Your 2025 Gaming Diary

[Hero-of-Time]

7 minutes ago, Glen-i said:

Not sure if the game is good, or has an easy Platinum...

Game is a standard licensed game and yeah the platinum is stupidly easy. I loved Care Bears as a kid and so I was buying it regardless. I nearly bought it on the Switch but seen it was getting a PS4/5 release and so held off.

[Glen-i]

Just now, Hero-of-Time said:

Game is a standard licensed game and yeah the platinum is stupidly easy. I loved Care Bears as a kid and so I was buying it regardless. I nearly bought it on the Switch but seen it was getting a PS4/5 release and so held off.

Soooo... Both?

Not the answer I was expecting. Good for you!

[Helmsly]

9 minutes ago, Glen-i said:

You're not helping my dilemma!

[Glen-i]

Maybe before my time, I guess. But I feel like Care Bears were a thing in the 90's?

[Helmsly]

5 minutes ago, Glen-i said:

Maybe before my time, I guess. But I feel like Care Bears were a thing in the 90's?

Yeah, pretty big in the 1980s and had a spin off show called Care Bear cousins that I recall being popular. I actually barely watched the cartoon myself as a kid but I have a bit of nostalgia for them just because they were something that was pretty much everywhere along with He-man, Transformers and Real Ghostbusters.

They seem to be popular again now though, i went to a toy store a few weeks back to get a gift for my housemates son and saw a HUGE Care bear display. I ended up getting the Grumpy one because he looks like he's unimpressed with everything

Edited Thursday at 09:32 PM by Helmsly

[Hero-of-Time]

3 minutes ago, Glen-i said:

Maybe before my time, I guess. But I feel like Care Bears were a thing in the 90's?

80's but like a lot of stuff from back then, they keep getting revivals/remakes.

[drahkon]

GLÜCKSBÄRCHIS!!!!!!

Ich möcht' doch bloß ein Glücksbärchi sein

 

Loved it as a kid  

[Hero-of-Time]

Just now, Helmsly said:

I ended up getting the Grumpy one because he looks like he's unimpressed with everything

Yeah, it's hilarious. I was looking at getting a small one for my desk at work. 

[Jonnas]

I thought I was going crazy, because those images and clips did not match my memories. Those bears were very different than what I remembered.

And turns out there's a good reason for that.

Who knew there were so many bear-themed cartoons during those times?

[Hero-of-Time]

5 minutes ago, Jonnas said:

 

Who knew there were so many bear-themed cartoons during those times?

There was also this gem.

 

[Dcubed]

I love how this thread has just become an unofficial Care Bears fanclub all of a sudden 

[BowserBasher]

Ah Care Bears. Good old times. 
 

Anyway just to have a little on topic talk, I started TimeSplitters Future Perfect from my pledge list this week. 

[Hero-of-Time]

 

 

[Glen-i]

Yeah, that's the image they use on the Nintendo site for this. Weird...

Wario Land 4 is a 2D platformer that originally released on the Game Boy Advance in 2001. As you probably know, it recently got added to the NSO service, and that's where I revisited it.

Archaeologists have discovered and unearthed a solid gold pyramid! It's all over the news, the historical discoveries one could find in there are mind-boggling!
Unfortunately, it's all over the news, and Wario found out. He's not the kind of guy who wants to further knowledge, he just wants all of the swag for himself! So he gets in his surprisingly sick car, and goes to rob the place.

What a role model!

Wario Land 4 differs quite drastically from the previous 2 games in the series. Wario is no longer invincible. This was a selling point, apparently. It also follows a more level based structure compared to the Metroid-esque approach the third game took. Despite having a health meter now, Getting hit by certain enemies won't actually damage Wario, but transform him into a different form, which can be used to solve puzzles and find loot.

Each level has 4 parts of some kind of gem to find, as well as some strange key creature called Keyser. You need all of them to reach each boss. But the key thing to note is that in order to finish each level, you have to press some kind of frog statue, which sets off a bomb, forcing you to rush back to the start of the level before time runs out. These escape sequences are probably the most well known aspect of the games, and they're my favourite bit.

One thing I also like is how this game handles difficulty modes. I played on Hard mode, and there's a lot of differences from normal. Harder enemies, but also, the gem parts are better hidden, and the time limits to escape are stricter. In fact, a couple of levels even change where the frog statue is just to mess with your expectations. The unlockable Super Hard difficulty is even more ridiculous, but I didn't do that.

Anyway, the game is still great. I'm more partial to 3 and 2, mind, but I still enjoy this one.

I'm of the belief that Mona from WarioWare was based off of whoever this is.

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