PretentiousHipster wrote:
Link's Awakening DX - Going through the zelda series now since I want to make a ranked zelda games list (and I plan on getting a zelda tattoo sometime this year). I need to explore the handheld ones as I've yet to play them, and Minish Cap was one of the best zelda games I've played. This one is impressive as it's on a more "primitive" console and its time period. I am playing the DX remake, but apparently the only difference was the addition of colour. The thing that turns me off are all the mario references. I don't mind easter eggs, but they use so many mario enemies here that it just feels... off.
Sweet. I have the same goal, and only ten games to go:
Are you planning on playing the off-brand CD-I games? I think those will probably be the toughest for me to get through. (As you can see, a lot of the games on my list aren’t “real” LoZ games, but I’d like to play them anyway.)
Also, what are you planning for a tattoo? I was thinking about the Eye of Sheikah for some time, but I didn’t go through with it.
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On topic...My wife and I basically played through Her Story last night, but I still have a few more search terms I’d like to run before we wrap it up. We have the overwhelming majority of the videos, and we came to the the conclusion:
Inspired by Noise’s experience with the game, we made dinner, opened an OK bottle of wine, and played through it as a “date”. The acting and writing are very solid, and it’s easily the best FMV game I’ve ever played. Has anyone played the writer’s follow up, Telling Lies? I’ve read that it’s also very good.
I also continue to chip away at Elminage Original. I’m fifty hours in and waaaaaay over-leveled. (I am killing bosses in one hit.) I need to go ahead and wrap up the main story so that my party of master killers can advance to the (supposedly extremely challenging) post-game content. I also need to train up a servant and a summoner for some quests; so, I need to spend some time power-leveling a few new characters too. Thankfully, the game remains unpredictable enough that mapping the dungeons is still fraught with peril. Just yesterday, my master-level thief misidentified a trap, and the party was teleported into a solid wall, killing all of us instantly and forcing me to re-do about an hours worth of mapping and grinding. Fun times!
My wife’s heading out of town on a business trip for a few days starting Sunday, and you know what they say...”When the cat’s away, the mice will play [Alan Wake for a few hours every night].” Like the party animal that I am, I plan to start that very soon, and I will likely take a break from Elminage to dip into a bunch of other 2010 games.
