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Oh, yeah, Hoy Quarlow was one of the first fights where I got stomped so badly, I questioned whether I could pull the win off. Very tricky fight indeed. And you're right about Nick - I've been fighting Tyson for so long that pretty much all the twitch stuff from there transferred pretty well to that fight as well. It took me four or five tries to beat him, but it took me waaaay more than that for Rick.
I didn't hate it, but it was definitely one of those "hate beat" games by the end. A friend of mine was playing at the same time, and we were both compelled to finish it off. I like a lot of the mechanics in the game, but I just wish it were a bit more forgiving. Your take isn't out of the norm on God Hand at all, though - I've heard a lot of folks (including the same friend mentioned above) praise it extremely highly. (He still gives me guff for not having played through it yet, so that needs to happen at some point!)
If you can do that, though, I don't think you're quite as far off as you think. The more you play Contra, the more the game seems to slow down. You just start expecting things, even little random stuff the game throws at you like soldiers coming in from the sides.
You're not wrong, but when you know there's the potential for them doing it, you're often a lot more prepared for it when it happens (or wait until it does happen 'cause you just know). I've gotten to where I can do some ridiculous stuff that young me would have marveled at. I still will often take a random death or two, though, yeah. Especially if I'm just playing to chill.
oh i would never say nick is the easy one. i would only consider him the less hard one, and slightly at that. the entire final circuit is a gauntlet
Yeah, pretty much that. Not easy, just easier for me. I also had a really tough time with the title defense in the Wii version because of all the tricky off-speed stuff you run into there. I've never beaten that one, actually. (And I'd not actually beat SPO until this year, either.)
ahh that's great! I did what was required for that, but alas it was long after the dev had stopped responding to proof-of-completion messages.
This is true, and that's what I was obliquely referring to. Unfortunately the guy who ran it at GDQ revealed himself to be a pretty big transphobe/misogynist/generally crappy person last fall, so I didn't want to specifically lead people to his content.
Heck, I was gonna come here to just to post this and it’s only one level from the hack:
And that's one of the easier levels! (For me, at least. Everyone's got their own easy and hard levels.)
