I’ve aborted playing THPS2 for the DC for the time being, since my copy of this (otherwise known as THPS on other platforms) arrived today and it makes sense to play it first. Yeah, I played and completed the N-Gage version earlier this year, but this version is much better. It isn’t on the N-Gage for a start… Anyway. Played and got all of the goals in the Warehouse, and have managed to pick up a couple on the School …
Fruit galore again today! Caroline the Squirrel seems to be better now, finally. She’d been ill for the last four or five days. But didn’t die or anything. Dug up a couple of fossils and made about 60,000 bells in total today, although turnips were only 84 bells today so didn’t sell them. Also got a message in a bottle from “The Animal Crossing Team” with some “Handy Tips” in it. None of which had any bearing on the game. …
YES! LOOK! A DREAMCAST GAME! And, yes, it’s ANOTHER Tony Hawk’s game. In fact, it’s the very first one I ever played, but only (up until now) own on the PC. And it doesn’t work on Windows XP. So I had to buy it for the DC. Anyway. It’s amazing how well the graphics have aged. There’s not really much in it between this and the GC and Xbox. Unfortunately, THPS2 doesn’t have any reverts, pivots, flatlands or tweaks, making …
Just a brief play today. Tried the third world (jungle, or something, i think) and got stuck on a level right out of Super Monkey Ball 2 on the Gamecube. It’s called Starfish, and is bloody hard. Went back to the Desert World instead, and managed to complete it with ease this time, and got 239/500 bananas in the End Of Game Credits Game.
Totally fruitariffic! Or something! Sold another pile of fruit today, and failed to get a decent price for turnips again (just 70 bells). Found a gongaloid thing too, but expected to find more after the rain last night. Oh well. Rev popped in briefly, bringing Kaitlin’s daughter with him. Kaitlin was very pleased, although personally I think Rev had been touching her daughter inappropriately. But you didn’t hear that from me. I caught two butterflies then, and donated them to …
Chapter 18 was attempted today. It was a Fog of War mission, but was actually pretty simple. However, some other Pegasus Knight appeared, who I assume I need to get Florina my Pegasus Knight to talk to in order to get her on my “team”, but unfortunately I hadn’t chosen Florina as part of my group so couldn’t. Was considering restarting the chapter, and then one of my characters died at the hands (or rather, sword) of Uhai, the “boss” …
New game day! Well, almost every day is New Game Day at the moment, but anyway. Played through the first world, completing it without much difficulty (and with ten lives spare afterwards), and then moved onto the desert world. Got to level 9 I think, and lost my last life there. I played all of the party games then, including a full round of Monkey Mini Golf on which I scored 55. It would have been much lower, but Hole …
Sold even more fruit today – about 45,000 bells worth. I’ve been putting the money into my post office savings rather than on my mortgage as I might as well gain a bit of interest on it before paying the mortgage off. Found three fossils (all of which I had already), and turnips were a pretty poor 74 bells today. Caroline the Squirrel is still ill. Took her more medicine, but I think she might die. Well, possibly. Why can’t …
Stacks and stacks of fruit have grown again. It’s handy as a way of getting unlimited money, but just takes ages to harvest and sell. Sold a bit though, and then went and paid Crazy Redd for his “exclusive membership”. Bought a Kiddie Clock from him for my clock collection, and got a Dainty Painting too, which turned out to be a fake. Bah. At least I’d bought insurance from Lyle at the weekend, so I might get some of …
Either I’m just rubbish, or there’s really no proper way of telling which way you’re supposed to go in this game half the time. You go through the same rooms so many times that it’s easy to get lost. And lost I got, and after twenty minutes of going in the wrong direction I realised I wasn’t doing what I was supposed to and so reloaded an earlier saved game. Then I found the Woman in Red again, got a …
Decided to go back to Chapter 16 and pay the fortune teller 50 gold to let me know what I’m supposed to do to “turn” Raven. It seems I needed Priscilla the Healing Horse Woman Person and get her to Raven quickly, talk to him, then get him to talk to Lucius. And so, I gained them both. The rest of the chapter was really simple as I knew exactly what was going to happen (including the “surprise attack” from …
Today was turnip day, and thanks to the huge amount of fruit I’d sold in the last few days, I had easily enough bells to buy 1000 of them. In fact, I could have bought 2500, but I don’t to risk that much on them just now. It seems that Agent S has moved out. I’m not sure why, and there was no clue to him/her leaving, but there shouldn’t be another sex faux pas as far as that particular …
Completed Chapter 14, and then 15 after a couple of attempts. Knowing that reinforcements were going to come from the north-west after so many turns (which essentially led to me losing a character the first time) really helped. With that out of the way, it was on to Chapter 16, in Caelin Castle. There were two characters there, Raven and Lucius, both of whom I couldn’t get to come over to my side (Raven was a baddie and died really …
Sold even more fruit having found it on some trees I’d missed, and dug up yet another two fossils, both of which I sold. Was a bit panicky about my turnips for a while – 83 bells was all Nook offered, but finally found Andy in Burville online and stopped off at his Nook’s for 154 bells each. Hurrah! After that, it was off to the café to see K.K. Slider (as it was gone 8pm on a Saturday), who …
You know, I’m just not enjoying this as much as Sands of Time. I don’t know why. It isn’t anything specific, it’s just that there’s a load of small niggles and issues I’m having with it which together just makes it feel, well, wrong. Managed to get past the room I kept falling down holes on last time I played, only to run into the Dahaka, and then run from him. This took multiple attempts, as it’s like a speed …