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I forgot how difficult those Extra stages are, seriously.

This is a nice short video, only about 10 minutes long...because I cut out forty minutes of footage. Probably not a joke.

The first level in this one is hectic, as Shadow put it, and then there's the sewer maze. I...I can't say that I like the sewer maze very much.

There's also a hidden area in the sky above that first flower if you jump up above the screen there, but I think all you'd get in there are more stars or coins.

The Impossible? Maze has a whole different type of difficulty. Not a "holy s*** so much crap to avoid, I'm going to die" difficulty like the odd # World Extras. But a '"what the hell do I do, and how the hell do I do it?" for half an hour' type of difficulty.

But I swear I've gotten a red from that pillar. Maybe it's a failsafe '21st' red coin.. or I'm thinking of a different level altogether. Now I'll have to play the level again real quick. 

This level is a strange case indeed.

I think it'd be neat if they did some kind of combination of The Decisive Battle and The Fierce Battle, as both would sound incredible with a full orchestra:

Or better yet, a version of the Figaro theme that then slows into the Coin Song:

Or just play the first part of the ending, damnit!

...yeah, FFVI probably should have gotten more attention. I'm not sure if you'd like it, but I recommend at least giving FFXII a shot. The gameplay is drastically different from the series up to that point, and I really enjoyed the story, characters and setting. It goes between being my favorite FF game to my second favorite behind FFVI, pretty much depending on my mood that day.

Nothing special I'd think. The one in the stump was removed in the GBA port.

Both of these gave me more trouble than they should have.

6-Extra: You had the right idea at 11:36, to take it real slow. I'd say that one did give you a bit more trouble than it should have. >_> 

Extra 5 took forever. Just...it just wouldn't end. When I didn't have trouble with the ski part I'd get knocked around by the baseball dudes, and then I'd have fits of sucking at the skiing part for a while. Good god was it all incredibly annoying...but in a fun way!

And there we have it. I'll type up a wrap-up for everything tomorrow, and then that'll be it for me. It's been a hell of a year.

If you haven't played Final Fantasy 9 by now, it would have theoretically been my pick for you, if I had joined and we were paired.

Well, that’s been one interesting year. As with my GameCube Send-Off where I didn’t actually finish it all before getting the Wii as planned, I never expected this to take over a year to complete. It was only twenty or so games, right? Then again, I don’t think I ever anticipated my idea to do half of the games through video, but there isn’t much you can do to give people a true feel for short platformers like Ninja Gaiden.

Since the goal of my topic ended up being split in two between text and video, I figure I’d do a separate wrap-up for each, so for the video end of the spectrum I made a list of my Top Ten Favorite Fail Moments of the LP series. These are my ten fondest memories of suckage, though I’m sure some of you could think of others you’d rather put on the list. These are the ones that make me smile the most.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWRB2HMhFw

The great thing about this playthrough is that I don’t need to do a tier list, because I loved pretty much every game I played (yes, even the ones that made me swear a lot, though the appreciation came slower than others). The only games to disappoint me were Super Mario World, which just isn’t as fun as it used to be and really is a broken game with Yoshi, and Donkey Kong Country, which I never really enjoyed all that much in the past and didn’t care for too much this time. Even Ocarina of Time was mostly spared from my wrath, as I tried my best to focus on the positive aspects of the game instead of its general “eh”-ness.

I’m glad I was able to take some of you through these games with me, even though I think I’m the only one who stuck with Chrono Cross to the end, but it was actually partway through this topic (basically when Bear mentioned that he hadn’t played Tales of Symphonia) that I got the idea for Polas’ Forced Favorites, so I can at least give this topic some credit for spawning another. And, of course, we got a lot of mileage out of making Super Metroid the GotM whenever back, VGMan (whoops, Ultimike now) did his LLG of FFVI here, and I was grateful for all the Pokemania that was going on last summer at the same time that I was having my tournament.

Like I said in my finale video, I hope some of you decide to go back and replay some of those games you thought you knew all too well, as I’m sure one or more will surprise you. I find myself paying more attention to detail when I play games today, and often approaching things from a design perspective, trying to find that invisible hand of the game-maker.

And, of course, some stats, ‘cause why not?

Time-frame of topic: 384 days (1 leap year, 18 days)
Number of videos: 78
Total video time: 27:01:27
Number of posts (at this time): 868
Number of posts by me: 445
Percentage posts by me: 51%
Game-Overs: Too many to count

Hey, that’s all some good stuff right there.

Thanks for everybody for coming along on this with me. I’m not sure if I’ll be using this topic for anything specific after this, and if it looks like it’s gonna die I’m just gonna let it. ‘Been a fun ride, here’s hopin’ the next one’s just as fun.
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MacDaddy Mike, Proud Zesbian [548]

I love stats, and I think a low 51% own posts is quite impressive for a play through topic. Well done! And it was a lot of fun to be along for the ride.

Going to watch the Yoshi extra's now and the wrap-up vid.

The respawning boss when playing as Wicket was one of the s***-funniest moments of the entire topic.

No wait, first Star Wars, walking into the pit after finally beating the boss. Inches before the end of the level.

Besting yourself in those situations is part of the fun of games as well, I guess.

It seems a bit of a shame to leave the topic more or less finished with this many posts, though. You mentioned Diablo II a couple times. How'd that go?
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Other than that, I've also decided that I'm going for 100% Titles in Tales of Symphonia again, from scratch, and I'm in my third playthrough now. The first one was my "No Lloyd" playthrough and then the second one was where I focused on all the characters I didn't use in that playthrough. Now I'm playing an all-guy main party on the Kratos path and after that I'm doing an all-girl party with 1/2 exp on to get that title for Lloyd where you have to beat Rodyle with a party lvl total under 145. I've been doing well enough and it's ridiculous how different every playthrough can be (I'm really looking forward to main-ing Sheena next game), but I'm making good progress so far. The cooking titles are the ones that always take the longest, so I'm being good on keeping up with that.

But I thought I'd save any Tales discussion for when Bear starts playing, as I don't want to spoil anything for him or give him any tips that are too useful.
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It's really warming to read, how a single game can do so much for someone. I might be able to feel something like that to, if I didn't have hundreds of untouched games. If only I was poor (or was rich time-wise).