Over the last few years nintendoage has had a community challenge where they see if its possible to have members of their forum beat each and every NES title in the span of one year. They have never been able to acheive this yet. This year they changed it up a bit and just went with licensed titles to see if that would help a bit. I've been contributing what I can withing my challenge, but I'm finding several overlapping titles that others have finished before I get to them.
Because of that I've decided to change it up and see if I cant help them achieve the goal of a community completion on licensed games over a years time. Not many people seem to have interest in the RPGs on the system so thats going to be my first focus.
Before I dive into the Ultima series I decided to play 1 game that I've been looking forward to for a long time and another thats given me trouble in the past.
The one I've been looking forward to is The Krion Conquest. I'm a big fan of Mega Man (who isnt?) and when I found out how Mega Man-esque the gameplay is I knew I needed to try it out. It finally arrived in the mail when I got back from my trip to Florida and I've been dying to try it out. I couldn't wait any longer and started playing a couple days ago. It was just what I expected and didnt disappoint in the slightest. I was looking for a less polished version of Mega Man and it delivered just that. My 2 complaints would be that it was too short and there was a gameplay glitch where you cant jump immediately after shooting a bullet. Otherwise it was very solid. And the music in Round 4 was AMAZING! Very cool and definitely one of my favorite NES tunes now.
A couple years ago I tried my darndest to get Adventures of Dino Riki to loop, but the last couple levels proved to be too much at the time. With my NES skills sharper than ever I decided it was time to give it another go around. I practiced up the jumping mechanic which is the part of the game that gives me the most trouble by far. I noticed that the game was significantly easier if I skipped over ALL the speed upgrades. By running around at the slowest speed the game became much more managable. The last level is still pretty intense, but otherwise the game was a lot easier to navigate.
Future Plans - I'm going to be hitting the Ultima series hard over the next couple weeks. Starting with Exodus and moving onto Avatar and Warriors in that order. Wish me luck as I've had zero experience with the Ultima games up to this point.
PS - Here is a link to the nintendoage thread I was referencing. Please contribute if you can. We are already over halfway, but its going to be way slower getting the second half of the list widdled down.
