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I think the relation has been unclear enough that people wouldn't even know if he is an uncle.

I considered Bowser a lock because he is the most famous video game dad, but I respect the assumed opinion to consider relevance of being a dad and not just the characters in contention themselves.

As a character it's fair, in particular because Mario doesn't really have personality and his design is partly a result of hardware limitations.

But characterization is also irrelevant in the Sonic games at the time, so it's not a saving grace

I do hope we get more Sonic games on here, especially after they're starting to put more Genesis games on after Sega Classics was delisted.

I've gotten to a point where I'm playing games that don't fit into available categories, but still have a bunch of updates.

29. Beat a game with the supernatural as a central theme
Landstalker

40. Beat a game with a Metascore above 90
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

35. Beat a game with an animal lead
Ecco the Dolphin

27. Beat a game with revenge as a central theme
Streets of Rage 2

4. Beat a game released between 2010-2019
Luigi's Masion 3

12. Beat a game made by a developer you like
Mario Kart World

44. Beat a game that's been adapted into another medium
Sonic the Hedgehog 2

35/52

Ctes has beaten Sonic the Hedgehog 2

It's a great game. Most of you know. It's well ahead of the first (but below Sonic 3 & Knuckles). Instead of praising the things that work well only, I want to do a hot take and say I think that Mario vs. Sonic is the most forced gaming debate of all time, and I have always been convinced that it only happened for a few years because of people that generally preferred Sega consoles over Nintendo and because Sonic is the "cooler" of the two, which was always a matter of time because we'd prefer the better gameplay. Naturally mascots gets compared to, because you want your favorite console to have the better mascor. Don't know if people in this topic gets that, but it's like Messi vs. Ronaldo to me. Sega vs. Nintendo was for a few years a valid debate, though Sega never really managed to gets the upper hand, and as soon as Sony stepepd in, it was hammered in, Mario vs. Sonic was never. When the first Sonic came, Mario already had 3 and World out and Sonic never got anywhere near those heights. When 2 came, it was good enough that a debate was had, but depending on the day, I'm not sure I'd even put it above SMB1, which was already a spectacle.

Anyway, that was just to say something not sounding generic. It's a very fun game, just not fantastic. It's fun getting to the special stages as well, which are a challenge. The pinball stage is the most fun imo, but it's fun after you get past hold right and press jump occasionally in the beginning. I said I'd pick a great game for the halfway point and it is!

A Tier (Great)
Shining Force
Ecco the Dolphin
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Breath of Fire
Super Mario Bros.
Fire n Ice
Pokmon Trading Card Game

NES - 77/79
GEN - 28/50
GB - 18/39
SNES - 27/74
N64 - 4/39
GBA - 1/25
GC - 0/3

Total - 155/309

Bowser
Kratos
Joel
Barret Wallace

Looking forward to hearing the answers here, I'm not sure I have the right 4. Also next week sounds fun!

Ctes has beaten Joy Mech Fight

Still looking forward to the MZero translation for the remaining stages, but I went ahead and beat it. It's surprisingly good. I had an easier and easier time for most part, save for a few seemingly random battles. The last stage was color swaps of the first 8, so seemed like we have 24 unique fighters along with the bosses.

B- Tier (Good)
Balloon Fight
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Metroid
Kid Icarus
Super Mario Bros. 2
MUSHA
Gradius
Dr. Mario (NES)
Dr. Mario (GB)
Streets of Rage 2
Landstalker
Rygar
Magical Drop II
R.C. Pro-Am
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Thunder Force II
NES Open Tournament Golf
Spankys Quest
F-Zero
Mega Man IV
Adventures of Lolo
StarTropics
Gradius: The Intersteller Assault
Joy Mech Fight

I think I might have to reconsider the whole list soon, but yeah.

NES - 77/79
GEN - 27/50
GB - 18/39
SNES - 27/74
N64 - 4/39
GBA - 1/25
GC - 0/3

Total - 154/309

Next game I will pass the halfway mark. Now that can pass me again, but hopefully I can keep it away, so let's pick a good one for the halfway mark.

How much changed in the Switch version other than graphics? I have played both but it has been a while with the GB version. I remember thinking that more than two buttons would have been nice.

Ctes has beaten Kunio-kun no Dodgeball da yo Zen'in Shg!

This was kind of a mess because it's not translated. I figured that wouldn't be an issue, but I couldn't navigate the menus at all. Eventually I looked up the one FAQ this site has, but it's still just troublesome so I probably made it harder for myself than it should be, because I wanted to get through rather than counting lines to figure out how to optimize the team.

In many aspects, it's like Super Dodgeball for NES for in 16-bit, which is not surprising. I feel like it runs a little less well though, occasionally I had trouble controlling the player I wanted to and I had trouble and sometimes they had to run a good bit into their own site before they had recovered. On the other hand, there are more options, but that was lost in translation on me for most part so I can't really appreciate it. Other than that there is a tournament mode where you battle many countries in their countries, which spans from icy fields in Iceland to to dessert fields in Arabia to Brazil for some reason being in water, which was easily the most annoying stage. The characters and settings are extremely stereotypical, some of them borderline problematic, but the intention back then wasn't bad so whatever. It gets a tier lower than Super Dodgeball because it ran worse, though I'm sure MZero would disagree since it doesn't have the old school flashing he threw it at the bottom for.

