I hope so. *hugs*

Super Metroid

Did it. One planet less in the universe. 100% items (with a map before going to the last bosses), game clock said 12:16 but my 3DS clock is over 20 hours. Not that it matters. Might be the best game out there.

End game wasn't too hard, but wouldn't have been this easy if I didn't go for all the items. I was in it for the exploring anyway.

So many great moments in this game, most of which I've covered in the currently playing thread. Might have enjoyed it just a little bit more if I grabbed the map even later, I had most of my items/abilities when I used a map. Even then there were more unfound areas then I expected. Some of them were still hard to discover, but the thing I didn't realize was that Couldn't have done it without the restore points on the 3DS, time wise and skill wise.

I remember buying a SNES at a flea market. I was a student by then and had just bought my first console with my brother, the Metroid GameCube. Loved Prime (never finished, I could only play that in the weekends as the Cube was at my mom's place) and heard good things about Super Metroid. So after I got my SNES I looked for the game. Found it, and hooked it up to the TV in my room. Was at the end of my bed so for a while I tried to play it every morning. Could never have long enough sessions to explore enough and find a new save point, so I gave up at some point. Glad I gave it another chance all these years later, on a system that suits my life a bit better.

The whole Metroid series was something that had my attention even before I had something to play them on, loved all the Prime screenshots in magazines, it's the game that made my dad realize games can be so much more than the game and watch he had years before and it's the game that was the reason for one of my first conversations with B.

Huzzah! Nice write-up.

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Yay good stuff. Top 10 ever for me fo sho.

Same.

acemuzzy wrote:

but tempted to play Other M for shits and giggles,...

Don’t. Seriously.

Hmm so I gave 3D World a [8], but I'm not sure I actually preferred 3D Land.

I've become like Edge

Harsh. It’s a 6 from me.

Yeah, I loved it on N64. Haven't played since but there's no way it can be that bad.

Christ, Star fox on easy path must have taken about 50 minutes to complete. Its a fantastic game.

i liked the scoring system, the different pathways depending on how you play - and theres an extra layer of difficulty hidden by trying to obtain gold medals on each planet. 

Still the highlight of the series for me.

I’ve never gotten the appeal of Star Fox. Played the SNES and n64 ones, both shit.

I dismissed Lylat Wars back in the day. It was Star Fox 64 3D that persuaded me I was wrong.

Anyways...

Unmechanical: The extended bit (PS4)

More of the same, but the same is pretty good.  Short but [7].

Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. Not sure why I bothered but I plowed on until the end. It was gash. Quite fun dashing around the city but way too many moments of woeful forced combat. Maybe I just didn't bother unlocking enough combat moves but it was frustrating as anything coming up against a bunch of guys with guns and having absolutely no way of avoiding them shooting the crap out of you. In the original (if I remember correctly) you could totally avoid combat. Why they didn't keep it the same I have no idea.

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier

That I'm met with the news that Telltale lays off 25% of its workforce to focus on fewer, better games with a smaller team certainly doesn't feel like coincidence after playing through this.

Lackluster to say the least, and now just as bad as the TV series.

Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS, on N3DS)

So hmm.  No great.  Felt very similar to the first (admittedly played about a decade ago), but very little difficulty or interest in the puzzles, which is a shame.  Though maybe it's just aimed at a much younger audience - HLTB says 14h but I was done in 8 .

And as for the story.  Jesus.  Like, really really bad.  Given the premise of man is murdered, mysterious object stolen, arrive in strange town, it literally went all out with: But somehow I'd still quite like to play the third one (which I don't own, despite having the fourth), as it's meant to be better...  and then maybe some of the prequel trilogy... cos the puzzles are just about OK enough to be morish...

Probably a generous [6].

Updating Forza 7 and Halo 5 on the Scorpio. Huzzah!