11-Mar-19 8:11pm
#1

Frank

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Welcome to The GameTZ Game Club! This is my attempt at forming an easy to get into book club type thing, but with games! Anybody, and everybody, is welcome to join in on the fun!

Rules:

- Each month a random game will be chosen, by myself, for the club to play. Games can vary from the beginning of gaming onward to current-generation platforms. There are no limitations!

- You have from the 1st of every month to 11:59PM EST of the final day to complete the designated game. 100% completion isn't required. The point of the club is to provoke game discussion, as well as give GameTZ veterans and new users a place to mingle!]

- For every game completed, post a picture as proof of your completion Example. This is essential in order to receive your badge and entry to the monthly raffle.

- You will be awarded with a badge each month you complete the game. All badges will be proudly displayed next to your name in the original post. As long as you "roll credits" the game is considered beaten!

- Some months will feature prizes! Every user to complete the game of the month will be thrown into a drawing to win prizes! Users will be assigned a number and users will be randomly generated at some point the following month.

- Prizes will vary. Prizes will beon a donation basis by either me or another member. Sometimes physical, sometimes digital. If you would like to contribute, drop me a message.

- If you don't own the game, and you have access to it on another platform, you're welcome to play it that way. Just make sure that it's the same version, to qualify for the prize or badge.

- If you do not want to participate in the games, but would like to join in on the conversations, please do!

- If you would like to join, just post here, and I'll add you to the list of users. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or criticism, please don't hesitate to post them!

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Yoshi's Island
Initial Release Dates: 1995 | 2002
Platforms: SNES | GBA
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Badge Opportunities

image Platinum TZ - Just join the Game Club group and you'll be granted this complimentary first badge.

image Monthly - Complete the chosen monthly game to earn the badge.

image Previous Months - Complete any ONE badge of month’s past. (One additional per month)

image Gold TZ - Complete 20 or more games to receive the Gold TZ Badge.

image Contributor - Contribute a prize at least once to earn the contributor badge.

image Secret Santa - Participate in at least one GameTZ Secret Santa or High Roller Gift Exchange.

image Custom Badge There is no official way to receive one. So far only 3 have been granted

Members:

Past Months:

image March 2024: Tomb Raider Trilogy (Original)
image February 2024: Mario Vs Donkey Kong
image January 2024: Hi-Fi Rush

image December 2023: Spider-Man Miles Morales | Spider-Man 2
image October 2023: Resident Evil 4 | Resident Evil 4 (2023)
image September 2023: Dead Space Franchise
image July 2023: New Super Mario Bros. Franchise
image June 2023: Mirror's Edge Franchise
image May 2023: Just Shapes & Beats
image March 2023: Metroid Prime
image February 2023: Cuphead
image January 2023: High on Life

image December 2022: Super Mario World
image November 2022: Bioshock 2
image October 2022: Death Stranding
image September 2022: Stray
image August 2022: Chernoblite
image July 2022: TMNT Franchise
image May 2022: Gris
imageApril 2022: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
image March 2022: Subsurface Circular
image February 2022: Crysis Franchise
image January 2022 : Marvel's Spider-Man

image November 2021: Ori Franchise
image October 2021: Until Dawn
image September 2021: Guitar Hero Franchise
image August 2021: Metroid | Metroid Zero Mission
image July 2021: Tetris Effect
image June 2021: Horizon Zero Dawn
image May 2021: Ghost Squad
image April 2021: Bioshock
image March 2021: LittleBigPlanet Franchise
image February 2021: MediEvil
image January 2021: Super Mario Galaxy

image November 2020: Oddworld Abe's Odyssey
image October 2020: Resident Evil 7
image September 2020: Batman: Arkham City
image August 2020: Trover Saves The Universe
image July 2020: Super Mario Land
image June 2020: Untitled Goose Game
image May 2020: Tacoma
image April 2020: Last of Us
image March 2020: Shovel Knight
image February 2020: Portal 2

image December 2019: Outer Worlds
image November 2019: Yooka-Laylee
image October 2019: Resident Evil 2 (2019)
image September 2019: Doom
image August 2019: Steamworld Dig
image July 2019: Journey
image June 2019: Super Mario RPG
image May 2019: Borderlands
image April 2019: Adventure Island

Skipping Messages Here

1-Feb-24 11:00pm
#81

Frank

Renaissance2K wrote:
Looks like this includes the GBA original?Yessir. Those who want to play the original can get a 16-day head start.

That said, the original was only about 5 hours long, so I'm just going to wait for the remake myself.

2-Feb-24 6:54pm
#82

citizen_zane

Excellent choice! I'll be playing this one on my work breaks.

2-Feb-24 7:46pm
#83

SwiftJAB

Not in the NSO GBA library 😞 I guess I'll be doing a makeup one this month. I've been meaning to play Stray or I might also finally beat Borderlands.

5-Feb-24 6:52pm
#84

citizen_zane

Just finished the first two worlds. This game is quite fun! I've had to replay a few of the levels to earn a high enough score for a star, which is based on time. About halfway through the second level, the difficulty started to increase some. I'm sure It's going to get more difficult as I progress, so I won't be burning through the rest of the game as fast as I did the first two worlds.

