Year: 2007
Contact (DS): COMPLETED!
I know I haven’t played this in almost two months, but other things arrived and got in the way. Anyway. Today I played it for about two or three hours, which was long enough to finish the next few islands and complete the game! Harbira Island was fantastic. A giant shop full of nerdy pop-band fanboys, complete with geek dialogue and two arcade games which you play as yourself. As in, a racing game where you run round the track. …
Legend of the Mystical Ninja (Wii)
Or Goemon, as we know it’s really called. “Kid Ying” and “Dr. Yang”? Pff. Rubbish. So it’s mad, yes. And I’ve worked my way through four zones. Or five? I killed the thing in the fairground anyway, with all the lanterns on it. And now I’m in a place where I can rotate the room around with buttons. And I played lots of mini games. Mole FTW!
Castlevania (Wii)
Gah. This is getting really annoying now. I can get from the restart point to The Creature without dying most times now, and often without even getting hit. However, that stupid imp that keeps hopping around the room once I get there kills be far too easily. I even managed to get The Creature down to two energy bars – one more whipping would have done it. But no. I died.
Guitar Hero II (360)
It seems I gained another achievement today, for buying all the guitar finishes. Again, I haven’t actually bought them all, but I got the achievement anyway. Also tried a few of the “bought” bonus tracks, including Trogdor (which was a bit bloody hard). Played through some of the existing tracks as well, to bump my stars and scores up a little. Psychobilly Freakout is still impossible, however.
Boom Boom Rocket (360) (Demo)
So, it’s Dance Dance Revolution, only with fireworks. And you play with a pad. Rubbish. The arrows are too small. The blue ones are almost invisible over the background. It’s sometimes difficult to tell which arrow will hit the “bar” first, as they’re often so far apart and seemingly moving at different speeds. I won’t be buying it.
Guitar Hero II (360)
With all the tracks on Medium now done, it was time to start going for 5 Star rankings on them all, and bump myself up the leaderboards a little. In fact, there’s not much bumping up the leaderboards I can do, on my friends list at least – I’m first, second or third for almost every track, and am second overall for the career. Aces! Anyway. I have at least the first 24 (of 48) tracks now 5 Star ranked, …
Guitar Hero II (360)
Finished up the rest of the “missed” tracks from Medium today, and then started on Easy. Well, actually, I tried one on Hard and it made me cry, so I gave up on that mode. Managed to get the 500 note streak achievement for perfecting three songs in a row, and then did one song “lefty flip”, which was bloody difficult, even on Easy – my brain just refused to accept the new orientation of notes.
Guitar Hero II (360): COMPLETED!
In that, I’ve reached the end of Medium. Overall, it seems waaaaay easier than the first game, as I didn’t fail a single track. A few at the end (Psychobilly Freakout for one) are bloody difficult, but I have at least 3 stars on every track. I then realised I hadn’t done the training, so did that to learn how to do hammer-ons and pull-offs – I can’t quite get the hang of them, but I think I’ll get there. …
Guitar Hero II (360)
RAWK TEH HELL ON! Today, I bought Guitar Hero II. I already have the original game for the PS2, complete with guitar controller, so it made perfect sense to buy the 360 version and another controller for twice the cost it would have been for a fully usable PS2 copy. This was mainly due to the new guitar being ACES, but also because of the promised Xbox Live downloadable content (that’s XBL DLC, abbreviation fans!) and online leaderboards. So this …
Lumines Live (360)
Just a quick go today. Which means two hours or so. Had a go on Advanced, and didn’t manage to progress any further than previously, and then tried Skin Edit mode and got a feeble score of 800,000-ish for a single lap. Bah.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (360)
With Shivering Isles all done and dusted (um, bar all the side quests of course), I’ve decided to mop up the remaining questlines in the main game. First up, was going back the the Dark Brotherhood. I was given the task of killing an elf in the Imperial City, who was pretty easy to do in. He spend a few hours imbibing Skooma in an abandoned house, so all I had to do was find him there. Then, I was …
Lumines Live (360)
Achievement GET! Which is amazing as they’re a bit bloody hard in this game. I finally managed to complete one ‘loop’ of Base mode, scoring about 180,000 points. Somehow, this puts me at the top of my friends leaderboard and 141st in the world. Um, how?
The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles (360): COMPLETED!
Super marathon session today, resulting in the end of the Shivering Isles expansion pack and questline. I’m classing it as a separate game to Oblivion, in terms of completion status for several reasons: the size, the cost, the fact you don’t need to have played the main game to “do” Shivering Isles, and it’s an entirely separate, self-contained world. Plus, Bethesda list in on their site as a separate game anyway, so if it’s good enough for them, I feel …
Castlevania (Wii)
FRUSTRATION FACTOR 10! Not only is it a bit bloody hard (I managed to get to The Creature, but died), but for some reason my Wii remote keeps cutting out. I’ve tried both remotes, new batteries, switching off anything that might interfere, switched the Wii off at the wall and all sorts. Nothing works. I had this problem with Sonic and the Stupid Rings a couple of weeks ago, but nothing since. Other games are fine, as are the other …