinking it wasn't THAT bad. Sure, its not a classic by any means, the music is terrible and I forgot a lot about it over time but I had relatively few issues with the actual game itself and found the story rather interesting. The final boss was a bit of a letdown though. I'll go into more detail about it when the Sonic video eventually drops, I'm almost done with it, just need do to a lot of post produiction and testing.
  16. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

    But you can at least pair Sora up with Donald and Goofy... just do a team match with Duck Hunt Duo as your teammate!
  17. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

    I must admit I had written off Sora's chances thinking that Sephiroth was going to be the Square-Enix rep and thought Dr. Eggman was going to be it given that Sega haven't had a rep in the pass. However, I'm kind of glade I was wrong. Legit a character I'd really enjoy playing as and I wasn't even among the people highly requesting Sora for the game. Shame the whole reveal ended up getting leaked but... oh well.
  18. Formula 1: 2021 Season

    Tell you what, in both races that have followed Sprint Races this season both Hamilton and Verstappen have crashed into each other. Coincidence? For pure entertainment spectacle I suspect that might lead to Sprint being adopted full time.
  19. The Best Gaming Music Ever.

    Normally when I'm playing a game I tend to flood this thread with all my favourite tunes from said game. But in this case I'm finding a situation that whenever I'm playing a new level the soundtrack is an instant classic so... I'm just going to post a link to the entire OST here... Surprisingly Grand Kirkhope only did one theme and David Wise barely did half of it with two new composers accounting for much of the tunes.
  20. Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania

    Doesm't seem like SEGA have much of an idea when it comes to their older game franchises anymore in general really...
  21. Your 2021 Gaming Diary

    Picked up a new game to play recently. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair which is basically the sixth Donkey Kong Country game as far as I'm concerned. Played the first two levels and it feels very much like Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze. Not that that's a bad thing, Tropical Freeze is one of my top 10 favourrite games of all time and my favourite platformer so having a game in that style can't hurt. Not quite sure how you're supposed to get some of the secrets yet as I missed two coins on Factory Fright (amazing music for this stage btw). Although, I did manage to die on the first boss battle through what should have been a simple jump and was then booted out as if I was supposed to have died somewhere else in the Impossible Lair. I'm probably going to be doing all the other levels before I look to attempt the Impossible Lair and I'm still learning what certain things do. Like the bells I didn't realise were for resummoning Laylee but the damage part reminds me so much of Yoshi's Island so its a bit forgiving really as you can then just get Laylee back immediately, though it looks like fast paced sequences like chase sequences as well as areas with lots of hazards are going to make that harder. Overall, liking this game so far, looking forward to the rest of it.
  22. Your 2021 Gaming Diary

    Doing some footage recording for my Gaming Anniversaries series on Youtube and during the process I noticed that there were a few regular missions that I never actually got the emblems for in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. I was on 161 Emblems but that number has been bumped up to 168 after pretty much doing all of the Death Chamber missions with a few A Ranks in there. I then went and finished Rouge's Kart stage and then did Egg Quaters hard mode. So hard that the game never tells you what you actually need to do in order to be able to beat the level, picking up bombs that enemies throw in order to break certain containers? Really? I never knew you could do that and I don't know how the game expects you to know thats something that can be done. So now on 168 Emblems but the last 12 I think are in the Chao races, A Ranks and Chao Karate.
  23. But has he managed to find the computer room yet?
  24. I've got to admit Casino Night is actually one of my favourite tunes in Sonic Heroes, which is probably an unpopular opinion but it just sounds good to me.. I don't know... Also with regards to Unleashed I have never played the HD version, only the Wii version. I'm reserving judgement on that version until I play it again later this year. I'm in the process of making a video for Sonic's 30th Anniversary so this thread is going to be helpful in covering some of the more obscure games I've never played and getting takes on them. I have a lot more personal attachment to Sonic Adventure 2 than any other Sonic game just because of the sheer amount of time you can put into the game even after finishing it. The Chao Garden might as well be enough to last a lifetime, the fact that this was included on top of a speed platformer is mind blowing to think about and the soundtrack is one of my all time favourites in gaming.
  25. General Gaming Sales/Charts Discussion

    While I'm sure I and many others like their single player experiences the market is clearly speaking towards wanting to buy games that will last forever. Things like Animal Crossing and Mario Kart is indicative of this. Its frankly still impressive how well Mario Kart continues to sell to this day. I think online is a huge factor in game sales these days as people are more likely to buy a game if their friends have the game so that they can play online with their friends. This seems to have helped in Mario Kart 8's favour as Nintendo has just rereleased the game but since many people didn't get a a Wii U they didn't get this particular iteration of the game and its just done crazy numbers as a result. The fact that the game manages to remain in top 10 sales all the time is seriously impressive, selling almost as well as new games.
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