2017 Game Completion Challenge

[celerystalker]

Figured I'd get week 18 games posted early, as most folks seem to have their best time on the weekend. Soooo...

-Pick any game based on the Rambo film franchise. Rambo III on Master System is a pretty solid light gun game, the arcade game is a good cursor gallery shooter... I like the derided PS3/360 game a good deal, too.

-Whomp 'Em (NES)

-Player's choice: pick any game that has an anthropomorphic animal as its main character. Examples might include Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel, Tail Concerto, Punky Skunk, Klonoa, Parappa the Rapper, Knuckles Chaotix, Rocket Knight Adventures, etc.

-Two days left to finish Lunar! Cornelius is making progress, and I know Emperor Megas started... will anyone make the finish line before Monday?

-Import alternative: ESPGaluda (Arcade, PS2)

[Cornelius]

Took a second try with better planning to get Royce to go down. Here's hoping I have time to finish up tomorrow!

[Scissors]

I played through Study Hall on NES for player's choice. It kinda reminded me of Donkey Kong Jr, but a bit longer and simpler. I wasn't crazy about it.

What is the import alternative for week 18?

[celerystalker]

I played through Study Hall on NES for player's choice. It kinda reminded me of Donkey Kong Jr, but a bit longer and simpler. I wasn't crazy about it.

What is the import alternative for week 18?

I'll have to check out Study Hall. Not familiar with that one.

ESPGaluda for the Import Alternative this week. In case anyone doesn't know the game, it's one of my very favorite vertical shooters. It gives you the unique power to activate slowdown instead of just simple smart bombs, which gives you your big point multiplier and makes things easier, but when it runs out, things briefly speed up like crazy, creating a cool risk/reward mechanic. It has a 360 sequel, but it's the first one (I guess technically the second if you count ESP Ra De) for this week.

[Emperor Megas]

-Pick any game based on the Rambo film franchise. Rambo III on Master System is a pretty solid light gun game, the arcade game is a good cursor gallery shooter... I like the derided PS3/360 game a good deal, too.

[Emperor Megas]

ESPGaluda for the Import Alternative this week. In case anyone doesn't know the game, it's one of my very favorite vertical shooters. It gives you the unique power to activate slowdown instead of just simple smart bombs, which gives you your big point multiplier and makes things easier, but when it runs out, things briefly speed up like crazy, creating a cool risk/reward mechanic. It has a 360 sequel, but it's the first one (I guess technically the second if you count ESP Ra De) for this week.

ESPGaluda is awesome, and ESP Ra De is amazing! My old emulation PC has been down forever, so I have played them for years. I didn't know there was a 360 release.

[celerystalker]

That Rambo game is basically a light gun game on PS3. I'm pretty easy to please with gun games. There are some QTEs as well, but gun games and gallery shooters are a jam for me.

[celerystalker]

ESPGaluda is awesome, and ESP Ra De is amazing! My old emulation PC has been down forever, so I have played them for years. I didn't know there was a 360 release.

Yeah, ESPGaluda II came out on 360. I'm wanting to say it was region free. I'll pop it in and check.

[Cornelius]

Came down to the wire a bit, but Lunar SSSC is completed! Wound up having to fight Royce again because I'm a dumbass and saved over my last file with an earlier one I loaded by mistake. I'm also still annoyed that a game that didn't require any grinding all the sudden did need it to beat the final boss. Dumb. Decent game, really could have done more with status effects and some of the (unused) spells.

[celerystalker]

Came down to the wire a bit, but Lunar SSSC is completed! Wound up having to fight Royce again because I'm a dumbass and saved over my last file with an earlier one I loaded by mistake. I'm also still annoyed that a game that didn't require any grinding all the sudden did need it to beat the final boss. Dumb. Decent game, really could have done more with status effects and some of the (unused) spells.

Nice win! Did you find all of the bromides?

I like Lunar quite a bit. I own it on Sega CD and PS1, but have only finished it on Sega CD. I've been saving those PS1 remakes for a rainy day. I love how colorful they are, and the cleaned up cutscenes look great. I do miss Working Designs.

[Emperor Megas]

I had to play GCC hookie this week because I got Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and it's a blast. It's probably been more than a year since I've played.

[Cornelius]

Nice win! Did you find all of the bromides?

I like Lunar quite a bit. I own it on Sega CD and PS1, but have only finished it on Sega CD. I've been saving those PS1 remakes for a rainy day. I love how colorful they are, and the cleaned up cutscenes look great. I do miss Working Designs.

Not even close on the bromides. I've never played a Lunar game, so didn't know about them or the 'secret' items until at least 3/4 of the way through when I checked something in a guide. Too late for the items (except the Hell ring) at that point, but they sure would have made things easier.

[celerystalker]

Another month went by, and mighty Cornelius took down Lunar. So, time for a new challenge! For May...

-Pick and complete story mode from a game in the Culdcept series.

If you don't know, Culdcept is a board game/RPG hybrid with a deck building component. It's very accessible and addictive. English language versions were released on PS2 and Xbox 360 as Culdcept (actually a port of Culdcept II from Dreamcast) and Culdcept Saga (my favorite) respectively. Versions exist for Saturn, PS1, Dreamcast, PS2, 360, DS, and 3DS. Will anyone become a master cepter?

[RP2A03]

For player's choice I went with Hello Kitty no Ohanabatake (Famicom).




Squirrels and snails be damned! I will not be deterred from my quest to water all the flowers!

[Emperor Megas]

Does Altered Beast count? The main character's transformations are all anthropomorphic animals. It's a definite grey area, buuut does it count?

[celerystalker]

Does Altered Beast count? The main character's transformations are all anthropomorphic animals. It's a definite grey area, buuut does it count?

Nope. He's an undead human granted powers to become were-beasts, not an animal stylized to have human traits. Same would apply to Shapeshifter, Shadow of the Beast, Bloody Roar, Wonder Boy III, etc.

[jperryss]

Came down to the wire a bit, but Lunar SSSC is completed! Wound up having to fight Royce again because I'm a dumbass and saved over my last file with an earlier one I loaded by mistake. I'm also still annoyed that a game that didn't require any grinding all the sudden did need it to beat the final boss. Dumb. Decent game, really could have done more with status effects and some of the (unused) spells.

Glad someone finished this one!

[Cornelius]

Glad someone finished this one!

Me too! Some meetings and kid stuff came up last week, so I wasn't sure I'd get through.

Re-reading my comment you quoted; I sound really pretty harsh. Lunar is a great game. Back in the day I would have probably re-started right away to go and find all the bromides and 'hidden' items. I had lots of fun with it. Oh and the voice acting is really quite good. There were only a couple of times during the game where I kinda-sorta thought about "Voice Acting", which is good. I only really noticed that when listening to the outtakes after the credits. Then I was like, "oh yeah, these are all voice actors, and I never really thought about it till now."

Unrelated: I've started Breath of the Wild, so I may be a bit more checked out from the challenge.

[RP2A03]

Whomp 'Em completed.

[celerystalker]

Whomp 'Em completed.

Nice. Did you enjoy it?