Jicsan

Jicsan's 2022 VGS Backlog Challenge List

01.  Super Mario Land (GB)
02.  Star Fox 2 (SNES)
03.  Kirby's Adventure (NES) 05/13/2022
04.  Pitfall II (2600)  01/26/2022
05.  Golden Axe Warrior (SMS)
06.  Alisia Dragoon (GEN)
07.  Luigi's Mansion 3 (SWI)
08.  Neutopia (TG16)
09.  Castlevania Mirror of Fate HD (PS3)
10.  Kingdoms of Amalur Re-reckoning (PS4)
11.  Guardians of the Galaxy (PS5)
12.  New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS) 11/03/2022

Alright, I'm ready for 2022.  Not too many overly long RPG's. Only 12 games, so that can be just one a month.  And I did a one game per system kind of thing to spread it around.  I got it this time!

Playthrough a splatterhouse game:

Splatterhouse on TG16.

Here's my submission for Create a spooky video game character:  Hand drawn or sprite original character.

My son and I made the Pumpkinchaser.  It's one of those obnoxious enemies that roam around on platforms waiting for you to jump onto it just so it can knock you off.  I couldn't get the lines on the sprite to look right so I left them off, these kind of things always looked better in the manuals anyway.  We made a sprite for his version too, but the Piskel site froze up and we couldn't save it off.  It seems that his Pumpkinchaser is also a space alien.

EDIT:
My son redid his sprite:

I got extremely distracted from the backlog by the Castlevania Advance Collection. If only all game’s motivated me like Castlevania does. I think I am going to buckle down on Metroid Return of Samus and get that done so I can start Metroid Dread. 

Got my 8BitDo Black controller from the recent restock on Amazon, it's my second of these controllers, but now I have one that matches the color of my Super NT.  Got the LRG's releases of Curse of the Moon 2, these feel like they took forever to finally ship out.  Grabbed Sonic Colors on PS4 because the early word on the Switch version was that it was running sub-par to the other versions, then it turns out they all have issues.  Anyways, this one is getting held back for the kids' Christmas so maybe it will be all patched up by then.

Grabbed Hades after seeing some VGSers gushing about it.  I'm going to play it soon, but the backlog challenge is coming due and I have a ways to go on my backlog, so maybe I will play it for 2022's backlog.  Strange Brigade and GI Joe were less than $10 each so I grabbed those a while back.  Only played GI Joe for an few hours and I guess it's $10 good, if you need some mindless shooting tinged with childhood nostalgia.  And Vader Immortal came on physical so I had to get that, maybe I will hook the PSVR back up soon and give it a go.

13 minutes ago, monkeybut625 said:

Peach Walker!

Super Princess Peach Walker!

Disappointing, but not surprising. 

I'd vote Zombie again if I could

On 9/3/2021 at 9:32 PM, Reed Rothchild said:

@Jicsan 6/15
Has turned it up recently after an extremely slow start.

 

I’ve been grinding through the dlc in Pokémon shield. I’m almost done with the Isle of Armor, only need to beat Mustard now, but he stomped my whole team with one hit each so I’m grinding them into the 90s. I’m on the third dungeon in Oracle of Ages and have a ways to go still in Metroid Samus Returns.   As for those other rpgs, I don’t know if I will get to all those. 

It let me order a black one (transparent) this morning. Yay!

Yeah I was going to get a black one to match my Super NT, and by the time I retrieved a gift card from my wallet it was gone. 

9 hours ago, monkeybut625 said:

Fire Emblem Three Houses down. Beat it with the Blue Lions house. Game was long and the first third seems to drag, but once it hit what I guess would be one of the twists it really picked up. 

One of three. You beat a third of it.  

Finally found a Loftwing Amiibo. Grabbed the two volumes of NES Works off fangamer, been meaning to get them for a while.

Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu is finished.  I resorted to playing on the emulator and using rewind, but for this list I'm considering it done.  I ain't got the time or patience to memorize those blasted auto scrolling levels.

Thanks @Jeevan!  And happy birthday to my August 12 birthday bros!

Michael Jackson, Daft Punk, Huey Lewis & The News , and Cyndi Lauper.

Here's my latest stuff.  Well actually, I've had Ys on PS4 since release, I just didn't think to post it until I got the Switch version.  Looks like I still have a double dipping addiction.  I got Skyward Sword, the Joy Cons, and the poster.  Now I just need to track down the Loftwing Amiibo.  And finally, I grabbed those Mario figures for $2 each.

Finished Resident Evil 3 Remake tonight.  I was told that it wasn't as good as 2, and that it was much shorter.  It wasn't as good as 2, but it was awesome, so almost as good I think.  The one playthrough took me almost six hours, which was about one and a half hours more than my first playthrough of RE2.  Now granted RE2 has the multiple scenarios so maybe that's the claim to it being longer... maybe.  I did find RE3 much harder than RE2.  The guns didn't stagger the enemies as much so you had to depend on the dodge, which I never got good at.  And multiple enemies can kill you in one hit; Nemesis, the Hunters, and the Frog looking Hunters.  I died a lot more in RE3.  The graphics on both games are great, I was really impressed at how much RE3 improved over RE2 in just the extra year between them.  The character's specifically looked better, and had improved facial animations.  

Finished Resident Evil 2 Remake with Leon last night. Going to play Claire’s campaign now and then move on to RE3 next. 

I'm so far behind on posting what's new.  I got stuff shoved everywhere but here is some of the most recent stuff.

Got all these last weekend at GameStop.  They had a 5 for $50 on games under $20.  So glad I waited on Trials of Mana, cause now I got both versions for less than the regular price of one of them.

Resident Evil was great, already finished one playthrough.  I got FFVII Remake and the preorder case, however I may not even open it.  I want to get those last 3 trophies I need on the PS4 version so I can auto pop another Plat on the PS5 version, but the last ones may be beyond me.  I really want to try Ratchet and Clank, but my son's birthday is next month, and I'm going to save it for that.

1 2 1 2.  And I love Cyndi.

1 1 1 2. I do like Radioactive, and the video is good, but Daft Punk is better. Those Daft Punks videos from that album make a neat movie too. 

I finished one play though of Resident Evil Village last Tuesday and started another. Going to tackle Resident Evil 2 Remake off the backlog next. On a family vacation until Friday. And while I brought the 3DS with Oracle of Ages installed,  I doubt I will get to it at all. On the second dungeon of it. 

I prefer the Sega CD versions. The 16 bit graphics,  the cool pixel art cut scenes, red book audio soundtrack, and even the overall gameplay I feel make it superior. Now a lot of that perspective may be nostalgia goggles, and don’t get me wrong, the remakes on PlayStation are well worth your attention too. 
 

The Sega CD uses an all caps, screaming at you, font that’s hard to look at.  I understand there is a fan made patch for that if you are using a flash cart.

Just play both versions

I really like the landing page.  The art is amazing @CasualCart, I love the dragon hoarding over his collection.