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Gaming moments: I

Posted on 26/08/2014 Written by Xexyz

Ico (PS2, PS3)

I even remember writing about this on my blog. I'll paste some text from the previous post:

Ico starts off slowly, with a long cutscene. You get thrown into a murky world and have to work out the controls. The world's not actually murky, but playing it on my HD TV certainly made it look so. I worked my way through the castle, until I found the girl in white. I knocked the cage down the tower, and rescued her from the shadow monsters. I then couldn't find a way out of the room. Huh.

Never mind, I thought, I'll come back to that later. I'd been playing for 40 minutes or so. I turned the console off, and then thought ... hmm, I wonder if the game does save at checkpoints?

Evidently not.

Ikaruga (GameCube)
I have only ever played this for five minutes, and it made my head hurt.

Essential Sudoku DS (DS)

After competing 999 picross puzzles, there was one left. Surely the pinnacle of difficulty, it's surely going to be a trophy or medal or something special. Oh no, it's really easy and it's a pie chart. A bloody pie chart.

Earth Defense Force 2017 (Xbox 360)
Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable (PS Vita)

Both games have many highlights, but the thing I will remember most is the mission in which you are sent into battle against the massive walking fortress. I destroyed more of the city than the fortress did while trying to attack it, and finally the mission ends with you withdrawing because your weapons aren't powerful enough. Sorry I broke the Space Needle for nothing, guys.

Exit (PSP)

One of the characters you have to rescue is very fat. I called him Fatty. I pushed boxes onto him. He died.

Ecolibrium (PS Vita)

Playing on the train, on the tutorial. And then the game requires me to look around 180 degrees with my Vita to see the animals behind me. Not going to happen; never loaded up again.

Endless Ocean (Wii)

I recently went back to this as part of the "Au Revoir Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection" drive, which was pointless as the only online mode it has is to connect to a friend who is simultaneously playing the game; that will never have happened. Anyway, during my brief play I watched the most stilted and awkward cutscene ever made.

EyeToy: Play (PS2)

Accompanying the cleaning suds game with "When I'm Cleaning Windows" was a work of genius.

Sega Ages Outrun: absurdly difficult

Posted on 26/03/2014 Written by Xexyz

With the news that a 3D version of Outrun is on the way to the 3DS, I remembered that I bought a PS2 disc a while ago which has the Sega Ages versions of a few games, including Outrun, on it. I decided to give it a go on the PS3.

It's still great fun, but it seems really hard compared to any version of Outrun I've played before. I only managed to get to the end of the third stage, even after increasing the time limits available. I wasn't even crashing or spinning out more than once before running out of time.

I can't think which other versions of Outrun I have. maybe I'll have to find an arcade in Shenmue II.