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I went back and FINALLY finished the original The Legend of Zelda on NES. Dungeons 8 and 9 are for masochists only.
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I just beat Mario 2(USA), or rather its remake on GBA. It was a great experience. I get why people hate the ending, but honestly the game itself is actually quite good. I'd reccomend it to anyone to be perfectly honest. It is a bit tough, but you never feel that it's so unfair that you just want to quit(at least I never felt that way). But yeah, it was super fun, definitely worth checking into... and now all I have left is Sunshine and 3D World, and I will have completed pretty much all of the mainstream Mario games, even the portable ones. Gotta love Mario!
2 – TurtwigX, Cat333PokémonBeat Windwaker HD a few days ago(OMG I love that game sooooooo much~) and just beat Super Metroid this morning(SUCH a good game). This has thankfully been a pretty productive break so far, in terms of games.
1 – TurtwigXToday I put Brawl into my Wii U since I'm not doing the system transfer. Then I beat the Subspace Emissary, unlocked all characters, and unlocked all stages. That's just about as close to "completing" that game as I'm willing to get.
On the next episode, we 100% Mario Kart Wii again~!
1 – EaglesI finally completed Forza Motorsport 4 a short while ago. Now it's onto finishing all races in first.... ![]()
1 – TurtwigXI beat Sonic CD yesterday. Yes, I know it can be done in one sitting, and yes, I got the bad ending. 
1 – TurtwigXJust beat New Super Luigi U. Yes, before I beat New Super Mario Bros. U. NSLU just felt so much BETTER to me (And it was shorter cause of the 100 second thing and all.) I guess I'll at least try to finish NSMBU before January's up.
1 – EaglesBeat Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy as well as Megaman 5 and 6. Definitely preffered 5, 6 felt SO easy compared to the others overall.
1 – TurtwigXFinished A Link Between Worlds last night. What a fantastic game. Definitely the best Zelda in awhile
2 – Reuniclus, EaglesJust beat Jak 2.... UUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHH This game was rather... painful in a lot of aspects. :I I'm not completely hating on it, there's a lot of things about it that Naughty Dog did right in my opinion. For example, I love the atmosphere of the huge city, there are parts that keep true to the "Jak and Daxter" feel, and the control is generally good. And I was having a generally alright time before the final major portion of the game, even if it felt fairly linear. But in the last few hours of the game.... it was a pretty good struggle. It was just mission after mission of repetitive, not fun, and tedious missions. And the story's not anything to write home about either. It was kind of stupid in the first place, but as the game goes further on, the city just continues to become worse and worse, which doesn't help the mood. You get no sense of progression until the final 2 missions. :I Sorry, I just needed to rant about that. Can't wait for more of Jak 3, though, I'm liking what I've played so far.
Finished off the Jak and Daxter trilogy by beating Jak 3 yesterday. Fortunately, it was more of a balance between the city and more basic, laid back missions. It felt a bit short and thankfully wasn't difficult in the same way as Jak 2. Oh, and it had a much greater focus on vehicles as well. I think I like this one the most personally.
Finished Fire Emblem Sacred Stones again haha. Love this game, going to start back up the new one for 3DS pretty soon while I play AC.
2 – GreenMan, EaglesI beat Jet Set Radio this morning. The final boss battle was disappointingly easy, but still pretty spectacular anyway. I'm also glad that it lets you freely go back to Grind City; those stages were awesome, although I find myself repeatedly entering and exiting the stage trying to get Dragula to play. 
Beat Runner 2, definitely a great game. All this does for me now is make me more inclined to get the Bit. Trip Saga on the eshop, though, which more than likely happen eventually. I definitely reccomend Runner 2, it's the best gaming experience(in terms of how I actually felt) I've had in a very long time.
Super Mario 3D World - It's simply amazing. It's loads of fun to play with friends, so much that I actually beat the game three times--twice each with different buddies and once alone. I haven't beaten it 100% yet, but I may wait some time for that.
Of course, we've only beaten the final level once (and that was as a group of four), and that thing drained 300 lives.
