And not just completed – completed without losing a life! I didn’t really even have to try that hard, actually, although I did nearly plunge to my doom on Scrap Brain Zone 1. Which would have been a bit of a pain. And I almost drowned twice on Scrap Brain Zone 3. But I did it, which is all that’s important! Then I went and started again, to try for the Win In 40 Minutes achievement and the Fast Marble …
No, not the awful recent 3D “masterpiece” that I refuse to buy, but the original Megadrive version, available today on XBLA. Yes. I already have this game twelventyzillion times. Yes, I have completed it on the Wii since Christmas. Yes. I did buy it. Again. But it is lovely, see? And this version lets you save your game whenever you want! And there are leaderboards! So it was worth it, yes? Of course it was. Anyway. I’m up to Spring …
How strange that the first game I complete on the my new Wii console, is the first console games I ever owned. Well, one of two – I got Altered Beast on the same day, but that doesn’t count… So I managed to make up for missing out on two Chaos Emeralds by carefully getting to the end of the remaining Acts with 50 or more rings, and got myself all six emeralds by the time I’d done Starlight Zone …
Played through a bit more this morning. I’m up to Act 1 of Labyrinth Zone now. Chaos Emerald hunting isn’t going as well as I’d hoped – I’ve only got three so far.
No. WRONG. Remember my rants about all that was horrid with Sonic Heroes? This could actually be worse. NO.
And onto the next! Sonic CD was always the black sheep of the 16-bit Sonic games, what with changing the gameplay and returning to a graphics style more like Sonic 1 even though it came out after Sonic 2 (in the UK at least). Levels don’t feel as well organised as the other games, with scenery overlapping and areas messy with seemingly random item positioning – partly due to being able to travel into the past and future and so …
There was a demo for this a few months ago. It wasn’t very good. It was “classic” Sonic in a re-imagined Green Hill Zone, ruined by awful physics, jerky scrolling and not being able to see anything as the graphics were too “busy”. Oh, and Sonic was about one tenth the size he should have been in relation to all the other objects and baddies. This demo improves on the previous one greatly, by fixing much was wrong with the physics (although …
Sometimes I have a poke around on the Japanese eShop to see if there’s anything interesting which isn’t on the UK or US one. In the past it has given me the likes of Kamiko, Plantera and Handy Mahjongg, all before they came to the west. I’ve also played a few of the train sim demos, had a go on Phantasy Star Online, and so on. And picked up Sonic the Hedgehog from there as it came out a day …
After Devil’s Kiss, this was the Main Event. A new Ben and Dan adventure game, and long awaited followup to Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please. Unlike those games, there’s a whole load of platforming mixed in with the point-and-clickery, as Dan has decided exciting indie platformer adventures are the in-thing, and Ben’s insistence on examining everything and refusal to jump even the smallest amount both clash and co-exist in a unique hybrid of styles. But it’s not …
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) …
Lego Dimensions: Doctor Who (PS4 03/01/2017) Lifeline: Whiteout (iOS 08/01/2017) Lego Dimensions: Ghostbusters (PS4 08/01/2017) Lego Dimensions: Sonic the Hedgehog (PS4 14/01/2017) Mr. Pumpkin Adventure (Wii U 15/01/2017) SteamWorld Heist (3DS 02/02/2017) Pokémon Sun (3DS 06/02/2017) Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair (PS4 09/02/2017) Lego Dimensions: Portal 2 (PS4 12/02/2017) Grow Up (PS4 19/02/2017) BioShock Infinite (PC 19/02/2017) Lumo (PS4 23/02/2017) Monster Loves You! (PC 25/02/2017) BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode 1 (PC 01/03/2017) Thirty Flights …
