Can Pcenginefx beat all licensed TurboGrafx-16 games in 2016/2017? (115/135)

[esteban]

You should give it another shot. It really is a good game. I get sucked in and next thing I know I've been playing for two or more hours.

Honestly I didn't know anything about it when I started. And I'm probably missing things from not reading the manual.
Like every time I attacked by ninjas, I'm dead. I know I am to block the sharokens, but I'm not 100% sure how.

Well, this is why I am following this thread. It totally got me psyched about this game again (knowing that others were enthusiastically playing it and making progress).

It is "motivational" and "aspirational"....

[Psycho Punch]

I just watched one of your horse back attacks. Some advice, you are going at them way too fast and crazy. I stay in a straight line, and let them fall back to you. Then try and attack at a diagonal direction.

I think your hint helped me this time but I'm still not 100% sure if killing a warlord depends on a blessing from the RNG gods or just very tight timing.


I'm not giving any spoilers but there's more than meets the eye in the game. The "New objectives always arise!" written in the manual is not to be taken lightly. I'll update this post with the playthrough video.

ps: my DUO almost gave up on me reading the burned game during a cutscene, I need to buy an actual copy of the game already. I don't have the video up yet because I have to edit the last dialog bits with the audio extracted from the disc to compensate a read error.

[esteban]

Carry on, Punch and mitsuman.

Carry on.

[Psycho Punch]

I just got killed by a ninja. Good thing there's SEL + RUN!
I need to stop playing and start uploading. I wonder if the CPU is forced to kill himself if the player wins at the ninja sequence.

Carry on, Punch and mitsuman.

Carry on.

SCENE 6
SOMEWHERE IN THE JAPANS - SUNDAY

Guy: "Fuck off bitch I don't have time for this boyfriend shit right now"
Guy moves girl out of his lap, runs towards the camera; profile shot with SFX BG
Guy (thinking narration): "Gotta play some PC Engine..."

[Psycho Punch]

Thank you Mitsuman, without your horseback pursuit hint I really wouldn't have beaten the game.



The story isn't very complex but it was way more than I expected. I enjoyed this game a lot, wish I knew how to properly kill generals back when I thought this was a bad game.

edit: final chapter of the video series literally no one's watching or cares about

[esteban]

Punch: I can't watch too much *now* until I've played this game again myself.



However, without the explanations in this thread, I don't think I would have completely understood how this game works.



TRANSLATION: This video series will be cherished by someone, someday. Have faith in the Lords*, my son.



 *of Thunder.

[mitsuman]

Oh man, that is awesome!
I'm off work today. I'm thinking I'll go fire up the Duo and get back at it with Kiyomori.

I watched the last part of the video. The ending sequences are pretty great.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

Impossimole is impossible.  In every way, it's not that it's over the top challenging, it's just so unfair and disrespectful to your brain whilest playing. I just... I don't think it's possible to play through every level. 

[esteban]

Impossimole is impossible.  In every way, it's not that it's over the top challenging, it's just so unfair and disrespectful to your brain whilest playing. I just... I don't think it's possible to play through every level. 

I have beaten Impossamole several times.

It has bad hit detection, for sure.

The last boss is YUUUUUGE, but kinda anti-climatic....still....

There are better things to do with your time unless Impossamole grows on you (I don't hate the game).

[JoshTurboTrollX]

Impossimole is impossible.  In every way, it's not that it's over the top challenging, it's just so unfair and disrespectful to your brain whilest playing. I just... I don't think it's possible to play through every level. 

I have beaten Impossamole several times.

It has bad hit detection, for sure.

The last boss is YUUUUUGE, but kinda anti-climatic....still....

There are better things to do with your time unless Impossamole grows on you (I don't hate the game).

Then play through it, take a snap with your snappy phone cam and post it here so we can get it off this list!! 

[Bardoly]

I think this thread about King of Casino counts as another clear.

https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=22030.0

-EDIT- After a dozen more failed attempts, I realized something and decided to try a VERY RISKY strategy that miraculously paid off. If any CPU opponent gets a large payout in poker, the whole thing crumbles. Luckily (this time), they never got poker payouts big enough to threaten the scheme (although one came excruciatingly close).  Here are some better looking pics of my second triumph over the other 4 CPU opponents.

-The five casinos where I won my five rounds. Some of my favorite fruit in there. 


-The screen where the game crowns the 'King of Casino'.


-Game developer, Victor Musical Industries, Inc. at the end of the credit roll.


-One final affirmation from the game. It felt even MORE deserved this time.


Oh, just in case anyone wants to get the $10 million without doing any of the work, here's a code for $9.999M:
EYOY UZSZ GYPA JEHW

Yes, I would agree that this counts as having beat the game.

Thank you Mitsuman, without your horseback pursuit hint I really wouldn't have beaten the game.



The story isn't very complex but it was way more than I expected. I enjoyed this game a lot, wish I knew how to properly kill generals back when I thought this was a bad game.

edit: final chapter of the video series literally no one's watching or cares about

(Lords of the Rising Sun Yoshitsune #9 - Killing Yoritomo, ENDING)

Updated today.  Well, we as a forum have knocked out 2 of the 22 remaining so far this year.  Can we beat any more ?

[JoshTurboTrollX]

Updated today.  Well, we as a forum have knocked out 2 of the 22 remaining so far this year.  Can we beat any more?

Your demands seem to be Impossimole! 

... Ah crap.  I'll keep trying... ;)

[ghataa]

Beat Military Madness more times than I can count. I love that game. When I first played it on the Turbo in 1989, I pulled an all-nighter.

The only other game that I found that addicting was Dune 2 on the PC a few years later.

One nice thing about being "ahem" older was experiencing the birth of so many game genres. Everything felt novel and fresh.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

So assuming we don't get through the last games in our list for '16-'17, should we do a startover thread on New Years 2018?  I'm kind of excited to try this once again next year.

I would definitely like to start with some of the more difficult 'gems', but it might encourage people to give these a shot again. 

Maybe we'll do it this next time where multiple people can clear games? So like Military Madness could have clears by Nectarsis, Necromancer, and Nectrosister. and we'll just tally up all the clears.  That was if a popular game like Air Zonk is already cleared, we can still include clears.

So for example, we could have clears like this:
2018 -
Total clears 256
Library completed 115/135

or something like that. 

Thoughts? 

[turboswimbz]

So assuming we don't get through the last games in our list for '16-'17, should we do a startover thread on New Years 2018?  I'm kind of excited to try this once again next year.

I would definitely like to start with some of the more difficult 'gems', but it might encourage people to give these a shot again. 

Maybe we'll do it this next time where multiple people can clear games? So like Military Madness could have clears by Nectarsis, Necromancer, and Nectrosister. and we'll just tally up all the clears.  That was if a popular game like Air Zonk is already cleared, we can still include clears.

So for example, we could have clears like this:
2018 -
Total clears 256
Library completed 115/135

or something like that. 

Thoughts? 

Great Idea.  Perhaps we should create a clears goal?  can we hit 500 or 1,000?

Perhaps a raffle or other goodie could be in the works if we hit a goal? (Kickstarter style lol) 

JUSt spitballin, but I think it could be a ton of fun.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

A prize to whoever has the most clears?  Damn, that's a cool idea. I'd pitch in $20 to see everyone go wilde with clears! 

Or like, give out little prizes if someone can knock off one of the 20 bastards that kept us from achieving our '16-'17 goals.  lol  Those rotten jerks!!