Tuesday, October 30, 2012

No More Heroes

So thanks to Hurricane Sandy I had no school today and that meant I could finally get back to my long neglected console games!  So I spent the last hour and a half finishing up No More Heroes.  I wanted to play this game ever since I saw it on Sadie's Gaming Infection (god only know's what happened to that girl) wayyyy back when I was in seventh grade.  Now since the game is rated M my mother of course wouldn't let me buy it because she already thinks I'm a weirdo that I play video games (thats what you get for not getting cable tv for our house for the past 17 years).  So now over the summer I was really bored and ended up watching a bunch of lets play videos and this game caught my eye once again.  So on my seventeenth birthday I finally got my hands on this game and I absolutely loved it!  Whenever I was in a bad mood I'd start up No More Heroes and kill a bunch of assassins!  Hoorayyyy!

There were only two things that annoyed me in this game.  First of all was how long it took you to make enough money to enter these ranking battles.  I absolutely hated the stupid side job missions because they took so long and you got shit pay from them.  I usually ended up doing all the free fight missions (which I absolutely sucked at) and finding the highest paying assassination mission and just doing it over and over until I made enough money for the next ranking match.  This is why it took me sooooo long to finally beat this game because I'd get so bored of side missions that I'd forget about the game for a few weeks.  The second thing I hated was the controls on that damn bike!  I'd be in such a rush to get to these side missions that I'd crash it into walls on multiple occasions and when I'd get back on it I'd be facing the wrong way.  Being the impatient person I am I would try to turn around too fast and would end up crashing again into the opposite wall.

I enjoyed this game overall because there were a lot of different elements to it.  Sometimes I'd get bored and would end up walking around every little area on the map to find extra cash and tshirts in various dumpsters and also finding those lolikov balls.  I remember how excited I was when I unlocked the ability to run faster!  After that I said "Fuck You!" to the bike for a little bit but then I realized that whenever your energy would run out you'd have to stop for a little to catch your breath and I was just too impatient for that shit.  I'm pretty sure that I also got every single one of the weapon upgrades, and all those tshirts.  I beat the game with the "real ending" and surprisingly I only had to face each boss one time except for Bad Girl.  For some reason she gave me a really hard time and it took me like 20 tries to beat her.

So that pretty much sums up my experience with No More Heroes.  Now I just have to somehow acquire enough money to buy the sequel.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Let the Nerdiness Ensue!

So I've been meaning to start this blog for a while now but I felt that there wasn't a good time to do so.  That is, until now, since I'm starting it and all.  So basically this blog will be like a gaming diary so to speak.  I have this big long list (its up to 52 at the moment) of games that I would like to play and eventually beat and it is growing by the day!  This blog is basically my way of keeping track of that (no I'm not going to put that list on here because like I said before I add to it daily).  I figured now would be a good time to start it since I am not in the middle of playing any games right this moment (I literally just beat the elite four in Pokemon Ruby and the credits are rolling as we speak).  So this post is going to contain my list of games that I have already beaten and it will be updated after every completed game (I'm kinda lazy so this "completion" doesn't necessarily mean I beat it with 100% but that I just finished the game in general.)  Future posts will be somewhat along the lines of what I'm playing and my current thoughts on that game.  So yeah lets get started with this shindig. *note that the following games aren't in any particular order until I start adding more.

1.   Super Mario Galaxy
2.   Spyro the Dragon
3.   Kingdom Hearts
4.   Final Fantasy 10
5.   Pokemon Red Version
6.   Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
7.   Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
8.   Pokemon Crystal Version
9.   Kingdom Hearts 2
10. Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep
11. Final Fantasy X-2
12. Portal: Still Alive
13. Portal 2
14. Little BIG Planet
15. Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded
16. Pokemon Ruby Version
17. No More Heroes
18. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
19. Pokemon Diamond Version
20. Final Fantasy XIII
21. Lollipop Chainsaw
22. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
23. Final Fantasy XIII-2
24. Pokemon Black Version
25. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
26. Final Fantasy VII
27. Bioshock
28. Bioshock 2
29. Fallout 3
30. Bioshock Infinite
31. Fallout: New Vegas
32. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
33. Uncharted 2: Among Theives
34. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
35. Life is Strange
36. The Last of Us
37. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
38. Pokemon Black 2 Version
39. Pokemon X Version
40. Beyond Two Souls
41. Contrast