Between Russia, China, and Brazil, I have some small glimmer of hope that the world will not eventually wind up a 100% “Left Hand Only for Flicking Shit Off of Asses”, assbackward Muslim cesspool.
Playin’ the Metroid 2 fanmake. Really well put together. Totally stuck though.
Spoiler
14 Metroids remain - no ice beam, no grav suit, can’t figure out how to get to the either as the only paths remaining are either blocked by one of those bubble walls or by underwater speed boost blocks.
I was never a big fan of Zelda, but I watched my mom play it for hours and hours. Tetris, too. I was playing Tetris yesterday and I got to missing her a lot. I always play to Music C just like she used to.
My dad is still alive and well. Our NES bonding time was mostly him kicking the shit out of me in John Elway and Battle Chess.
sheeeit, I never beat the original Zelda until Nintendo Power showed a full map in one of their issues…this revealed the lay-out of “Death Mountain”, I think it was called…? It was the final dungeon area where you eventually face Ganon. I had no hope of finding my way around in there until they published that map.
There was a Zelda game-watch too; I had that back in 6th grade. Back in those ancient times, that’s what “portable gaming” was…either a game/watch or one of those dinky little LCD handhelds made by the company “Tiger”.
OLYMPIC HOTNESS ALERT: JESSICA ENNIS was just on right now with that bar jump event…oh lordy YESSSSS that one right there She could get ravaged all damn day.
My female manager put a band-aid on my bare foot just now cause I told her I had a blister near my toe.
Then she took off her shoe to show me her bruise on her foot. I thought of @Manx and wished he was in my spot for just a second.
I became a big fan of Zelda, with the second one, oddly enough.
I mean, I enjoyed the whole open world newness thing of the first one, and all, and the top down ARPG genre pretty much originates with it.
But fuck some of those bullshit “Secrets to Everyone”.
And I’m not talking about the literal, bad translations.
Rather, nonsense like seeking out and actually finding the second sword… which was pretty much the go to step, after beating the first couple of dungeons… not that you’d KNOW that, of course.
That, and the utter COMPLETE bullshit of invisible entrances that you had to force your character into walking into a completely random wall section for several seconds as if you were a drunken Autistic to “discover” (seriously - who the fuck DOES that?) during the Second Quest, really hurt my view of the O.G. game both at the time of my first playing it, and in retrospect.
But those invisible entrances were the worst.
They made “Wait. Wait Forever” seem sensible by comparison.