All these Geoms I’ve been collecting – hundreds of thousands of them – were all used up by the last few planets in the penultimate galaxy. Meaning I didn’t have enough to open the final galaxy. So I went back to some earlier levels and managed Gold where previously, I’d only managed Bronze. That let me in, and with the first three planets there all Gold’ed, I’m back in huge credit! Sadly, it costs LOADS to unlock each planet, so …
Right, I’m on the penultimate galaxy, and I’ve done three of the planets there. Not many left now! They’re all getting a bit hard though, and I haven’t managed a Silver rank in ages.
I don’t really know what to write. I really love the game, but it’s just “shoot stuff”, so there’s no real way of making an interesting diary post out of that… I’m over halfway through unlocking the galaxies, though.
Yesterday, eBay announced that they’re going to stop allowing negative feedback on sales. Sort of, anyway – only buyers will be allowed to leave negative feedback, with sellers having to make do with positive or nothing. Of course, this now means that (for sellers) no feedback is the new bad feedback. I believe it’s a backwards step. I’m not saying the positive/negative feedback thing is the best solution, but this is even worse. I lost any faith in eBay years …
This just gets better! Every planet has a different “quirk”, like you’ve only got one life, or you have huge splitting baddies, or there’s no break from the action at all, or the “grid” is a maze with walls. I’ve been powering up my Turret, which seems great for taking down huge swarms, especially on the more open levels. I had plenty of opportunity to power it up too, considering the number of times I had to attempt a level …
Just a quite note to say I’ve written a review of the 360 version of Assassin’s Creed. You can find it here: Assassin’s Creed review
My Wii has had a quiet time of things recently (Eternal Sonata, Tony Hawk and Assassin’s Creed saw to that), but with both Geometry Wars and Dewy arriving today, it’s had a bit of a renaissance. First impressions are… confused. The opening sequence is exactly the same graphical style as Eledees, with the same boy in it, and the same voice actor. The game itself, however, is totally different. It lies somewhere between Mercury Meltdown and, erm, something else. You …
That’s right – Wii and DS. The Wii game arrived today, and, to my surprise, it lets you send a copy of a port of Retro Evolved to your DS. Hurrah! First up was the Wii “Galaxies” mode. It is ACE. I was expecting a slight drop in clarity of visuals (over the 360 Retro Evolved) but there isn’t really. It’s just not HD, that’s all. The level-based nature is a big difference to the game, but it works really …
That’s right. Completed. Although I was only about half the way through yesterday, I played it rather a lot this afternoon. And this evening. Yeah, so pretty much all day. Oops. Naturally, I assassinated the last few targets, leaving me with Robert – the guy who I ran from at the start of the game. However, he’d left a decoy in his place, so I had to go off to meet King Richard on the battlefield to tell him of …
It’s the campest game in the world! And that’s before you even open the box! Amazing scenes. So, needing a break from Assassin’s Creed, that I’ve played rather a lot today, I’ve gone for Something Completely Different. I wasn’t really 100% sure what to expect of Tingle, assuming it’d be some sort of Zelda-lite. Well, it isn’t. So far, it’s been mostly about giving money away to dodgy geezers. You see, the aim is to earn an unspecified amount of …
So I’ve killed the bloke in Jerusalem, and then it was off (via Massaf) to Damascus again, to kill a fat, and overtly gay, businessman who was holding a party just so he could poison all the guests. Amazing. He was the easiest kill so far, and with him bumped off I went up a rank and got some more items, and then set off for Acre again. I’ve not done anything there yet, though. So I’m enjoying the game, …
“Thez bin a mudder!” If only the game was all in Taggart-speak. Imagine how ace it’d be then! Not that it’s bad – it’s just… varied. The running over the rooftops is excellent, and the fighting isn’t too bad. I like some of the “investigation” things, but others are tedious. The horse riding from city to city is also pretty tedious. The actual assassinations (so far – I’ve only done two) have been great, but the running away afterwards has …