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jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-08-23 10:22 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-08-23 10:22 pm
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IT WAS AN ACCIDENT
On ...Tuesday? I was poking around with my PSP edition of the Sega Genesis Collection, and instead of pressing Triangle or whatever it is to read the "museum" blurb about the game, I accidentally pressed the confirm button, instead. And then, because I am an idiot, I decided to not just restart, but kept going, and somehow found myself starting to play through Ecco: The Tides of Time. Oops. Vacation put a bit of a delay in it, but then I came back and had to finish. I will share with you.
MY LIFE AS ECCO
Tides of Time edition.
Home Bay:
Whoo, dolphin! Leap! Swim! Spin in the air! Telepooort riiiiiiings. Hey, this is easy – still can’t make that high one, though....
Crystal Springs:
Danana follow the idiot, ping the glyph pingpingping SHARK AUGH KILL IT stupid shark made me lose the glyyyph. Yay, glyph! Gimme song!
Fault Zone:
Breathing. Bummer.
Two Tides:
Fff, did I just turn a huge circle? OH HI TRELLIA wheee time travel motion sickness How come I have to spin like that and you don’t? Where is the stupid glyph. ARGH. WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT PUT ME DOWN YOU ARE USELESS adhsjfklgbji OKAY. Augh weeds. ESCAPE!
Skyway:
Well, that was easy.
Sky Tides:
Bleh, forced scrolling screens. I hate you, level, but at least you're easy. Especially now that I can compare you to Hanging Waters.
Tube of Medusa:
Is this level really that hard?
Skyway:
Yes.
Sky Tides:
... déjà vu.
Tube of Medusa:
I HATE LIFE
Skyway:
Ugh.
Sky Tides:
Wasn’t I just here?
Tube of Medusa:
Left this time. OH GOD SWIM SWIM JUMP WHY ARE YOU NOT JUMPING AHDSUJFILKM
Skyway:
>:|!
Sky Tides:
JUST DIE
Tube of Medusa:
I REFUSE TO FALL AGAIN oh did we actually outrun it? Ecco, please make this ju
Skyway:
*sound of PSP hitting the wall*
Sky Tides:
¬_¬
Tube of Medusa:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAUGH AAGH AUGH AAAAACK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRAAAAAAGE oh god finally.
Skylands:
HELLO BUBBLES I am not glad to see you but I am glad you are not another floating medusa. STOP INTERRUPTING MY FLYING ON BUBBLES YOU OTHER DOLPHINS. STOP CARRYING ME WITH YOUR MIND I DON'T CARE PUT ME DOWN
Fin to Feather:
PISS OFF, EAGLES. Ugh, more teleport rings.
Eagle’s Bay:
I like how these rocks in the sky just appear out of nowhere. ALSO EAGLES I TOLD YOU TO GET LOST.
Asterite’s Cave:
I WILL END YOU fucking Asterite FIX YOURSELF. Fucking worm leave me alone. SERIOUSLY GET SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT. Fucking BABY ORCAS WHY HOW MANY DID YOU REALLY NEED, LADY? Actually, I’m on an easier mode so it’s only four today. Still, good lord.
Four Islands:
Because playing chase with the baby whale wasn’t enough. Slow dooooown D: Oh, shut up, Blackfin. ... I said shut up. ... STOP MOCKING ME.
Sea of Darkness:
@__@ they’re out there and they’re waiting for me and FUCK YOUR BABY FIND IT YOURSELF IT’S DARK AND FULL OF VORTEX AND I HATE YOU if you saw it why didn’t you do anything useless useless hate you
Vents of Medusa:
i iz jellyfish. i iz swims.
Gateway:
Oh, I remember this. Bubble-missiles, whee. Man, I’m remembering why I hate these teleport ring stages now.
Moray Abyss:
Eeeeeeeeeels. Man, I can’t remember how to defeat this thing at all. Ping? PING!
The Eye:
One, two, three, fou---?, no, this is four. Five? No. Five? Five! Six? ... Six, seven, eight? No. Eight? No. EIGHT. Nine, ten, FREEDOM!
Big Water:
WHALES! :D Simple creatures, aren’t you?
Deep Ridge:
I know there is a pulsar somewhere around here WHERE IT IS GIVE IT TO ME D: oshitair air air – air! Run away!
The Hungry Ones:
ECCO: THE INCREDIBLE JUMPING SHARK heeheehee
Secret Cave:
Aaaand another Magic Arm thing. BUBBLES argh shark stage.
