11-Mar-19 8:11pm
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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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Game: Metroid Prime
Initial Release Date: Nov. 18th 2002 | Feb. 8th 2023
Platforms: Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Switch
Badge: Coming Soon

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 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

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Skipping Messages Here

2-Feb-23 6:05pm
#241

nonamesleft

I beat the frog duo after a couple of tries. I spent my first four coins on the spread upgrade. That shot is a beast if you can get close enough to the target.

My previous playthrough, I think that Spread was one of the last items I bought. I highly recommend it. It can make things trickier, being up close, but it really packs a punch.

3-Feb-23 4:03am
#242

EB

I’m a decent way through Cuphead (about halfway through Isle Three). Got most of the way through it a couple years ago but never finished it, so started a new save and the first half of it or so wasn’t too bad. It’s starting to really kick me now though. I hadn’t heard of the Genie thing until someone here posted it. Saved me during Dr Kahl’s Robot, that one is so hard.

4-Feb-23 2:03am
#243

Slickriven

Yep I still am barely mediocre at this game. I had only beat 3 of the first island's bosses when I played this around April. I had been sort of stuck on the 2nd optional level and really didn't bother with it this time. Went to face the orange flower and that took a bunch of tries, but I got it.
Next I faced the 2 guys that turn into a huge cash register, they were actually rather easy for me, taking a handful of tries. That opened up the 2nd island and I went to the candy lady first. Did a good dozen tries before I even got to her final phase and that sucked so I walked away.
Then I tried the genie and faced him on simple difficulty and beat him quickly, but then I changed to regular and after around 8 tries got him too.
Game is challenging for sure, facing the candy lady again will suck, just too many things to hit you from so many different directions, with some hard to spot. Not sure if I'll want to nor get to put in the time this month to beat the 9 or so remaining bosses, this is a game where it feels wise to set an attempts limit on myself and then turn it off.

5-Feb-23 4:01pm
#244

nonamesleft

I keep getting out on the forest/tree stage that has the mosquitos flying around. Last time also that stage took me awhile.

5-Feb-23 5:15pm
#245

Renaissance2K

Made it to the third island. That bee level stings a bit.

Heh.

5-Feb-23 5:51pm
#246

nonamesleft

Renaissance2K wrote:
Made it to the third island. That bee level stings a bit. Heh.:)

5-Feb-23 5:54pm
#247

nonamesleft

Just beat the first flying stage, Hilda. Almost got a perfect score. I would have just needed to do 2 of those parry moves, but I was purposely destroying the little ships in order to focus on the boss, and those little ships release the pink things. I guess I could have parried the pink stars later on, but I dodged them instead.

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5-Feb-23 5:54pm
#248

nonamesleft

@Renaissance2K You're already up to the third island? Very nice! Is this your first time playing Cuphead?

5-Feb-23 6:50pm
#249

Renaissance2K

nonamesleft wrote:
@Renaissance2K You're already up to the third island? Very nice! Is this your first time playing Cuphead?
Yeah, I bought it a long time ago but never got around to it.

5-Feb-23 7:10pm
#250

nonamesleft

Renaissance2K wrote:
nonamesleft wrote:> @Renaissance2K You're already up to the third island? Very nice! Is this your first> time playing Cuphead? Yeah, I bought it a long time ago but never got around to it.Impressive to have gotten so far so quickly on your first run with this not so easy game.

5-Feb-23 7:45pm
#251

Renaissance2K

Well, that was satisfying. Took me some ungodly number of attempts to finish the bee boss, and then managed to get her before she hit her final form.

