Tail Concerto

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Discussion for Tail Concerto!

[arctic halo]

https://tenor.com/view/fuga-melodies-of-steel-fuga-comedies-of-steel-kyle-bavarois-reaction-kemono-gif-26126674

[modern canyon]

That’s me getting snake out of here. I’m excited with the choice

[tranquil summit]

Same, keeping this for last because the psx rocks

[arctic halo]

So this is furry FF6 mechs? Someone TLDR this to me

[modern canyon]

From what I played, some pesky kittens are tearing up some shops and you need to grab them and shoot bubbles at them

[robust sandal]

I think I'll start with this one.

[uneven junco]

pretty crazy where horrific war ends up when you use the souls of children to power your machinary

[remote marsh]

Very happy to see this push through, been on my backlog for a while.

[novel canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/dude-we-did-it-trent-ttthefineprinttt-we-made-it-through-man-finally-we-did-it-bro-gif-26094798

Two years of participating in GOTM and one of my nominations finally won.

[remote marsh]

MGS lives to show up in nominations another month.

[novel canyon]

Weird that it's not one of the games I'm super passionate about, but rather a strange game I once played on a random PS1 demo disc and found oddly compelling

[remote marsh]

It fits the theme to a T

And looks charming as hell

[novel canyon]

Needless to say I have no secrets to share, so I'll be on the same journey of discovery as everyone else. Also BillyZard is my disciple now apparently

[uneven junco]

AT-ST's are technically mechs. I can't believe you let this slip by you

[novel canyon]

No ATSTs in KotOR my friend lol

[uneven junco]

Oh shit, right

OLD republic

[novel canyon]

Yup

[uneven junco]

And also I have to be your disciple

You saved this

[gray pike]

@uneven junco is on a 9 month completion streak!

[novel canyon]

Ah right lol, forgot about that

[uneven junco]

it also kinda fits as an Armored Core thing

OT: Who the fuck is naming their kid Waffles!?

[novel canyon]

Me probably

[uneven junco]

WAFFLES IS MY SON, YOU CANT TAKE HIM

[novel canyon]

This is Stove Wife all over again

[tranquil summit]

Stove Wife ? You married Stove Cat ?

[onyx folio]

OK, this game is cute, liking it so far

[uneven junco]

You didn't?

[tranquil summit]

He left me

[compact nimbus]

Only fitting it was the to send MGS to the runner-up channel once again

[spice warren]

Yes!!!

[quartz belfry]

we could do Metal Gear March and MGS would still somehow lose

[novel canyon]

If KotOR can't win then fuck MGS too

[compact nimbus]

Have you ever considered that the lack of wins until now might be related to the insistence to keep nominating KOTR?

[spice warren]

I don't think kotor has ever had a early lead just to lose at the end point

[novel canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/no-idea-what-youre-talking-about-nowak-skymed-s1e3-i-dont-even-know-what-youre-saying-gif-26245243

[green steppe]

This one a fun one. Excited to get further than ever. (Which isn’t saying much. I have played a bit past the demo once…)

[slender tinsel]

This game is a fever dream for me. I played a Japanese demo of it in the 90s. Not a clue what the game is about.

[green steppe]

I played that demo several times. I've been in this hobby for a long time though, and finally was able to play it in English, but it was a long time ago. Beat the first few levels is all. But it is pretty fun.

[hollow swallow]

From what I've seen and read it's basically this

[novel canyon]

Quite an admirable job that needs doing, I say

[plush sphinx]

I have never heard of this game in my life… tried Armored Core 3 and the controls are a bit loopy so came to this and have enjoyed what I’ve played so far!

[robust sandal]

Reached the first save point. So you slap wardrobes and catch kittens. I hope this won't get too chaotic later on.

[green steppe]

There are other elements to the game later as well... Everyones favorite mechanic - minecarts - may or may not make an appearance.

that's as far as I remember.

[robust sandal]

It's quite sweet, the little graffito the cats painted on the wall and everything. Movement just feels ... like a PS1 game, I guess.

[novel canyon]

"Hey folks, Officer Ryebread, don't mind me just here to smack the shit out of all your furniture and probably destroy a couple of your kitchen chairs. Pay me no mind, routine inspection."

[novel canyon]

Chamberlain's VA is either trying to or trying not to do a Droopy impression and failing at either one

[modern canyon]

This game is cute as hell

[novel canyon]

Ah yeah if nothing else it positively drips charm

Officer Panta is adorable

[modern canyon]

I’m probably going to gameover armored core, so this is my game to beat. Currently on the second level hunting cats on an airship

[novel canyon]

Think you mighta chosen a different second level than I did

[modern canyon]

Ah that’s possible. I saw there were more options

[uneven junco]

Oh fuck! Does AC3 have debt limit?

Oh God

AC3 has Human Plus

Looks like I'm doing the age old "Missiles are too expensive, low weight laser sword build time"

Pauper Ninja engage

[modern canyon]

Finished a few more sections and calling it for tonight!

[signal maple]

Where in the living hell is the wine cellar I’m being told to de-kitten?

[novel canyon]

You mean in the first level? The three doors near the beginning

[novel canyon]

The extent to which you will be thankful that Waffle auto-grabs ledges when he starts to fall...

[cobalt grove]

https://tenor.com/view/waffles-waffle-lunch-gif-27073945

[signal maple]

https://tenor.com/view/picard-four-lights-star-trek-tng-gif-7362662

Ah I oh no my saw 2 and I thought.

[novel canyon]

Dan... you choose a gif with no subtitles and then you speak pure gibberish

[slender tinsel]

This guy is stealing the whole show

[novel canyon]

Same VA as Chamberlain interestingly enough

[smoky eagle]

Okay this game is definitely better than MGS. Sorry MGS fans

Valken is hard as hell...

[robust sandal]

So, in Resaca in that destroyed building right at the beginning … there is a whistle and I want it. How.

I love that one woman who says "Don't destroy my furniture! But of you're on duty, it can't be helped."

[quartz belfry]

Camera kind of sucks tbh. Game could really use manual camera control. Not surprising for a ps1 3d game tho I guess

[modern canyon]

Pressing O picks up things

[robust sandal]

I can't reach it. There's a pile of rubble and I can't jump over it nor get past it

[modern canyon]

Ohhhh, just skip it ha. I have so many whistles saved up already

[novel canyon]

Wait until after the boss fight

Should clear up

[novel canyon]

Camera is your biggest enemy, especially in the one level that wants you doing precision platforming

Btw anyone struggling with island-hopping to grab photograph pieces in Airleaf: next time you come back you get a huge upgrade to your fuel capacity

[robust sandal]

Ah, thanks

[novel canyon]

So damned adorable

[modern canyon]

Is there purpose to the photograph pieces? I have so many

[novel canyon]

Just collectibles you can view in your room

There's a photo album on the desk

[modern canyon]

Ah booooo

[novel canyon]

Were it a modern game I suppose there would be an achievement

Whoo! Beat that final boss, what a colossal pain in the ass

[thick stratus]

So idk what’s wrong but I can’t turn at all? Lol.

