Little Big Planet (PS3): COMPLETED!

By “completed”, I mean, I’ve finished all the story levels and beaten the end boss. I know there are more challenges, and 96898621504588 user made levels, and hidden stuff, and things to collect and all that sort of thing, but no – I’ve had enough. It wasn’t terrible, but as a game (rather than a tool), it was all a bit lacking. The into and out of the screen moving, the strange jumping physics, the wonky collision detection, and the …

Haunted

I suggested to this fella here that his One a Day post yesterday should be about things that scared him as a child, and his resultant ghost story reminded me of this one from my childhood, which I thought I’d share. Grey Lady. There’s always a Grey Lady. Friend of mine lived in a huge, but run down, manor house in the middle of nowhere, and often over the summer I’d hang out there, messing about in the boat on …

Mario’s Picross (3DS)

I loved Mario’s Super Picross for the SNES, which I picked up on the Wii Virtual Console a few years ago. It did take FOR EVAAR to complete though, so I wasn’t going to get the Game Boy version for the 3DS. Then, of course, I did. And it’s excellent, of course. Yes, so there are a few fewer puzzles, and yes, the biggest puzzle is only 15×15, but that’s actually good as it means I don’t get so stuck …

Embrace the Meltdown

Note: this is a sponsored post Really Chocolatey Thick Shakes. Embrace the Meltdown. Put your skills to the test and rescue our penguins from the chocolate meltdown at www.embracethemeltdown.com Penguin Meltdown is the ultimate test of staying calm under pressure. Show off your skills, challenge your friends and play to secure the top spot on the mother of all leaderboards. Penguin Meltdown is a race against time. Navigate the GALAXY, MILKY WAY and MARS penguins to safety across the Thick …

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX (3DS): COMPLETED!

You know, I found that I did, in fact, have a copy of the DX version for the Game Boy Colour after all.  As well as the non-DX version. And I’d totally forgotten. Tch, eh? Today, I completed it. Since I last posted, I did some of the Turtle Rock dungeon before moving off to go and find the boomerang and collect some seashells for the level 2 sword. With both of them obtained, I was pretty much indestructible, easily seeing …

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX (3DS)

You know, I’m pretty sure I’m buying every single Virtual Console game out for the 3DS. I got Zelda the other week, and as well as that I’ve also got Kirby, Donkey Kong, Mario Land, Qix, Double Dragon and Fortified Zone. I’m only missing Tennis and Alleyway and I just know I’m going to end up with them too if there’s a slow week… But back to Zelda. Somehow, back in 2005, when I was running through pretty much every …

WordPress 3.2 update

So it seems nothing major broke with the update to WP3.2, which is good as I’m hearing lots of horror stories from other people – databases being chewed, themes being broken, Server 500 errors all over the place… nothing like that here yet. Mind you, I’ve not posted anything (on the blog at least) since the upgrade so there’s still time. Sorry about the lack of updates recently, incidentally, but there’ll be more soon!

WordPress 3.2

I’ve just upgraded this blog, and several of my other sites (diary, Game Over, Yeah!!, etc.) to WordPress 3.2. It’s quite a major change, and there have been many reports of it breaking sites. Fingers crossed all is currently well, as I can’t see anything too out of place. Please let me know if that isn’t the case for you! For what it’s worth, the new dashboard looks nice, but I miss the “New Post” link in the top right …

Kirby’s Dream Land (3DS): COMPLETED!

Another short Game Boy game! From buying to completing, took me 32 minutes. Yes, it was short and easy. But oh so lovely! Many people forget that the Kirby’s trademark ability-copying “power” wasn’t actually in this, his first game. In fact, he has very few moves – he can’t run, slide or squirt water when swimming. In a way, it feels like a cut-down port of the NES game, which of course it isn’t. Anyway, I enjoyed it, and I’ve …

Donkey Kong (3DS): COMPLETED!

This was a much longer game than I remember it being, but somehow it seemed much easier. I have memories of having 70-odd lives reaching the final boss, then losing 67 of them on him. That seems like a lot of lives, but they’re very easy to come by (you normally get 2 or 3 each level, then after every four levels when the time score is counted up, you usually get another 5 or 6) and I did die …

Kirby’s Epic Yarn (Wii): COMPLETED!

The is the game I’ve been playing most since completing InFamous, and today I completed it. It wasn’t especially short, but it was very easy. I don’t think it’s even possible to die – I certainly didn’t, and even falling off the bottom of the screen or losing all your beads doesn’t kill you, so I doubt you can. That doesn’t mean it was bad though. I loved it! The art style is amazing, the levels bright and varied with …