11-Feb-24 12:50am
#85

Slickriven

Like Citizen Zane, I too just finished the first 2 worlds and similarly I did replay just 1 stage in world 1 to get the star and I think I ended up with like 8 or 9 as after that I didn't bother. In world 2 I did sense the difficulty spike a little as well, but some of that was from meh controls on the ropes and me pushing a little too much as I got a hair frustrated at times - typical for me and a Mario title. I think I only got like 2 stars in the 2nd world and a few I didn't even get all of the 3 presents. So it's hit or miss, but it is fast and I think I'll stick with it and knock it out and clearly not focus on getting all of the stars and just target completing all 6 worlds.

11-Feb-24 6:57pm
#86

Slickriven

Just did world 3 and yeah the difficulty and controls started to get worse IMO. Took me likely as long to beat w3 as it did w1&2 combined. But oddly enough I got stars on all but the first 2 stages so <shrug>
Will stick with this and might look at doing just half a world per session to avoid too much annoyance.

11-Feb-24 7:15pm
#87

Renaissance2K

1 and 2 were a breeze. 3 is when things started to get real. I really struggled with 4 and am starting to worry about my stockpile of lives.

It's fun, though.

11-Feb-24 9:02pm
#88

Slickriven

Got another session in, beat world 4 now. First 4 stages weren't too bad so I just kept going. Ended up with just 2 or 3 stars and I think 2 levels where I didn't get all the presents as I have enough lives to not care too much. Then I got stumped in the toy box level and had to look up a solution - sad, but I'm fighting a head cold so I'm a little foggy.

11-Feb-24 11:44pm
#89

Slickriven

Another session, world 5 sucks so far, only could tolerate 3 stages before my frustration/annoyance boiled over and I took a break.

12-Feb-24 6:13pm
#90

Slickriven

Another session down, world 5 is done and the toybox and DK fight stunk - nearly ran out of time in the toybox but still got a star, so they simply don't give you much time. Then took several tries to get a good understanding on where to stand to avoid damage and managed to beat DK w/o getting hit. Got 6/8 stars in this world which feels absurd b/c I'm not great at this, but I've tried to collect all 3 packages most times and as long as I grasp what progress path they expect, I can get most stages fast enough.

12-Feb-24 11:09pm
#91

citizen_zane

I've just finished level 4-3. There's no way I'm getting a gold star on this one. I'm gonna give up on trying to get those.

13-Feb-24 12:09am
#92

Slickriven

Thankfully that's over with, proof in spoiler tags below.
To zero surprise, world 6 got even worse... and then the final showdown was a bit unexpected at first, but you only get 1 hit which stinks, I ended with lots of lives but I likely used them all by using save states. The final toybox wasn't too bad, but either my d-pad up was already bad or it's now toast as you need that a bit in the final world for swinging on tightropes or throwing things up to the next level and mine seemed sporadic at best. Might have to retire that controller, at least for older games that rely on it more.

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Worst part might be that there are + mode levels now to play, forget that noise...

13-Feb-24 5:33pm
#93

PizzaTheHutt

I'm going for a make up badge this month. Last night I finally started up the Resident Evil 4 remake on PSVR2. So far so good. I've beaten the flat version back in 2005 on GameCube and then around a decade later on Steam. Now playing it almost a decade later again, but in VR, it feels like a totally new game because I barely remember any of what I've played through so far. I look forward to that minecart section in VR coming up later on.

13-Feb-24 7:37pm
#94

citizen_zane

@Frank - I just noticed that a Secret Santa badge can be obtainted if somone "Participate(s) in at least one GameTZ Secret Santa or High Roller Gift Exchange." It looks as though I did way back in 2013. Check our trade history and gimmie dat badge!

13-Feb-24 8:22pm
#95

Frank

citizen_zane wrote:
@Frank - I just noticed that a Secret Santa badge can be obtainted if somone "Participate(s) in at least one GameTZ Secret Santa or High Roller Gift Exchange." It looks as though I did way back in 2013. Check our trade history and gimmie dat badge!haha well played sir. I STILL have that same CAH deck in my small curation of card games

13-Feb-24 8:26pm
#96

Frank

@PizzaTheHutt also earned a gold badge a while back, but never claimed it. I went ahead and granted it.

@SwiftJAB Is one badge away from claiming that sweet sweet image

14-Feb-24 1:28am
#97

SwiftJAB

And I'm going to get it! I'm just a few quests away from finishing Borderlands.

15-Feb-24 1:56pm
#98

Renaissance2K

Finally figured out the fool-proof way of transitioning to a moving rope without falling half the time. Really wish I had known this thirty levels ago.

Oh well. Almost there...

15-Feb-24 6:25pm
#99

Slickriven

Renaissance2K wrote:
Finally figured out the fool-proof way of transitioning to a moving rope without falling half the time. Really wish I had known this thirty levels ago. Oh well. Almost there...
That mechanic was easily the worst in the whole game IMO. I fell off SO MANY TIMES from those ropes. Hitting Mario's head too when jumping from them from being too high up was also BS. But I think my X1 controller's dPad up was also flaky which didn't help and possibly L/R wasn't great either.

15-Feb-24 6:55pm
#100

Renaissance2K

Slickriven wrote:
Hitting Mario's head too when jumping from them from being too high up was also BS.
That too. Between jumping and just pressing a horizontal, I could never remember which would fall straight down and which would fall diagonally.

16-Feb-24 4:40pm
#101

PizzaTheHutt

Resident Evil 4 in VR has been pretty amazing so far. I don't want it to end.

The Official GameTZ Game Club May 2024 - Yoshi's Island