Yet more giant ant/spider/robot destruction today. Considering how repetitive the game sounds, it’s amazing how different each level can be. In one, you’ll be in narrow caves full of ants and a flamethrower is a must, and then the next, you’ll be in a city shooting down UFOs whilst avoiding spiders on the ground. It’s really rather addictive. So much so, in fact, that I’m now up to Level 40 after some extended play this evening.
Next week on ugvm (the newsgroup, not the magazine) is Retro Week. I’ve decided. So, in preparation, I downloaded this from the Wii VC library. I vaguely remember playing it once before, and, in fact, I thought I owned it for the NES, but perhaps not. It’s a bit like Sokoban, only with less pushing and more baddies. Sort of. The idea is to collect all the hearts on the screen, which activates a treasure chest, and you reach that …
City Link is a well known courier company. Infamous, in fact, mainly because of how crap they are. I order a fair amount of stuff over the internet, and have yet to deal with a courier company who isn’t crap, but of all of them City Link stands proud as the Worst of the Worst. I won’t go into the problems I’ve had with them in the past, but will say that I’ve had things incorrectly delivered, lost, broken, and …
Still delving deeper and deeper into this abyss of insects. Only completed two levels though – the one where you start of surrounded (the trick is to dive into a tunnel, flamethrower-first, and turn around), and the one after it. I’m still only 10% complete on the game though. How many levels are there in this thing?! EDIT: Oh, 53.
It’s Final Fantasy Tactics! Only with insects! Sort of! Played the first few levels of this, and it certainly looks like the sort of thing I want to pay for. Ace.
Aha! Killed them! It seems that rockets are mostly a waste of time on the Hectors, as rifle fire can actually stop them charging their lasers. The upshot of that was me getting past that level. I had a level full of red ants at the beach then, which was easy. I actually completed the level three times as the armour drops were plentiful and I made use of them. Then, more ant/red ant/spiders in the city with nests to …
SPIDERS! Big spiders that hop and fire webs! And go splat when you shoot them! And then! A HUGE walking spaceship thing. And I mean HUGE. It has to be the biggest moving thing I’ve seen in any game ever. The graphics, especially in terms of how much is going on at once, are waaay better than I previously thought. No wonder my character looks crap and the buildings are bland when there are ninezwelftyten thousand hunter killers and Hectors …
Hector. Giant great robots with gunz and laz0rz and stompy feet wot squash you. And they’re called Hectors. Jesus. Anyway. Killed a load of them, then a load more, and then it was into a nest of ants, rapidly followed by a retreat. Tch, EDF cowards!
Still plugging away at this. Decided to upgrade my Porsche 914 to the heady heights of Rank A, with a PI of 834 currently. I can’t see how to push it any further, unless a new engine (and then starting again with the upgrades associated with it) will help. Anyway, with that car I then took part in a couple of races, before deciding up up the opponent AI from Medium to Hard. Where “Hard” means “Cheating”, clearly. Suddenly, C …
Bought myself a heavy car, and finished off the Proving Grounds races. I’ve also upgraded some useless car I’m been given to make it S rank, given it a red and green paint job, and stuck it on the auctions to see if I can make a profit. I’m guessing not. Completed a few more races in the other serieseses too.
Went after the final achievement to finish off the game this evening. I needed to get 400,000 points, and had been informed that Extra 3 was the mode to choose to do that. And indeed it was, as I managed it on my first attempt, reaching 448,000 with some ease. So that’s all the modes survived, and all the achievements got. Winnar!
Plowed through more races today. I’m alarmed to see that not only have I not lost a race yet, but I haven’t actually finished in any position other than first. Even after crashing. Hmm. In an effort to improve the credits I get for each race, and to make it a little harder, I had a tweak with the difficulty settings, and now I don’t get any penalty for easiness. Not that it’s made much difference. In fact, since changing …
Plowed through more races today. I’m alarmed to see that not only have I not lost a race yet, but I haven’t actually finished in any position other than first. Even after crashing. Hmm. In an effort to improve the credits I get for each race, and to make it a little harder, I had a tweak with the difficulty settings, and now I don’t get any penalty for easiness.
What a no-game this is. As in, there’s no game. I did expect this though, having the first game already, but this is just more of the same with added jetskis. I’m on Day 6, and so far, I’ve done: nothing. Well, I’ve played volleyball a few times, and got annoyed at the controls, lack of control, and the camera. I’ve played the arse fighting game, which is rubbish. I’ve played the pool hop game, which is impossible as I …