There was a bit of a sticking point on a level on the 5th mode in this game. You start in a square of unbreakable blocks. So, how do you get out? Well, it seems they are breakable. I just didn’t know one of the moves you could do. “Revving” up on button X allows you to smash through grey blocks. Hurrah! Good job I found that out too, as you need to use it a fair bit in the …
With Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 on the GBA out of the way, it was time to start on the next game in the series: THUG. Spent about half an hour playing it, but haven’t actually done a great deal yet – only built up my stats. Like the console version of THUG (and unlike THPS4), you build up stats by doing certain tricks and combos. So, to build up your Grind stats, you have to do a long grind, …
Just a quick few goes to finish off some more Pro Tour goals. I’m up to 41 completed now, and finished almost all of them in London. Picked up some more money and a few more stats points too. But, THUG calls me to move on now…
Turnip Day! Didn’t have to go and find Joan this time, as she was right outside my house when I started playing. Bought as many turnips for 97 bells each as I could, and then went and fished and sold more fruit to get a few more. Managed 800 in the end. Did a bit more fishing for the Museum then, and sold any duplicates I caught. With the spends, I bought a Blue Wall (finally!) and also another clock. …
Sold all the fruit on my trees, and did a bit of fishing, to give me almost 80,000 bells. The reason of course being that tomorrow is Turnip Day and I need to buy as many as possible – there’s still 400,000 bells left on my current mortgage! Also popped over to see Deckard in Snooch. I was somewhat jealous of his house, with it’s three rooms and his full Snowman collection. Bah.
Ah. So it seems there’s actually only one Pro Challenge (perhaps per skater), and it seems you don’t have to do a difficult Spine Transfer on Tony’s one to complete it. Once I’d figured that out, it was a pretty simple task to finish it off. And that’s game over, it seems. Well, there is now Pro Tour open, so I went and had a go at that. Cleared most of the goals on the levels (except London), before turning …
Moved on to Kona, the skate park level. It isn’t actually all that much like the GC version, but that doesn’t really matter. There didn’t seem to be all that many goals there, but I racked up enough to move on to the Shipyard level anyway. The Shipyard was pretty difficult, and in the end I just got as many goals as I needed to move on to the next level and didn’t bother with any more. There were a …
Hurrah! It finally came! I have THUG, THUG2 and THAS all waiting for me to play on the GBA, but I want to do them in order so had to wait for THPS4 to arrive. Yes, I know there’s a THPS2 and THPS3 for the GBA, but I already have them and completed them a few years ago. Anyway, so I made a start on it on my Game Boy Micro. I did wonder if the size of the console …
Upon trying to leave Manaan, I was arrested (again) for blowing stuff up underwater. Stuff the fish people knew nothing about. Tch. So began another trial, which I won by convincing the judges I’d actually saved the giant shark rather than tried to kill it. Which is what probably happened anyway. Or something. Decided then to finish off the Sunry trial, as his arbiter. Made him plead guilty, but still managed to get him off. Not really sure how that …
Played briefly this evening, to pop over to Lancre to see Red and sell my turnips for a nice price of 252 bells each. That gave me just over 150,000 bells, which will go some way to paying off my mortgage. There’s still a long way to go, however!
Still on Manaan. I went round doing the Gumshoe routine around Ahto City, and amongst other things, found out that the guy I need to defend did actually kill the Sith woman he’s being tried for. So I’m not actually sure what it is I now need to do as far as that’s concerned. If I wasn’t so fussed about Light and Dark side points, I’d just go ahead, but I don’t know what will result from it. Anyway, I …
Todays turnips prices were, once more, disappointing. 68 bells each was the top whack Nook was prepared to sell them for. How I hate him. Did the usual – fruit selling, weeding, etc. Also went round the Lost and Found and Recycling and picked up stuff there to sell. Paid off the first bit of my new 598,000 bell mortgage too. Down to 540,000 now!
Before leaving Kashyyyk, I decided to go back to the Wookiee Village and talk to everyone. Turns out one of the Wookiees was a murderer, and I had the proof. I cleared him of it though, as it seems the Wookiee he murdered was a Bad Person and was selling other Wookiees to slavers. So it was all OK in the end. Had a chat with everyone on my ship then, and kissed Bastila (oh, I didn’t see that coming …
72 bells today. I’ll spare you the verbal abuse that was directed at Nook and his idiot nephews. Went over to see Lyzzy in Scotton, and passed on some fruit. Turnip bellage there was crap too, though. Did pick up a few bits of furniture from Scotton and Cheese, including a blue closet. Made a startling discovery that all your drawers and cupboards and stuff in your house share the same “storage space”, which is a little odd. It means …
Yes. Another new game. I also have this game for the Megadrive (albeit with the name “James Pond II – Codename: Robocod”), and sadly, the now 15 year-old version is a bit better. It isn’t that there’s anything specifically wrong with the DS game, it’s just it isn’t the same. You still have the big castle with doors to levels, and you still have the same level themes, but the levels themselves are different. In a way, this is good …