EC2151

I don't really have an order for the missions... I just try one, and if its too hard, I try a different one and see if I can manage it. Right now, the only mission I have left is Protect the Factory level. Hoo boy, it's a doozy. At least that Hacking level drops you off with like 3 continues; hell, that's like Christmas in July right there. Good thing Leviathan is a big robo-pussy who died with little difficulty. Charged Saber > Everything. I just wish these bitch Cyber Elves weren't demanding 1000s of fucking ECs to be used. Yes, I DO want more health, but for fuck's sake stop jacking up the prices. A few good MM fans I know tell me that the series doesn't get REALLY good until Z3 and Z4, whereas the first is just too hard and the second is OK.

Well I just started a game, and was able to talk to her, from the opposite side of the room. Just how unintuitive is that? Games tell you "stand next to someone to talk to them" So someone says "talk to me" And standing next to them does nothing? Sigh, maybe it was a glitch. Oh well. Got my custom controls all configured, so it isn't so awkward to play... I hope the music is good.

It does NOTHING.

So, I bought this, and I'm already fucking stuck at the Resistance Base when you get there for the first time. I've talked to everyone, I've given that fatass 250 crystals or whatever, but I can't do anything. I can't talk to that Ciel chick; all I can do is grind at that abandoned lab at the beginning of the game. Did my game cart just fuck up or something?

I wonder if Brad shows up again. BRAD I AM SORRY THAT KACHUA HAS DIED. SHE WAS A GOOD MATCH FOR YOU, BOTH EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY.

picked up Dark Void Zero because I'm a big fan of 8bit games. It was only 3 bucks, so it's like "Why not?"

Musically speaking, I think this is one of the best pieces I've heard on OCremix in a very long while. I love pieces that challenge you to think, which I find to be a hallmark of Schoenbergian music. I'm a huge fan of Messiaen, and Schoenberg is one of my favorite composers in general, so to see a work inspired by them is quite a treat indeed. Schoenberg (and his pupils Webern and Berg) to me has the most lyrical quality about his music... They are not pleasing lyrics, but some of them are unforgettable (like Pierot Lunaire and his Piano Concerto Op 42). I wish more people liked their stuff, but then again, too many people liking Schoenberg leads to folks like Theodore Adorno, Rene Liebowitz, and a whole bunch of those fellow commie dada fags. Musically speaking, I can tolerate a lot as long as it doesn't physically hurt my ears, so after listening to guys like Iannis Xenakis and Olga Neurith, stuff like this is candy. But who doesn't like candy? I also agree that the beginning, the stuff sounded kinda squidfonty (lol I use squidfont), but as an arrangement I find this to be pretty impeccable and immensely enjoyable.

I can see that they have not improved the story at all, judging from these posts. Is it at least more coherent than the first game (which made absolutely NO SENSE WHATSOEVER)? Oh well, is at least the voice acting funny? I'll settle for RE hilarity at the least.

I hope it ain't all remixes... As well, knowing Yamamoto's work from the Prime games, I'd say he is MORE than capable of getting into any game and making the soundtrack incredibly good.

Some were fun, indeed, but I have an irrational dislike of water levels in gaming stemming from the first Super Mario Bros. Oh, because they are all slow and it's a pain in the ass to dodge anything.

Also it's Treasure, a studio that pretty much never makes a bad game. Treasure games are usually about the most pure and fun experiences in gaming; it's distilled from a lot of the trappings that makes games boring.

They're thinking "Hey how can we make another shitty game and tarnish our legacy further?" Seriously, Rare is dead to me. Also: I see what you are saying Geoffrey, but as an aside I'll say that one of the most fun things to do in DKC2 was just killing the enemies because they were so cartoony, made such awesome death SKRONKs, and were just zany to the point of just being fun to kill. Of course there were some creepy enemies (like Kreepy Krow and that one ghost Kremling who chased you in the minecart... yikes!), but the atmosphere was definitely one of fun throughout.

People bitching about goofy enemy design should have started hating the series about an eighth of the way through Donkey Kong Country 1, and those same people would have thought the series irredeemable after DKC2. I mean, really?

