I have a confession to make...
I Cheated At The Vanilla Ghost House.
Call it my second childhood, along with my recent marathon of Jem episodes and the Christmas Eve bike ride through SM (I literally mean I was biking inside the mall).
The other day, I, for no reason, felt the urge to download NES applications. I've never been much of a gamer, I seem to be doing magic with thesechildrens' games. Albeit about a decade late.
Yesterday, I lost my head in Super Mario World - hours and hours of that cute red plumber. In one sitting, I went from start to The Forest of Illusion, which I believe is pretty darn good considering I've never played the game before.
Mario riding the river of fire! Looking so badass, might I add.
This is where I currently am, I think its A in the Forest of Illusions? I dunno, I've never paid much attention to levels and worlds. I said I wasn't a gamer, didn't I?
However, this level is not what I am here to talk about. I'm here about the level that immediately preceeded - the exceedingly-fucked-up Ghost House in Vanilla Dome. SPOILERS AHEAD.
As I am to ashamed to go back and retrieve screencaps, I shall describe it for those of you who have never laid eyes on the game as the world where dirty green bubbles and annoying smiley white poofs do abound to fuck you up. Fair enough?
As with all the Ghost Houses, you seemingly cannot jump on the ghosts (read: smiley poofs) like you can with the living roadblocks of koopa. While on that, might I say I take pleasure in having Yoshi, the dinosaur/koopa/??? Mario rides, eat EVERYTHING in our way. Especially those little mole bastards.
Ye shall all weep when Yoshi breathes fire. *evil laugh*
I digress, another annoyance of the Ghost Worlds is this you keep repeating the level. you dodge those small poofs, big poofs, see the yellow door of salvation at the end, go through it and - SHIT!!! You're back at the start of the room! WHAT THE HELL?
OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Now I know why John Cusack all but went crazy in 1408. Just seeing your time run out while you repeat the same level again and again and again made me want to burn the room too.
Being that this is a Ghost World, I knew there is ALWAYS a hidden exit (to prevent this clusterfuck from happening). But I couldn't find the damn thing! At first, I thought maybe it was that set of gold coins arranged like a door frame, but I stood under it and nothing happened. Yes, if I was actually a Mario gamer, I would know that you're supposed to place something under it.
Finally, due to the agony (and the fact that I was going out of my mind playing Mario at such a late hour), I succumbed to temptation, opened up YouTube, and watched a video of someone else completing the round.
(Yes! Ibang level na ang cheating ngayon! YouTube na. In fairness, there were a lot of videos of the Vanilla Ghost House, so obviously, it's one of the harder levels since there's a demand)
I'm so ashamed because I've never given up and used guides in the previous levels. Even when the going got tough (and I couldn't seem to time my jumps to get to the platform), I picked myself up and tried again. I thought I at least had the integrity to do this right.
In retrospect, it was actually an easy enough round to finish without guides. I had hit the unassuming gold platform before and watched the "P" siren come out. However, I had never thought to bring it to the door-shaped coins to activate the REAL exit.
And only during my last try did I discover that you can actually jump on the dirty green bubbles.
Damn it.
I noticed that, similar to Hitler's Nazis, hoardes of people later denied ever affiliating with the F4 fandom. However, like the Holocaust, we cannot deny its existence and the enormous impact of the phenomenon that enveloped all of us (and our hairstyles).
I don't care if they're laos. I'm not ashamed to say that I AM AN F4 FAN and I will watch them if they stage a concert in the Philippines.
And yes, I did buy Vanness' album back when the F4 Fever was still raging!
Hwooh. That was liberating.
Call it my second childhood, along with my recent marathon of Jem episodes and the Christmas Eve bike ride through SM (I literally mean I was biking inside the mall).
The other day, I, for no reason, felt the urge to download NES applications. I've never been much of a gamer, I seem to be doing magic with these
Yesterday, I lost my head in Super Mario World - hours and hours of that cute red plumber. In one sitting, I went from start to The Forest of Illusion, which I believe is pretty darn good considering I've never played the game before.
