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| crom
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|  "Well, I did some Neo Geo archeology..."
, posted Fri 27 Dec 09:36
Means I extensivly played Neo Geo games over x-mas.
Some of you remember I asked what RPG I should play over x-mas some time ago. Well, I was not feeling like playing RPG's so I decided to do some archeological research-I decided to play some lesser known games too.
First,
Magical Lord. God, this game is HARD.Let me explain- I cosider myself a good player, I beat Contra3 with no continues on hard and also fear no shooter.
You know the brutal moments in 3D-shooters that you try for ten times even tough you have quicksave?
Well, this is harder, only no save, no passwort. It often leaves you no chance to avoid beeing hit- and then you usually loose your power-up. Also thee is an invisible time-limit, the game sends you some green fuck that ALLWAYS gets you.
This game is the same to self-confident-hardcore-gamers that is gravity and age to female-starlets.
And the ending is not worth the trouble, believe me.
Well on to Kizuna Encounter-
what I once considered a hard game, was allmost piece of cake after Magical Lord. Interesting things (great tag-system, better than in RoD or MvsC) some stupid details- if you finish any character of with a special, his cloths get partially torn- yes, I'm saying his, because this does not work with the female character. Well, I think I know now how women feel when they play DoA...
The boss is the usuall brutaly mercyless unfair NeoGeo whore, but not that evil as my dear tag in AoF2 or the KoF2k1 bastard. Also, it's one of the few examples where he (the boss) is not stupidly introduced (spoiler:he is a crow that is allways watching you in any stage) only looks stupid. A nice game, they should have taken a chracter or two over to KoF at least...
Then there is Fatal Fury Real Bout-
I played this because I wanted to check the ring-out system- it's quite nice to my surprise and there is some very funny things that can happen- like beeing thrown a tube and then geting driven away. Anyways, the real surprise (except for Mai's non-bouncing) was that I'm really shitty with Blue Marry over here. Also, one of the few games that features some really different (dwarfish to say at least) looking female character. I was quite surprised- (positivley) by that. Overall, I think that they could have kept the ring out-system, but the BG-dodging is useless (and takes away one button)..
And that brings us to RB: Fatal Fury 2.
this one is really good, nice animation, great backgrounds and some of the funniest endings (tipp: beat it with Mai!) in beat 'em ups ever and a boss you can allmost beat fairly- also, Blue Maries other color looks very much like KoF's angel. Thumbs up!
And as the last one, Ninja Masters.
I'm really surpised no one seems ever to menton this- at the very least, it's better than the samurai shodown series (gameplay at least).
Also, the weapon witching system is inovative (tough you usually stick with weapons-higher damage) and the boss is funny- and not THAT unfair (which means easy in Neo geo-terms).
If you really still need a reason to play it, there is (semi)nudity in it- (beat it with the blond woman).
all in all my archeological tour was interesting and has spawned some nice surpises. See ya!
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| RugalBernstein 3165th Post
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| "Re(4):Well, I did some Neo Geo archeology..." , posted Fri 27 Dec 13:37
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" Final mid-boss " ? Oh, the lancer? He's easy, want to know the trick to beat him?
Well, I'll tell you, anyway. " Easy " is a stretch, he's admittedly one of the hardest mini-bosses in the game ( the others being, in my opinion, the fishman in stage 3 (on high difficulties) and the way cool red guy of stage 4, but they're both easy if you know what you're doing, too... most of the actual " bosses " are pathetically easy, with the exception of the stage 5 boss )
Anyway, what you do is you get a couple of his " stabbing " distances away from him and just go wild shooting at him. He'll parry for a while ( he crouch-parries if you crouch and shoot, too, very cool ), but he'll get sick of parrying after a bit and will start stabbing wildly at you. You shoot him until he's a bit too close, and then stop shooting, leap over him, and shoot downwards twice. These two shots don't actually have to hit him, but they have to be reasonably close; this will cause him to start parrying again, and he won't hit you on the way down. Run to the other side of the screen, and repeat. It takes a lot of practice to get it down, but when you do, he's nowhere near the threat he once was.
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| Oroch
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| "Re(1):Well, I did some Neo Geo archeology..." , posted Fri 27 Dec 15:16
quote:
Means I extensivly played Neo Geo games over x-mas.
Some of you remember I asked what RPG I should play over x-mas some time ago. Well, I was not feeling like playing RPG's so I decided to do some archeological research-I decided to play some lesser known games too.
First,
Magical Lord. God, this game is HARD.Let me explain- I cosider myself a good player, I beat Contra3 with no continues on hard and also fear no shooter.
You know the brutal moments in 3D-shooters that you try for ten times even tough you have quicksave?
Well, this is harder, only no save, no passwort. It often leaves you no chance to avoid beeing hit- and then you usually loose your power-up. Also thee is an invisible time-limit, the game sends you some green fuck that ALLWAYS gets you.
This game is the same to self-confident-hardcore-gamers that is gravity and age to female-starlets.
And the ending is not worth the trouble, believe me.
Well on to Kizuna Encounter-
what I once considered a hard game, was allmost piece of cake after Magical Lord. Interesting things (great tag-system, better than in RoD or MvsC) some stupid details- if you finish any character of with a special, his cloths get partially torn- yes, I'm saying his, because this does not work with the female character. Well, I think I know now how women feel when they play DoA...
The boss is the usuall brutaly mercyless unfair NeoGeo whore, but not that evil as my dear tag in AoF2 or the KoF2k1 bastard. Also, it's one of the few examples where he (the boss) is not stupidly introduced (spoiler:he is a crow that is allways watching you in any stage) only looks stupid. A nice game, they should have taken a chracter or two over to KoF at least...
Then there is Fatal Fury Real Bout-
I played this because I wanted to check the ring-out system- it's quite nice to my surprise and there is some very funny things that can happen- like beeing thrown a tube and then geting driven away. Anyways, the real surprise (except for Mai's non-bouncing) was that I'm really shitty with Blue Marry over here. Also, one of the few games that features some really different (dwarfish to say at least) looking female character. I was quite surprised- (positivley) by that. Overall, I think that they could have kept the ring out-system, but the BG-dodging is useless (and takes away one button)..
And that brings us to RB: Fatal Fury 2.
this one is really good, nice animation, great backgrounds and some of the funniest endings (tipp: beat it with Mai!) in beat 'em ups ever and a boss you can allmost beat fairly- also, Blue Maries other color looks very much like KoF's angel. Thumbs up!
And as the last one, Ninja Masters.
I'm really surpised no one seems ever to menton this- at the very least, it's better than the samurai shodown series (gameplay at least).
Also, the weapon witching system is inovative (tough you usually stick with weapons-higher damage) and the boss is funny- and not THAT unfair (which means easy in Neo geo-terms).
If you really still need a reason to play it, there is (semi)nudity in it- (beat it with the blond woman).
all in all my archeological tour was interesting and has spawned some nice surpises. See ya!
real bout special is better than 1 or 2
they should move rick over into kof
i love daalas tags!
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