Bah. Trousers has beaten my score of 15,000-ish, with a score of about 25,000. I hate him. I hate him even more because I only managed to claw back as far as 20,800. I can get up to stage 4 without dying now, but usually lose at least a couple of lives there. Stage 5 is horrible, as you have to steer your ship through twisty, narrow passageways shooting fuel tanks. And I’m sure your ship can’t move fast enough …
Hurrah! Purrl is better! Even though I’d bought medicine for her today anyway. And she was well, so didn’t need it. Ungrateful cow. Everyone was after furniture. I gave Mallary some cabin furniture, but didn’t have what Bluebear or Sally were after. Sally has started saying “quackpth” now, for some reason. It’s what Mallary normally says. It just seems wrong coming from a squirrel.
Purrl is still ill. What’s that now, 10 days? Shouldn’t she be dead by now? My other animals mostly seemed to want me to deliver letters to each other this evening. Don’t they have a postman any more in Cheese? And WEEDS! GAH! Am I the only one in the town who knows how to pull them up or something?
To start with, I thought there was a VK mission available, but it turned out to be a Los Carnales mission instead. I started it accidently, then saved, quit, and reloaded the game. And lo, the Vice Kings mission marker appeared. Bizarre! I had a go, but it’s too hard. You have to drive along with a guy hanging out of the window to scare him, but you soon get three stars and the SWAT after you, and your car …
400 points on this were spent today. It’s another old shooter, which I first came across as a clone called Ground Attack on the Spectrum. I later bought one of them Grandstand tabletop games of it too. It was aces. Anyway. I don’t recall it being quite so varied. Especially stage 3, where there are loads of fireballs and stuff. My memory is not what it once was, clearly. So I got a high score of about 15,000, which puts …
Completed another level (the game is a bit repetitive, so I don’t want to play it for too long in one sitting) today – Horror World. Well, actually, it was just set in Slovakia in 1994. But anyway. The boss at the end was a bit bizarre, as it was three vampire things that jumped around, and you had to kill them by making Kaz drop his pizza by slapping him about. The pizza was garlic, you see. Obviously.
Tuesdays is Crazy Redd day, and today he had a ranch chest (or something) which I hadn’t seen before, so I bought that. He also had a sword and a flowery painting, both of which I already had so I ignored them. Purrl is still ill, although strangely she now seems to be starting an illness. Great. That means I have another week of her diseasedness. Doesn’t the world of Animal Crossing have a vet where I can put my …
Purrl is STILL ill. Kody is still trying to move. No-one seems to be forthcoming with pictures for me. Weeds are taking over the town, even though I keep weeding. I haven’t seen a fossil or a gyroid in months. Is the game slowly killing itself?
Cleared all of the Vice Kings’ strongholds, and completed a couple of “pushbacks”, which all left me with just one area of the map still “owned” by the VKs. I tried going in there with a couple of homies and starting a war, but there just weren’t enough Vice Kings around to keep the war going. I still don’t have any more of the Vice Kings missions open either, so it looks like I’ve hit a dead end there. Time …
Guess who forgot to buy turnips again? No, go on. Guess. I didn’t do much else either, except a bit of weeding and tending to Purrl (who is still sick). Rodeo asked me to deliver a letter to Frobert too, and Kody was threatening to move.
I’m still working on the Vice Kings missions, with some other activities thrown in for good measure. I really like the Insurance Fraud ones, which are especially easy with a SWAT van! I seem to have run out of Vice Kings missions now, actually. There are some crown markers on the map (all denoting strongholds), but no actual missions. Odd. I expected at least one more. Roamed the map for a bit, started a car stealing activity, and then went …
In The Groove is a DDR type game, and this demo is for the PC or Mac, and came free with my recent Play Asia order. I only played a couple of songs, as dancing games don’t really work using a keyboard, so there wasn’t much point trying further. It’s OK, but almost exactly the same as DDR. Only with completely unknown tracks.
Saturday evening again, and another trip to the cafe to see K.K. Slider. This time, he played me Senor K.K. The rest of the animals failed to pester me for items of furniture and clothes today, which was nice, although I did have to give Purrl some more medicine as she’s still sick. Why does it always take so long for the animals to get well again? Perhaps there’s a clue in their dialogue when they say things like “I …
Played quite a bit more of this today. I was mosting completing things on the Vice Kings mission line, including blowing up a recording studio, taking over some “hoods”, and racking up my money and “rep” by doing side activities. The best of these activities that I’ve tried so far is the Insurance Fraud one. You have to throw yourself under cars to claim money on your insurance. Of course, trying to bounce yourself off the bonnets of several cars, …
Weeds. Where the hell are they all coming from? There were millions of them again today. Spent a while cleaning them all up, and then went fishing. Caught a few fish I haven’t had before, and talked to the animals again as usual.