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(07-20-2015, 04:23 PM)E-Man Wrote: [ -> ]

Did you encounter this guy yet? He always freaks me out and makes it nearly impossible for me to make a no Pikmin deathrun of the game.

I actually haven't. I forgot which cave he was in. It's always really scary. 

I also need to find the cave that has Bulbmin. I love Bulbmin so much.

You might be in a bit of luck because one of the Bulbmin caves is the Submerged Castle (AKA the Waterwraith's haunt). Admittedly, it's the only good part about that level (especially since you're only allowed to bring Blue Pikmin in unless you use some kind of glitch or skill to bring other colors in there).

Besides that level, they also appear in the Frontier Cavern (in the Valley of Repose) and the Hole of Heroes (in the Wistful Wilds).

It's been a long time since I played Pikmin 2, but if I recall correctly there is an easy way to deal with the water wraith without risking your pikmin. Just ignore all the treasure the first time through the dungeon, and head straight to the bottom floor. If you run straight to the exit on each floor fast enough he won't be able to keep up with you. Then after beating him on the final floor, you can revisit the dungeon and he won't appear, letting you explore at your leisure.

That's how I remember doing it at least. It's been years since I've played the game so I'm not a hundred percent sure on this.

Honestly, even after beating him, I was still paranoid that the Waterwraith might show up regardless of his defeat. As a result, I still rush through the floors. I might try lingering on one floor after his defeat to test the theory once I decided to play Pikmin 2 again, but it'll have to be at a time when I don't have to worry about puppet assembly for my Paper Mario project and I'm not thousands of miles away from my home consoles.

I just did Frontier Cavern, the final floor where you have to fight the giant worm Bulborb again but this time it poops out babies that 1-shot Pikmin. So annoying!

I was able to beat the main story in just 12 days. That's little kid Keychain's dream.

(07-20-2015, 10:28 PM)Keychain Wrote: [ -> ]I was able to beat the main story in just 12 days. That's little kid Keychain's dream.

Reading this is weird. All little kid Kosheh had was Super Mario World for the SNES. For people to have a GCN in their childhood is just
mind-blowing


I know this feeling all too well though - it took me about 6 months in 6th grade to beat Mario 64. When I got the remake later on for the DS for Christmas, it took me just 5 days to 100% the game.

I'd like to imagine older me traveling back in time to tell little 11 year old Kosheh that they'd remake Mario 64 in the future with more stars and other playable characters, and then tell him that he beat it in 5 days and have little 11 year old Kosheh tell future Kosheh "nah you can't be serious this took me months"

I've had every Nintendo console at some point. I must've been like 14 or so when I played my Gamecube for the first times. I don't really see how it's mind-blowing, lol.

When I said 12 days, I meant Pikmin 2's in-game day system. It took me 3 days real-time to beat Pikmin's main story.

I understand what you mean though. I couldn't ever beat Mario 64 on my own.

That reminds me, have to try Pikmin 1 at one point despite having the Wii version.

At the moment, playing Split/Second and it has been between decent and fairly good (more enjoyable than Juiced 2 that had to stop). Graphics are good, same thing for the car design, the music and despite not many tracks with half of them being variations of each other (e.g. Downtown/Speedway/Construction Site, Port/Dry Docks or Power Plant/Storm Drain) are at least well designed. Also love some of the missions such as Survival where you pass through trucks that drop off bombs and the Air stages (where you dodge cars or fight against a helicopter).

The only things that I don't really like about the game (apart from a bit of the old cheating AI on Elite Races that you have to do especially from Vixen and Raptor where their cars are the fastest in the game and you can't unlock them until the end) are that the handling of cars especially when you are drift is to me on the BAD side. In a racing game, it just doesn't feel right compared to many that I've played both arcade style like this game and simulation. The cars feel like they are stuck like glue and very easy to crash into walls sometimes without your own control [has happened even when I thought that I avoided a power play, it has shown has crashed]. The other problem is also one of the unique parts of the game. The Power Plays are great however there is a scenario where nearly all the power plays have gone since the AI has been triggering them, you're second and 1st is about 4/5 seconds ahead meaning that you have NO CHANCE of getting into 1st place at all.

(07-21-2015, 07:12 AM)Kosheh Wrote: [ -> ]Reading this is weird. All little kid Kosheh had was Super Mario World for the SNES. For people to have a GCN in their childhood is just
mind-blowing

aHEM aHEm. ;0)

gotta say, gcn was the shit. i have fond memories of trying to beat all the events in melee. although our memory card was busted at that time, it was always fun unlocking characters and playing adventure mode.

gba was neat as well. pokemon emerald/blue and kirby and the amazing mirror were cool games to play.

GCN is pretty amazing. For me it was mostly Melee and Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. I also played Soul Caliber II with my brother. I think if I didn't have a GCN, I would not have warmed up to 3D games at all.
The first Xbox I found to be pretty neat too. I never had one, but at the passed MAGFest I played Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO and it just felt so right, especially the controller. That console deserved way more fighting games.

I bought Binding of Isaac on my Wii U. I never played it before, but I was pretty sure I would like that kind of game, and sure enough I do. I beat the game once as Azazael, I haven't beaten it as a more basic character yet. The ability to fly over a pit and avoid certain enemy types is incredibly handy.

Last summer, I played though both Ace Attorney 1 and 2, and I finally picked up an iTunes card to play the third one this summer! These games have some pretty adept writing, they quickly became some of my favourites.

I've also been trying to get though Tales of the Abyss on 3DS.

I'm playing Internet...
Nah jk. I'm honestly not playing anything since my 3DS' circle pad got busted.

What happened? Did the rubber coating come off of it or something? That's what happened to my original one.

Playing a lot of Binding of Isaac on Wii U, Destiny on PS4, and hopping between some other games in between here and there.