Is it just dpad or analog stick to turn? I looked at the controls and didn’t see anything listed. Maybe my Duckstation isn’t configured correctly?

[compact totem]

Anyone having any issues with this game in duckstation? I’m playing on a rp2s and I’m getting the weird audio stutter. It’s only happening in duckstation. Same issue doesn’t appear in other emulators

[thick stratus]

No audio issues on a RP3 through Duckstation. But I can’t turn left or right at all lol.

[compact totem]

Ended up needing to change to audio backend for some reason 🫠

[modern canyon]

No issues on my 2s yet, but I’m also playing on mute

[novel canyon]

Yeah you may wanna remap controls, because it is simply dpad/analog to turn

[thick stratus]

Must have something funky setup, I’ll have to double check

[modern canyon]

Just beat the mines. Going to do the next level for the night

[modern canyon]

3 bosses down, 3 crystals collected

[smoky eagle]

How many in total?

[modern canyon]

I’m not too sure ha. I just checked a guide and noticed I’m on section 7 out of 14

[smoky eagle]

I will play this out. I love it so far. Kinda glad it beat MGS

[modern canyon]

It seems like a short play too

[smoky eagle]

Short and sweet is my favorite

[novel canyon]

Yeah my clear time was like 4:23

Just be ready for the hueg difficulty spike you're about to hit Ja

[rigid iris]

2nd crystal collected

[pastel radish]

When you land if you press the opposite direction and jump again he does a dive. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve died because of this

[novel canyon]

I could never get him to reliably dive, it mighta come in handy once or twice in the end-game. Now I ought to go back in and try that

[modern canyon]

I did it by accident last night and had no idea how to do it again

[pastel radish]

That gave a laugh

[novel canyon]

Ah wow, Pewee been through the gauntlet already, then.

[pastel radish]

https://tenor.com/view/digimon-tai-kamiya-tachi-yagimi-kari-kamiya-hikari-yagami-gif-18971909

me every 5 seconds

[novel canyon]

Lol

Yeah that was some shit I was not expecting

Fool was a bad bad man when he went to villain lair designer school

[pastel radish]

used like 7. that was crazy

I just finished it. It was better than I thought, but those last few stages got me good

[novel canyon]

Having Half-Life flashbacks?

[pastel radish]

Haven’t played Half-Life yet

[novel canyon]

Ah ok, yeah ||that whole ending sequence with the platforms and stuff really reminded me of the end levels of the original Half Life.||

[onyx folio]

I'm really liking the game so far, I think it deserves a switch remaster like Spyro. Having camera control on right analogue would be great.

[thick stratus]

This game is so charming so far. Just beat the first boss. Think I’m going to try to beat this one this month

Still need to try AC3 tho

[green steppe]

any one playing on hard? I'm curious how much the difficulty affects things.

[green steppe]

Oh, and now we can play .hack games so we can catch all the references.

[cobalt grove]

This is gonna meet my furry quota for the year isn’t it

[pastel radish]

Not really. They don’t do anything even remotely sexual. But by the end I did wonder why they used animal people. It didn’t really add anything

Except the cute kittys

You know what. It’s worth it just for the kitty kats

[cobalt grove]

Animals for no reason is closer to what I meant than sexuality. I’m sure there’s plenty of “extracurricular materials” around this game, though.

[pastel radish]

I’d rather not research the topic. But yeah, I feel it doesn’t really add anything to the story. Could have been any two groups of people/species and nothing would change

[cobalt grove]

Hmmm… this only seems to run well in swanstation core.

Looks and runs great there though

This robot has just the right amount of dumb floppy arm appendages

[pastel radish]

I love how it swing it’s arms. Controls felt good but not being able to control the camera is problematic sometimes

[novel canyon]

I dunno, one of the collectible pictures is basically a Cyan thirst trap 😅

Also I think the use of animals was one part charm/mascot era shenanigans, and one part subtle racism commentary

[pastel radish]

Ok. Yes but most people won’t even look at the pictures

I hope

[cobalt grove]

[uneven junco]

You desperately try to wake your dying friend to protect you and your infant sister!?

[uneven junco]

If you play Fuga you'll know its ALL nationalism/racism commentary

[cobalt grove]

I guess when you think about it 90s/00s games weren’t great at subtext… if you suspect it might be implying something it prolly is.

[novel canyon]

Oh holy shit, they released a prequel to Tail Concerto as recently as 2021? And even a Fuga 2 this year, that's nuts I had no idea

[uneven junco]

It's a very different game but it's damn good. Play it in French if you do.

[robust sandal]

In Fuga you can ||yeet kids through your cannons and I cannot even.||

[uneven junco]

Still struggling through my ||No Soul Cannon|| Play through.

Thankfully, Hero Mode Boron is just insane

[spice warren]

https://tenor.com/view/im-not-even-supposed-to-be-here-today-serious-call-gif-14094178

Beat the first boss and this meme is how I feel so far.

[spice warren]

Why are dog terrified of cats? Is it the bombs? Has to be. Anyways help fix the transport ship.

[rancid crane]

I can picture a design meeting where they had it the other way but it was "too expected"

[cobalt grove]

Unhealthy work life balance

[onyx folio]

I hate the || incompetent rival that takes credit for your work || trope so much, ugh. || The prison escape scene is just 🫠🫠🫠 ||

[novel canyon]

I mean thankfully ||Cyan actually kind of redeems himself eventually, plus the Princess never really believes his bullshit||

[hidden shore]

So is this dude a wolf or a dog or what

Or a fox

Also is this better with an analog stick? I'm debating between playing it on the Miyoo or the vita

[quartz belfry]

it doesnt feel very true analogue? so i think dpad should be fine

[green steppe]

I’m weird and use the r buttons to move forward and backward. D-pad is for turning only.

[quartz belfry]

ive been doing that a little honestly, kinda feels better given the camera situation and lack of proper analog

[thick stratus]

I like it with the stick better. Started with the dpad, but felt wrong

[modern canyon]

It’s my first game for the rp2s and I love those sticks

[spice warren]

Don’t drive tried is what I learned today.

