Secret of Mana - 009 Defeat The Wall With A Face On It
Our crew makes their way through a haunted mansion in search for Lindah's friend Phanta. We find Thantos at the end, and he has both Phanta and Dyluck! He drops through a hole and we beat the $#@& out of a wall with a face on it. The spell is broken from the nearby town and we meet up with Jema. We make our way back to the Water Palace, and then Gaia's Navel. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5pOOLZAmo
In this episode we take our submarine to the depth of the Sunken Shrine, meet some mermaids hanging out in small rooms, and defeat the Kraken guarding the water crystal.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6iN0encr4Y
We now tackle the second dungeon in the stone cave and retrieve the second stamp and save the princess therein.
I think this is where we hit the shareware wall. I did purchase the game and awaiting the registration code, so the game will continue!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62oaWKMKWds
Mantra was and is an old Mac Classic game from the early 90s. They later ported it to PC and that is the version I'm playing. This brings back a lot of memories searching through the AOL Game Downloads section for Shareware and Freeware games. The game itself is a bit frustrating for reasons I'm sure you'll notice, but the pure nostalgia factor for me will probably compel me to finish the whole game.
You can download Mantra yourself here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/syzygymantra/
http://macintoshgarden.org/games/mantra
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVC_ORToEqQ
In this double episode we tackle Vector and the Magitek factory. We get a bunch of new Epsers to add to our collection and get the Hell out of Dodge, thanks to Cid the head of the operation there at the factory.We go on a wild train ride, find Setzer who is waiting for us with his airship, and fight some cranes Kefka sicks on us.
After that ordeal is finished we make our way back to check on Terra. She recognizes her father in one of the magicites and goes full-blown flashback on us as her back story is explained.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9mk8mDNB3k
After taking on the Fire Palace we find out the Cannon Travel people opened up a new destination, the Empire. That's too full of coincidence to not be our next destination.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFbVpo-8ZXw
This is a pretty clunky beat em' up with some annoying timing bases platforming. Collision detection is forgiving though making it a much easier playthrough than it could have been. It still feels like Battletoads and Double Dragon.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm4JGfiQi8A
Kicking off the Halloween season this October with Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse!
You know I have never played this one until now? Very enjoyable. It's like they took the solid bits from the first Castlevania, added some of the open world or path choosing from the second but left out the confusion, then beefed everything up. I love that you get to play as more characters, though sadly I did not get Alucard in this playthrough.
The only thing I wasn't very impressed with was the music until later in the game, some of the of the late game tracks are really good.
This is just the first run-through, there is a new game + thing going on that I will also release shortly.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fDTDh6n_Ps
In this episode we cross the gap we filled with the snow boulder and make our way up the mountain. After filling a few more gaps we find the cause of all the problems for Zulan, the Missing Link. After almost getting wiped out by an avalanche, Lucia saves us, rejoins our party, and we take on the scientifically valuable cryptid, leaving nothing behind for science to study.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERMaifjo-6k