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This is one of my favourite Castlevania games to break. There are a bunch of pretty easy sequence breaks.
Using a knife style weapon that has the backstab special attack can activate switches behind walls/doors, allowing you to skip chunks of the map.
There is also the combination of using the succubus soul and the previously mentioned exploit to just straight-up glitch through walls ๐
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Ignoring those names for a second...
The DS was the perfect device to have an array of tools, like dictionaries developed for it. I had an electronic dictionary when I was abroad, and it was just an amazing device that cost me a small fortune...
I still have it somewhere, but today, I tend to go to Jisho.org whenever I need to translate the odd word
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I am very out of practice with my Japanese. Though I recently found my Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar, which is a fantastic but chunky, yellow book that really helped me during my university course.
That being said, grammar was never my problem. Vocabulary was always the hardest thing for me.
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I feel like I am being threatened with a good time...
I'll have to have a bit of a fish around. See if i can find a translation patch. Sadly, DS games are a pain in the butt for emulation, mostly because of that damn Dual Screen thing.
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I know it calls it bad.
But that bomb disposal squad game looks like prime meme material.
I'd be down for trying that ๐
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I sank a ridiculous amount of time into Disgaea DS. Just constantly jumping back into the item world to get progressively better items until I was strong enough to smack down the Dark Council whenever I wanted to push through stuff.
I did eventually Prinny Baal, that was my crowning achievement from that game.
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Both Deep Fear and Enemy Zero are on my list to play!
God knows when I will get around to them though.
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Future Perfect is an absolute god-tier game, they clearly had some writers who understood the absurdities of time travel and leaned into that.
"Take this, you'll need it"
passes ghost gun
"Where did you get this from?"
"I dunno. The previous me gave it to me!"
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This god damn game ๐
I never finished this one, and it is on the list.
I remember that it had lots of really obtuse collectibles, which are sometimes alluded to, and other times they are not.
Like in the first stage, if you use the crashed rocket's engines to incinerate a sheep corpse, you get a special thing. I only knew about that because it was in a magazine.
Definitely have mixed feelings about going back to that one when I get a chance ๐
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As an adult, I can appreciate it, and in fact MGS2 has one of my favourite stories.
I think at the time it really fed into the hero worship of Solid Snake, and as you said, masterfully played
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My favourite thing about the build-up to MGS2 was not mentioning Raiden or the main plot at all and then being blindsided by the bait and switch ๐
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I'll get some footage to demonstrate it because it is hilarious.
Also, it makes Boss Rush super easy when you can just skip certain annoying bosses, allowing you to get the Rocket Propelled Grenade easily. The RPG isn't as good as it sounds sadly... But this is Castlevania, not Devil May Cry