Second post since I'm on the second half of the challenge an the second half of the year!
Games
01 - 26!
Game 27 | Streets of Rage
• 06/30/15 to 06/30/15
• 56 minutes
Oh ya know I used extra lives/continues cheats! This game kinda deserves it being the most "vanilla" SoR game in terms of moves an options an stuff. Not that I wouldn't cheat on the others >.> Jugglers are jerks, bosses that can run yet you can't are jerks, an the two Blaze clones are the biggest jerks of them all! Still a pretty fun game at times however!
Game 28 | Balloon Fight
• 06/27/15 to 06/27/15
• 20 minutes
Took me 10 minutes ta get the Orange Balloons, then 10 more of retrying ta survive long enough to beat the built-in top score! Which I then beat by over 11,000 points! Balloon Trip is pretty darn random an unfair at times. Only the opening is static an after that ya may get a ton of balloons to appear or very little -.-! Someday I oughta strive to get the Purple Balloons...
Game 29 | Streets of Rage II
• 07/30/15 to 07/30/15
• 38 minutes
So much better then the first one! Faster, more moves, more fun! Less annoying baddies types to which is always good. Obviously I gave myself lotsa extra lives but w/e, alil cheating never hurt when replaying a game ya already beat a ton of times before!
Game 30 | .hack//Link
• 04/19/15 to 08/05/15
• 69 hours, 5 minutes
Started on fanslation patch v0.2.2 but ended on v0.2.3! Found a fresh new 110 more "iffy" translated dialogues and 2 more glitches! The games falling apart more an more the further it gets translated but all will be fixed in the end! Last years playthrough took me about 18 hours less but the time through I had a plan an stuck to it! There are 11 extra chapters which open up in the post-game provided ya got the character associated with them to max affection so the extra time I took was to make sure those all popped right away!
Game 31 | Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions
• 08/05/15 to 08/07/15
• 8 hours, 6 minutes
Before playing this I didn't even know ya could run & fire with the Famas! Got this game quite a few years ago but never finished cause it was to hard or something. This time around I gave it my all an got to 95.0% complete! I feels thats more then got enough to say I beat it since I cleared several modes! A bunch of missions are pretty iffy but overall I had a fun time playing! This games full of fun and sillyness just like most other MGS games after all!
Game 32 | Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 Plus: Episode 1
• 08/08/15 to 08/08/15
• 1 hour, 17 minutes
Played on Normal difficulty with my L200 character! That's cheap? I earned it! Ep.1 PSO is just beyond dead to me at this point. The stages are pretty poor, the music not so great, an the gameplay... yikes! Been quite a while since I last played an the break did nothing to help make it any more interesting. That said there are a buncha baddies I'd totally forgotten about an somehow I'd remembered the quickest way through each stage so at least it was painless and without backtracking! My weapon of choice throughout this run was the Frozen Shooter! It froze me 4 times!
Game 33 | Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 Plus: Episode 2
• 08/08/15 to 08/08/15
• 1 hour, 34 minutes
Played on Normal difficulty with my L200 character! That's cheap? I earned it! I also earned the right to repeat myself! This is the good stuff! Sure the gameplay is the same but the levels/monsters/art/obstacles/secrets/music and just everything are waaaay above Ep.1! Had a very good time with it! The Frozen Shooter froze me 14 times... the last time being when I entered the teleporter to the credits lol.
Game 34 | .hack//G.U. Vol.2: Reminisce
• 08/16/15 to 08/20/15
• 17 hours, 19 minutes
NG+ power strikes again! Starting at L70 made a big chunk of the game fly by, skipping optional stuff helped to! Alil grinding towards the end made things go pretty smoothly to. This is the longest main story of the G.U. bunch an its got alot of great moments and much funner battling. Plus not having ta grind up the ranks at the arena to enter the tournament, you're just given a free pass into it! Way better game than Rebirth in every way!
Game 35 | Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
• 08/09/15 to 08/25/15
• 21 hours, 29 minutes
Story >> Joker 2. Everything else << Joker 2. That aside this was still basically DQ and still basically really fun! Some very clunky menus an lack of quick travelling doesn't make it bad or unfun! Each of the islands were pretty nice an different from one another and the main overworld theme is super catchy! Pretty easy-going game to... not much challenge save for the final boss who did a number on me my first try. Glad I finally got the opportunity ta play this!
Game 36 | .hack//G.U. Vol.3: Redemption
• 08/25/15 to 08/29/15
• 20 hours, 56 minutes
The framerate in battles gets soooo bad I wonder how I ever put up with it?! Guess cause in the end its still a cool game all around. The obligatory tournament gets kicked off much earlier than in the previous games an the story proceeds along at a great pace. No farming for vir--- data seeds here! Despite there being no new game+ for this volume I still got through it quicker then ever before by avoiding side-stuff, doing abit of grinding, and speed charming + smoke screening through story areas lol.
Game 37 | Streets of Rage 3
• 08/30/15 to 08/30/15
• 57 minutes
Played on easy mode with 9 lives cheat! An I still managed ta nearly game over twice! Plus for playing on easy I got the bad ending nooo! I still say this ones the most fun in the series cause now everyone can run, and roll, and Roo!!