5-Feb-23 10:23pm
#252

Slickriven

This game's sole reason for existing is to cause me to want to break my controller. I went back and did the 2nd Run'n'Gun level that caused me to quit on this ~9 months ago and for a simple level it still took me yet another 15+ tries. Was satisfying to finally beat it and the 5x coins were useful I suppose. I then did the 2nd museum level and that wasn't too bad.
Then I did the candy lady and did better against her today vs. my last try, I'd guess after another only maybe 8 tries I got her which opened up a new area, I first took the hidden 'shortcut' and tried another Run'n'Gun level where you ended up on the ceiling - the frigging duck got me so many times. I actually decided to switch up the controls to make LT shoot, so I could hold that in all the time and moved dash to X which let me be a touch better at that level but I still didn't complete it <sigh>. So I went back and faced the 2 other boss levels I gained access to - against the flying dragon in the sky and the birdhouse one. Dragon was easy in his first phase, but that 2nd, what a PITA - I could reach the 2nd phase generally w/out issue but in 10+ tries I couldn't get past his 2nd phase. In the birdhouse fight, I did rather well against his first 3 phases, then couldn't really do his 4th and the one time I did finally get it, I didn't survive his final phase - ugg.

I like the use of LT for fire and I'm getting used to X for dash, but my pinky got sore pretty quickly holding down LT constantly - I'm likely gripping the controller too tight, this game is flarking frustrating. I'm 'glad' I've got the first island fully done now, but it hardly feels like I'm getting better at it overall.

5-Feb-23 10:25pm
#253

Feeb

Slickriven wrote:
This game's sole reason for existing is to cause me to want to break my controller. I went back and did the 2nd Run'n'Gun level that caused me to quit on this ~9 months ago and for a simple level it still took me yet another 15+ tries. Was satisfying to finally beat it and the 5x coins were useful I suppose. I then did the 2nd museum level and that wasn't too bad. Then I did the candy lady and did better against her today vs. my last try, I'd guess after another only maybe 8 tries I got her which opened up a new area, I first took the hidden 'shortcut' and tried another Run'n'Gun level where you ended up on the ceiling - the frigging duck got me so many times. I actually decided to switch up the controls to make LT shoot, so I could hold that in all the time and moved dash to X which let me be a touch better at that level but I still didn't complete it <sigh>. So I went back and faced the 2 other boss levels I gained access to - against the flying dragon in the sky and the birdhouse one. Dragon was easy in his first phase, but that 2nd, what a PITA - I could reach the 2nd phase generally w/out issue but in 10+ tries I couldn't get past his 2nd phase. In the birdhouse fight, I did rather well against his first 3 phases, then couldn't really do his 4th and the one time I did finally get it, I didn't survive his final phase - ugg. I like the use of LT for fire and I'm getting used to X for dash, but my pinky got sore pretty quickly holding down LT constantly - I'm likely gripping the controller too tight, this game is flarking frustrating. I'm 'glad' I've got the first island fully done now, but it hardly feels like I'm getting better at it overall.

This is a winning post. 👊🏻

6-Feb-23 12:50am
#254

Renaissance2K

The fact that each level takes less than two minutes is what makes it palatable. If I was losing ten minutes of progress every time a robotic duck stepped on me, I'd probably have given up by now.

6-Feb-23 1:37am
#255

SwiftJAB

I love that this game is getting some great discussion. I haven't played it yet and not sure if I'm going to be able to fit it in this busy month, but I sure do enjoy hearing y'all talk about your experience with it.

6-Feb-23 2:03am
#256

Slickriven

I agree with you @Renaissance2K it's frustrating though when everything, every level takes so dang many tries. I'm also playing a Metroidvania with similar mechanics (8 Doors) and some sections and some bosses are difficult, but I'm making progress. I just beat a recent boss in that game and it took me around 8 tries, each try was around 2 mins, but I made decent progress leaning his attacks and 8 or so attempts wasn't too bad.
With Cuphead because there's nothing but boss fights or the nearly as annoying r&g levels it just doesn't feel like I'm hardly making any overall progress. Since you've gotten past me onto island 3 already, that's maybe not the case for you and hey I'm happy to hear some folks can beat these levels unlike me. I might have to try to beat the bosses on their simple difficulty to at least get familiar or exposure to their general patterns and phases. I did the genie that way and then noticed that on regular his health was likely higher, but each phase had more things to account for in the higher difficulty level. But I at least could expect things a touch better I suppose.

