I have been lollygagging.

My posting pace has faded to essentially zero. I have a fair excuse for this, with the birth of my daughter heralding in a total cessation of all gaming for quite a spell. But I’ve always shaken an indignant fist at posts by others which try to plead life-event excuses, so I expect no sympathy.

Further, my post history makes it pretty obvious that I was slacking even before I stopped altogether. Switching games after a single post, never finishing a thread. Today: reparations! Let’s recap the projects of the past and update progress. Or report abortion.

Raiden Fighters Jet.  Aborted.  I can barely remember it, in fact.  I stopped playing even before the folks in last year’s STGT started.

Mega Man 9.  I got the buster-only boss clear.  Then by the end, I was kind of irritated by how goofy my criteria for that were, so I got a legit buster-only clear.  1CC, no special weapons.  Tiny exception on the specials rule for a section in Wily 2(?) where you need to laser trident some blocks.  I know of no other way past there.  I also used some items against Plug Man, because fuck Plug Man, that’s why.  Either an E capsule or a 1/2 damage jobby.  Cleared Superhero mode, which rocks the body that rocks the party.  Never 1cc’d, though.  I’ll have to come back to it at some point.

Spider-Man 2.  I only spent maybe two weeks on the Great Project this time around.  My shame is vast.  No aborted effort looms larger.

Umihara Kawase Kanzenban.  No new progress since 101.  I will claim this is still an open effort nonetheless, because I have played recently.

Bionic Commando (GameBoy).  Aborted.  In a good way.  The back end of the game was pretty weak, with little in the way of cool swinging.  And then I credit-fed a bit and realized there’s a whole battleship level after you finish all the map stages.  And then I gleefully quit.

I think that sweeps the desk clear so I can start piling up brand new half-assery.

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