/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9067545]

There's nothing cooler than one-off enemies that you only see in one area or instance

[Anonymous No.9067550]

I love this weird room

[Anonymous No.9067551]

>>9067545
Yep. Old Nintendo SNES games had a bunch of them. Remember the chain chomps in Death Mountain?

[Anonymous No.9067583]

>>9067545
Marathon: Infinity did it best. There's a singular invisible mini-S'pht which does not move but shoots projectiles at triple speed, and on hard difficulty it's a real pain to encounter when you're not expecting it. The enemy seems completely arbitrary, as if the devs just felt like creating a quick turret enemy without creating new assets, but if you explore the full level, you'll discover that a brilliant overly-ambitious Pfhor commander was demoted and sent to a remote outpost in the middle of a giant swamp. To pass the time said commander engaged in a number of experiments on creating new kinds of weapons to help the Pfhor, and in his hidden laboratory is an area with S'pht being experimented on in crusher-rooms, explaining the aberrant one encountered earlier.

[Anonymous No.9067615]

>>9067545
i think originally in that section you were supposed to stay out of the light and sneakily follow bowser to the final boss room but it wasn't fun or was too hard to program which is why there's sudden contrived 8-bit ninjis there and nowhere else
>>9067550
smw bowser's castle in general seems full of interesting half baked ideas

[Anonymous No.9067704]

>>9067545
it's crazy how fugly smw was. I guess it took them awhile to figure out how to use the extra bits or something.

[Anonymous No.9067770]

>>9067545
Cultured anon

[Anonymous No.9067963]

>>9067704
very unpopular opinion, anon.

[Anonymous No.9068181]

>>9067704
>smw
>ugly

[Anonymous No.9068263]

For whatever reason, Unreal Return to Na Pali has these blue skinned Skaarj (not to be confused with the blue Skaarj Berserker towards the end of the main game) who only appear in the snow level on easy, being replaced with Mercenaries on higher difficulties.

[Anonymous No.9068295]

>>9067963
fuck up, the real challenge in that stage is getting the stars without baby yoshi eating them, you rack up a crazy amount of 1-ups

[Anonymous No.9068308]

>>9068181
A-are they ok?

[Anonymous No.9069518]

>>9067704
>Yoshi's arms
>spike tops
>chucks losing their heads
It's the little things.

[Anonymous No.9069929]

>large, detailed enemy
>only appears once
>in a hidden room
>killing it only leads to a dead end

Peak soul

[Anonymous No.9069942]

>>9069929
I wonder if this is where they were gonna put that cool laser-dragon.

[Anonymous No.9070105]

70% of the enemies in this game are one-offs or one screen-onlies

[Anonymous No.9070484]

>>9069929
There's also the hidden room with a mirror that does nothing.

[Anonymous No.9070570]

>>9069929
>>9069942
I wonder if these were a remnant of when there were two more playable characters.

[Anonymous No.9070649]

>>9070570
Are they talking about sypha? I know the genderless pronouns confused the translators, but was her gender supposed to be a mystery in Japan? Or does he mean Simon is a tranny

[Anonymous No.9070658]

>>9070649
he means Syphia

[Anonymous No.9070660]

>>9070649
She wears a tunic so you can't see if it's a man or a woman, kind of like Samus and the suit.

[Anonymous No.9070663]

>>9068308
No this was a bridge disaster back in 2006. Everyone who is on the bridge in the pic, except the man and woman on the right, died a horrible death. They fell more than 100 feet while screaming all the way down. Their bodies couldn't be retrieved for weeks due to weather, which led to vultures picking them apart. Random body parts or scraps of clothing would appear on people's lawn because vultures tend to be messy eaters in the sky. The entire park was closed for a while, and reopened only recently. Legend has it that at night you can hear children wailing and whimpering, asking for their mommy. Spirits who died a sudden death are often left confused about what happened, making them unable to pass on. An extremely sad state of affairs really.

[Anonymous No.9070690]

>>9070663

[Anonymous No.9070769]

>>9067615
kek

[Anonymous No.9070935]

>>9067545
>>9067550
Bowser's Castle in World was so cool. I love that it has a ton of different room combos you can go through.

[Anonymous No.9070947]

>>9067704
it's a deliberate artistic to choice to make it look more "cartoony"

[Anonymous No.9071089]

>>9070947
Yeah it was a mistake too. It was fine as a one-off for SMW, but Mario 64 pushed it over the line.

[Anonymous No.9071093]

>>9071089
lel

[Anonymous No.9071842]

>>9068263
lol I remember seeing them as a kid and on a recent replay of RTNP I don't remember seeing a single one
Custom campaigns also almost never use them, theyre always on some obscure MonsterHunt maps in UT but never in stuff like Operation Na Pali or Deja Vu or Xidia or Seven Bullets or whatever

[Anonymous No.9071865]

>>9071089
I always wonder what goes on in the minds of people who make these images that are just completely incorrect

[Anonymous No.9071884]

The Red Snifit is my personal favourite.

[Anonymous No.9071885]

>>9071093
>>9071865
Third party artwork isn't canon. It's the graphics in the game that counts.

[Anonymous No.9072168]

>>9071865
>Sonic's arms are BLUUUUEEEE

[Anonymous No.9073051]

>>9072168
they're tan
they always were
stop forcing this meme

[Anonymous No.9073091]

>>9071885
>third party
m8

[Anonymous No.9073096]

[Anonymous No.9074949]

>>9069942
Could that have been Gergoth before it became a half-dead horror?

[Anonymous No.9076410]

>>9067704
>SMW
>Fugly

Get the hell out of here with your bullshit.

[Anonymous No.9076452]

>>9067704
They hated him because he spoke the truth.
Mario 3 on NES had a more appealing art style and the All-Stars version was graphically superior.

[Anonymous No.9076524]

>>9076410
https://files.catbox.moe/hsoe3u.jpg

[Anonymous No.9076589]

>>9073091
>that will be 200$ plus shipping

[Anonymous No.9076597]

>>9076524
is that his weiner, or is it a prolapse?

[Anonymous No.9076604]

>>9076597
That's what turtle weiner looks like. Has to be big to get around the shell.

[Anonymous No.9076610]

You fight the enemies there multiple times, but I like how the Black Omen in Chrono Trigger has some new and bizarre looking enemies. There's only 4 of these guys in the game for example, and they don't respawn.