I’ve realised recently that I have some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder. Trivial OCD, yes, but it’s still there. It’s apparent in several ways: I can’t watch people at work use an interactive whiteboard if it isn’t exactly calibrated. Even if the pen and the on-screen pointer are merely millimetres out of alignment, it drives me up the wall. I genuinely can’t watch them operate it, and last week I actually stood up in the middle of a meeting, took …
Well would you have guessed it. It seems the Cardinal is a traitor too. In fact, since everyone seems to be on the wrong side, but somehow, the same side as each other, it would appear that Ramza is actually the evil one causing unrest. Or something. I’ve managed to rescue Mustadio (or whatever his name is) today, then rescued Agrias, all without too much difficulty. They’ve now joined my party “proper”, rather than just be uncontrollable guest allies.
I’m now up to Bill and Ted’s favourite level (69, dudes!), ranking up mainly due to master romancing Doenuts and Shellybeans. I also managed to make a few more pinata resident though – Fudgehogs, Crowlas and Sherbats amongst them – and sent loads of pinata to parties (including some of Langston’s requests). I don’t seem to be able to coax Kittyflosses or Galagoogoos into my garden, however. I have a load of Mousemallows (for the Kittyfloss) and thousands of tulips …
First episode completed! Didn’t find any of it especially hard, although did get a bit lost a couple of time meaning my completion time was something approaching far too long. The end of level (episode? world?) boss was a bit of pain too, until I realised you could use the raised bit of floor to block his shots.
A deeply religious police sergeant travels to a island village to try to solve the mystery of a girl who disappeared there. On his arrival, he finds that none of the residents have even heard of her. As his investigations progess, he is exposed to more and more of the “heathen” traditions of the island’s pagan ways, realising the girl’s disappearance is somehow linked to them. Although described as a horror, or a thriller, I wouldn’t really class The Wicker …
I don’t even know what it actually does that my current phone doesn’t do, but I still need one. It doesn’t look amazing, but the HTC G1 – the first Google Android phone – is, for some reason, a necessity. It’s not even vastly different in size to my Vario III, although it’s slightly narrower and thinner, and a mite taller:
Wii Samba de Amigo is here! Have can you not love it, with this advert? Shh!! Lets just pretend the “issues” with the controls don’t exist, yes? And this is clearly the best track:
I only subscribe to two magazines – EGM, and PC Plus. In fact, I’ve cancelled my renewal for PC Plus because I don’t actually have a PC any more, but I still have the end of the subscription to run. Imagine my surprise when I opened this month’s issue to find, along with the usual scammy scratchcards and flyers for home insurance, this:
Shake it, baby! No messing around here – straight in, bought it, played it for an hour. And only completed as far as the end of the bit with the submarine. 37 minutes for one mission? I’m so slow. But it is excellent. As it always has been.
A bit of a catch-up post this. I’ve played it a lot in the last few days, but haven’t posted. I’m getting quite lax in posting these days, it seems. I’m thinking of packing in the gaming diary entirely and just posting updates on my blog. Maybe. Anyway. I’m now on level 62-ish. I’ve played online quite a bit, both in other people’s gardens, and also opening up my own. I did have one guy come in and ask “tchoutchou?”, …
More AMAZING bargain spottage in Asda this evening.¬¨‚Ć First, this fantastic buy-two-for-a-pound offer: That’s right!¬¨‚Ć You can buy one, or buy two for exactly twice the price! Staggering value, I’m sure you’ll agree.¬¨‚Ć However, it’s not as special as this multibuy bargain:
I played quite a few Xbox 360 demos at the weekend. Some thoughts: Mercenaries 2I found this too hard. I admit I wasn’t trying very hard, but it did seem impossibly difficult. The explosions were nice though. Except when my jeep was what was exploding. Oh, and respawning enemies in this sort of game == badness. RocketBowlDire. No, it really is. Domino MasterMeh. Feeding Frenzy 2Rubbish. FractureSpace Marinezzzzzzzzz… Yeah, the raising and lowering land was great. But this isn’t Doshin …
How excited was I, as a fan of train driving games, when I saw this title in Sainsburys this morning? About as excited as I was disappointed when I realised it wasn’t a train driving game at all. Bah.
I was a bit more successful with these photos, taken this evening:
Breeding twin wildcard frenzy! I decided to start breeding Syrupents, but to do that I needed Robeans. But, to breed them, I needed Bispottis. So, I got some Bispottis and set about romancing them. I managed to get a set of twin wildcards, which I named Chas and Not Original Dave. Then I master romanced the Robeans, using the Bispottis, and then fed the Robeans to my Syrupents, and romanced them too. I got a set of twin wildcard Syrupents …