Worked my way through World 8, which is a bit harder than the others (none of which have been especially difficult so far), only to find myself stuck. I have the Boss Level available, but I can’t select it. It is greyed out, and I can’t get in. I have no idea what to do (it’s all in Japanese) and I’m a bit annoyed. Bah.
Have played all the way through World 7 now, none of which was especially hard. There were quite a few auto-scroll sections, which I don’t like, but nothing too taxing. Onto Bowser’s Castle now. I’ve also unlocked another mini-game, and also bought a load more jigsaw pieces. Haven’t got all of the pieces for any puzzle yet though, and it won’t let me buy any more.
Picked up from World 3, Level 2 where I’d previously made it up to. It, like all good (and bad) Mario-derived games has, is a Ghost House type level, so there were Boos and dark bits and stuff. And an irritating pick-a-door puzzle bit on one of the levels. Shockingly (or rather, not), the end of level boss was King Boo. He was pretty easy though, and I killed him first go. World 4 was the obligatory lava world, and …
Stupidly, I had deleted my saved game last time I played this. So I had to start again. Luckily, it didn’t take long to get to the point I was at previously (the end of first world boss). Defeated him, and worked my way through all of World 2. Bought a few power-ups on the way, including the floaty-umbrella one, and some more energy and “emotion bar”. I’ve also done the first level of World 3 too.
After waiting almost TWO MONTHS, and with Royal Mail losing the first delivery of this game, it finally arrived today. So I played it a bit. It’s pretty good. The graphics are a lot like Yoshi’s Island on the SNES, and it’s all cute and bouncy and everything. I’ve played through all of World 1 up to the boss, Petey Pihrana. Who you have to kill in an almost identical way to in Super Mario Sunshine. Didn’t manage to kill …
After $hlmun attempts at the boss, and managing to get to the boss’s “second stage” many, many times only to lose the ball through no fault of my own, I finally managed to launch Bowser out of the castle and into the sky. Which, unsurprisingly, completed the game. I’ve never known a game to be so easy all of the way through, and then have a boss so difficult (and very much reliant on sheer luck) at the end. Thankfully, …
Anyone who describes themselves as a gamer, or even those who read a lot of books, collect DVDs (remember them?) or are avid fans of various other arts, know about The Backlog. It is, as a gamer at least, a list of games that have been bought (or acquired – most games are “free” these days) under the full intent to play, but for whatever reason are Pushed on the stack and have not yet reached Pop. Why these games …
