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GLaD 7: Castlevania Order of Ecclesia, Missing Item Rage Quit
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 On 03/07/2013 at 03:57 PM by Super Step See More From This User » |
Bing Image Mad Libz of the Day: A picture of Demi Lovato that has an Uncanny Valley way of reminding me of an ex-girlfriend, a public sculpture picture that most reminds me of the cow ones I saw visiting Boston in summer of '05, but in zebra form, and a picture of Tom Cruise with a similar haircut, sweater, and pallor to mine have a three way to make a Castlevania game.
The result: a beautiful, tightly controlling game with a cool glyph mechanic that lets you magically enchance your weapons for various combos ... but also pisses me the fuck off. I'm guessing that DNA came from the zebra; had to be artificially inseminated, then they realized all they were doing was making the foetus ingest paint, and that the idea from Scientology Game Master Tom Cruise was fucking stupid to start with. Philip Seymour Hoffman had this to say:
"I don't always let Cruise handle our shit, but when I do, I always have conflicting feelings."
That reminds me, The Master is on Red Box now. Might go pick it up and try to follow it better this time, without a delicious Studio Movie Grill burger distracting me.
Anyway, as I said, Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia is an excellently designed game, with awesome 2D graphics sometimes mixed with 3D backgrounds or objects, and a badass weapons upgrade system that leads to some pretty awesome results.
I wasn't aware women could have a small penis complex, but here we are.
It's also quite a bit more difficult than its predecessor, Portrait of Ruin, which I have beaten, but while it gets frustrating in parts, especially if you don't know the right glyph/weapon combo for a boss, that's not a problem; frankly, the challenge was fun, and probably elongated the gameplay for me, and I thought the save point were fair, usually popping up before a boss fight and in not-terrible places otherwise.
No, my beef is with the fact I was not aware there is a certain "item" needed to beat a certain boss in the level/stage/map/whatever "Mystery Manor," and after I beat him, was told Game Over because I didn't have it. Had something to do with assholes like this:
Fuck all of you, and your stupid pets
Now, it's very possible the game told me the side quest of rescuing all the villagers was necessary. Too bad there was a lot of space in between the times I played it, and I must have forgotten this fact.
My other problem, is that there was one villager stuck behind a wall somewhere, and in order to get them out, I needed to mix an item with another item that was dropped at a very low rate and only in certain areas, according to GameFAQs. So, I grinded and grinded, to no avail. The item, much like delicious white chocolate Hershey bars no longer sold near me, seemed to say "I know you want me, but I'm never coming near you again." Bastards.
And so, it remains in my backlog currently, I will pick it up and play it again, because it is an awesome game, but this series of events really pissed me off and felt unfair, so I'm going to have to ease myself back in, playing it while sitting on an inflatable donut with an ice pack in it, as a pre-emptive strike for the incoming reaming.
A good reaming earns one 50 points in the Slytherin House
Have you ever not progressed in a game, only to find out you weren't able to because you missed that one thing you were supposed to get, and felt exhausted just thinking about the backtracking?
In other news, Catching Fire is part of my book-reading backlog, so I'll get back to that today, I think. If you leave spoilers in the comments, I will find and kill you, mostly using Google Search, Maps, and a drone made to look like a zebra sculpture.
Pictured Above: Your lawn, When I'm done with it. My zebra drone is an artist.
Finally, here's some music.
Since we talked about Castlevania today, have this death metal song whose title is a reference to Castlevania II. What A Horrible Night to Have a Curse, indeed. Saw these guys in 2007 with 3 Inches of Blood opening for them (I was there for 3IoB, mostly), but didn't really get to experience them like I should, so I need to catch them again, some time.
As many of you well know, I have an unhealthy obsession with the number 3 (having my guest number be 333 at Braum's recently and 3 at In N Out today hasn't helped that), so of course I love this metal band, whose album Fire Up the Blades, produced by Joey Jordison, is an all-time favorite of mine. This is one of my favorite songs from it, and if you want to know what they're like in concert, here's a 1up blog about the one I was talking about above from when I was 17, with BDM headlining.
And hey, in keeping with the 3 theme, here's Three Days Grace, with lyrics that basically describe why I love music: when it's really good, it's almost like it takes you to a higher plane of existence, or at least lifts your spirit.
Happy Thursday!
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