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I am at the last level of Guacamelee, but have now sidetracked myself by going back and trying to make every icon on the map gold (read: you collected everything here). In doing so, I've found two pieces of some mysterious luchador mask that seems to be the ultimate hidden collectible. These come at the end of ridiculously hard platforming bits and/or long protracted fights (one is the reward for getting through the hardest division of Santa Luchita's underground fighting cavern, one for finding some hidden unmappable and crazy difficult section of a level I won't reveal to keep from spoiling stuff) and I'm hoping that if I bother to find everything it will actually be worth it. I guess we'll see. I'm going full-on collectathon here. As for the controls, the only time it's really slowing me down was when I was finishing the combo chicken sidequest, as that dude had you doing some ridiculously precise stuff on a tiny analogue stick. That said, I still got it done.

Really though, anyone else still doing this? I kicked some ass tonight and beat 9 through 12 in a sitting. I did a bit of wandering too. I think that, despite all the epic moments in this game so far, my favourite thing has been discovering a small turtle pond in the middle of nowhere. I just climbed a tree and sat there looking at it a while. So good. I also actually quite liked number twelve, contrary to popular opinion. has been a game defining moment for me. All four of these colossi were brand new for me, and man have they made me feel like a chump for giving up at 8 in 2006.

I jumped back in for the first time in about a month today, so I'm pretty far behind. That said, I just finished the 8th one, so now I can start getting some momentum perhaps. I'm now into the colossi that I've never seen before, so that should help. I'm done my practicum on Tuesday, so I'll be trying to catch up over the next week or so. Back into it!

Yeah, my only complaint about the Vita version is that the analogue stick is small enough that there's some frustration with the sensing of directions for special attacks. Haven't tried my PS3 copy yet, as with the cross-buy I just decided to download the Vita version and play in bed while my girlfriend is falling asleep, so I don't know about "rather than". On Vita, it's plenty of fun though. I'm having a really good time with it.

Yeah, I'm still working through my PS+ Vita freebies. Still have to get to Uncharted, and only about 75% through Gravity Rush (which is really good!). If Mutant Blobs Attack is still free, get it immediately. It's a great little platformer that actually uses the system's features intelligently. Since Guacamelee came out on Tuesday, I've been playing through that as well. It's very reference-heavy, and a bunch of the humour is falling flat for me, but the art and gameplay are awesome and pulling me through. Overall, . Drinkbox is making some great stuff.

It's $15. I feel like that would make it worth it pretty much no matter what. I am completely down with this, especially as I haven't played Far Cry 3 yet and thus am not sick of the gameplay. For those that have played FC3 to death, maybe it's less appealing? I dunno.

Same as everyone else it seems, I hadn't really noticed you being in everyone's face as you say. Now that I think about it, I think I noticed in one post that you off-hand mentioned your sexuality, but mostly noted it so I don't accidentally make an assumption and put my foot in my mouth later. Sucks about your doctor, but glad to hear you my be on track to find a non-sucky one. Godspeed, tegan!

Played some Guacamelee on mine tonight. It's pretty good. I'm not the biggest fan of the d-pad for this one, but the Vita's stick is a bit too tiny for the precision that would be necessary. Still good! It Thomas Was Alone going to be cross-buy as well? I really like that trend a lot. Bought Guacamelee for the PS3, and then decided that I'd rather play it in bed. Surprise! I can!

The airport was the worst part of the game. If it helps, it's also the last part of the game. I really quite like most of the game, but that final firefight at both the police station and the airport levels drove me crazy. Bah, bad final levels. Why do so many freaking games have to be just fine right up until the end?

Yeah, that boss (who I beat last night) had me looking in the options for ways to turn motion detection off. Surprise! None exist. I really feel like motion detection is the worst part of the 3DS. I have yet to see a single game use it in a way that I've enjoyed.

That is an excellent mental image.

I had to help my girlfriend put her cat down tonight. I've been with my girlfriend for nearly six years now, so I knew this cat very well. Not once in all the time I've known him has this cat bit or scratched anyone. He was one of the sweetest animals I've ever known. He hadn't eaten since Easter, and today any time he tried to even drink water he'd go and throw up bile for a while. He would have been 20 later this month, and had been slowing down a lot for a while. All signs point to his kidneys simply having packed it in for good sometime Monday. I'm now trying to focus on work while feeling like complete crap. I'm just kind of too busy to have time to feel feelings right now, and that makes me feel horrible too. I won't have the free time to feel bad about this for two weeks yet, which sucks a lot. Just wanted to air this online, as I need to get it off my chest somewhere and I've had to be the strong one for my girlfriend so I can't break down over this to her. I'm fucking shattered, but don't really have an opportunity to let that happen. Not a good day.

Try it! It was the first thing I did. Good times.

I hear this sentiment a lot, and wholeheartedly agree, so where the hell is my Ac!d 3, Konami? Put in on iOS/Vita and let me have my damn card-based fun.

I would like nothing more than to eat the words contained in my previous post and have this to be a ridiculous 90's themed romp through shark-infested jungles. Until more details are announced though, I'll hold off on celebrating.