[modern canyon]

This hideout level is genuinely ruining my night ha

[remote marsh]

Just past the first boss, this game is silly and charming and I'm here for it!

[spice warren]

Temp of doom like mines. Then a super Mario type mission. Only I have give away all my money to get Rescue her. Then stop the terrorists yet again.

Terria > Toadstool!

[modern canyon]

I just beat the Floating Fortress. Looking to finish this one tomorrow

[hidden shore]

I kinda hate trying to navigate this jetpack level

First couple levels were fun but not enjoying this one

[spice warren]

Jet back was the worse for me.

[novel canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/i-did-try-to-warn-you-will-jackson-wentworth-i-did-try-to-tell-you-i-did-try-to-alert-you-gif-22905658

[modern canyon]

I pushed through and beat it though. Fun little game

[uneven junco]

These boss fights are a little long

[hidden shore]

Yeah

I feel that

I'm enjoying the game but I've definitely got my gripes

[spice warren]

All the games this month have questionable controls.

[hidden shore]

Yep

I feel like mechs are hard to do right because of how unwieldy they are in concept.

[uneven junco]

I think tail concerto handles itself pretty well. It's the camera alot of the time. Back when we didn't have the idea of controlling the camera with the completely unused stick, right fucking there

[spice warren]

I try to change the view to top down. Or 1/3 top down. Just each new screen goes back to default

[uneven junco]

Oh my God. Air leaf

https://tenor.com/view/im-not-having-a-good-time-im-not-having-fun-no-fun-not-enjoying-it-im-bored-gif-14525695

Ok ok, I've figured it out. The jetpack just pushes you straight up and you control your tilt, not your locomotion

Got it got it

[spice warren]

We got flair!!

[spice warren]

Jumping from pipe to pipe.

[spice warren]

I am glad this game won. Breaks up the super serious mecha type games

[spice warren]

Secret hideout done. Wasn’t as bad as I read about.

[spice warren]

https://tenor.com/view/ice-ice-baby-vanilla-ice-rap-musiv-video-gif-11959717673329722264

[spice warren]

I hate Cyan! So much.

[spice warren]

They just dropped the fortress? At lease part of it. Escape just in the nic of time

[cobalt grove]

[remote marsh]

Airleaf properly sucked, glad that's over!

[spice warren]

No more Garfield float.

[tranquil summit]

To be fair, when that game came out the controller with sticks didn't come with the console

writing "buy additional expensive controller or you can't play" on the box probably didn't sound great

[remote marsh]

I think people just forget that that original Playstation controller didn't have dual analogue.

[green steppe]

Which is funny, because games that actually supported the analog controller were pretty limited in number, honestly.

Off the top of my head, I only really know r4, MGS, and ape escape.

[remote marsh]

Agreed. I wonder if it's good marketing on the part of Sony, or just the fact that the controller has, for the most part, continued in the same form until modern Sony consoles.

[green steppe]

I mean, there’s still a lot, but not very many considering the library size. I think it’s the latter of that, honestly. It’s been the same controller for 5 generations, who would think it didn’t really matter in the first gen?
https://github.com/libretro/libretro-database/issues/64

[modern canyon]

I got the ps1 late in the life of the system and it came with a dual sense. When I was a kid I figured the non dual sense was just some mad catz shit

[cobalt grove]

Dual sense

[cobalt grove]

All the good ones

[spice warren]

I had a playstation really early on like first 3 months of release. I never bought a dual shock controller for it.

[modern canyon]

Whoops haha. Dual analogue. I just woke up from a nap

[uneven junco]

I didn't forget, but the options menu displays a DS and has unique controls for each scheme, just wish they thought just a touch ahead.

[green steppe]

Yes, clearly.

[signal maple]

Totally agree on the racism analogy. When I realised what they were doing it was my favourite part of the game (finished it on the plane home today)

The mech boss with the magnet was a mofo

[novel canyon]

Wasn't so bad when you remember that ||R2 walks backward while you shoot forward||

[signal maple]

Oh hell. I never thought of that

[novel canyon]

The final boss was a colossal pain in the ass for me

[signal maple]

Also when the month is over and we can have spoiler chats I’ll need some one to explain to me why ||alicia is only pretending to be blind in one eye, like that shot ain’t cool||
(Spoiler includes information you find out in the end sequences)

[signal maple]

Oh I found that one so much easier than the previous 2 bosses

I did panic when ||he came back to life|| as I didn’t have enough health for a full assault, but managed to ||trigger the thing||

[modern canyon]

Final boss wasn’t as bad as the level getting to it for me

[novel canyon]

Half Life flashbacks right?

[modern canyon]

I’ve only played the first level of half life

[novel canyon]

Was totally a blend of ||the teleporter clusterfuck in the Lambda labs and the platforming Hell from Xen||

[novel canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/bruh424019499-gif-25675566

[modern canyon]

That was recently too and after that level I uninstalled it haha

[signal maple]

100% this

[rancid crane]

That's just tragic. Try Black Mesa if it was the old engine getting you down...

[modern canyon]

I might! I’m not a huge fps guy though so that could’ve been it

[spice warren]

Just got through the teleports ||inside the Iron giant. ||Didn’t find it too difficult. Just pick one color and keep using that color.

Final boss was kind of a ||joke||

[modern canyon]

Hardest game for me was probably controls and camera

[spice warren]

Camera control would of been awesome. I really enjoyed the game. Nice weekend game.

[hidden shore]

Just got to airleaf. Am I within binging distance of the end?

For the second time I should probably clarify

[spice warren]

Second time. Then yes.

I say 3-4 more major things to do

[remote marsh]

||Magnet Mech|| was a pain until I realized I could flutter jump

[spice warren]

I learned at on that boss also. Once I realized ||I could grab the missiles and throw them back.|| It became kind of easy.

[remote marsh]

||I tried grabbing the missile the first time, and was unsuccessful, and kept shooting bubbles at it for a while. Tried grabbing the missile again out of frustration that I couldn't escape the damn thing, and it worked. Wasted like the first half of the battle leading them into walls or the magnet.||

[pastel radish]

https://tenor.com/view/skeletor-wat-what-gif-18497036

I'm learning a thousand and one things I was supposed to do and didn't

[hidden shore]

I think I just beat the final boss

[spice warren]

||As soon as she says "here we go you have hit the action button." Then you will grab the missle. Does about 1/8 damage.||

[pastel radish]

I must of missed it. I miss people saying things all the time

[spice warren]

Killing the mecha with Bubbles sounds like a long battle

[pastel radish]

That’s what I did…

And yes. It took a bit of time

[spice warren]

How did you ||kill the final boss the second time? When he came alive? ||

[hidden shore]

I gotta figure out what record I want to go with for my completion screenshot. Not sure if I wanna go Catch For Us The Foxes, Paper Tigers, or a Catbite album

[spice warren]

Who let the dogs out!

