Alright! Now I’ve played about 90 minutes or so of Dragon Hopper on my Virtual Boy!
It’s quite good as I expected, I like how it’s like Bound High if it was an adventure game.
To you who are playing/have played it to completion, can you tell me how to find the “big key” in the infinity tower?
I’ve found a frozen switch which must mean I have to free a fire spirit to be able to melt it.
But now since I only have a Flashboy and not a Flashboy Plus, my game didn’t save and I have to play from the beginning again next time.
By the way, is it supposed to be that the dragon forms disappear after a level? In the tower there’s a block that’s clearly breakable, but pressing right on the D-pad to switch forms only works once per stage for me even though it seems like you would keep all the spirits the whole game through?
I immediately ordered a Switch VR headset from “Maxx Tech” because I have no idea how to order an official one, and on ebay and the like it’s too expensive. Very excited about playing Dragon Hopper!
This is great and I hope it somehow leads to the roms coming out to us as well.
But at the same time it saddens me that Nintendo did the “accessory required” thing, because it’s going to make the whole thing a failure most likely. So it’s really a bittersweet moment in time.
The only listings on ebay are over 300 dollars, is that just the price or are these just bad people?
For that money I would rather buy Space Invaders Virtual Collection(or, I mean, put a down-payment on it)
My Virtual Boy collection also lacks those 4 games, I call them the Big Four. But luckily I have a Flashboy, because I will never buy any game for as much as even the cheapest one of those, Space Invaders, goes for. The most expensive game I’ve ever bought was Gimmick for Famicom, which I bought cartridge only for a little less than 200$. The next-most expensive one was 130. But 500? 1000? Nooo way. Just no. Collecting is not that important to me. And emulation does exist in various forms.
I lived in Japan for a year and I didn’t see too many Virtual Boy games, certainly not at Book Off / Hard Off. Mandarake has some, and I did see Virtual Bowling once in Surugaya in Tokyo. I saw SD Gundam cart only once in Osaka, it might still be there but it was 60000 yen or something I think. There’s not cheap there either.
Couldn’t they at least have made it red? If I get this I will have to get a red film-thing to put in front of the goggles to create a better experience
speedyink wrote:
VB Wario Land is by far my favorite Wario game.
Wario Land 2 and 3 just didn’t grab me, it deviated too far from the ‘Mario’ formula for me. Having to collect/do certain things to progress? No thanks. VB Wario Land absolutely nailed the balance of collecting vs standard get to the goal. I like how collecting isn’t mandatory to finish, but more of an incentive to play again and explore.
Dreammary wrote:
Oh; the answer is none, Nintendo has yet to even come close to what they did with VB Wario Land in the rest of the series.
I agree! The Wario series went the way of Castlevania and found it’s way of doing things and never went back. A Wario Land Virtual Boy remake would be nice…
matthwq wrote:
Kind of a lighthearted topic maybe, but I’m playing through WLVB for the first time ever, and I am amazed at how good it is and how well it holds up. All of the powerups, the level designs, the fluidity of the controls, of course the 3D — it hangs so so well together, and it’s got me desperately wanting to play another one of these after I finish this one. Do any if his few platforming adventures equal this one (or better) in your opinion?
Actually I think VB Wario Land is the best game in the series. With Wario Land 2 the Wario series changed from “beat the stage while finding secrets and coins” to “run around a bigger stage looking for secrets and coins and you can’t die, just get inconvenienced” which I didn’t think was as good as before. The next best game in the series is Super Mario Land 3 Wario Land on Gameboy, which is still a regular platformer.
Of the later more exploration-based games, Wario Land 4 on GBA and Wario Land Shake Dimension on Wii are both pretty good though, but not close to Virtual Boy Wario Land in my opinion.
