February:
March:
Previous undated:
100) Metal Slug 5 (via Metal Slug Anthology on Wii)
101) Metal Slug X (via Steam on PC)
102) Street Fighter X Tekken (Vita, Hardest, Ken/Ryu)
103) Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition (3DS, Medium, Ken)
104) Castle in the Darkness (normal ending)
105) Castle in the Darkness (100%, secret ending)
106) Skullgirls
107) Super Dodge Ball (repeat)
108) Power Blade 2
109) Rolling Thunder (NES)
110) Life Force
111) Demon Sword
112) Bill & Ted's Excellent Game Boy Adventure
So, had a halfway-finished playthrough from Power Blade 2, so I finished that off. It's a decent game, sure, but the controls feel pretty sluggish. I like the suits, but you really have to know how to take advantage of them to keep from dying. I save-stated/rewound some for this one, but I can see a pretty decent path to victory if I give it another go.
The same cannot be said for Rolling Thunder. Good grief, that game requires some split-second reflexes, or perfect knowledge of the stages, plus unerring execution. Freakin' bats are absolutely horrible, and there are a few jumps that are insanely tricky as well, especially when you've got enemies around that you're trying to avoid. The control scheme is a lot like Castlevania or Ghouls & Ghosts, except the game isn't even that forgiving... I used rewind like crazy to get through it. Could I beat it one day? Perhaps. Do I feel an overwhelming urge to? Heck no.
At least it has passwords, though.
EDIT: Still mining the old savestates, finished off Life Force. This one feels a lot more fair than Gradius, mainly because you get to respawn where you died. It also has that Gradius/Contra thing going where, if you can hang on to your full complement of weapons, things are quite easy. I can see legitimately beating this one when it strikes my fancy, there's not a ton other than that final escape sequence that I can see that would be terribly taxing, and that is even mitigated by the in-place respawn. Just gotta make sure I have enough lives!
(And no, I'm not trying to catch MrPopo, ain't happening. My numbering scheme is different, anyway, so I'm quite a few games behind.)
EDIT 2: More NES mining. Finished Demon Sword. It's been a long time since I beat the game. It's not terrible, actually. It's not great, either, but it's a lot better than Legend of Kage. It's firmly in the average category, where it does a few interesting things, but the execution is a little too uneven to even approach the classics.
EDIT 3: Finished off a playthrough I had going of Bill & Ted's Excellent Game Boy Adventure. My aunt had this when I was a kid, and for some reason it had some fascination for me, despite just being a "run-around-and-collect-stuff" puzzler. It could have been anything, honestly, because the license is just barely integrated, but it's not too shabby. As I mentioned earlier, Job the Leprechaun that I played earlier this year gave me the same vibes, which is when I had picked this up to play again.
(A whole lot of NES, though.)
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