[rigid iris]

You ||jump and smash one of the crystals||

[spice warren]

How I did it. I am scared that some fight him to the death

[remote marsh]

Just got ||inside the Iron Giant||, gonna stop here for the night and hopefully wrap this up pretty quickly tomorrow!

[hidden shore]

Unfortunately I do not own the baja men on vinyl

[spice warren]

You're very close

[spice warren]

Any pusscat dolls?

[hidden shore]

No surprisingly. I should get on that, my wife loves Nicole Scherzininger. I wound up going with Catch For Us The Foxes. The game involved canines and catching things, seems on brand enough

[pastel radish]

||Grabbed the the floating gem||

[pastel radish]

I actually grabbed it by mistake dodging an attack…

[livid stream]

I didn't vote for it, but I'm starting the game with an open mind 😉

It looks very childish (not a bad thing) and well done

[signal maple]

Oh man, I never knew this either.

I just stood by a wall and jumped at the appropriate time so the missile hit the wall

[pastel radish]

I was doing the same thing. I was feeling so smart

[remote marsh]

Just finished, basically only had the final stage and final boss left, neither of which were very troublesome.

I enjoyed it, it's a PS1/N64 era platforming action game so I'm here for it!

Camera sucked, but they all mostly did during that time, so I'm glad the other pieces were charming and fun.

[thick stratus]

I’ve really been enjoying it so far despite me not really being a fan of PSX/N64 platformer jank lol

Just got past the island hopping level yesterday

[robust sandal]

The kittens run around so much, I can't focus on anything. I did the Jetpack Session after the first boss and now I'm at the mines. Jumping between this and Assault Suits Valken because both games stress me out. But I'm making progress.

[spice warren]

You can use the bubbles on the kittens

[thick stratus]

Another thing I found out, tapping O uses one arm and dbl tapping uses the other arm. Iirc is right then left?

[robust sandal]

I know, but that means even more moving things on screen.

Don't get me wrong, I find in quite sweet, but it's not my usual type of game.

[spice warren]

I just constantly moved the whole game.

[remote marsh]

Same, I was arm-swinging like a madman anytime there were kitties on the screen. Only got strategic about it when tanks became involved.

[tranquil summit]

I'm really enjoying this !

what i call a proper mecha game

[green steppe]

I think it’s just if you tap fast enough, the arms go through a combo. Right -> left -> both. If you hold circle, both arms just start spinning for a fun attack.

Although, you can’t grab kittens with that one.

[thick stratus]

Useful for getting the most out of people’s wardrobe closets however 😂

[remote marsh]

I went through the whole game not knowing I could spin. Coulda been Beyblading!

[spice warren]

Wait you can spin?

[green steppe]

vertically at least.

You people never READ THE MANUAL... that I forgot to share this time.

https://archive.org/details/tailconcerto

[spice warren]

You just pinned it well F

[green steppe]

the pages are out of order on it, for some reason, but it's there now.

and I'm actually not even sure the spinning thing is in there, now that I glance at it. I just remembered that being a thing. lol.

[abstract orbit]

... Am I a furry now?

[smoky eagle]

A quick confession, I'm a simp for her, lol

[rapid quail]

Oh wow this timed section is really kicking my ass

[novel canyon]

Excuse me, this is a Panta stan zone

https://tenor.com/view/tail-concerto-little-tail-bronx-panta-pose-sparkles-gif-22778159

https://tenor.com/view/tail-concerto-panta-kittens-gif-6861644017435442239

[uneven junco]

Getting slap happy is a great way to get some damage on the bosses if they can't turn to face you. So good.

Really satisfying SLAPSLAPSLAPSLAPSLAP

[pastel radish]

I thought her name would be something cat based. Felicia sin it starts like Feline and sound similar to Alicia

[abstract orbit]

Same thing with princess Terria. She's a terrier.

[tranquil summit]

Panta's cute

Is the game native widescreen or did I set duckstation to stretch accidentally?

The other PSX game I've been playing is 4:3 so settings should be fine

But I don't think 16:9 was actually a thing for PSX

Uh, google says a few PSX games did have widescreen support, including wipeout 3 and Spyro 2. No Tail Concerto there so I'm just stretching I guess

[cobalt grove]

I believe some emulators can do a “widescreen hack” which doesn’t stretch but actually displays more of the space

That screenshot looks stretched though

[tranquil summit]

Yeah I had the widescreen hack disabled but aspect ratio at 16:9. I'm back to 4:3 righteousness

[onyx folio]

I'm playing 16:9 and it looks great, but there's one bug, at the prison scene, in which having the wide-screen hack enabled makes the convo between waffle and the girl stop and produce some graphical glitches, so it needs to be disabled for that

[cobalt grove]

🧇

[smoky eagle]

I just love such stories as this. Thanks for the experience guys, see you in the next game (Armored Core)

[green steppe]

I'm excited to see steambot chronicles in the future, hopefully. Looks really fun.

[signal maple]

Hopefully it's the story of my favourite ever wrestler, Ricky Steamboat

[green steppe]

Yes, I’m sure it is.

And steamboat Mickey makes a brief appearance too, I’m sure.

[spice warren]

I played a little of steambot chronicles. Had a great time with it.

[smoky eagle]

Oh it is bro... I love scenarios when you can shape your own response and be a potty mouth hero such as John McClane

You can interfere in other people's lives and destroy 'em from the inside

https://tenor.com/view/hahahaha-gif-27342590

[livid stream]

I'm in Coolant right now. Game is OK. It looks a bit like a Rare game on N64.

[spice warren]

This is by far the best game this month. Thank you, Raven.

[tranquil summit]

Not the kind of game where i expected to hear the sentence "Ashes choked the sky"

[tranquil summit]

Finished, that was great and Solatorobo is definitely going on my list for December

[spice warren]

Solatorobo let’s go

[storm radish]

My brain is telling me there should be some way to upgrade the mech, but I don’t think there is.

[green steppe]

I wish panta would hop in as a co-pilot for boss battle.

[storm radish]

Mech with a side car?

[granite wren]

This game is goofy and charming as heck. I haven’t played very much but I’m enjoying it. 🦾

[tranquil summit]

There is, right at the end. ||Jetpack becomes not bad with an upgrade||

Can we talk about how bad that final platforming sequence was? I would have lost it on OG hardware

[signal maple]

The teleporting bit? Yeah I hated it

[north plume]

One of the worst I've played recently. Just plain awful gamedesign choice

And that camera controls, oh, camera. I know that in '97 with original PS1 controller there was not much options but... R1 and R2 for walking instead of turning camera sideways? Really?

