…So I can play them again
 
You know what sucks when there is a game you love to death but just for some reason can not go back and play. Most of the time I find that its mainly cause I remember too much about the game and me being me I get bored too easily. It can be the best game ever but if I’m getting bored and frustrated there is no point to me going on. The next 10 games are the games I want to go back and play again, but I can’t for some reason or another and I just wish I could wipe my memory of them so I can play them again.
 

When WiiWare came out there wasn’t a hell of a lot to play through all I picked up at launch was the amazing Toki Tori and Lost Winds (Toki Tori was a launch WiiWare game for us lot in the PAL regions). I got Lost Winds on launch day and would of finished it within a day. I’m not going to gripe on the length of the game, it was only a 1500 point game which I think is near 20 bucks Aus which I think is fair for a game that took me 4 hours. So while the game only took me 4 hours to finish, what an amazing 4 hours that was. Problem with such a short game is that there is hardly any replay value in it. Half the enjoyment I got out of Lost Winds was walking around trying to figure out where to go next. Now I know where to go and what to do and it really destroys the fun of it for me going back. Man I so hope they make a sequel sooner or later, soo want to go back to that game world soon.


 

I haven’t finished this game yet and trust me its not through lack of trying. I think I have had at least 3 failed attempts at finishing it. First time I got near the end, got the uber sword and everything and then cause I was a cheap ass and got a dodgy 3rd party memory card the game wiped on me. Second time I got to just before the end realised I had missed something and couldn’t get the uber sword, being the perfectionist that I am, I gave up and tried again. Final play through I just honestly could not be bothered I knew what was going to happen and as Eternal Darkness is not really a game with a strong gameplay system there was not much to keep me going and got bored. I just want to finish the game but its soo hard trying to sit through the same old levels over and over again.




I tried playing this again the other day, I was really in the mood for something Zelda related and 2d. I got up to the second dungeon I think and was just meh. Its an awesome game and all I’m not denying that, its just I’ve played it way way way too many times now and it just I dunno dare I say it feels boring to play now. I know whats going to happen, I can hum the themes in my head off by heart. It just all seems same old same old. Man I feel bad just for saying this. To be fair to the game this is the Zelda I have played the most if only cause its the one I've had the longest and maybe if I give it a break for a few years I'll be able to go back and play it again, one day.
 



I have a problem with RPGs in that I will pick them up, play halfway through them get bored (yay for ADD), stop playing for a few weeks come back and then have no idea where I was and really don’t want to start the game again because I know I’m gonna get bored again and even quicker this time cause I already know what’s going to happen more or less and I just really can’t be arsed sitting through 20 hours of gameplay to get back up to were I was, but I also for the life of me everytime I put it in can’t recall where the hell I am meant to go next. And not knowing where the hell I need to go is one of the most frustrating things in any RPG. So I want to forget I ever played the game so I can play it again cause I forget what I had done in the game, if that makes any sort of sense.


 

God damn I hate emulators. In my earlier days it was fine for me to play a game via an emulator I had no qualms about it at all. So I played through a ROM of Chrono Trigger, a game that sadly until the DS version never came out down here. I enjoyed my play through and finished the game. A few years latter when I was on a major retro game shopping spree I decided to pick up the game again cause lets face it, it is a damn amazing game. But alas I could not play through I had spoiled the game for myself and just really couldn’t be bothered. It’s the same with most RPGs once you’ve played through the game you’ve kinda seen everything, I know Chrono is different with its multiple endings and so on and I am trying to slog through it on DS right now. Still I really wish I hadn’t ruined the game for myself, so would of loved to have played it the way it was intended to be played.


 

After Fallout 3, this was my fav game of 2008, it was such an amazing experience to play through. Such an amazingly awesome puzzle game, each puzzle builds upon the last and makes you do things in new and interesting ways. So many OMG moments in the game when I finally figured out a solution to a puzzle. That’s also one of the pains about playing it again now. The experience is never going to be as strong as the first play through. I know what has to be done with each puzzle now and it really takes away that experience of figuring out the right answer. True the game does have a lot of replay value what with the OCD challenges and the World of Goo headquarters, but still I’m never gonna be able to play the game again and have the same experience and that sucks.
 



This goes for both the Golden Sun games just cause I more consider them 2 parts of the same game. I loved the Golden Sun games, easily up there as the best games on the Game Boy Advance. But again as is with most RPGs, there is just not really much incentive to play through them again. And its not like I haven’t tried but I just can’t seem to do it. I’m sure it’s a gameplay thing as with a lot of RPGs playing the same the main enjoyment I get out of them is the story, but when you know whats going to happen there is little reason to play through it again. Oh well at least there is the upcoming DS one to get me back into the games so yay for that.




I can still remember the first time I played this game, I got it from the shop and then got on the train to go to work, I then spent the next 20 mins on the train just paying the first level, a level you can finish in 3 mins if you want. I was just having soo much fun on it. I would have had the biggest goofiest grin on my face ever. That’s why I want to wipe my memory of this game, so I can play that first level again the way I did the first time. That and I've also played the hell out of this game, finished it with all characters, got all coins theres not a hell of a lot more for me to do in the game. This game is easily my fav DS game right now and I think I'm gonna need to blog more on it sooner or later. But I love this game to death and it would be soo awesome to wipe my mind clear and fall in love with it all over again.


 

I guess this goes with a lot Point & Click adventure games, once you’ve played through the game once theres not a hell of a lot of point to go back. You know where everything is you know every puzzle you know what you need to do. Which is annoying as hell cause it takes all the challenge out of it. Monkey Island is the main one for me just because its honestly the best one I’ve played and also cause I really want to play the new version on XBLA but I just can’t get into it cause I know everything like the back of my hand. That and I really don’t like the graphical style, if I could play with the old skin and the voice over I would, but alas you have to take the good with the bad.


 

This is the same as Kirby Canvas Curse, the game is still amazingly fun to play, but nothing in the world can compare to playing this through the first time. The first time you are in the Egg Galaxy with that music playing and this amazing little world to run all around and then you see whats around you, wow. Or how about the first time you see Mario flying through space with his arms stretched out. I know there is a sequel coming up, but I know what to expect with that, there is no way I’m ever gonna get the same feeling as I did when I first played it.


Or maybe instead of writing about how I can't play the games I've already played maybe I should just try and finish half the games I've got that I havent finished yet, but you know that would be like productive and not wasting time like writing this artivle was :P