Lunar Bay:
LET’S SEE IF I CAN DO THIS WITHOUT SURFACING! Wow, good job self. Though now I am lost. Lost in the future! Augh. Oh. Oh, I remember this crap. Fuck this level.
Black Clouds:
Meeeeeh. Glyph hunt. At least the music's nice.
Gravitorbox:
Whee-hee! ...This level should be more disorienting than it is, considering how often they turn gravity completely on its head.
Globe Holder:
Part 1
Ping. Ping. Ping ping. PingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpinOHSHIT IT’S LOOSE RUN HIDE psp if you just chose now to glitch out, I really will drop-kick you. Okay. Wise decision.
Part 2
WELL IT’S NOT LIKE I HAD A CHOICE THERE, BUDDY, GEEZ, FUCK YOU okay fine some part of me is glad you’re all whole and alive again. Not even just because it means I (a) don’t need to collect more globes and (b) have infinite air again.
Park 3 / Dark Sea:
... VORTEX DRONE’D. My favourite: evading the metasphere at the beginning. I STILL HATE FORCED SCROLLING LEVELS. Man, future Vortex are so less creepy than the modern ones. I DESIRE PERPETU-PING.
Vortex Queen:
Look, I’m glad you grew your jaw back and all, but didn’t we already do this? Seriously, why aren’t you dead yet. Also, you were way harder in the first game. ALSO PING PING PING PING, BITCH.
I like how two dolphins congratulate me and the third recites the credits. That is seriously one of the best, WTF-inducing things ever.
Epilogue:
HAET TELEPORT RINGS Blah blah blah blah blah blah seriously shut up and let me get on with things.
Atlantis:
Blaaaah weird creatures. (What, you thought that just because they rolled credits and called an epilogue the game is over?)
Fish City:
WHY GOD WHY I HATE EVERYTHING AND YOU ALL DESERVE DEATH REMIND ME WHY I SAVED THE PLANET AGAIN. THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THIS.
City of Forever:
Christ, finally. On the other hand, oh god my nerves. AYGDFSUIJRLKLMHASD IT SAW ME SHRIEK! PANIC! THROW THE CONTROLLER! Seriously these things and the noise they make when they see you and one-hit kill and augh. AUGH!
THE END:
MOST ANTICLIMACTIC FINISH EVER But I love the end, anyway.
On the positive side, I now no longer desire to play Defender of the Future.
MY LIFE AS ECCO
Tides of Time edition.
Home Bay:
Whoo, dolphin! Leap! Swim! Spin in the air! Telepooort riiiiiiings. Hey, this is easy – still can’t make that high one, though....
Crystal Springs:
Danana follow the idiot, ping the glyph pingpingping SHARK AUGH KILL IT stupid shark made me lose the glyyyph. Yay, glyph! Gimme song!
Fault Zone:
Breathing. Bummer.
Two Tides:
Fff, did I just turn a huge circle? OH HI TRELLIA wheee time travel motion sickness How come I have to spin like that and you don’t? Where is the stupid glyph. ARGH. WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT PUT ME DOWN YOU ARE USELESS adhsjfklgbji OKAY. Augh weeds. ESCAPE!
Skyway:
Well, that was easy.
Sky Tides:
Bleh, forced scrolling screens. I hate you, level, but at least you're easy. Especially now that I can compare you to Hanging Waters.
Tube of Medusa:
Is this level really that hard?
Skyway:
Yes.
Sky Tides:
... déjà vu.
Tube of Medusa:
I HATE LIFE
Skyway:
Ugh.
Sky Tides:
Wasn’t I just here?
Tube of Medusa:
Left this time. OH GOD SWIM SWIM JUMP WHY ARE YOU NOT JUMPING AHDSUJFILKM
Skyway:
>:|!
Sky Tides:
JUST DIE
Tube of Medusa:
I REFUSE TO FALL AGAIN oh did we actually outrun it? Ecco, please make this ju
Skyway:
*sound of PSP hitting the wall*
Sky Tides:
¬_¬
Tube of Medusa:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAUGH AAGH AUGH AAAAACK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRAAAAAAGE oh god finally.
Skylands:
HELLO BUBBLES I am not glad to see you but I am glad you are not another floating medusa. STOP INTERRUPTING MY FLYING ON BUBBLES YOU OTHER DOLPHINS. STOP CARRYING ME WITH YOUR MIND I DON'T CARE PUT ME DOWN
Fin to Feather:
PISS OFF, EAGLES. Ugh, more teleport rings.
