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Cruised through Mighty Switch Force tonight. It only took an hour and a half. This game is basically a 2D version of the switch foot Galaxies in Super Mario Galaxy. Do you like those stages? You would probably like this game. It tries to encourage speed runs (even with the main character taking off more clothes at the end the better you do) and I may go back and try my hand at some of them. Virt's music is fucking awesome. Best part of the game. I'm slightly underwhelmed, but I enjoyed it enough.

Man, what a fucking game. I feel pumped right now, epic shit.

Wow, look at you, beating a Game Club game twice in a row!

I gotta get in there and finish the battle.

i just DL'ed jamestown off steam for 2.50. the story behind it is hilarious/awesome. i'll give it a shot a bit nore tomorrow.

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Yo, I don't know if you guys have heard about this Jamestown game, but it's pretty damn awesome.

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Yeah I got it in that indie bundle thing. I played through the first 3-4 missions (a few times) and had a blast. Which of the 4 ships do you guys use? So far I've found the first one the most effective. The Charger is okay and I'm not too big on the other two.

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Charge is where it's at.

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I like the damage that the charger shot does but I find it a bit too one-directional sometimes. I think that's why I like the beam. It covers a lot of the screen and then when you need to focus something down you switch to the beam shot.

edit: goddamn Croatoa is hard.

Also I got the Gunpowder, Treason and Plot DLC for $0.75. The new ships are pretty interesting. So far I really like Plot (Guy Fawkes) his homing missiles are pretty sweets. The only issue is that he slows down substantially while you charge them.

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Yeah, Charge was my GoTo ship. It wreaks havoc on Chapter 5.

In this game you shoot a lot of robots with bullets.

I ended up enjoying Steel Diver way more than I should have. The game is split up into three modes, two of which have any value. There is Mission mode, which is a campaign made up a whopping 7 stages, periscope mode, and Steel Commander, a turn based "strategy" game. Periscope mode is a wash, I don't even know why it's included. After you finish a stage in the campaign, you do periscope mode as a bonus stage to earn decals. It's a short 30 second timed thing where you just blast as many ships as you can. Doing this in its own mode doesn't net you any decals and there aren't really any stages or point to it. The Steel Commander game stinks. I tried it last night and I probably won't play it again.

The missions though, I love them. It's probably the most slow and should be boring game, but there is just something about the slow pace that makes it kind of exciting. Controlling the sub is really difficult, you do it through a couple of sliders on the touch screen. I don't really know how to describe it, but I found myself tensing up as I'd slowly watch my sub careen into the side of a wall, knowing that I fucked up and had no choice but to watch this thing get smashed.

In order to try and add length to the 7 stages, you need to beat them all three times each with each ship. This is the only way to unlock stages 6 and 7. So it's a total cheat to make this game longer, but I didn't mind it too much. I had more fun than I thought with the different subs. There are also time trial stages here too, which I do plan on finishing actually.

It's very old school in design. There are no check points in the stages and if you lose, you're fucked and need to do the whole 10 minute stage over again. The limited number of stages also calls back to the days of yesterday. It just feels like something made from 15 years ago. It's weird in that respect, but I think that's why I like it.

Incoming nerd fact. Also, I noticed there was a co developer on this game, Vitei. I had thought this game was done completely in house at Nintendo. Then on the credit roll I saw the lead programmer was Giles Goddard, whom I actually thought left Nintendo. I looked it up and Vitei is his company, so even though it wasn't made in house by Nintendo, it was still made by Nintendo blood. Goddard doesn't have the most extensive list of credits at Nintendo, but the dude programmed 1080 Snowboarding in like 6 months, worked on SNES Star Fox and programmed that (then) unbelievable Mario face at the start of Mario 64, so the guy is kind of the man.

Moments before we record Game Club, I have woneth the Jamestown.