Play the original. With the exception of the King Boo boss fight at the end of the game, I can't think of anything I'd change about it. It's a fantastic game. Short (I remember it being slammed mostly for length and not being a platformer at the time), but so damn good. Definitely one of my fondest memories of the GCN/PS2/XBOX era. When they announced Dark Moon, I decided to replay it, so I last beat Luigi's Mansion about a year ago. It still holds up, and you should totally find a copy.

Apparently there was a thing where if you entered the Konami code on the website it removed all the awesome 90's stuff and just showed a blurry screenshot from an unoriginal looking expansion. Name and game: probably real. All the things you want that name and game to be associated with from their April fool's joke: probably false.

Friday night we had a moving away party for a friend of mine. Between myself and another Thumbs listener (who may or may not post here. Dylan?), we had 5 PS Move controllers. We played the shit out of JS Joust and it was awesome. Looking forward to having a full Sportsfriends night when the thing is finally released. So good. I know I'm late to the party here, but as a non-industry dude I haven't had the chance to play it before and was super stoked to get into it.

Yeah, I too had a lot of trouble connecting until I'd made it through the first hundred pages or so. After that, though it still took a lot of time, it was a breeze to read. Still get to hold it over my girlfriend's head that I borrowed her copy to read and she still has never made it through the first 100 herself. My usual cut off for "will I finish a book?" is 100 pages, but I'd extended that to 300 for IJ. Turns out I didn't need to.

I've got my issues with the way things have gone lately, and I think I've stated as much in other threads, but to clarify Thunder, I've felt that at worst you've been guilty of poor choices of words and a poor sense of when to back down. Neither of those things make me think of you as a bad person, just a rash one sometimes. In general, I'd consider you an important part of the community, so I hope your mental health break goes well. It's been weird as one of the old guard (read: from when IdleThumbs was a website with words you read) to see the forum explode, die, explode again, die again, and now re-re-explode as the podcast has gone through it's cycles, and the influx of new members has had its ups and downs. A lot of the friction recently I would attribute to the fact that those of us from the day had got to know each other pretty well and so those slights didn't happen. Even when the words were chosen poorly, the community was small enough that we knew the person saying them well enough to know there was no harm intended. That's not reality here anymore, so we've got to be a bit more cautious about what we say. It's strange to get used to, to say the least. I'd say that the scraps you've been in recently are a direct result of that, more than of any personal fault of anyone involved. Feel better, man. Hope to hear from you again soon.

Meh, my girlfriend had a medieval history prof who dj-ed at a goth nightclub on weekends and did NOT change her attire when she was teaching. Give it a go, you may be able to pull it off. EDIT: This may be something to try after finishing the Ph.D. Establish yourself, then amaze with your style.

Glad to hear things are on the uptick, tegan! So it looks like I'm moving in May (really nice equivalently-priced third floor place on 17th ave SW, which if you know Calgary you know is a great location), which means that now I get to spend the next month prepping like crazy for a move. I've been at my current place for 2.5 years, so I'm pretty dug in. Exciting! I'm going to have a real kitchen! Also, last night my board games night was cancelled, so I accepted a last-minute request from a buddy of mine to go roller skating. She's a derby player, and was going out with her team to chill on a public skating night and friends were welcome, so I tagged along. Haven't done it since high school, but I picked it up fast. Was able to spin around and go backwards by the end of the night, and that was pretty sweet. Trouble is, now I have a blood blister on my big toe that is roughly the same size as said toe. So, y'know, ow.

I bought 999, but it's still in the shrink wrap because school. If this comes as a PSN+ reward in North America too, I'll be very happy and play through 999 ASAP. Sweet news!

This is a pretty old game, but I just finished it, so I'll post here. Rayman Origins. I bought the Vita version when it was half off a couple of weeks ago and just blasted through it. That game was great. The treasure chest chases were super fun, and pretty much set a high point for roller coaster platforming for me. It was a surprisingly challenging, but also surprisingly forgiving game. The checkpoints were really well done. When they were far apart, it felt like they were far apart for a reason. Playing the bonus "true end" or whatever that you get for finishing all the treasure chest chases was great, if only because it was some of the most demanding platforming I've played from a game that hasn't billed itself as "for the hardcore only" in forever. It was great, and the last boss (the one after you beat that crazy level, not the one that gets you the credits the first time) had me thinking "this is ridiculous, there's no way" right up until the point that I found my groove, had a perfect run, and felt amazing defeating her. So good. Infinite lives was definitely the way to go with this game though. Without that, I probably would have broken my Vita out of frustration. If you still haven't played this game, you should probably do that. PS, for whatever reason, I've had this on Steam for like a year and never bothered to get very far, but the second I have it on a portable I devour it in two weeks. What is it about portables that makes platformers so much more appealing on them?

Hahaha. Awesome. I have a weird relationship with this game, in that I only actually seem to end up playing it when I'm staying with my girlfriend at her uncle's house to babysit his dog. I have one dungeon left to go, after starting it two Januarys ago. I start dogsitting again on the 9th. I will be finishing this game then.