[tranquil summit]

Really ? Didn't even see that

L1 and L2 for camera up and down was tedious enough

[north plume]

It would be reasonable to map L1 and R1 to turn camera sideways. And there are little point to move camera up and down, trajectory of projectiles did not affected anyway

[tranquil summit]

it did, if you kept the button pressed, it followed a dotted trajectory shown, that changed when looking up or down

auto aim was easier, making this a bit pointless

[north plume]

Bizarre, it's not working on my ROM

[tranquil summit]

maybe i'm remembering wrong but it did feel like holding O let me throw manually

i'll try again later

[sage shoal]

https://tenor.com/view/hated-it-hate-gif-13364410

[green steppe]

I’m pretty sure it did and you had to use it to hit the kittens up on the cat walk in one of the warehouses in the very first area.

[north plume]

I tried it again and found out I did it wrong - tried to adjust the camera and then use O but for this working out one need to hold O first and only then adjusting. Still weird and inconvenient, imo

[cobalt grove]

So what’s the verdict? Worth the time? I’m for sure gonna do AC3 this month. Not sure about Tail. Seems cute and fun so far through the first boss. Seen some grave complaints here and there in the thread though.

[north plume]

This game will become much harder lately, and not of a fair kind of hard. If you're ready for that, why not

[tranquil summit]

it's cute and charming, doesn't overstay its welcome, actually is even a bit short for my liking

liked it much more than AC3, which I abandoned

[onyx folio]

||I just destroyed two mechs, the drivers of which are fine, why is the moving fortress exploding, lol||

[spice warren]

I think if they made the game longer. It should added a new gameplay mechanic. Game is great and simple. Story moves great. Underwater platforming needs to just be banned from games forever.

[rancid crane]

The original super mario brothers was the first and last game to do underwater platforming right.

[onyx folio]

Ultimately, loved the game, but the platforming section in || the iron giant|| leaves a bad aftertaste

[main berry]

Well, I think I just hit the part everyone hates. So at least I know I’m close to finishing

[autumn latch]

How's the "All Mecha All The Time" crowd feeling about this one??

[spice warren]

i loved it. Was light and nice change from the other two.

[green steppe]

It's good fun. Cute, but also a good change of pace from the other two titles for this month.

[uneven junco]

The mecha itself isn't exactly important but damn is it full of character

[cobalt grove]

FLOPPY JOE

[remote marsh]

It's charming, I enjoyed it.

[rugged canyon]

Does this game have analog controls/compatibility?

[remote marsh]

Yep, used analog the whole game.

[rugged canyon]

awesome, good to know ^.^

[autumn latch]

This game is fun except for ||this fucking jet pack section||. What were these game designers thinking.

[uneven junco]

It's insanely clunky lol

Are you holding forward? Treat it like a plane from modern games, up and down controls the tilt, not the momentum

[autumn latch]

Yeah I figured that out, but it didn't help much.

[uneven junco]

I was tearing my hair out til I worked that out. Doesn't help much but mitigates the feeling of "what the fuck is this"

[autumn latch]

Well I got Grandpa, who's a jerk apparently. Hope that's the end of jet packs.

[cobalt grove]

[novel canyon]

I feel like people would be much less bothered by the jet pack level if it started off as the upgraded version

[green steppe]

I didn't mind the jetpack level...

[uneven junco]

Are you... expressing a different opinion?

https://tenor.com/view/kunleinho-kunleinhogifs-family-guy-beating-assault-gif-20722188

[autumn latch]

Does that mean there are MORE jetpack levels?

[green steppe]

it does mention the islands go on for a while...

and people get lost, not person.

[novel canyon]

Yes and no? Optional I suppose

[green steppe]

But you have to collect the photographs!!

[desert slate]

Oh fun! This game joins Jackie Chan Stuntmaster in the category of "Fun Action Platformer until it decides it wants to be more platformer than its gameplay can handle".... Fun.... Fun job, Tail Concerto.

[spice warren]

I feel like that only happens at the end of the game. So it’s great they ended the game at that point

[desert slate]

this ||inside the Iron Giant shit is atrocious...||

the camera, controls, and physics in this game aren't cut out for any of what it asks

[fast reef]

I was about to jump in but you guys kind of scare me .

[desert slate]

Nah it's short and totally doable, just helps to vent my frustration in chat. These early 3D platformers tend to overextend themselves on the platforming bit, but TC doesn't prolong that too much

[fast reef]

I think the last early 3d platformers I played was Conker . Now that was hard!!

[compact nimbus]

Started this one up

Boy is this camera... Something

By something I mean I might hurl

[compact nimbus]

Did really enjoy the first level and boss though, a lot of fun

[quartz belfry]

yeah i feel like some early 3d platformers really designed their levels around the controls and camera and some didnt and this one kind of didnt

[uneven junco]

God damn, Just got to || inside the iron giant|| thinking " ph surely this is just overblown"

Spoilers: || ***it wasn't ***||

[spice warren]

We don’t lie here. Sir

[green steppe]

Except when talking about egg and musashi. 😏

[autumn latch]

Just beat the Factory. Woof.

[cobalt grove]

Gonna try to burn through this so I don’t have to worry too much the rest of the month

[fast reef]

If you just want to get your steak rolling you could just play cybernator . It’s a pretty easy game .
I just started tail concerto and I feel like it’s going to take a long time lol

[uneven junco]

nah ~ 4.5 hours and there isn't really any side content

[granite wren]

I need to get back to this, I’m still in the mines. This is the kind of game where I find myself just wandering around even though there’s nothing to do. Reminds me of MM Legends.

[uneven junco]

its definitely got that feel about it

[fast reef]

Yeah I played a bit more and i see it now ! If it’s just about those 5 crystals it’s nothing much lol

[fast reef]

I’m at the mines too . You’re right but so far it’s not so bad since the areas are not too big .

[cobalt grove]

Pass on that tbh. Already made progress in Concerto and what I played of the first two levels of Cybernator didn’t grab me.

[remote marsh]

Assault Suit Valkyries is a great game, it's just so damn hard.

[cobalt grove]

Have we talked about the voice acting

In tail I mean

All star cast

Maybe not but Waffle and Alicia are pretty big names and they have the fun voice acting

[autumn latch]

Just beat the Flying Fortress last night. Almost done I think?

[green steppe]

I’m at the abandoned factory now. Slowly getting through the bosses taking no damage retro achievements. May abandoned that idea here eventually.