C- Tier (Fine but with drawbacks)
Solomon's Key
Star Soldier
Super Mario Land
Wrecking Crew
Ghouls n Ghosts
Super Ghouls n Ghosts
Double Dragon
Congos Caper
Devil World
Space Harrier II
Pilotwings
Xevious
Clu Clu Land
Brawl Brothers
Super R-Type
Super Tennis
Kunio-kun no Dodgeball da yo Zen'in Shg!
Strider
Shadow of the Ninja
Streets of Rage

NES - 76/79
GEN - 27/50
GB - 18/39
SNES - 27/74
N64 - 4/39
GBA - 1/25
GC - 0/3

Total - 153/309

Well I dont really personally enjoy it much so I don't mind it clearly not making it.

Pistachio is a good shout that probably deserved to be closer to the spot.

Donkey Kong, Metroid and Pokmon Z-A for now.

Seanchan posted...

This is a funny post. Being that a large portion of the site is America-centric, yes for both as to why the opinions on strawberry and mint chocolate chip. I don't get mint chocolate chip either but I know my dad is a big fan.

Well yes lol, I acknowledged as much. My point was in regards to strawberry, a bunch of Americans here still called it a lock and it sounds like the same three exist in the same way. Then in comparison, while I've never seen anyone choose vanilla here, I recognise it still belongs.

I beat the second stage. I thought the boss was more difficult in the first stage, or maybe I just got better.

Strawberry belongs just as much as vanilla and chocolate. I don't know if it's an American thing or whatever but everywhere I've been vanilla is leagues behind the other two in terms of popularity. Strawberry also represents sorbets, which are at least huge in most of Europe. Trying to exclude it feels like a personal opinion sold as something else, perhaps because it's boring there are three locks. I never choose any of the three myself, but they should all be on.

This mint thing I never see anywhere, likely a thing that is bigger in America.

Drop Lemon
Add Cookie Dough

Strawberry
Vanilla
Chocolate
Lemon

Thanks again! The details are fun. And yeah it runs super well it's very impressive. Apparently not giving the robots limbs are part of the reason it runs so well. I'm surprised they didn't make it for their current console given that it was made because of the success of fighting games, because it likely gets localised then and they would have had an easier time.

But hey, it has been recognised in Smash to some degree.

It's Rebirth

It's not unlock order for me.

And yeah you can sort by character but it's not an improvement imo, it's just a different issue, like, more than a page is just the first two. Probably not default because they wanted the 24 non-NPC drivers take the first two pages.

The drop down menus in MK8 were really neat. Either way, having them completely randomly placed in between unique charcaters is a baffling decision.

The handling of costumes in the character selection screen frustrates me.

All seem to have a selection of unique moves.

Thanks! I did suspect the other guy was the antagonist but was hard to tell for sure and what was going on.

Did you try playing it?

I read about the game on Wikipedia and it seems there are four stages. So that's four times 8 battles and a special boss fight after each (I guess stage 1 was 7 only, since you started with one). That's not too bad. You unlock harder modes, but I think credits once will be enough for me. We'll see.

I don't think you will mind this one too much, MZero.

Still shows up in reels occasionally

MZero I need you to play Joy Mech Fight so you can translate for me lol.

So anyway, I started that and beat what turned out to be stage 1. It was cool enough that you started out as just that assist trophy from Smash and unlocked the others as you beat them. I tried out multiple but enjoy playing as the fire one the most.

I'm sure its late release being a reason it wasn't released outside Japan, but it's very impressive technically for a NES game.

Galactic Empire
Team Rocket
Brotherhood of Mutants
Shinra Corp

Sonic Adventure 2 is more popular today because it's the better game. It got more exposure back then because it was on a more successful console, but that hardly matters now and it's not associated too much with the console any longer. The first game sold a lot at first based on anticipation of the Sonic brand coming back and its graphics, but its popularity is also retrospective to some degree.

The defining game to push for here is Soulcalibur.

Drop Sonic Adventure 2
Add Soulcalibur

Not enough Jet Set Radio votes imo. Popular then, now, gives more variety to the four, visuals and music having influences countless gsmes, it basically made cel-shaded graphics a thing.

PSO is a good call though.

Drop: Crazy Taxi
Add: Phantasy Star Online

I'd love to do #1!

KCF0107 posted...

I know little about contest history, so I didn't know that, but I also assumed any Game FAQs contest would work.

Fair. I assumed the intention of the category was the game itself appearing in a contest, otherwise things like Mario Kart World would be eligible.