6-Feb-23 3:40am
#257

EB

Here’s something I never really thought I’d get to say: I finished Cuphead yesterday!

Had a lot of fun with it despite the challenge. Bought the DLC and got a good chunk into that yesterday too.

6-Feb-23 7:45pm
#258

Slickriven

Drip-drip of progress... I think the key for me is to not get sucked in to the whole 'just one more try' pull.
I fired this up tonight and beat 2 levels. First I faced the birdhouse again and was going to try on Simple difficulty, but his opening egg attack acts differently and I nearly died right away, so I figured that I was better off with him on Regular. And after reaching his final phase and eating it quickly due to his stretched out form, across the bottom of the screen, I remembered that I had a different weapon and tried that when I reached his final form a 2nd time. I got further but still died - grr but was doing way better with the new weapon and on the next try I got all the way to his final form with either no or just 1 hit and I got him - Woot!
Next I did the first RnG level in the carnival and the opening section where you bounce on the trampoline was annoying at times, but after maybe 8-10 tries I was getting the hang of it and completed that one too. Then I faced the roller coaster clown and wasn't a fan, so after 3-4 failures I quit for the time being, but got sucked back in and got better with him, 1st phase is easy enough, 2nd sucks, 3rd's not too bad and I've only hit his 4th phase a few times and with only like 1 stinking HP left. I'm up to 183 deaths according to the water fountain - <sigh>

I was at 28% before yesterday's progress, then 38% after yesterday. Today got me to 45% which sounds about right with 3/5 bosses and 1/2 RnG levels completed.

6-Feb-23 11:20pm
#259

Slickriven

Sorry for more updates, but I've unlocked the 3rd island - woohoo!
Clown took a handful of tries and I realized that using different weapons was wise and I switched to the spread-shot and that was very useful in phases 2-4 as he's close/stationary in at least 2 of those.
Dragon took me longer, I used the glob-shot on him initially in his 2nd/3rd phases but realized that it was decently effective in all 3 actually. Took a few too many deaths in his final phase but having to continually jump forward to the right while shooting back to the left was annoying.

I only faced the 2 newest bosses once each really and now I'm kind of bummed about the choices I've made with my coins. I only have the glob and spread weapons and the ship really needed another weapon I'm guessing since the gob wasn't great and you need to distance yourself from him at times, thus the spread isn't ideal either. Bee was another challenge with the platforms.

Oh and the King-Dice song is really good.

6-Feb-23 11:29pm
#260

nonamesleft

Slickriven wrote:
Sorry for more updates, but I've unlocked the 3rd island - woohoo! Clown took a handful of tries and I realized that using different weapons was wise and I switched to the spread-shot and that was very useful in phases 2-4 as he's close/stationary in at least 2 of those. Dragon took me longer, I used the glob-shot on him initially in his 2nd/3rd phases but realized that it was decently effective in all 3 actually. Took a few too many deaths in his final phase but having to continually jump forward to the right while shooting back to the left was annoying. I only faced the 2 newest bosses once each really and now I'm kind of bummed about the choices I've made with my coins. I only have the glob and spread weapons and the ship really needed another weapon I'm guessing since the gob wasn't great and you need to distance yourself from him at times, thus the spread isn't ideal either. Bee was another challenge with the platforms. Oh and the King-Dice song is really good.The dragon took me many tries. The glob shot was surprisingly effective against him once I tried it. You just need to calculate the arc of the shot. But it's pretty strong when you hit.

6-Feb-23 11:34pm
#261

Renaissance2K

I haven't been offered the glob shot yet, and I feel like I'm missing out.

The Official GameTZ Game Club March 2023 - Metroid Prime