Michael Stearns ([info]helldray) wrote,
@ 2009-06-28 23:56:00
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Gunstar Moonwalk
A friend and I played Gunstar Heroes on the 360 today. The emulated version kind of sucks, they've re-routed all the menus into the blue "Sega Classics" frame, to the extent that you never even see the original title screen (or the extended intro) unless you sit and wait for it at the menu, and even then it's tiny on-screen. The really weird thing about it is that if someone dies he can no jump back in with half of the other player's life. This makes playing with two players of differing skill level really stupid, because the first player to die doesn't get back in until the other player dies too. Also, the achievements are totally lame (you get one for beating the end boss, and one for beating the game) with absolutely nothing interesting in them. No extra incentive to beat the game on other difficulties, no incentive to try to one-credit clear, or any other sort of interesting challenge. Laaaame.

Anyway, there's a weird glitch in the game that I found easier to initiate with the Xbox pad: when walking on a sloped surface, if you quickly press in the opposite direction you're moving, your character turns around but keeps walking forward. So I was doing it pretty much every chance I had because it was just so easy. When my friend (who hadn't seen the move before) asked what I was doing I told him this was just my way of mourning the loss of one of the greatest musical influences of our time.



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[info]freakservo
2009-06-29 07:30 am UTC (link)
Hey man! Haven't seen you around these parts in awhile? How's the comic holding up?

Also, it's ironic that you bring Gunstar Heroes up, as I was just going through Gunstar Super Heroes earlier today. I kinda missed playing the good ol' GBA, and went through a few titles in my library as a result.

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[info]helldray
2009-06-29 03:57 pm UTC (link)
It's still going, I just hit 150! :) But since I started the comic especially, I just haven't felt like I had much to talk about, my life is all like "went to work, came home, worked on comic" xD I still check my friends list every day, I'm glad you're still hanging in there. (sounds like you've had some rough times lately)

Yeah, I still have my first gen "milky blue" GBA! But the screen on the DS is just so much nicer... On GBA the games I keep going back to pretty consistently are Ninja Five-O and WarioLand Advance. Drill Dozer is also on my list of "should play again sometime" but has never happened.

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[info]freakservo
2009-06-29 08:19 pm UTC (link)
Ugh...The less said about all that the better. Though I'm sure I've said much more than was necessary, anyway. Congrats on 150! You should have more than enough by now to put out a collection book!

I have the same problem with Drill Dozer...I get a certain ways in, then I lose interest. Not that I don't want to: I think after drilling through things a billion times I just want a change.

Ninja Five-O...That's such a brilliant game. Too bad it didn't get the exposure it deserved.

Hm...

WarioWare: Twisted! That's what I feel like playing right now!

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