2 – Eagles, ReuniclusI just beat a Link Between Worlds as well. First, let me say that this is a fantastic game. I love top down Zelda. I really should play more of them. Anyway, it's really open, and you can go through it how YOU want. It's really fun and you should go buy it now. 10/10, will play again.
1 – EaglesI beat Ib and got the best ending. I'd give the game a 9/10. It needs to be longer!
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I just beat a Link Between Worlds as well. First, let me say that this is a fantastic game. I love top down Zelda. I really should play more of them. Anyway, it's really open, and you can go through it how YOU want. It's really fun and you should go buy it now. 10/10, will play again.
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I beat NSMBU Friday and Super Mario Sunshine this morning. NSMBU was fun, I think I may decide to 100% it. Super Mario Sunshine... I FINALLY beat that for the first time ever XD It only took me 12 years! I managed to avoid spoiling Corona Mountain and all it's difficulty for all this time, so beating the game was actually a challenge for me. This is inspiring me to go back and try beating all those other games I deemed to hard as a child.
Beat Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland 100% and beat the "extra mode" 100% as well when I had strep a few days ago.
Boy, I love that game.
1 – JDxImpetusAntichamber (which is part of Humble Bundle 11 as a beat-the-average game), including all the moral signs. It genuinely is a fun puzzle game, but there are a few room that can be infuriating.
1 – NismoZSaints Row IV, main and side quests (I still haven't done the collectibles, upgrades, or perfecting every activity)
(For some reason, this feels way more like an action RPG than a crime simulator
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1 – EaglesThe Wind Waker HD. I LOVE that game. It had an amazing ending and a great ammount of content
1 – EaglesMyst: Masterpiece Edition. It's a fun little puzzler, and it works best if you take notes as you play. It has a weird story, but I focused a lot more on solving the puzzles.
Once you beat the game, you should be able to also find out how to speed-run it in about two minutes. ![]()
Edit: I also beat the main "story" of Pokémon Battle Trozei, but that's the kind of game I don't consider beaten until I've reached 100%. I'm only at 49%.
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I've picked up a LOT of games recently and played through half of them, but haven't finished many of them. Er, I ran through White 2 for like the third time a little while ago and finished it, does that count?
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3 – Dragonite, Twiggy, EaglesFinished Golden Sun 1 a few days ago (and was reminded again of how they need to make a GS4).
2 – Eagles, ReuniclusPokémon Y. I finally got around to completing the entire National Pokédex after a long time; now that I have the Shiny Charm, well, let me have them Shiny Pokémon! 
Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance. Nobody told me that that's practically a second game! There's just too many things to explore. It was a great ride along the story rails while it lasted.
2 – Eagles, DragoniteI just beat Mario vs. Donkey Kong for the first time yesterday, but... no one told me there was a PLUS mode. So many years and I NEVER knew?
1 – EaglesFar Cry 3, specifically story completion.
This is certainly a different kind of first-person shooter that it'd be more accurate to say that it's what happens when you take some parts FPS, some parts stealth-based game, some parts role-playing game, some parts open-world, and mix them. The game certainly has gotten its pace right, in my opinion.
Also, the enemies are brutal, even at normal difficulty, even after you've maximized your health. Be glad that anything not a fall can never take you out in one hit, as long as your health indicator isn't "zero bars".
As for the story, it's actually kind of... serious for a first-person shooter, and it actually goes a little bit... shall I say... meta?
Ever thought what it would take for a Joe Everyman to end up like the ruthless action hero he is at the end of the game?
Finished the GBA version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Wasn't bad. Simple battle system, never terribly difficult. Blew through the story a little quickly . . . but then again, it's a video game based on a movie based on a book, I'm lucky they remembered to put the story in it at all.
(And yes, it is my life mission to play all versions of all of the first three Harry Potter games. CGN COS up next!)
2 – Reuniclus, SuperEspeon25And now I just beat Super Metroid and EarthBound. I've been playing a lot of Mother and Metroid 
4 – Reuniclus, Cat333Pokémon, Wulf CinesFinal Fantasy VIII.