First Sonic Adventure should not be in contention imo, it's 2 or neither. I see what you're saying about MvC2 but Melee had a lot more going for it and I don't think Dreamcast needs a multiplayer rep. I kept playing on my for years for other things. I don't think it cracks top 4 for that.

9

Sonic Adventure 2
Jet Set Radio
Crazy Taxi
Shenmue

Ctes has beaten Streets of Rage 2

It's a good game. It controls a lot smoother than the first and therefore is an enjoyable experience. I played through with Blaze this time and the timer said 00 when I beat the last boss (although he died at 03 and it kept counting).

I still think the gameplay is too repetive and simple for it to rank higher than good, back in the day it was probably a lot of fun to keep trying and with friends over, but yeah.

B- Tier (Good)
Balloon Fight
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Metroid
Kid Icarus
Super Mario Bros. 2
MUSHA
Gradius
Dr. Mario (NES)
Dr. Mario (GB)
Streets of Rage 2
Rygar
Magical Drop II
R.C. Pro-Am
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Thunder Force II
NES Open Tournament Golf
Spankys Quest
F-Zero
Mega Man IV
Adventures of Lolo
StarTropics
Gradius: The Intersteller Assault

NES - 76/79
GEN - 27/50
GB - 18/39
SNES - 26/74
N64 - 4/39
GBA - 1/25
GC - 0/3

Total - 152/309

Next up I try this Nobunaga game, or maybe I play Joy Mech Fight, or maybe another Genesis game. It might also be time to knock out another sports game.

I haven't either. Seems similar to Civilization and stuff like that.

I suppose if it's just winning a game it's not that long.

5

He played well imo. Maybe he pushed himself extra due to it being a final.

I'm playing Streets of Rage 2, which is much better than the first and so short. Needed something like this.

I've been looking at these Koei Tecmo strategy games recently added, because I thought it might be nice to get working on those. Probably just Nobunaga's Ambition first, as it's the first of the ones available. What would you consider the requirement of beating such a game?

Spain decided to stop being the better team after 45 minutes, so I was wrong. I got my choice of Nuno Mendes as best left back validated though, easily the best player of the match. Top tier performance defensively, scores one dream goal and creates the other. I think de la Fuente kinda botched the substitutions as well. Still, 2-2 was a fair score.

I'll be suprised if Spain doesn't win this, they're just the better team. But that solo goal from Mendes shows that both teams have stars that can decide games.

Quite stupid how many places I've seen brand this game as Ronaldo vs. Yamal.

Spain's weakness is their right back. Pedro Porro wasn't good enough in the semifinal, neither is Mingueza today. Perhaps they should've called up Eric Garcia, who played quite well there near the end of the season, including in some decisive games. Ideally Carvajal was available but that has been a while.

Oh yeah, I forgot to complain it's annoying that having been just one screen away from something means you have to explore it again as if you haven't ever, including listening to description and opening paths. For a game that forces you to grind a lot it's particularly annoying.

Survivor
Paradise Hotel
Big Brother
The Bachelor/Bachelorette

Ctes has beaten The Sword of Hope

I had said it's not bad, but that kinda changed throughout. The core idea is fine and I wont hold its limitations against it because I thought it was still enjoyable. Later on however, the power creep from each section jumps to a ridiculous amount and that sucked out all enjoyment. You have to be ridiculously overleveled to not risk being trashed first turn in a random encounter. You have to be ridiculously overleveled to not have a very good change of have your attack do no or 1 HP damage. There is way too much RNG in the battles and little strategy. Furthermore, you can be stuck not moving having to through countless encounters to do how they work. It was cute at first, but when the last dungeon takes up half the game time due to how BS it is, I cannot put it higher than this. Glad I have knocked it out.

D Tier (Moments are there but not good)
Zero Wing
Revenge of the Shinobi
Target Earth
Blaster Master
Cobra Trinagle
Mappy-Land
Big Run
Kid Chameleon
Soccer
Pro Wrestling
Altered Beast
Journey to Silius
The Sword of Hope
Bombuzal
Dig Dug II
Ghosts n Goblins

NES - 76/79
GEN - 26/50
GB - 18/39
SNES - 26/74
N64 - 4/39
GBA - 1/25
GC - 0/3

Total - 151/309

Here probably. Mario Kart is huge though.

DK isn't for another month.

It sounds like it's a big deal anywhere but Europe.

Joelypoely posted...

Overall the CWC qualification process could be improved. I like the approx. limit of 2-3 clubs per country, but it would be nice if they represented the current in-form teams from all confederations rather than some teams qualifying from trophies they won 2-4 years ago.

This is a good point imo. Chelsea being there because they won CL in 2021 feels like the biggest thing when they've been outperformed by multiple other clubs since but CL titles take priority. To a lesser extent having Atltico instead of the Barca team that won everything domestic this year feels like a bit downgrade. Juventus being there I'm not sure about either. My club football knowledge is limited outside of Europe.

I used it for those games. Probably would again.

I dont think shipping it from here would be a reasonable price though.