Tried the other game modes today. Classic is much harder than Arcade, because the bunnies move forward every three moves, not every few seconds. This means that when you’re in a panic and need a specific colour bunny, you can’t just chuck bunnies until you get is as you’ll just quicken your demise. As a result, I died halfway through the jungle levels. Endless Mode is just that. Only got around 20,000 points there though, which is crap.
There’s a sale on at XBLA at the moment (although it’s only two days long), with Gauntlet reduced to just 200 points. Rude not to, eh? It’s a lot harder than I recall. So hard, in fact, that in single player I think Level 8 is impossible, with Questor at least. You can continue as many times as you like, but you’re returned to the start of the level rather than just carry on. I know this is probably how …
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Fun Fact #1: Completing “Y” Mode on Hard is impossible. In fact, just defeating the first character is impossible.Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Fun Fact #2: Getting the “destroy a 25-gem block in Arcade Mode” achievement is also impossible, as if you play it on Easy or Normal, the CPU character dies before you get there, and if you play on Hard or Expert, you die before you get there.
Decided to have a run through Arcade Mode on the hardest setting on this. It was, well, not too hard actually. I picked characters I don’t normally use (so that’s no Ken, Ryu, Iori, King, etc) and instead went for Athena, Eagle, Rolento and others (I died a few times, you see). This game is great, if played with the Street Fighter II pads, like I was. Standard PS2 pads are rubbish for everything. Came 7th on the score table. …