Apr 18th, 2007, 12:46 PM
I got really bored (masochistic) today and decided to beat this game.
See, when I was a kid, I thought that after I beat the rival in that big giant robot, I really thought that'd be it.
Turns out, that's about the 60% point. In the final levels, the game thinks it's HILARIOUS to throw out End Boss after End Boss to fuck you up. Granted, the fights are really really cool and almost cinematic, but there's no chance to heal in between them; it's like the obligatory Mega Man gauntlet, only without regeneration, and without predictable attack patterns, and in completely different scenarios each time. I was expecting to beat this without save states but, truly, it's IMPOSSIBLE.
Look at it this way: I was at the end of Level Five, beating up Axle in the huge robot. After that...you go into space, fight a space robot, fight Axle and his minions, fight a HUGE circling mothership (which is exactly like the one at the end of Bucky O'Hare), a Pig Emperor, a face-off with Axle, a face-off with Axle while being sucked into space, (heal), a final pig robot boss with about 20 hit points, and then an escape into the Earth's atmosphere (you play this, too).
And the worst part? The ending screen is one of those that says "CONGRATULATIONS! TRY A HARDER MODE!" and something like that always knocks two points off a game's score for me.
All things aside, this is probably one of the top five hardest games I've ever played, sitting alongside company like Bayou Billy and Gradius.
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