So am I insulting the composer of FFXII if I say I can't remember a single song from the game, and think they were all pretty similar-sounding, or at least similar in their forgetfulness? Anyhoo, you better believe I am excited for this... But priorities, you know? I have to get Metroid first, ha. I think the watercolor look is looking really cool for the game, though I am on the fence about the Link model, between "it's good" and "it a'ight". I would have gone for a little younger, like say young Link in OoT (though that's where I would want my OoT similarities to end). As a huge Majora fan (being my favorite Zelda and one of all time favorite games), I was pleased as punch to see it in the litany of Zelda games shown during the trailer.

I suppose I stand for the most part corrected... Though the two posts above me apparently didn't see that point I put it For the record, I DID beat Superstar several times. And like I said, I love every bit of it (well to be accurate, I love everything except Spring Breeze. No LoLoLo/Lalala's castle? No Kaboola? Come on... And yes I know the remake put Kabula back in). I've played every Kirby game except Squeak Squad and Air Ride, as well. My complaint is that I suppose that I feel like nearly every Kirby game afterward was trying to "be Superstar" and not being as good as Superstar... However, there's a really great Kirby game (Dreamland 3) that DIDN'T try to be Superstar and then it's written off as "it's not good like Superstar"; I feel like Dreamland 3 is the more "fuller" experience of the two games, and that i like more. And Zergon, from what I hear, skip Squeak Squad and get Amazing Mirror (which I HAVE played). I think AM is one of the very best Kirby games, and probably the best recent one. It's basically a Metroid nonlinear map stuck inside a Kirby game. LOADS of fun.

You know, I was thinking while I was doing work today, about DKCR, and I thought "you know, if Nintendo asked ME to make a new Donkey Kong game, the first thing I'd do is play every single Donkey Kong Country game and try to find out why they are all so fun" It's good to see that I was not alone in that approach. Go Retro!

I'm in the small minority that while loving Superstar, loved Dreamland 3 more. I think the art style ultimately won me over. And it has a really great soundtrack in my own opinion. I think just the general aesthetic of Super-Star is done to death... Every single sprite and art design choice from Super Star is present in every kirby game afterwards (sans D3 and of course 64)... DeDeDe looked the same, all the enemies looked the same, etc etc. Now I know someone will say "yeah you really can't make a waddle dee look different" Well you can and you can't. Nightmare may have been a remake of adventure, but its choices (and again art style) were pretty much lifting Superstar into a different game. And the same would happen with Amazing Mirror and Squeak Squad. Now I loved all those games (except SS, but I didn't play it because I heard it was sub-par...), but I would like a detour from that Superstar aesthetic. And yes I know I am bitching about a minor thing in only three subsequent Kirby games. Well four if you count the remake of Superstar.

Frankly, I would love another Dream Land 3 esque game... Oh wait, that's this game. So yes, I'm getting this. I love Super Star, but the series has really whored that game's concepts to death... I want a return to the Dreamland saga, myself. What I call the 'true' Kirby games, lol (Dreamland, D2, D3, and Crystal Shards which is basically Dreamland 4). But I am very happy and very excited for this... I HOPE DARK MATTER IS THE FINAL BOSS I REALLY WANT THAT TO HAPPEN. I just hope the soundtrack is as memorable and bubbly as the rest!

This sums up the hilariously sad conference: The only thing more pitifully funny was the incredibly awkward "no applause"/"TEN MILLION TROOPS" Konami conference. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtKMqdMWNec These are great for a laugh.

Besides, the one with Hulk Hogan unleashing Hulkamania on them is much more appropriate.

Oh wait lol it's a hoax.

lol nevermind

Are you implying that i implied something about what you said? Because your implication is false.

Variety is the spice of life, man. I don't think anyone hates 4/4, but why only listen to one type of music?

I personally enjoy listening to fun stuff like 6/8, or the triplet-stuff, like 9/8 and what not, though most songs I do listen to end up in 4/4, really. The far-out stuff (and I mean that tenuously), like 5/4, 11/8, and 7/4, are really fun and off-beat, and I would love to try to write something in one of those keys if I had the skill (well, I have the skill for 5/4, but the other stuff just sounds forced). The closest I've gotten to writing something "out there" was a piano song in 5/8... And I'm thinking that was just a 6/8 song that I really messed up on.