Comments on: The Anatomy of Kid Icarus VIII: Gunners heaven

By: The Sprat

The Sprat — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:13:06 +0000

Parish: Ah, cool, I didn’t know that! All this time I just assumed it was a glitch or some hidden feature of that password. Weird that it “activates” at a certain HP threshold, but doesn’t seem to disappear once you go below that threshold. This game is just eccentricities all over.

I also was nuts over the idea of freeing as many centurions as possible when I was young, even though the help they provided at boss time was usually slight at best. It’s just such a fun idea.

By: Chicago Frank

Chicago Frank — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:47:09 +0000

I too think that there should be examples of “bad” game design for the anatomy series, but like Tato wrote limit it to a few paragraphs or a single entry. If we are traveling to the 90’s do we ever get to encounter the Genesis perhaps?

By: J. Parish

J. Parish — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:54:02 +0000

@The Sprat: Ain’t no shame in playing tourist through a frustrating game. I got to the jumping part of Turok on N64 and decided “screw it,” so my roommates and I unlocked all the weapons and god knows what else and dicked around with the game for a few hours before trading it in.

Also, I don’t think the third weapon’s appearance is a glitch. For each weapon you acquire, your health needs to be above a certain threshold to activate it, and dungeons don’t count. So my guess is that code registers the last weapon as having been acquired in 2-3 with insufficient health for it to trigger, and the pool in 3-1 puts you over the minimum. The more you know!