Game 38 | Mega Man X
• 10/07/15 to 10/07/15
• 1 hour, 35 minutes
I started with a password that netted me all upgrades with no bosses killed which in theory shoulda led to a super fun playthrough! An it did for the most part! But when it came to the Sigma stages the Gamecube controller proved it is complete junk for these games -_-; By the end my fingers were so beaten down that I couldn't dash wall jump anymore which made Sigma hellish ta fight. Sooo many deaths. Soooo much time spent refilling on stuff.
Game 39 | Super Smash Bros. Melee
• 10/12/15 to 10/12/15
• 8 minutes
Thats a pretty good time for having not played the game in like a decade! Its not just cause I had it set to very easy, only did classic mode, an purposely failed the mini-events >_> Anyways Ness is still the best!
Game 40 | Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution
• 10/14/15 to 10/14/15
• 8 minutes
Very Easy? 1 Round? 30 seconds? Can't really lose with settings like those even with it being since forever when I last played it! I remember back to the first time I got this game, being impressed ya could crack the tiles on the ground in Lei-Fei's stage. Its still satisfying to do/see! As are most of the stage intros. But speaking of intros one falls super flat. Wolf's "So......... wat." lol. btw I really like the coloring on the disc art!
Game 41 | Virtua Fighter 10th Anniversary
• 10/14/15 to 10/14/15
• 5 minutes
How does this game even exist?! They coulda did a quick & simple port job of the original VF an left it at that. Instead they added like all the new characters to the series since then! New & Old alike those ultra blocky graphics are weird! Such a very cool bonus mode!
Game 42 | Virtua Fighter 5
• 10/16/15 to 10/16/15
• 10 minutes
This games Very Easy is harder than its predecessors! Actually lost some matches an had to take care an guard! Still blew through Arcade mode with relative ease anyhow. Game still looks very nice to me! Love its main menu to!
Game 43 | Drill Dozer
• 10/22/15 to 10/25/15
• 3 hours, 44 minutes
This games just so fun! And it has really great bosses! And music! And levels! This year I didn't use any cheats an didn't skip the story, but still had most (but not all) powerups from a previous game save so it wasn't a from scratch playthrough. Maybe next year! Can I pleeeaaassee get a sequel to this already?!
Game 44 | Super Mario 3D Land
• 10/23/15 to 10/26/15
• 2 hours, 25 minutes
This is a really fun game ya know! Lotsa pretty carefree running & jumping around! It mighta been even more carefree then my first time playing since I started with 150 lives and didn't have ta do any star coin hunting! Just making beelines to the end of each level was pretty much a breeze even with no powerups! btw The final battle is pretty darn great I gotta say!
Game 45 | Sweet Fuse: At Your Side
• 09/14/15 to 11/02/15
• 7 hours, 33 minutes
Played 1 stage per week all episodic like cause why not? This time through I somehow picked enough of the right choices to get love... with Ryusei?! He wasn't my target at first but bagging a big burly escort seems like a hard earned win!
Game 46 | Wario Ware: Twisted!
• 11/03/15 to 11/03/15
• 1 hour, 18 minutes
This games forever awesome an no one can say otherwise! The goofy art, characters, good music, an simple short fun games are all just great! Motion control done right an then apparently forgotten about since there's still no true sequel -.-
Game 47 | Fire Emblem: Awakening
• 11/08/15 to 11/12/15
• 16 hours, 6 minutes
Lotsa deaths at the start an end but the middle was all nice an good because I grinded this time around! Reinforcements an the second arc of the story not really going anywhere aside, still a fun game. Just wish level up stats weren't so cruddy. +1's are sooo boring.
Game 48 | Super Mario Sunshine
• 11/14/15 to 11/18/15
• 6 hours, 29 minutes
The Shell's Secret is the worst level in the game just ta get that outta the way. I've never liked it an never will! Chucksters? That's a cinch by comparison! I still like an mostly have fun with Sunshine despite its rough spots and difficulty spikes cause its mostly a pretty chill game with a nice atmosphere an lovely water!
Game 49 | Mega Man Powered Up
• 11/19/15 to 11/19/15
• 1 hour, 10 minutes
Played on easy mode as one might expect! Cute game, looks an sounds nice, an plays pretty well! New Style stages are alot longer then classic MM's were but the differences are usually for the better imo. One bad thing is that they kept the point capsules for whatever reason so health drops feel super rare which is never good in pinch situations -.-
Game 50 | Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
• 12/10/12 to 11/24/15
• 5 hours, 11 minutes
Thats quite a long gap between starting & beating! Forget why I stopped, but I started replaying this way back cause I was bummed about its sequels mission mode! So I went through all 64 missions on here an instead of getting the bare minimum rank I shot for all AAA's! Still didn't take very long, still one of my fave last gen games!
Game 51 | Guilty Gear X2
• 12/17/15 to 12/17/15
• 13 minutes
Quick cheap romp through arcade mode. Even on the easiest settings I still lost a bunch! Great soundtrack an visuals but with controls/moves I still can never get a grip on!
Game 52 | Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
• 12/27/15 to 12/27/15
• 17 minutes
Same experience as above since they're both kinda the same-ish game duh!
Games Beaten: 52 / 52
Total Playtime: 360 hours, 12 minutes