LosingMyMind

On the flipside, we have things like Toki Tori 2 that has multiple patches to add in new sections and features. They're not all about bug fixes. And that game was great upon release

Music

Agreed, but didn't Borderlands 2 and other games get around that, by putting access to things that previously would only be done via patch?


I fixed my thoughts on the original post.

Michael Corvin

Good or bad, patches are here to stay, as are rushed glitchy games to meet a release date. There's nothing that will stop that from happening, even charging for patches. I tend to see the other side of the coin as a far worse scenario, one where a game needs a patch but, the devs say fuck it because of some silly fee that doesn't need to exist.

MoviePage

Er, I thought this was old news by now, but MS no longer charges developers for any patches as of April this year. Phil Fish has even said that Fez will be eventually patched again because of the policy change.

LosingMyMind

I wouldn't hold my breath on that one, since he has basically said "f you" to everyone. But it's good to know that they changed their policy. Hopefully developers don't release half assed projects and abuse the system.

MoviePage

True, I forgot about Fish ragequitting the industry.

LosingMyMind

On hard and extreme you might want to do Transylvania and The Himalayas first, as they contain the only heart container upgrades In those modes.

So far I've beat the game on normal and hard and am in the middle of an extreme playthrough, having beat the intro, African Mines, and Transylvania.

It's kind of annoying that extreme must be played all in one sitting. Also, there are more extra lives in hard mode than normal mode wtf.

LosingMyMind

I just got to the bonus stage for the first time and messed up after collecting one small diamond

story

Ditto. Didn't even notice the cloud ground.

LosingMyMind

I was able to complete extreme, losing one life. I don't think there's anything left to unlock :/

Michael Corvin

Finished the game and now it's stuck on a save screen. Powering down doesn't help. Fucking glitches.

Jay G.

What do you mean? You turn off the WiiU and the next time you load the game it freezes while loading?

TheKing

The PS3 version crashed on me a couple of times while saving. Fortunately the crashes came after the save, as I lost no progress.

I started playing on easy, and am now stuck there until I can unlock all the art in the gallery. It sucks you lose that progress if you want to change difficulty. I am getting close, but some of them cost over a million.

I did get the Look Ma, No Spats trophy. That was a bitch.

Michael Corvin

What bonus stage?

Yep. Power down the WiiU, turn it back on. Tap the DuckTales game icon and it takes me right back to the black save screen. I had to unplug the WiiU.

Jcheckel

When you go to new game, it says it keeps Gallery unlocks.

TheKing

I could of sworn it said the opposite of that when I tried. I'll check it when I get home.

LosingMyMind

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Michael Corvin

Unlocked all the music. How can you choose it during the game?

LosingMyMind

Go into options and 8-Bit Music On/Off should be there.

XavierMike

I just played the intro level. I'm really going to enjoy this. I'm starting on easy.

TheKing

I made it all the way to the final level on Extreme, but I had zero lives left, and the extra life on that level on hard is not there for Extreme. I made a bad jump and it was over.

Ugh. I should be able to do it, I just need a life or two.

LosingMyMind

There's still one extra life in that level somewhere. I didn't find extreme to be any more difficult than hard, really. I think the lava at the last section goes ever so slightly faster than on hard and it was already fast on hard. Be on your toes and prepared to skip a few chains on your way up.

Consider your first go through as practice. You will have learned from your mistakes and I'm pretty sure you'll make it all the way through.

Michael Corvin

The leaderboard says you've only ran through the game once.

Done easy and hard so far myself. LosingMyMind is the only one on my WiiU leaderboard.

LosingMyMind

Yeah, I was actually going to ask you to check the leaderboard to check on that. It only shows that for me too. It didn't update any of my leaderboard stuff after my past two playthroughs. I'm done with the game until they release a patch.

I might sign in and see if it will update my stats, but I doubt it.

Also, you're able to access the leaderboards with no freezing? I can only look at one or two pages of them and then the system needs restarted.

http://www.nintendonews.com/wii-u/du...-leaderboards/

I asked on miiverse if anyone knows why my stats aren't updating. Here's what my real play time should show on the leaderboards, among other stats that won't update.

Michael Corvin

Yeah, no problems with the leaderboards on my end. Your stats:

Playtime: 9:11:49
Fastest: 2:46:30
Total $: 109,196,700
Most Profitable: 15,512,200
Total Playthroughs: 1