Has it really been over a decade since I first played that game? Whoa. Either way, I finally finished my unfinished business... on a new game... on the PC.
(This is probably one of these games where people should really play to completion at least once, if only for the story. You'd be surprised what you'd learn when all's said and done.)
Also, Eyes On Me is awesome.
1 – Finished the in-game part of Game Dev Tycoon just now. Was very good. I might go around trying to get all of the achievements, too, but that could take a while.
Here's a review and my final scores of my first successful playthrough.
It's a really simple game on the surface and honestly a pretty ridiculous concept, but they did it well. The game was actually really complex, and there are a lot of things that influence how well your game does. It took me about three tries to get past the N64 era, although after that I started to get the hang of what the good combinations and priorities are.And discovered Steam game guides, but we won't discuss that now.
It's also really nice that they let you do things like continue past the main game of 35 years and create your own consoles and stuff, because there's so many different ways to play that it's impossible to do it in the main part of the game. I have 10 hours of play time so far, and still feel like I only scratched the surface with it.
The only thing I wasn't too keen on about the game was the decision to not include the 3DS and PS Vita in the options for handheld development later in the game. The 3DS is my favorite console of all time, after all : (
Oh, and the Easter eggs. Did I mention the Easter eggs?
So, interested in this game? Go play it, it's only ten dollars at full price. Well worth it.
So I bought and finished Portal today.Was quite fun. I took more time than I should have on some of the puzzles, especially ones where you have to jump and catapult yourself into the air, but I finished it. Time to do 2 now (got them bundled together).
2 – Wulf CinesI beat Pokemon Conquest a couple minutes ago. I felt like the story needed more development, but the gameplay was amazing. It was definitely worth my money.
2 – Cat333Pokémon, DragoniteI've been sitting on Level 5-4 of Plants vs. Zombies for the DS all summer, and I finally got it in my head to go and finish it off. Now I'm going to be a nerd and see if I can get all of the achievements, minigames, etc.
Also finished off the normal part of Super Mario 3D Land with all of the Star Medals and top of the flag poles. There's still the Special World but I think I'll put that off a couple months. Or years.
I beat Earthbound for the first time on a console. Giygas overused instant kill moves on Paula, which was annoying.
2 – TurtwigX, DragoniteMaking use of Origin Game Time, I finished the Battlefield 4 campaign and spent some time on multiplayer. For some reason, I guess I didn't really like how big the battlefields are. (Yeah, then again, it's in the name...) (I preferred more closed-in style of Hardline beta.)
Also, that's a really short campaign...finished in 6 hours over two days. Doesn't really hold a candle to BF3.
Not buying.
Wario Land 2, for GBC, on the 3DS Virtual Console. I've beaten this game once before on the original Game Boy (not Color) cartridge, but I've forgotten how incredibly frustrating it can be, especially when a single hit from bosses in the incorrect manner can force you to start the fights over. Also, I hate the zombie and flattening curses. The first is too slow, and the second is too hard to control.
Managed to "beat" Papers, Please if you can call it that. I escaped to Obristan with my family.
1 – Cat333PokémonOh yeah, I forgot to post this, but I have absolutely 100% completed Paper Mario: Sticker Star. I have completed the main story, unlocked all eight flags, completed the museum, collected every Thing (including owning all of them in my inventory), and pretty much did everything you possibly can.
Finished the main story for PokePark 2 Wonders Beyond, along with the post-story mission and befriending all the Pokemon (except Kirlia, need to find the last ~6 chests). About 12 hours total.
1 – DragoniteLast night I bought and completed Long Live The Queen. I was an expert military strategist who also had the powers of a magical girl. I challenged an invading king to a duel and beheaded him with a moon blade I conjured using my advanced sorcery. I had a long rule with an iron fist.
11/10 would princess again.
1 – DragoniteRecently played ("played?") this little narrative called "A Bird Story," a short, 1-hour RPG Maker animation about a kid who found an injured bird.
