Free buses
The pay machine on my bus broke as I got on, so the driver said my trip was free. Aces! That’s two quid more to spend on beer…
Super bargain power!
Play Asia have a sale on at the moment, offering 20% off, well, pretty much everything it seems. Which is ace. I can personally recommend these huge bargains: Crackdown (360) Р¬£15Prey (360) Р¬£10Gears of War (360) Р¬£18 Phoenix Wright 2 (DS) Р¬£12Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS) Р¬£10 More here!
Carcassonne (360)
Ha! In a shock reversal of fortunes, I was aces this evening, beating my wife in all four games we played. Excellent. I should point out that I don’t physically beat my wife. I meant in the game, you know? As in, I won?
TMNT (360)
Another two levels out of the way this evening. I quite like the graphical style of the Night Watcher levels – they’re all in black and white, with just some red bits and slight colouring on the baddies. It looks great! I had a look at the achievements list too, and I wonder why it says I haven’t collected my “first coin” yet? I’ve picked up hundreds of them.
TMNT (360)
You know, this is actually quite good fun. It alternates between 3D platforming, fighting, and some almost-2D platforming. Completed another two levels today, another with Leonardo in the jungle, and then one back in the city (Manhattan, isn’t it?) with all the toitles available to cycle through in some sort of tag-team action. Yeah, there are issues (some with the camera, some with the controls), but it’s not a bad game at all.
Carcassonne (360)
So I stupidly decided to play this with my wife. She was concerned that because I’d played it already, and she thought it was horribly confusing to play, that she’d have no hope of winning at all. It didn’t really surprise me that she won the first game. After all, I wasn’t being as evil with castle/road blocking as I could have been, suggested better moves than ones she was contemplating, and generally just concentrated on her moves rather than …
Carcassonne (360)
As expected, I bought some more points and unlocked the full version. Played a game against the computer, and lost horribly as I didn’t seem to have a strategy for placing my followers in sensible places, as so all were pretty useless. I then played online against “Richrad Live“, who thrashed me for the first half of the game, then I almost caught him up, then near the end he broke free by miles again, but in the end-of-game points …
Missile Command (360)
Wow! There are 25 of us super-secret Missile Command players now! It’s an amazing elite club. Bet you’re all well jealous. Sadly, I’m not Best In The World any more. In fact, I was 5th. Tch. However, I did improve on my 29,500-ish score to reach 45,000-ish – putting me back up to second! Hurrah!
Carcassonne (Demo) (360)
It’s a boardgame. And, after playing the tutorial, it all seems horribly confusing. However, after playing one game proper, it has clicked and is actually very simple. And very good it is too, so I suspect I’ll be buying this tomorrow. I just need some more points as I spent the last of them on Missile Command…
Missile Command (360)
This isn’t due for another two days, but a glitch in the Xbox Live Arcade banners allowed me and (at the time of typing) 13 other people access to downloading it. And so, for the first time ever, I managed to be top of a leaderboard on an Xbox 360 game. A leaderboard of 14 people, but still – there I am: As for the game itself, well – it’s pretty good. It works surprisingly well with the pad (although …
I am bestest in the world!
Ph33r me and my 1337 Missile Command skillz! I’m top of the Xbox Live leaderboard, on just my second go. Uh, however… The thing is, the game isn’t out yet. Not until Wednesday. Some glitch seems to have allowed me and (currently) 13 other people access to it. So I’m best in the world. It’s just a somewhat small world, consisting of 14 Missile Command players who got the game by accident.
TMNT (360)
This arrived today. I wasn’t really expecting much, but I put it on anyway. Four levels later (one for each turtle), and I’m mildly impressed. It looks OK, the speed and moves are pretty swish (even if there’s a lot of Prince of Persia theft), but there’s something niggly about it that makes me want to hate it. Yeah, so there’s a few camera issues, and sometimes you do moves inadvertently, (like run along a wall instead of up it), …
Fish! (Spectrum)
Hurrah! I managed to melt the disc and make a ring in the mould without Micky finding me, and so the three warps were complete. The three artifacts found in each, however, opened up another warp, and so it was off into the next bit of the adventure. I’m now in some sort of fish-universe version of London, where everyone is a fish, there are fish puns a-plenty, and there’s even a version of the Tube to ride around the …
Fish! (Spectrum)
I’m stuck. I’ve entered the final warp (unless there are more later), and I seem to be in a forest near a smithy. I’ve figured out that there’s a mould in a birdcage in the smithy, and the parrot in the cage is actually a bomb (so you have to let him out and run away). There’s a clearing in the forest where a guy called Micky hangs around, but he randomly kills you. He also randomly leaves, meaning you …
NiGHTS (Saturn)
Noes! What went wrong? NiGHTS is supposed to be great, and yet… it wasn’t! I finished the first “dream” for each kid, and killed the first boss on Claris’ dream and failed to kill fat bouncy woman on Elliot’s dream, but the boss fights were fine – it’s the main dream levels that seem to have lost something. Of course, I wasn’t playing with the “3D” (i.e. analogue) pad, which didn’t help, but I was just getting overly frustrated with …