Goemon

I literally yesterday spent an obscene amount of money buying Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru. I don’t normally get caught up in buying expensive retro games but something got me obsessed with tracking that game down. I’ve had a number of sell offs over the years but my Saturn stuff has always survived the cut. One year I sold at NERG and someone actually commented on the fact. He said something like “There something missing here...SF, MD, Neo Geo, PS1, DC, PS2....where’s the Saturn stuff?”

If you can deal with the volcano you can deal with anything the game can throw at you. It definitely has some of the trickiest platforming you’ll encounter.

Claire B This scenario is what Claire does based on what you’ve just done as Leon A

One thing I find interesting is do collectors go for this stuff and are there/should there be mega expensive versions of games that are early revisions? Sorry, not to thread highjack... People buy junk games for crazy money because they were released in limited numbers but what about something like a REV00 of Sonic? Surely this is rare and collectible too as there would be a small amount released before moving to REV01?

The other thing to point out (from what I remember) is that you have to finish DLC 1 in order to play DLC 2

I think the point for me is that it's right up there. This isn't just some half baked soulsborne clone, this is a superb title with a lot of it's own merits and can easily sit with the big boys. Disregard it at your peril.

I would be interested to know if your feeling would change if you pushed on to the next character (Frog) and the double jump ability... The Frog is pretty much like the boy controls wise, so jumps higher, has a sword attack. He also eats mosquitos. Once you have this character you will literally only go back to the pig or the snake for sections that require them specifically. General gameplay you will use the frog. Getting this character and all characters after WILL change the game a lot. I’d be tempted to tell you to push on until you at least have the frog and then see how you feel. It’s up to you though.

That's a shame, Moose. Quite surprised you got right through the Dragons Trap, yet you're struggling with this. I personally thought TDT was harder. Dying in that game put you like RIGHT back at the beginning and sometimes you could be miles into a level. One thing I think it might be is that this is more broken up into smaller sections (due to checkpoints) but the sections are harder. So while you're never too far from a checkpoint getting to the next one can be tricky. Where are you now @moosegrinder? Would be interested to know if you have got a few items to make platforming easier...

Been playing for a couple of hours, suitably terrifying. However part of me wishes I played hardcore mode. I think they’ve undervalued the tension gained by having limited saves, which hardcore forces you to do. Playing standard mode and using my survival instincts I’m like, I’ll do this, and save. Go there do that, save. Run back for that, save. You could say well just don’t save so often but in a survival game like this you’d be considered foolhardy not to prepare yourself. I suppose they have to appease the casuals but I think anyone considering a true RE experience should think about hardcore mode. The only thing that put me off hardcore was that enemies are supposed to be tougher and I couldn’t cope with a realised nightmare of undying zombies continuing to come at me no matter how many bullets I put into it.

There is a natural order to the boss fights, that make them easier if you have the right weapon but if you get to a boss and you can’t beat him then all you do try another level...It’s not really the case that you ‘can’t progress”. It’s not wasted time either as you have to learn the levels regardless. All that happens is that you return to the level with the right weapon and you can get through it much easier because you already know the level.

Looks great, will grab it this weekend

It did indeed, can’t play until later tonight though...

I just got a dispatched email from TheGameCollection

Miduki is an amazing player of these types of action games. I remember messaging him/her to ask them to play this game as they didn’t have any Nioh videos on the channel when I was playing it. Another great player is XLHGladiator mild spoilers of characters, weapons and normal enemies...

Another item you can get, which is more rare, is something called “Summoners Candle” which will call you guardian spirit back to you with all your Amrita. You may still be able to take him with some practice. I spent an age on this guy as I loved the fight and wanted to beat him without healing. I don’t remember my level but he could kill me pretty swiftly. Heres my video of the fight, it’s no where near the skill level you can get in this game but it’s probably a good indicator for you