Well, it's been a month and a half since i last posted. I hit a snag with nightmare creatures. As i got to the last section of the game, level 18 Westminster, my save file got corrupted. I should have been taking down passwords as a back up.
I had a nice stockpile of Lives, healing items, and other items and my sword was fully upgraded. Up to this point, the game seemed to have great pacing. Nothing was ever too difficult. But without a save file i had two options. Start over from scratch, or look a password up online to take me to westminster. Best i could find was the code for level select.
Of course, that starts you at whatever level with stock lives (3) and a gun, no healing potions and no weapon upgrades. Needless to say, the game was becoming more difficult. I ended up giving up on exploring and killing everything, instead i raced through fighting only when needed. Westminster 1 wasn't so bad, it is really short if you know where to go. Westminster 2 was god awful. Tight corridors, fire everywhere, and tons of those awful gargoyles. If losing my save had reduced my momentum, westminster 2 absolutely killed it. I eventually gave up and moved onto other games - played alot of NES and Gameboy the past month and a bit, mario kart 8 too.
Today i finally decided to revisit. After a few attempts i somehow made it through westminster 2 and on to the final boss. Things continued to be frustrating, with my lack of lives and items. Thankfully it wasn't too hard to figure out. THe boss ended up being incredibly monotonous - block until an openining then spam forward + A. It actually didn't take as many attempts as i had expected.
Anyways.. since i used a cheat code to put myself back at the proper level, i'll leave it to you guys as to whether or not the game is considered beaten. I'll be replaying it in the future when i track down a mint cib, likely with the other character, and when i do i'll be sure to rely on passwords over the memory card.
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Edited: 07/11/2014
at 01:21 PM
by linkloz