So I figure I’m about halfway done based on that.

[cobalt grove]

Heading to Coolant next

I think that’s a lil more than halfway

[uneven junco]

The hard mode boss fights are sooooo loooong

[green steppe]

Yeah, they are really just an endurance test on your focus to take no damage.

[fast reef]

I was about to say fuck this game but instead decided to say fuck the jetpack level . 800CD742:FFFF

[autumn latch]

This cat-people vs dog-people storyline is really something!

[storm radish]

The jet pack part sucks.

I’m up to the snow area

[granite wren]

Is the jet pack part just the one time ||rescuing grandpa in the islands||?

[autumn latch]

You have to go back for one more story point, and while you are there, the jet pack will be upgraded, making it way easier to get the collectables. But not required.

I just made it inside the iron giant 😠

[granite wren]

Ah, thanks! I did the first jetack mission and didn't find it too bad. I was worried there would be something worse coming up.

[fast reef]

You’re good ! I was totally lost in this maze .

[storm radish]

Same. Oof, this is making the jetpack look amazing

[granite wren]

Eh, maybe just lucky

[autumn latch]

Alright I finished.

[storm radish]

Yep, just finished too

[fast reef]

Am I the only one wishing they was a cat?

[autumn latch]

Anyone become a Furry because of this game?

[storm radish]

I became a mech.

[fast reef]

Is the bad platforming you are all talking about the one in the factory ? Or will it get even worse ?

[green steppe]

The factory is a pain for me, but mostly because there is no save point before the boss for some reason. Gonna take a while to get this no damage fight in. I've gotten so close a couple times... like one hit left and then I make a stupid mistake.

[fast reef]

Oh no that’s so frustrating !
It’s as if they didn’t think of retro achievements when they made that game !

[green steppe]

https://tenor.com/view/those-bastards-catherine-ohara-moira-moira-rose-schitts-creek-gif-20774649

[autumn latch]

Gawb bless you and your commitment to hard core achievements, but I ain't got time for that. #teamsavestate

[green steppe]

There goes another promising run due to an accidental dive. I hate the dive mechanic in this game. Should not have been a thing.

even with the sensitivity set to low, it's dumb.

also, pro tip for the purple tanks in the abandoned factory. ||You can shoot them from clear across the room and not take any damag from them. Just shoot your bubble gun for a good 15-20 seconds, and you can kill them both without any risk.||

[onyx folio]

You kinda need dive for the final boss

When you dive accidentally, it is annoying, and it doesn't feel 100% consistent, but I think you don't take damage in dive animation, so it feels like go free out of prison card, just use it whenever you about to get hit

[fast reef]

Yeah that boss is hard ! Maybe the dive could help but I don’t know how to do it . I just do it accidentally sometimes .

[arctic halo]

Okay, last one of the month. This is 100% not my jam, but we'll see if I can grind over the next 8 days

[autumn latch]

I could never figure out how to dive on purpose.

[green steppe]

I tend to accidentally dive a lot when trying to jump immediately after landing.

I was finally able to do this last night though.

[onyx folio]

Yea, like dive right or left was pretty doable to me like 80-85% of the time. Dive backwards was harder to achieve, but also I had no use for it. I'm not sure if you can dive forward

[fast reef]

Oh so that was not the last boss lol

[storm radish]

I didn’t realize you could dive and didn’t do it a single time all game.

Probably would have helped in some instances, but I was able to juke around the last boss just by running and changing direction if necessary.

It tries to lead you sometimes so if its angle looks like its aiming ahead of you, you can stop and run back the other way to avoid it.

[fast reef]

Respect to those who did the platforming all the way to the top of the giant without save states .

[autumn latch]

Not me, and I'm not ashamed.

[compact nimbus]

The dialogue in this game is a treat

Was not expecting the cat girl to be || complaining incessantly about too much flirting ||

[autumn latch]

This game and Popfull Mail, with their voice acting and anime cutscenes, should win some GoTY awards.

[compact nimbus]

Cyan is absolutely perfect in every way

[green steppe]

Not going to lie, pretty proud of this one. Got all the whistles on the first run, beat the clock on the second.

[compact nimbus]

Those moving platforms are a huge hassle to jump off properly

[green steppe]

They really are. I find it easier to use the right shoulder buttons sometimes for the weird platforming. Easier to stay aligned that way.

[compact nimbus]

I think my game broke? I beat the first || flying fortress|| got sent back to my home, and now there's nothing to do. I looked up a guide, and I'm supposed to get a call when I try to board my airship, but I'm not getting one

NVM, walkthrough was incorrect

Needed to talk to a specific random npc

[green steppe]

Pretty much any time you’re in Porto, just talk to all 4 or whatever people are there and then try to board your airship. Almost always gets things moving again.

[compact nimbus]

Never had to talk to them before, so it was novel

[compact nimbus]

The final boss absolutely cheats

Will sometimes ||home faster than you move and will snap it's head to laser before you can react ||

Absolute bastard

Really enjoyed this one overall, a simple but fun 3d adventure game with a ton of charm

[green steppe]

I need to beat him on hard without taking damage…

[compact nimbus]

The worst by far is that he skips attack patterns sometimes

Completely random

[compact nimbus]

I'm pretty sure you can maybe dodge the drill attack if you're close him, have plenty of room and at a full run

Couldn't find any reliable way

[green steppe]

I’ll finish up sky fortress tonight. Think I’m pretty close to the end.

[fast reef]

And hardcore mode again right ?

[green steppe]

Getting close.

Going to have to do some hunting in resaca. I think I’m missing like 4 pictures and one whistle there.

I think those two and the two boss fight ones the only non-story based ones.

[green steppe]

Anyone get this achievement, or know how to get it? It’s the only one I’m not sure about. Just got inside the iron giant, so I’m not sure how this one plays out.

[cobalt grove]

||load the bonus||

[green steppe]

Got it. Haven’t beaten the final boss in hardcore yet. I can do it. I have the pattern and strategy down. It’s just difficult keeping it going for like 30 minutes.

[cobalt grove]

Yeah it’s a tough boss. The || lasers ||especially are tricky at first.

[green steppe]

Those are easy. The hard part for me is the || spinning charge ||, but I found a way to make it so he never uses it.

I’m sure I could do this in normal mode no problem, but on hard, he’s a nasty sponge.

Like I said, it takes a long time to beat. Maybe not 30 full minutes, but it feels like it.