It was strangely really nice, there wasn't a whole lot to it but was pretty cool nevertheless. (I also have "To The Moon," the other title by the same people, sitting around somewhere that I'll probably burn through one of these days.)
Played Hatoful Boyfriend. Ended up with the yandere pigeon. Needless to say it didn't go well...
It was a fantastic game, though! So many different options. If you want to spend $9.99 on a game make it Hatoful Boyfriend.
1 – DragoniteLegend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons on the 3DS. Without guide or help I'm only 4 pieces of heart short.
Will be working on Oracle of Time next, with the codes.
1 – DragoniteFinished the final boss in New Super Mario Bros. 2 a little while ago. I think that's the most straightforward ending to a Mario game I've seen since Galaxy 2, though the animations at the end were ridiculously long.
Not sure if I want to go and collect all the Star Coins and actually finish every level; haven't touched the optional worlds at all. Whatever.
Finished Mass Effect 1 and 2 in the last few days after being gifted the first one not too long ago - now I'm considering buying Mass Effect 3. Hehe.
Perfect ending on the first run? Heh. Both games are a bit weird - they seem to get easier as you progress. I find myself engrossed in the world...
Just now finished this rather obscure (and honestly really not very good) game known as One Piece: Romance Dawn.
Combat was actually really good, but a lot of the fights dragged on way longer than they needed to, the "story" was basically twenty-minute sessions of scans from the manga and it skipped the entire Sky Island arc.
Thirty hours of my life I'm not getting back, oh well.
It's been a long while since I've beaten a game. The most recent one is... Hotel Dusk: Room 215. It's a visual novel type of game on the NDS. Ending was kinda disappointing, but it was nice. Great game though, I loved every second of it, even it if was kinda far fetched and ridiculous.
I finally, after FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, have beaten the Pokémon League in HeartGold, making it the first English-language completion of HgSs.
So, let's look at that team...
inb4sparky the Raikou was somehow obtained on March 27, 2000. I think I goofed up when setting the clock on my DS and put 2000 instead of 2010.
Lite (remember him?) the Togetic was obtained on March 14, 2010.
Zorlosion the Typhlosion was also obtained on March 14, 2010.
Ho-Oh was obtained July 15, 2011.
Celebi was obtained from an event on July 9, 2011.
(Shiny) Suicune was obtained from an event on February 23, 2011.
Judging by the contents of the PC being named after various VR members who were around in 2010 (and a Lapras named "Friday!" and a few others dated 2000), it's clear that most of this playthrough was five years ago, and I only just got to completing it. I specifically remember having a hard time with Ho-Oh. I don't even have Lugia yet, so I must've skipped that due to the trouble I had with the required bird. I think it was the Elite Four that gave me a lot of trouble, because when I loaded the game up, I was in front of the Champion, whose defeat was by luck of paralysis not kicking in.
Lance's three Dragonites can go freeze in the Seafoam Islands.
4 – Twiggy, Dragonite, The Villain of Scams, Ditto616And to add to the above, I have finally completed a game that was among those that defined my childhood, played many times with some friends before I even had my own game consoles. That game, which I obtained myself twelve years ago, is Donkey Kong 64. I attained 101%, collecting every single golden banana, regular banana, fairy, blueprint, medal, and crown. (The only thing I didn't bother with is the coins, but because even touching the built-in cheats corrupts your coin counter, I didn't bother.)
3 – Music, Dragonite, TurtwigXFinished Pokémon Platinum for the first time in quite a while. Was easier than I remembered it being, although I had to item spam a little when Cynthia came around. But I think I'm allowed to do that when most of my team is fourteen or fifteen levels weaker than her ace.
Oh yeah, and this is the first time I've actually used Garchomp in a Sinnoh game. That thing is perposterously good.
2 – Cat333Pokémon, MusicStar Fox 64. First time actually beating a Star Fox game, too, and I only lost two lives: one against the golem (Golemech) on Venom, and one against Andross. My teammates didn't fare too well.
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