Post by ECM on Mar 8, 2014 12:11:15 GMT -5
ASL is the *best* of the entire AS series--the first person that says "Cybernator!" gets beaten with a rusty mobile suit--and was localized in America, in '90, for Sega Genesis! (I am doing an ugly dance to this news right now! This is the best gaming-related news I've heard in *years*!)
To this day, TE/ASL has, probably, the best ending of a videogame ever, for two reasons: 1. it was freaking epic* and 2. the game was really difficult so getting to the end (without the cheat code you fucking creampuffs!) was for the very few, the very proud:
**SPOILERS**
*You have to understand the context: this was fresh off of 8-bit, and 16-bit, unless you were one of ten Amiga or ST owners, it was a pretty alien thing to most of us, so to not only play through an awesome, super-challenging game like TE, you were then privy to an ending that shamed every 8-bit ending ever and was a real emotional event on myriad levels. The only other endings in gamedom that even approach this are Actraiser (SNES) and perhaps OOT (N64).
(Once we left 16-bit, endings (by and large) just turned into shitty movies and all the artistry of the medium itself was lost to generic 'whatever is cool in Hollywood this moment' shittiness, which persists to this day.)
To this day, TE/ASL has, probably, the best ending of a videogame ever, for two reasons: 1. it was freaking epic* and 2. the game was really difficult so getting to the end (without the cheat code you fucking creampuffs!) was for the very few, the very proud:
**SPOILERS**
*You have to understand the context: this was fresh off of 8-bit, and 16-bit, unless you were one of ten Amiga or ST owners, it was a pretty alien thing to most of us, so to not only play through an awesome, super-challenging game like TE, you were then privy to an ending that shamed every 8-bit ending ever and was a real emotional event on myriad levels. The only other endings in gamedom that even approach this are Actraiser (SNES) and perhaps OOT (N64).
(Once we left 16-bit, endings (by and large) just turned into shitty movies and all the artistry of the medium itself was lost to generic 'whatever is cool in Hollywood this moment' shittiness, which persists to this day.)
