Let’s Try to Play Altered Beast!
This let’s play is genuinely funny when you know that I, anticipating Segatember was going to be a thing and wanting to play through and beat the easiest games for the system, went online and found a number of folks referring to Altered Beast as one of the easiest Sega games in existence.
The joke was on me after I played the game and experienced firsthand how stupid difficult this game was, realizing after the fact that I had been trolled by posts from years ago from folks who were being completely sarcastic in labeling this game as anything resembling easy.
Let’s Try to Play Altered Beast:
The giveaway was in the fact that this game was ported from the arcade. Any arcade based games which come to the home entertainment systems are going to be famously difficult because they were created to eat as many quarters as possible. To accomplish this, the designers would make a game which caused you to hemmorhage lives left and right en route to spending a fortune to progress the game.
I wouldn’t even have minded if the game were difficult but you could get better at it. It was just stupid hard, where taking damage was a fact of nature with this game.
Those are the games which make me angry. And if Matt wasn’t there, I probably would have gotten angry. Fortunately he was, so we could appreciate the game for what it was: laughably bad.
Good times. Anyway, I felt so guilty and bamboozled at the whole exchange I decided a second playthrough that week was in order.