[cobalt grove]

Wow, never uses it? Do you time the knockback or something? I just tried to book it hard left/right as soon as he starts the animation

https://tenor.com/view/nope-baby-gif-13045652171184306794

[green steppe]

Major final boss spoilers, but here you go: || essentially yeah. He has his three attacks. As far as I can tell, he always cycles through them in this order: lasers, bombs, charge. But, if you cause a knock down while he is in an attack, that attack is canceled and he will get up and start with the next one. I basically just figured out a good timing to get him a hit or two away from a knock down during the bombs attack. Dodge those, then if you hold r2 and forward, you always face him. I just keep facing him until he lays down to charge, then mash the shot button. He falls, then gets up and fires lasers. Rinse and repeat a bajillion times and he’s gone. || it’s not terribly difficult, just hard to do for so long. It’s a real drain on your focus and mistakes happen over a long period.

@cobalt grove Oh, and there are no sequels for this game, sadly. Saw you mentioned sequels in your completion photo. The team wanted to do a sequel, but could never convince a publisher to fund. The team eventually went on to do the .hack games. Apparently, there are quite a few references and Easter eggs about tail concerto in those games.

[cobalt grove]

I guess I meant the spiritual sequels like solatorobo apparently is one?

[green steppe]

Oh yes. It is. And it’s by some of the same developers. Same setting but different stuff, I think. I want to check it out too.

[onyx folio]

Good job! I see they change the UI on the page like every 2 days

[tranquil summit]

Solatorobo is the same thing as Tail Concerto, or very close from what I can tell. Then the Fuga games are Trpgs

I had Solatorobo in my wishlist but that's not what was picked. Won't stop me from nominating again

[green steppe]

They do? How? I keep playing the picture slightly differently, like cropped or I am in the individual achievement instead of my profile page.

[green steppe]

And thanks. Still need to get those last few in hardcore.

[onyx folio]

I mean your profile page definitely looks different, not sure exactly when they changed it, I was sick for about two weeks, but I'm certain it looked different at the beginning of November / end of October. Before that, it looked different also, like you could see your friends in your profile, how many points they earned this week and total, but then in the next change they deleted that.

Don't have screenshots or anything

Now you can sort by completed/ finished etc, and it wasn't there before

[green steppe]

Hmm. I’ll have to look around more. Haven’t really noticed anything major, but mostly focused on this one game at the moment.

[green steppe]

Finally, it’s finished. No more ugly non-yellow borders. 😁

[uneven junco]

Legend! mastery for this would have been a toughie

[green steppe]

Final boss was a huge pain. The rest want to bad. Some of the whistles were tricky.

[arctic halo]

Okay, this clicked

And I'm past the back to back platforming bullshit

So hopefully smooth sailing

[green steppe]

What part are you at?

[arctic halo]

I just blew up the secret HQ

and I just got a crystal on the ice world

[compact nimbus]

The platforming is isn't great but it's manageable and a small part

Make sure to angle the camera above to make jumps much easier

[green steppe]

Also, use the R1/R2 buttons to be sure you only go forward and backward once you are lined up on some of the other ones where the camera doesn't want to cooperate.

[arctic halo]

top hat cat is bad news guys

he just woke up a megazoid

the weird disconnect between cutesty dog and cat people and ANIME BOOBA is off-putting

the princess is good for this in all of her cutscenes

[green steppe]

Alicia too.

[compact nimbus]

It's a cutest family friendly aesthetic with a more typical anime story meant for at least older kids

I find the difference pretty funny

[hollow swallow]

I'm so close, def will finish this tonight

[chrome atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/eyes-gif-21821822

[silver trail]

alright

time to bang this one out real quick before the end of the month 😎

[compact nimbus]

It's short, it's fun, it's not hard

Should be easy to get done quick

Took me three or four days with no rushing

[silver trail]

bout to rush these mfing dawgs

https://tenor.com/view/tail-concerto-little-tail-bronx-panta-pose-sparkles-gif-22778159

[compact nimbus]

Cats

But the spirit is appreciated

[silver trail]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-cats-black-cat-unimpressed-gif-1213749241414004265

[lethal radish]

Hey me too. I did not like this game for the first two hours but now, god help me, I am rooting for ||waffle and Alicia to get together||. It kinda draws you in lol

[silver trail]

lets goooooooo

[compact nimbus]

I agree it has a bit of a slow start

[silver trail]

hope it's not too slow

I might just give up 😔

[lethal radish]

Idk for me it was more an issue of controls

L1 and l2 will center your camera behind you. Platforming is easier with the camera pointed down

[silver trail]

I'm very relaxed about that

[lethal radish]

Still no idea about grabbing

[silver trail]

AC tought me some deep shit about controls

[lethal radish]

Animal crossing?

[silver trail]

and garbage camera movements

armored core :)

[lethal radish]

Ahahaha

[silver trail]

https://tenor.com/view/armored_core-armored-core-armored-core-vi-gif-27218108

understandable mixup tho

a classic

[hollow swallow]

yeh, i finally went online to see the final fight. Dam they a sponge

tomorrow is the day

[green steppe]

Hard mode final boss took me about 10 minutes, I want to say.

[lethal radish]

One thing I will say for this game, it doesn't really overstay its gimmicks

[lethal radish]

Oh my god ||SHE DIDNT NEED THE EYEPATCH????||

[compact nimbus]

Best twist in gaming history

It fits so well with || her character||

[silver trail]

Guys I've been meaning to play this but I played MM8 instead

[fast reef]

Is mega man a mecha ?

[silver trail]

no

[pastel radish]

I saw that and said “ of course. I should have known “

[green steppe]

this man actually did need an eyepatch for a while though.

[chrome atlas]

Unironically my favorite mainline Mega Man game (mind you I haven't played 9 or 10 yet)

[silver trail]

9-10 are kinda ass, the cool part is playng with bass or protoman

MM8 is super cool

but the jupm jump slide slide is giving me ptsd

[chrome atlas]

Get astro crush and cheese half the level

Since it locks you in the air when you use it

but the screen keeps scrolling

[silver trail]

yeah, I know the chesse, it's just anoying really

the willy section

gotta make sure not to hit a wall also

just use it at the end

and skip the last section

[chrome atlas]

TBF that's the only hard part of that game, and compared to rest of the franchise... It's unfairly hated on imo

[silver trail]

I think it's correctly hated, but there are shit on par and in more quantity on other games lol

it's a very unfair part imo, at the end

but it's manageable

ande astro crushable

but the spritework makes everything worth it

I think it's the prettiest mega man game

at least classic

but top 3 for sure

don't think I'll be able to finish tail concerto sadly

played for like an hour yesterday and it didn't give me what I wanted

curiously I played tron bonne earlier this month lol

[fast reef]

Good decision to stop early . It doesn’t get any better.