Eagle’s Bay:
I like how these rocks in the sky just appear out of nowhere. ALSO EAGLES I TOLD YOU TO GET LOST.
Asterite’s Cave:
I WILL END YOU fucking Asterite FIX YOURSELF. Fucking worm leave me alone. SERIOUSLY GET SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT. Fucking BABY ORCAS WHY HOW MANY DID YOU REALLY NEED, LADY? Actually, I’m on an easier mode so it’s only four today. Still, good lord.
Four Islands:
Because playing chase with the baby whale wasn’t enough. Slow dooooown D: Oh, shut up, Blackfin. ... I said shut up. ... STOP MOCKING ME.
Sea of Darkness:
@__@ they’re out there and they’re waiting for me and FUCK YOUR BABY FIND IT YOURSELF IT’S DARK AND FULL OF VORTEX AND I HATE YOU if you saw it why didn’t you do anything useless useless hate you
Vents of Medusa:
i iz jellyfish. i iz swims.
Gateway:
Oh, I remember this. Bubble-missiles, whee. Man, I’m remembering why I hate these teleport ring stages now.
Moray Abyss:
Eeeeeeeeeels. Man, I can’t remember how to defeat this thing at all. Ping? PING!
The Eye:
One, two, three, fou---?, no, this is four. Five? No. Five? Five! Six? ... Six, seven, eight? No. Eight? No. EIGHT. Nine, ten, FREEDOM!
Big Water:
WHALES! :D Simple creatures, aren’t you?
Deep Ridge:
I know there is a pulsar somewhere around here WHERE IT IS GIVE IT TO ME D: oshitair air air – air! Run away!
The Hungry Ones:
ECCO: THE INCREDIBLE JUMPING SHARK heeheehee
Secret Cave:
Aaaand another Magic Arm thing. BUBBLES argh shark stage.
Lunar Bay:
LET’S SEE IF I CAN DO THIS WITHOUT SURFACING! Wow, good job self. Though now I am lost. Lost in the future! Augh. Oh. Oh, I remember this crap. Fuck this level.
Black Clouds:
Meeeeeh. Glyph hunt. At least the music's nice.
Gravitorbox:
Whee-hee! ...This level should be more disorienting than it is, considering how often they turn gravity completely on its head.
Globe Holder:
Part 1
Ping. Ping. Ping ping. PingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpingpinOHSHIT IT’S LOOSE RUN HIDE psp if you just chose now to glitch out, I really will drop-kick you. Okay. Wise decision.
Part 2
WELL IT’S NOT LIKE I HAD A CHOICE THERE, BUDDY, GEEZ, FUCK YOU okay fine some part of me is glad you’re all whole and alive again. Not even just because it means I (a) don’t need to collect more globes and (b) have infinite air again.
Park 3 / Dark Sea:
... VORTEX DRONE’D. My favourite: evading the metasphere at the beginning. I STILL HATE FORCED SCROLLING LEVELS. Man, future Vortex are so less creepy than the modern ones. I DESIRE PERPETU-PING.
Vortex Queen:
Look, I’m glad you grew your jaw back and all, but didn’t we already do this? Seriously, why aren’t you dead yet. Also, you were way harder in the first game. ALSO PING PING PING PING, BITCH.
I like how two dolphins congratulate me and the third recites the credits. That is seriously one of the best, WTF-inducing things ever.
Epilogue:
HAET TELEPORT RINGS Blah blah blah blah blah blah seriously shut up and let me get on with things.
Atlantis:
Blaaaah weird creatures. (What, you thought that just because they rolled credits and called an epilogue the game is over?)
Fish City:
WHY GOD WHY I HATE EVERYTHING AND YOU ALL DESERVE DEATH REMIND ME WHY I SAVED THE PLANET AGAIN. THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THIS.
City of Forever:
Christ, finally. On the other hand, oh god my nerves. AYGDFSUIJRLKLMHASD IT SAW ME SHRIEK! PANIC! THROW THE CONTROLLER! Seriously these things and the noise they make when they see you and one-hit kill and augh. AUGH!
THE END:
MOST ANTICLIMACTIC FINISH EVER But I love the end, anyway.
On the positive side, I now no longer desire to play Defender of the Future.