I’m close to throwing the towel in, too. Three times I’ve had saves reverted to earlier levels. At first I thought I had just forgotten to save but I started being very careful about saving regularly and it just happened again.
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That really sucks and sounds super frustrating. I wonder why that’s happening. :((
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Alright, I beat Lost Kingdoms 2.
I did not love the ‘false’ difficulty of having no blue fairies during the final boss stage. But I managed to beat it.
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What should our theme be for August?
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I’m open to suggestions. We usually start mid-month so we can take suggestions now and run a vote for a week.
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I’d like to try to veer a bit harder into retro gaming, a bit of a return of the a retro Game Club. Perhaps easy mode retro, i.e., anything released a minimum of ten years ago.
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How about… games from any handheld system? Game Boy all the way to 3DS.
Or alternatively, retro platformers? I’ve been meaning to finish Donkey Kong Jungle Beat for ages.
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I like the handheld idea.
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This will also make it cheaper on our wallets. :))
I’m cool with the handheld idea though I imagine DS games will be harder to emulate. I’m not sure about PSP or Vita emulation either. I think there’s a good PSP emulator though.
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DS is all good in terms of hardware performance these days, I think! As is PSP (I’m not sure about Vita, though!). The one setback for DS emulation is the touch screen, but it’s very game-dependent if it’s an issue to use the mouse as a stand-in for the touch controls. I’ll probably steer away from nominating a DS game for this reason, but I’m certainly not opposed to voting for a DS game if its primarily button-based or the touch controls are inobtrusive.
This one has been so hard to think of a game to nominate just because the sample size and quality is so tremendous. Portable gaming was my bread and butter growing up… there’s so many bangers, how am I meant to choose?!
I’m leaning towards a GBA game though, maybe. Best and most coolest portable console imo!!!
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Since it seems that we are all into the idea of handheld games, I’m happy to open up nominations. If you have a game you’d like to nominate, let’s hear it.
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I’ll nominate Hotel Dusk: Room 215, which is a murder mystery point n click for the DS.
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I had to think really hard for something I’d like to see go up against Hotel Dusk (one of my favs!!), and I have decided on a couple of GBA games: one I haven’t played at all but really want to and the other I played a lot and always wanted to return to it. Both are action-RPGs I believe! They are:
- CIMA: The Enemy (also known as Frontier Stories in Japan)! It is… I think it’s an action-RPG with puzzle elements? And like a dozen party members? And a train? I don’t know. From the storied devs behind the Lufia and Rune Factory series!
- Shining Soul 2! A (barely connected) spin-off the Shining Force series. Action-RPG dungeon crawler Diablo-em-up… on the go! And made by Grasshopper Manufacturer, for some reason!
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Oh my god Shining Soul 2 lol, I was briefly super into that one when I was a kid! Portable Diablo felt like a revelation.
CIMA looks very unique, as well.
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I’m going to nominate WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!. It’s the first Wario Ware game and I’ve played a little bit of it before and found it very fun. :))
I used to own a physical copy of Hotel Dusk but once I beat it, I gave it away. Kind of regret it but I didn’t like it as much as Trace Memory so it doesn’t bother me much.
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I was thinking about nominating Warioware! I will play a Warioware game any time, unprompted.
Trace Memory/Another Code is great! My favourite Cing game is Last Window: The Secret of Cape West which is basically Hotel Dusk 2. Even though it got a full localisation and release in Europe it never saw the light of the day in the US and that really stinks. I really enjoyed Cing’s games. I need to play that Switch remake of Another Code!
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Doing a quick tally. So far we have the following nominations,
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215
- CIMA: The Enemy
- Shining Soul 2
- WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!
Do we have any more nominations? I’m still thinking on mine.
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I’m nominating Lady Sia because it’s a relatively obscure title I’ve never played and lands on some people’s list of favourite lesser know games, and R-Type DX because of Kimimi’s recent essay about the game.
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Oh can I throw in Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak as well? It looks super cute, and the weird dictionary system where you learn dozens of special hamster words sounds interesting.
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Once again, this isn’t fair. I want to play ALL of these games.
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