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Langrisser 2 is done, done, DONE! Yippee! Well, technically it was done yesterday. I just didn't feel like writing a journal update because it was late and I was on auto-pilot by then. At the veeeeerrrry end of the Final Thoughts video is a hint about what I'm planning to tackle next for a walkthrough.
First, however, I need to finish up my Dark Seal videos. It's not a walkthrough so it doesn't count as such. I'm not taking them very seriously so hopefully viewers won't either. It's basically just me running around in a craptastic arcade game, getting pissed off from dying so much.
Thank Cazic the arcade development mentality went the way of the dodo. Arcade games could be great fun but they were designed to suck as much money as possible out of players. As you long as you had the cash you could beat just about any game in the arcade. Looking at the development strategies for early console games, particularly for Nintendo, you can see hold-overs from that design stance. The developers somehow took fun to mean mind-numbingly-hard like players actually enjoy dying over and over again for stupid reasons. There's a very good reason gamers coined the term Nintendo Hard. As a kid I remember what it was like and for the most part I just watched other people play. TVTropes has some great articles on video game difficulty and if you haven't read them yet I'd recommend doing so.
Now don't get me wrong. I enjoy challenge. However I enjoy challenge when I stand some chance of success. For heaven's sake the North American version of Chaos Legion is one of my favorite action games despite my inability to clear hard mode. I still cannot remember how I managed to beat 7th Saga with Lejes and Esuna on the Super NES (yep, that's right, on the console) without any of the hidden accessories. Want to see how EVIL that game can be? Well I still have a savestate of Lejes versus Esuna for the Sky Rune. It's not up for download but if anyone wants to "enjoy" the marvel of load, die, load, die, load, die they have but to ask and provide an e-mail address.
Challenge that's just there for the sake of being an evil bastard can go join Dark Beast in the fiery pits of Inferno. Oh no, I didn't forget him. That's probably why I enjoy the Angry Video Game Nerd's work so much - I can sit and nod in agreement saying "Yep, that game sucks ass!"
First, however, I need to finish up my Dark Seal videos. It's not a walkthrough so it doesn't count as such. I'm not taking them very seriously so hopefully viewers won't either. It's basically just me running around in a craptastic arcade game, getting pissed off from dying so much.
Thank Cazic the arcade development mentality went the way of the dodo. Arcade games could be great fun but they were designed to suck as much money as possible out of players. As you long as you had the cash you could beat just about any game in the arcade. Looking at the development strategies for early console games, particularly for Nintendo, you can see hold-overs from that design stance. The developers somehow took fun to mean mind-numbingly-hard like players actually enjoy dying over and over again for stupid reasons. There's a very good reason gamers coined the term Nintendo Hard. As a kid I remember what it was like and for the most part I just watched other people play. TVTropes has some great articles on video game difficulty and if you haven't read them yet I'd recommend doing so.
Now don't get me wrong. I enjoy challenge. However I enjoy challenge when I stand some chance of success. For heaven's sake the North American version of Chaos Legion is one of my favorite action games despite my inability to clear hard mode. I still cannot remember how I managed to beat 7th Saga with Lejes and Esuna on the Super NES (yep, that's right, on the console) without any of the hidden accessories. Want to see how EVIL that game can be? Well I still have a savestate of Lejes versus Esuna for the Sky Rune. It's not up for download but if anyone wants to "enjoy" the marvel of load, die, load, die, load, die they have but to ask and provide an e-mail address.
Challenge that's just there for the sake of being an evil bastard can go join Dark Beast in the fiery pits of Inferno. Oh no, I didn't forget him. That's probably why I enjoy the Angry Video Game Nerd's work so much - I can sit and nod in agreement saying "Yep, that game sucks ass!"
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