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| What's it like to drive with no tyres? |
As I resolved to play one new game every week, I tend to do
that at the start of the week to make sure I’ve done it and give the game a
chance to engage me. I didn’t do that this week, starting with a game I’d been
playing a few weeks before: Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed. I had a fine
time with this a couple of weeks ago but had left it alone for most of the
previous week; it took a few goes to get back into the rhythm of the game. I
had a go at the final section of the World Tour, and chose Vyse for this part
of the play through as one of the achievements are tied up in his lap times and
I wanted to level him up. However, after a few races, it became apparent that
I’d got as far as I was going to get by playing through on Normal difficulty. I
tried switching to Expert and got utterly destroyed, so I settled for Hard
difficulty and played through the first few races again to earn some stars.
This is going to take a while but it’s the sign of a good game that I’m willing
to come back to it!
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| The three original heroes. Shame Adam didn't appear in any more games! |
On Wednesday night Kirsty and I had a go with the original
Streets of Rage on the Xbox 360; I downloaded the compilation trilogy when it
became free on Gold. I chose Adam for the play through and Kirsty played as
Axel. It was good fun going through the game and hearing Kirsty come up with
names for the enemies: Stabby McGee, Streetwise Prince Harry, Purple Zombie
Dude, Yellow Turtle Guy and He-Man were some of my favourites! We actually did
quite well; we got as far as the last stage but we fell down to the Big Ben
bosses. The game is re-balanced to accommodate two players, and when Kirsty ran
out of lives and continues, I couldn’t handle two of the Big Bens on my own
with Adam as he moves quite slowly. It didn’t help that I kept forgetting not
to throw them in this edition of the game!
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| Metal Slug with a crossbow... |
So what was my new game for this week? Well, a while ago, I
watched one of Metal Jesus’ videos, Discover HIDDEN GEMS in Game Collections
and Compilations, which he did with his friend John Riggs. In that video they
talk about some excellent games that were part of compilations, and Jason
(Metal Jesus) was often surprised to hear John talk about a game he didn’t
realise that he owned on a compilation! The same applied to me when John talked
about a game that appeared on Capcom Classics Collection vol. 2: Midnight
Wanderers: Quest for the Chariot. This was actually hidden in a multi-game,
called Three Wonders, so wouldn’t necessarily happen across it. So I gave it a
try. It is a platform/shooting game similar to Metal Slug in gameplay, where you
control a hobbit called Lou on a quest apparently taken on a whim to find a
chariot. I gave it a go and it’s a pretty decent game; I like the way it plays,
the jumping feels a little off but it very often did back in the early 90s when
jumping mechanics weren’t standardised. The enemy design is really good as
well. I didn’t get too far with it since I didn’t have long, but I had a decent
amount of fun and I’ll probably come back to it at some point – although, it
has to be said, that compilation has a lot of other good games on there that I
should probably check out too!
I managed to find time to go to Warlords ‘n’ Wizards and
continue to paint my Chaos Cultists. I’ve done the vast majority of them now; I
just need to do the flesh and the base and we’re away. I’ve got another ten to
paint after this, and I’m hoping to get a Dark Apostle done after that. That
will be 500 points of Word Bearers painted, so I might move on to something
different after that; I was inspired to paint Blood Angels by Regicide after
all!
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