Mario riding the river of fire! Looking so badass, might I add.
This is where I currently am, I think its A in the Forest of Illusions? I dunno, I've never paid much attention to levels and worlds. I said I wasn't a gamer, didn't I?
However, this level is not what I am here to talk about. I'm here about the level that immediately preceeded - the exceedingly-fucked-up Ghost House in Vanilla Dome. SPOILERS AHEAD.
As I am to ashamed to go back and retrieve screencaps, I shall describe it for those of you who have never laid eyes on the game as the world where dirty green bubbles and annoying smiley white poofs do abound to fuck you up. Fair enough?
As with all the Ghost Houses, you seemingly cannot jump on the ghosts (read: smiley poofs) like you can with the living roadblocks of koopa. While on that, might I say I take pleasure in having Yoshi, the dinosaur/koopa/??? Mario rides, eat EVERYTHING in our way. Especially those little mole bastards.
Ye shall all weep when Yoshi breathes fire. *evil laugh*
I digress, another annoyance of the Ghost Worlds is this you keep repeating the level. you dodge those small poofs, big poofs, see the yellow door of salvation at the end, go through it and - SHIT!!! You're back at the start of the room! WHAT THE HELL?
OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Now I know why John Cusack all but went crazy in 1408. Just seeing your time run out while you repeat the same level again and again and again made me want to burn the room too.
Being that this is a Ghost World, I knew there is ALWAYS a hidden exit (to prevent this clusterfuck from happening). But I couldn't find the damn thing! At first, I thought maybe it was that set of gold coins arranged like a door frame, but I stood under it and nothing happened. Yes, if I was actually a Mario gamer, I would know that you're supposed to place something under it.
Finally, due to the agony (and the fact that I was going out of my mind playing Mario at such a late hour), I succumbed to temptation, opened up YouTube, and watched a video of someone else completing the round.
(Yes! Ibang level na ang cheating ngayon! YouTube na. In fairness, there were a lot of videos of the Vanilla Ghost House, so obviously, it's one of the harder levels since there's a demand)
I'm so ashamed because I've never given up and used guides in the previous levels. Even when the going got tough (and I couldn't seem to time my jumps to get to the platform), I picked myself up and tried again. I thought I at least had the integrity to do this right.
In retrospect, it was actually an easy enough round to finish without guides. I had hit the unassuming gold platform before and watched the "P" siren come out. However, I had never thought to bring it to the door-shaped coins to activate the REAL exit.
And only during my last try did I discover that you can actually jump on the dirty green bubbles.
Damn it.
In other news:
- The family and I went to the Tiangge at Lung Center, the single biggest and most amazing bazaar we've been going to for, what, 3 years? We're suki of the Food Trip at Lung Center, and I got full-to-queasy just on the Free Samples. Am presently hitting myself over the head for not getting the names of the stores and making a review.
- Rikka, TCo, and Jenin came over yesterday to rehearse for our SFX prod. We didn't accomplish a lot, actually ended up backtracking (which happens increasing often in our meetings) and singing Lion King songs on the karaoke mics.
- Sheryl Cruz just moved into the new house at the back of ours.
- Meteor Garden marathon late last night. Di ko ma-take, ang pogi ni Dao Ming Si! AAAYY!!! BTW, F4 is making a comeback. They just released a new album, and their latest song, "Waiting For You" is already on Youtube, and I daresay I really like it.
All the guys with short do's - Vanness with Tropicana hair!
I noticed that, similar to Hitler's Nazis, hoardes of people later denied ever affiliating with the F4 fandom. However, like the Holocaust, we cannot deny its existence and the enormous impact of the phenomenon that enveloped all of us (and our hairstyles).
I don't care if they're laos. I'm not ashamed to say that I AM AN F4 FAN and I will watch them if they stage a concert in the Philippines.
And yes, I did buy Vanness' album back when the F4 Fever was still raging!
Hwooh. That was liberating.