Damn, dude, congrats! I know how long you've been chipping away at this. Huge accomplishment.
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Absolutely ridiculous videogame accomplishments thread
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It was really just a sign of the times. Nintendo wasn't too averse to lots of voice-acted dialogue at that point and they really wanted to show off what that shiny new Game Boy Advance could do, so you have the Mario crew and practically all the bosses with voice acted dialogue.
And on the subject of "What the Game Boy Advance can do", this is also why the insides of pots have been redone all ferris wheel-like, why there are much larger counts of enemies, why there are giant mooks and turnips, why there is so much sprite scaling and rotating, why there is a score system just to show off even more effects with number-go-up popping out of lots of stuff as you kill it.
Super Mario Advance is a maximalist version of Super Mario Bros. 2.
And that's not even getting into the included Mario Bros. remaster, which shares similar effects and has a four player mode. And they included it in like five different Mario games
I don't remember thinking the voices were ridiculous back in 2001, since I did get Super Mario Advance at launch along with Castlevania Circle of the Moon and F-Zero Maximum Velocity. But in retrospect, how did anyone not think they were annoying as hell? It's wild what a difference time makes.
Also the Mario Bros remaster in all the Mario GBA games is actually really good - I prefer it and Kaettekita Mario Bros for the Famicom Disk System, where you can adjust Mario's momentum and direction mid-jump, unlike the arcade and other versions of Mario Bros. The game is a lot more playable, imo, as a result.
Also the Mario Bros remaster in all the Mario GBA games is actually really good - I prefer it and Kaettekita Mario Bros for the Famicom Disk System, where you can adjust Mario's momentum and direction mid-jump, unlike the arcade and other versions of Mario Bros. The game is a lot more playable, imo, as a result.
Daaaaamn. I didn't even look at Hollow Knight's bonus hard stuff, knowing myself and how I do with difficulty. But this is seriously impressive.
I figured out how to sneak behind the first ambush of Dr. Cool Aids in Crystal Project. It requires a lot of sequence breaking that skips so far past what that fight gatekeeps that it's not even worth it just to get a single block of irrelevant and easily-inferrable dialogue, but boy howdy gee golly I done did it.
Thanks, everyone! I think it's fair to say that Hollow Knight is my favorite game at this point, so it feels pretty good to have bested its greatest challenge. I will admit that I'm a little sad to have run out of things to do in the game, especially as we haven't seen proof of life for Silksong in so many years. Though I suppose I still have Steel Soul left to try, and I've never delivered a flower to the Godseeker, and I haven't completed the Mr Mushroom quest...
By the time I was done, I could go exit the Nightmare King Grimm fight in better shape than I arrived (which is very helpful in the context of the pantheon!). It was a very long road getting to that point, but it's supremely satisfying now that I can school him almost every time.
I never got good at fighting Markoth.
fucking markoth
I never got good at fighting Markoth.
fucking markoth
This is probably on the lower end of ridiculous, if it even qualifies, but...
Last game I remember 100% ing that wasn't like, maybe a Mega Man game of some kind was Donkey Kong Country 2. Upon release.
Or maybe Yoshi's Island, whichever came second.
Last game I remember 100% ing that wasn't like, maybe a Mega Man game of some kind was Donkey Kong Country 2. Upon release.
Or maybe Yoshi's Island, whichever came second.
If this doesn't count, surely doing all goals and collecting all cash for all 13 skaters, which unlocks all cheats, a bonus level, and finally rolls credits certainly does. Took me 18:49 according to my Analogue Pocket. I could unlock two secret characters by landing all the gaps in the game, still...
I beat my 200th kaizo hack on Thursday.
Woohoo, congrats! Did you play Riff World for the big 2-0-0?
Yep, talked about it (and clearing 200 hacks in general) a bit over in the appropriate thread too.
I filled in the gaps, and my high score is now 475,211,400.
I'm pretty sure the biggest part of these are beyond me. Just ain't got the spoons.
(Also my collection/backlog is just stupid big at this point.)
I just started this tonight, and it is delightful.
(Also my collection/backlog is just stupid big at this point.)
I just started this tonight, and it is delightful.
Since the thread got bumped, I suppose I'll continue my Theatrythm nonsense. Having run out of other things to do, I have now SSS-ranked every Basic chart, every Expert chart, all but I think 8 Ultimate charts, and a few Supreme ones. Or to measure it another way, every chart that's 9* or less and all but seven 10* charts and a few 11*s. That's 1,561 different SSS's.
These last few 10*s are real tough, yo. Man with a Machine Gun, one of the Big Bridges, Under the Weight, one of the medleys (a few are tough just by virtue of being looooong, making it harder to get that one Good Run where nothing goes wrong).
Interestingly in the 8* and 9* range the toughest charts were mostly from Mobius with its dubstep-ish nonsense. Though also I just don't know those tunes well.