July 2021 Playthrough - Skyblazer

[GrayGhost81]

QUESTION OF THE MONTH!

This month's question is inspired by the #concertcast for our upcoming recording:

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BREAK-UP SONG?

Answer by Saturday and
@thesinglebanana
 and I will read your answer on the show!

[GrayGhost81]

I'm late to this playthrough, knowing it's kind of short game I was holding off until we were closer to recording, which is now scheduled for this weekend.

This morning I did the ice level and the water level. I had a real hard time with the second boss (the rolling eye thing) but enjoyed the ice wall and the fish boss, though I really cheesed the fish boss.

I ground out 99 lives in the tower level and am using save states, but I'm going to beat the game without any other cheats. Castlevania IV is one of my favorite games on the SNES, and this game is reminding me of it in a lot of ways. Also kind of reminiscent of Axiom Verge where you slowly gain abilities as you beat the levels.

I like this one way more than I thought I would so far.

[Disposed Hero]

The ice wall was always one of my favorite bosses from the game, but the fish boss was always one of my least favorites. Kinda surprised to hear you enjoyed that one. I really like that most of the bosses can feel very difficult at first but become trivially easy once you figure out their patterns. Makes it very satisfying to learn the fights and take them down.

Yeah, it's really nice that the game is so generous with extra lives and makes it easy to farm them. It's a good idea to have plenty going into the final stage so you don't have to repeat the entire thing after blowing through all your lives on the final boss.

Glad to hear you're enjoying this one!