When Pigs Fry! - Episode 2: Piggin' Out

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Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zf4An0U99c



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Tomba! (1997)
Duration: 2:55:56
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Originally recorded: August 17, 2022
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It's funny, I generally find streams with both ups and downs to be the most entertaining to experience. I guess it's because overcoming challenges is one of my favorite aspects of video games as a medium, but that means that I have to both experience difficulty in the game itself... and, well, eventually emerge successful.

When I last left Tomba early Monday morning -- or I guess incredibly late Sunday night, depending on your time zone -- I had accrued a massive surplus of extra lives. I managed to blow through all of them near the start of this session. Fortunately, if you manage to use save points wisely, lacking extra lives isn't quite the handicap you'd expect in Tomba!

On the other hand, I was actually able to start tracking down boss fights this time around. By the end of the stream, I managed to find and defeat four out of the game's total eight bosses. The boss fights in Tomba! are... interesting to put it mildly. If you know what you're doing, they can be finished in seconds. But most of the time, I had trouble acclimating to each boss's layout. Still, it was interesting to see so many different variants on the same idea. It does make me wonder if the final boss is going to be exactly the same as the other seven though.

Fortunately, I had a couple of guardian angels helping me out tonight. With games like Tomba!, I absolutely love getting advice from people that regularly replay whatever game I'm currently streaming, if only because their knowledge helps me optimize my run. Hopefully at least one of them shows up again next time, just to see if they can offer me some additional help.

At this point, I'm hoping I can wrap things up next time... but I'm not so sure. Despite the fact that I managed to make it roughly "halfway" to the game's main objective, I'm just not so sure if I'll be able to make it. But perhaps the prospect of another "three-session week" for my side project will give me the fortitude to finish Tomba! next time. Only time will tell...







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