Topic: Games You Recently Beat?

@FishyS
That would be sweet if Nintendo ported it to switch. I don’t think it’s too expensive pre owned. I see it pretty frequently at GameStop.

I just beat death's door 100% and it was a great game. Absolutely great. The music and gameplay, the writing, all spot on.

Also, Koa and 5 pirates of Mara - nice little ggame, very standard 3d platformer

Also, Quake 2 and it was disppointing. Learn how to play it well, and you wont need medkits, but you also wont see your enemies dying because most of the time its just peek a booing (fast out of corner, shot, back behind a corner) and spamming shots till the enemies stop moving. Also, one of the most anticlimatic boss fights. No music, no difficulty, just one tanky but hopeless guy taking rockets to the face for 5 minutes

@RR529 Im currently playing BR and I love it

@blindsquarel Your experience with New Super Mario Bros. Wii sounds a lot like mine with Super Mario All-Stars. My family and I would play it a lot back in the day, especially Super Mario Bros. 3. It was my dad's favorite Mario game and I still remember beating SMB3 via All-Stars for the first time when I was a kid. It was especially satisfying because of how tough that game got in the later worlds... good times.

Finally beat Super Castlevania 4! Awesome game but the last gauntlet of bosses was HARD!!!

YESSSSS!!!

@Zuljaras woooow, that's commitment! Old castlevania (before SOTN) games were tough as nails, I still remember the trauma the stairs gave me.

@Princess_Lilly Commitment is a big part of the enjoyment in gaming

@Zuljaras That's true, simply wanting to commit a bit of time and effort to play better is enjoyable, and actually seeing your progress is an amazing feeling. In that regard, games and art are the same.

The other part is seeing other people's creations come to life and perceiving the stories they want to tell. I don't much like people, but the imagination of human mind delights me to no end. The way artists make their games, combine visuals, sounds and writings to weave a place, characters and emotions, and breathe life to fantastical stories, it's like seeing the most brilliant thing the universe has to offer

Sounds pompous, eh?

@Princess_Lilly Well since you mentioned people making games feel free to see my game in development. I have a dedicated thread here in NL (with the permission of the owner of the site ofc!)

https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/other_gaming/castletoria_...

I know that it looks like a Castlevania/Metroidvania game but I am planning to make it a joy to explore the castle AND not feel like it is procedurally generated (a rogue-lite lie it is called these days). To hand craft every room is the key to make it believable

Absolutely. When you find a game that's hard, beats you about the face repeatedly, but you still want to commit to overcoming it because the experience has bitten you, it's great.

I was on holiday last week and took Mega Man 11 with me, been wanting to play it for ages, despite sucking at Mega Man games. Decided to begin on the Torch Man level and failed so many times it was ridiculous. Took me 5-10 hrs spread over 4 days of gaming sessions to finally beat it, but I enjoyed that level enough to commit to it.

I'm a long way from beating the game, mind you.

@Zuljaras Looks amazing! Did you learn to make a game all by yourself? How long did it take? I dig that you draw everything by hand, it makes the experience much more genuine. Is there any storyline you want to include? Or is it going to be like a light contour of a story like the ones in Castlevania series?

@gcunit that's a great point! Although it also kinda depends on whether the game is fair or not. I have this weird quirk when I lose motivation to play well whenever I get hit by a projectile/attack that should not have hit me, because I feel cheated, not defeated.

Enough of such things in a single fight and I can lose interest in the game despite beating the enemy. Had enough of Castlevania GBA because of that, there was a boss that was summoning bubbles in random places. They could literally spawn into you and hit you. You could also jump on them because the camera did not show the landing site at the time of jumping (GBA screen was smol)

Thought that the boss was ridiculously badly made (why has nobody tested it will remain a mystery) and left the game. Beat the boss after some months, but had enough with the game altogether

@Princess_Lilly It will be light on story but there will be a plot and sub stories.

Everything you see is hand drawn by me and coded by me. I learned it myself and still there is a lot more to learn.

I started it a long time ago but I am getting serious about it just now.

It is hard to design and code every little system (saving, damage dealing, inventory etc.) from scratch

Challenge = Fun

@Zuljaras That's very true. Overcoming challenges is super fun. Good luck and have fun with the project, I'll be cheering for you!

That is exactly what happened to me last year! I pushed through Dark Souls 1 and after the 1st boss there was no stopping until I beat the last boss ... in Elden Ring

All 5 From Soft games one after the other and it was such a rush!

I am getting the same feeling with Classicvanias!

I used to pick the "story mode" option in most games and it is refreshing to play a games that has one difficulty mode

Question, do you played it on the Switch physically? If yes, is all of the game playable from the cart.

@Zuljaras I have a physical Switch copy of Mega Man 11, and yes, the whole game's in the cart itself. No download codes whatsoever.

@MarioLover92 thank you!

My plan is to get as much as I can done in "Tears of the Kingdom", then on the final day of August I'm going to defeat the final boss.

@Zuljaras Sorry for the slow response. I see Mario Lover92 has given an answer already, might just be worth saying that yes, I have Mega Man 11 physically, and my Switch shows it as version 1.0.1, which is the latest version of the software. My research tells me the 0.1 update is only 12mb. There's also 10mb of dlc for the game, which I think is music. Neither the update nor the dlc are on the game card as far as I know.

Layton Brothers: Mystery Room (Android) - A spinoff game in the Professor Layton franchise, and one worth anyone's time if they like Hershel Layton's universe, murder mysteries, and deductive reasoning. This is the first non-port mobile title I've actually spent money on, and that was after playing through the free available content first. Hershel is mentioned but never seen though. Instead, the game is played from the perspective of newly minted Detective Constable Lucy Baker. She's assigned to the "Mystery Room", which handles Scotland Yard's most brain-bending cases. The office is headed by Inspector Alfendi Layton, the son of the titular professor. Alfendi is very intelligent and possesses excellent deductive reasoning skills, but he harbors a secret. The character portraits and drawn backgrounds have aged well. The isometric crime scenes...not so much. Very much a mobile game from 2013. I've been told the cases share some similarities to the Ace Attorney series.

While the mainline Layton games are better, especially for those who prefer true puzzles, it's fairly easy to recommend this spinoff to anyone who's into murder mysteries or wants more games in the Layton-verse. The first three case files (the prologue/Case 000 and Cases 001/002) are free, so players can decide if they want to sink the remaining $5 USD on the rest.