[silver trail]

sad

at least 2/3 games this month were cool for me

so still a good month

[green steppe]

I enjoyed it. I don’t think the game dropped of in quality or anything like seems to be the popular opinion here. Different though. You have to use the weird controls to your advantage, which I kind of liked.

Yeah, the watery platforming inside the iron giant was weird, but it only took like 3 minutes.

[silver trail]

AC taught me weird controls, don't think the platforming would be a huge issue

the game itself was not pulling me in

unlike solatorobo which I like instantly, funny since this one is the first one right

[granite wren]

My gut told me the quality dropped in the last stage, but I agree with Liquid that it was just different. To me it was a jarring change and the fun was lost. The watery platforming was awkward and the robot felt like a different game.

All the rest was goofy fun

[fast reef]

You really did it in 3 minutes in hardcore mode ?????????????? It took me almost 2 hours with save states lol.

[green steppe]

According to the in game timer… yes.

[silver trail]

beast

[green steppe]

I fell once.

[granite wren]

That is impressive! I wasn't able to judge the distance at all.

[green steppe]

Huh. I was prepared for something awful with all the complaining. Really didn’t have any difficulty with it. lol.

[autumn latch]

Liquid Divide just showing us how much better at gaming they are than the rest of us.

For all the early complaining about it in this thread, inside the iron giant was mercifully short compared to the factory level.

[silver trail]

I mean if people found mmz too unforgiving I guess normal platforming sections would be a force do be reconed with

[granite wren]

I didn't mind the factory

[green steppe]

The factory was just long and no save before the boss fight. I got really tired of that level.

It wasn’t hard either, just somewhat tedious.

[fast reef]

The poles were hard to catch in midair because of the awful 3D perspective though .

[onyx folio]

My question is how did you know where the teleports will take you, or did you just tried everything in 3 mins?

[silver trail]

can't you figure out the route, load it and do it one shot?

[green steppe]

Yeah, you definitely can. At that point, for the teleporters, I did notice I appeared again where I started, and I had flashbacks to Neugir and didn't want to deal with it, so I checked a guide quickly. There's only like 4 of them though, so even trial and error probably would have taken me less than 10 minutes.

shooting the little worms before jumping is a good idea.

[silver trail]

On Ys I did trial and error and died so many times that by the end I jsut oneshot the mirror labirynth

[onyx folio]

I mean you probably can, I just assume there's no point to try hard to do it quickly as there isn't achievement for it (as far as I know). Looking at the guide explains it. Took me like 15 mins to find the last teleporter.

[silver trail]

15m is just a smidge of trial and error

I think that would be the point of the puzzle?

unless there is some way to tell before hand

[green steppe]

yeah, that's not bad at all

[silver trail]

I added this game to my list of to-try later when I have time

[green steppe]

not that I know of, but I really didn't want to spend a bunch of timing messing around with teleporters.

[silver trail]

I'm working my backlog right now, so I'll come back to this

[granite wren]

I didn't understand why I made it to the last teleporter pad. I just made it by dumb luck.

[green steppe]

I think you have like a 25% of doing that anyway. There are only 2 portals at each level, I think, and what... 2 levels with a choice? I don't exactly remember, but it's not like it's a big maze or anything.

[onyx folio]

Nah, last level is definitely more than 2 I think, like every teleporter on that level is wrong, and you need to climb the one at the top

That is still, pretty logical that it would be the one, so

[quartz belfry]

i really like 9 ngl i think its one of the best but its been a while. i need to give 7 and 8 a replay tho

and i havent played 11 yet

[silver trail]

of the classice mega mans, 11>8>7 in that order

the rest fall about in hte same place for me

[quartz belfry]

yeah idk as someone who likes the nes ones a lot 9 is toward the top of that pack. but if u dont care for the 8bit ones in general i get why u wouldnt want a throwback to those lol

i thought 9 had lots of cool level gimmicks and pretty tight design around them, and a few pretty neat weapons (tho some boring/lame ones)

[silver trail]

not bvecause of that

I tought the level gimicks were ass

and more instakills than the rest ofthe franchise

and classig mm has a LOT of those

I love the 8-bit aesthetic

[quartz belfry]

fair @ instakills i guess lol

[silver trail]

no need to guess, it is full of those and you know it

even if the rest of the franchise has those

[quartz belfry]

idk i really like tornado man and galaxy mans stages, those gimmicks were really fun to me

[silver trail]

9 and 10 seems to have more for some reason

I mean

they were not that memorable to me

might give it another playthough sometime later next month

it's all mm franchise time

[silver trail]

and you think astec falcon was hard?

mm classic is full of assblasting

[quartz belfry]

i mean aztec falcon was harder than i was expecting the game to be lol

it was more about expectations

[silver trail]

ah I see

makes more sense lol

everybody was blasting it saying it's too hard and too tanky and stuff

[quartz belfry]

i was expecting zero to be more in line with X difficulty wise and i think its definitely harder than at least the first 3 Xs which are the only ones I really go back to

[silver trail]

yeah mmx-x3 are the best imo

[quartz belfry]

yeah i dont even really care for x4

[silver trail]

people like that oen a lot

I have no feelings for it

x3 is my all time fave of the X series

[quartz belfry]

x2 is mine i think but 1 is close. 3 idk something is a little different. still really good but not quite the same heights

[silver trail]

yeah people say that

I think x3 has longer stages in most cases

dunno if it was about that but I heard that one before

x2 is second place with x being third

but marverick hunter x might top x3

[quartz belfry]

i dont like the music in x3 as much. i like that they went for slower guitar-based stuff but i dont think snes guitars work as well at slower tempos lol. the sample quality shows more the longer a note is held

i need to play maverick hunter

[silver trail]

YOU DIDN'T PLAY IT?

I think we are on the wrogn chat for this

but please play it

[quartz belfry]

yeah we are pretty off topic lol. but yeah going on the list, i never had a psp

[silver trail]

ah das sad

so many bangers

well, play it when you can

It's amazing

[green steppe]

this guy figured it out in like 10 minutes... I don't see it taking much longer than this, honestly.
https://youtu.be/6HSRCRC7fKM?t=6197

he didn't look down ever and made it harder.

[silver trail]

might be a bit controversial, but figuring out the puzzle is the objective

sometimes you gotta do a little work for it

[green steppe]

You're not wrong. I just didn't want to bother with that at the time. It's not like the game is a puzzle game and I really cheated myself out of some great experience.

[silver trail]

to each their own no problem 😎

[fervent siren]

Just started playing Tail Concerto for the first time and this game is frickin' adorable lol Love the mid 90's anime cutscenes and voice acting too.