Not sure if I remember any video game references in The Wind Rises, but I would imagine it probably wasn't intentional, as Miyazaki's not to big into video games. However, after watching the movie, I had a strange hankering to play me some 1942 and 1943.
Borderlands 2 Session Recap and Trivia about Wind Rises
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 On 03/04/2014 at 01:44 AM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
I played about eight hours of Borderlands 2 today with my buddy Mark. We played our own separate games for a while. I was going for rocket splash damage and shotgun point-blank kills in the Challenges, and so I ratcheted down the difficulty because doing close combat with an Assassin on True Vault Hunter mode was getting me killed way too often. I’m happy to find out that the game saves the state of the world for each difficulty mode so you can go back to it later without losing anything.
Playing on Normal at level 46 was pretty fun. You are “nigh-invulnerable” like The Tick. I quickly got my 200 rocket splash damage kills and then ran through several levels like The Caustic Caverns and The Wildlife Reserve looking for Chubby monsters, which are just fatter versions of the regular monsters, all the while racking up point-blank shotgun kills. I didn’t find any Chubbies, but I got a lot of shotgun kills.
On the road to 750 of them, I joined up in Mark’s game to jump on some couches for a location based Challenge in Bloodshot Stronghold and beat Hyperius and then Master Gee to complete the side quests in the Captain Scarlett. . . DLC. Hyperius, with our better weapons and higher level from playing True Vault Hunter mode the last few days, was not as hard as it was the first time and we beat him, but Master Gee was a bit harder. I ended up dying several times and had to watch Mark finish the fight. We both got the connected achievement afterwards thankfully.
Mr. Torgue who sounds like Randy Savage
Then we downloaded the Mr. Torgue’s. . . DLC and started in on that. I reached 750 shotgun point-blank kills and then looked up the last two Challenges for the achievement. One was dueling wins, which we did for each other really quickly; and the other was killing Jimmy Jenkins, a loot midget which spawns randomly. I looked up a description of just how to farm for it, which involves replaying the last part of a mission in The Wildlife Reserve. There’s a room where the holding cells are, which contains a box that releases a loot midget. If you repeat the mission enough, maybe four or five times, one of the six possible midgets will be Jenkins. I decided to hold off on that for the time being and just played more of Mr. Torgue’s. . . DLC.
I thought to myself, as Mark and I played, 'finally I’m done with rocket launchers and shotguns and can go back to my sniper rifles'; however, I noticed that with two players at level 40-something, on Normal mode, it was really, really easy. Every shot was a one-hit kill. Even the first boss went down pretty quickly. And the loot was totally useless to me. I stopped even picking it up after a while. My friend Mark was having a ball smashing around, wielding two rocket launchers at once, but I was getting pretty bored. I figured the only way this would be fun for me was if I used a SMG and ran around like a maniac, spraying bullets everywhere. And so, when it came time to stop, I made it my plan for next time.
Side Note:
I noticed a video game reference in the film The Wind Rises that I forgot to mention last blog. If anyone has seen the movie, tell me in the comments if you know what I mean. I even looked up the meaning of the thing and it fits perfectly into the movie. So I’m not crazy. Being a gamer gives you added insight at times.
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