deKay's Lofi Gaming

Shantae and the Seven Sirens (Switch): COMPLETED!

I’m a big fan of the Shantae games. They’re great looking, slick, and happy blue-skies Metroidvania games, and this – the latest in the series – is no exception. This time round, Shantae augments her whippy hair with instant transformations into animals, which are unlocked as you progress. A turtle that smashes through rocks, a newt that can climb walls, and a frog who can swim, for example. Where dances in previous games transformed you into animals, these transformations happen …

Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut (PS4): COMPLETED!

I am very much aware that I’m playing through the Shantae games in an intermittent manner and in an incorrect order. This is because of reasons I don’t have to explain to you. After completing Yoku’s Island Express I was concerned I’d do my usual thing of failing to decide which game to play next, and spend so long flicking through games I own but haven’t played that I ran out of time to play them. Instead, I forced myself …

Shantae (3DS): COMPLETED!

It’s been a long time. The “time played” in the 3DS stats shows I’ve spent just under twelve hours on this, but that’s spread over several months, since I started back in February. It isn’t because it’s a bad game, far from it, it’s just that every so often I’d realise I’d travelled all the way to the wrong end of the map (it loops round, but only when you’ve almost finished the game!), and couldn’t face travelling all the …

Shantae (3DS)

You know when you stumble into the eShop and you’ve credit in your account and you see a game you’d been intending to get for a while but haven’t because you’ve loads of other games to play and you “accidentally” buy it? That. Shantae is a gorgeous looking GBC platformer, with some fantastic sprites and animation layered on top of a pretty hard platformer. It’s essentially a Metroidvania, where you enter labyrinths (which have several puzzle elements) to both rescue …

Wonder Boy – Asha in Monster World (Switch): COMPLETED!

A long, long time ago, I played about 15 minutes of the original Mega Drive version of this game in a local game shop. It was all in Japanese but I liked the look of it. Not quite as long ago, but still over a decade ago, Sega released the first English translated version of it as part of a Wonder Boy pack on Xbox Live Arcade. I bought it, but never played it. Then this came along. A remake …

Completed 2018

Splatoon 2(Switch 01/01/2018) Stardew Valley(Switch 01/01/2018) Blaster Master Zero(Switch 06/01/2018) Passpartout: The Starving Artist(Mac 07/01/2018) What Remains of Edith Finch(PS4 07/01/2018) Undertale(Vita 11/01/2018) Fire Emblem Warriors(Switch 14/01/2018) Golf Story(Switch 29/01/2018) Wolfenstein: The New Order(PS4 03/02/2018) Wolfenstein: The Old Blood(PS4 09/02/2018) The Lego Ninjago Movie Video Game(Switch 12/02/2018) Grand Theft Auto V(PS4 24/02/2018) Super Bomberman R(Switch 28/02/2018) SNK Gals’ Fighters(NGPC 04/03/2018) Life Is Strange: Before the Storm Bonus Episode: Farewell(PS4 06/03/2018) North(Switch 11/03/2018) Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China(PS4 14/03/2018) Vostok Inc(Switch 18/03/2018) …

Play Want Bin Expense: 2017-04-17

It’s been a while, partly due to holidays and partly due to my damn fingers still hurting. Which means I’ve three weeks of stuff to post about. Which mainly means one game. Play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch) Over 100 hours on Breath of the Wild now. I think, possibly, I may have done all I want to. I found all the memories, all the shrines, completed (and fully upgraded) some armour sets, and fought Ganon …

104 Game Challenge

Just like last year, this year I took part in the RetroCollect 52 Game Challenge. The idea was to complete, uh, 52 games in a single year. Back in June, I successfully became the first person taking part to hit the 52 game barrier. But I wasn’t going to stop there. With the challenge over before the year was half done, I aimed for 104 games. The 104 Game Challenge, if you will. For the less mathematical of my readers, …