Thread re-surfacing FTW!
I took this game on a trip with me and even though I hadn't gotten any sleep the night before, I played through to the end one night, mesmerizing all three of my friends watching who had never seen it before. All three of them were like "we
must get a copy of this for ourselves!" So yeah, it better show up on the VC, sooner than later! I really feel strongly it will though, not only did it appear on that survey Nintendo had out awhile ago, they would be
fools not to release it in North America with the opportunity of the Virtual Console. I heard that there were apparently offers made by other companies to publish it in North America for the N64 but Nintendo said no and wanted to hold on to the IP. Maybe they were planning for the VC even back then?
All they'd have to do is translate the menus & the ending. That's it. Though as I've stated before, I hope it gets spruced up a
little in some form or another. If/when it does hit the VC, each and every one of you mofos better get it.
I'm kinda with Mr. Jones though, it's totally a game worth importing if there ever was one.
I hadn't played or beaten it in a little while, so playing on the trip got me hooked all over again. I started messing with the frameskip & turbo speed options, which make the game TOTALLY INSANE! A lot more fun too.
And while SF64 did have the branching paths, more levels and multiplayer modes, I still enjoy S&P a lot more, as the levels are brilliant and the enemies are just a progression into insanity. The levels are all quite quality and can be played in different ways to get better scores & therefore more lives.
That first scene where you morph into some super mech and fight against some other super mech was a OMGWTF moment for me. The whole screen is red, with this swirling vortex in the background, and this huge mech that has this whip-thing attached to its arm swinging at you while you make these sweet blur dashes from left to right dodging them and still shooting at the mech and holy shit look at beam that he just shot at me and OMGWTF!!!!
Ah yes, the boss fight with Kachua. One of my favorite boss battles ever! On hard it gets so crazy, because not only is she swiping at you, lasers are being fired and waves of blood/lava/kool-aid/whatever keep crashing over you and you have to jump over them.
It's really cool as on the harder difficulty settings, you see attacks and enemies you didn't see on the easier ones.
Actually, not only did Tony Hawk 2 come out on N64 in mid 2001, but Tony Hawk 3 did as well, as the final N64 release, in September 2002 -- nine months after the previous N64 release in December 2001... but there were a bunch of late N64 games that did get cancelled or changed platform -- Resident Evil Zero, Eternal Darkness, etc.
Oh yeah, that's right. I do remember that Tony Hawk game coming out. Thanks for the correction.
