I’ve ranked up to Level 17 now, but I’m starting to run out of races to participate in. Some need me to buy a new car (which I tried doing via the auctions, but again they just frustrated me), but most need me to be on level 20. Raced a few more races, mainly by hiring drivers. It’s the game that plays itself! You earn in-game credits for sitting on the toilet. Excellent. I did drive a few myself though, …
It’s about time I went back to this for a bit. Why, then, did I spent a good 45 minutes doing nothing but watch my AI driver play two races for me, then spend ages trying to buy and sell cars? I didn’t actually do any driving. And it’s a bloody driving game. And the auction is broken, as you can’t specify a price you want to bid, making it all rubbish and long-winded when you’re buying. Pah.
Yet more play on this with my wife this evening. We played a few games with a third (AI) player, but it just made things confusing. We also played with the river expansion turned on for a few games, but that too made it more confusing. So we went back to playing it normally.
After finishing the first game, I thought I’d have a look through the other titles on the disc. I used to play Alpha 2 a bit a uni too, but not as much as the first one for some reason. It’s still great, and yes, it’s technically better than Alpha, but I think maybe it’s just down to what I knew and loved first. Anyway, I played a few rounds, again as Kenneth for the main part. And doesn’t Dan …
I bought the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology pack for the PS2 yesterday, and put it on today for a quick play. Of course, the “quick play” turned into the completion of Alpha with Kenneth. Who is, naturally, the best of all the animals. I’d forgotten how much I like this game. I used to play it for hours at university on the Saturn – literally hours playing Ken vs Ryu against a flatmate. HOURS. Of Ken vs Ryu. Good grief.
I started off with a ranked match against someone whose gamertag had far too many numbers in, and was losing for most of it. Then I picked up a bit, and had figured that one of my farms was going to completely obliterate his score in the end. Sadly, that didn’t happen – he must have had another follower somewhere and so we both got farm castle bonuses. It was close though, he won 97-95. I then played quite a …
It seems I only had a few more levels left to do, and a couple of them were quite short. The final one, however… took ages. Like, almost an hour. The reason? The SuckySuck(TM) bit at the end. Most of the bosses I’d fought previously all returned, one after another. Of course, the first time you come across them, they either run away after a bit, or you do. Not at the end though. The sticking point was General Mono. …
The pay machine on my bus broke as I got on, so the driver said my trip was free. Aces! That’s two quid more to spend on beer…
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Ha! In a shock reversal of fortunes, I was aces this evening, beating my wife in all four games we played. Excellent. I should point out that I don’t physically beat my wife. I meant in the game, you know? As in, I won?
Another two levels out of the way this evening. I quite like the graphical style of the Night Watcher levels – they’re all in black and white, with just some red bits and slight colouring on the baddies. It looks great! I had a look at the achievements list too, and I wonder why it says I haven’t collected my “first coin” yet? I’ve picked up hundreds of them.
You know, this is actually quite good fun. It alternates between 3D platforming, fighting, and some almost-2D platforming. Completed another two levels today, another with Leonardo in the jungle, and then one back in the city (Manhattan, isn’t it?) with all the toitles available to cycle through in some sort of tag-team action. Yeah, there are issues (some with the camera, some with the controls), but it’s not a bad game at all.
So I stupidly decided to play this with my wife. She was concerned that because I’d played it already, and she thought it was horribly confusing to play, that she’d have no hope of winning at all. It didn’t really surprise me that she won the first game. After all, I wasn’t being as evil with castle/road blocking as I could have been, suggested better moves than ones she was contemplating, and generally just concentrated on her moves rather than …
As expected, I bought some more points and unlocked the full version. Played a game against the computer, and lost horribly as I didn’t seem to have a strategy for placing my followers in sensible places, as so all were pretty useless. I then played online against “Richrad Live“, who thrashed me for the first half of the game, then I almost caught him up, then near the end he broke free by miles again, but in the end-of-game points …