Just went back to Cheese briefly, to see if anyone had sent any letters in my town, or posted anything on the Bulletin Board. Rev had mentioned something about the Gorilla Mafia, but no letters. Sent one myself to Pinky, but then lost her trust when I opened and read a letter addressed to her from Stitches. She hates me now. Rubbish.
And so the life draining exercise of doing absolutely nothing of worth begins again. I spent three months, playing almost daily, on the Gamecube version of Animal Crossing, and this is just the same. Only with more to do, and online play. Firstly, I had the task of moving in, meeting Nook (and selling my soul to him, or something), then he employed me for a short while to meet everyone, deliver things, plant stuff, and that sort of thing. …
Finished off N’orlins, witch involved waking the dead again, and breaking some signs and jumping over rubish and mowing down zombies. And stuff. I then had to do a mini-challenge thing, with acid dropping from a helicopter and transferring over it again later. Luckily, it wasn’t too hard. After that, it was on to “Skatopia” (which is “skate-opia”, before you suggest something else). It’s not easy at all. After an hour, I’d managed 50/1000 points, and I can’t even see …
After Berlin was Australia (note it doesn’t tell you where in Australia), and amongst other things I got to ride a go-kart, set fire to some builders, scares some seagulls, and skate around as a guy with a barbeque stuck to his front and a parasol on his head. Then it was over to New Orleans (pre-flood, it seems) where I had to wake the dead, skate in Hell, and then scoot around as a Papa Lazarou-type character on a …
Gah. It seems that you can jump up and grab the top of the billboard, by holding down the R button, and then you can tag it while you hang there. Tch. I now have enough points to move on to the next city, but I might just try and get a few more here before doing so – I only have one more fag machine to destroy (them evil smoking Germans, eh?) and I’ve just found the “tourist trail” …
Moved on to Barcelona, and completed enough goals there to move on. Some were pretty rubbish, and Steve-O on his Rodeo Bull was just ridiculous. Not really liking it as much as THUG at the moment. Perhaps I should have played Classic Mode and not Story Mode. Ah well. Then it was off to Berlin, and despite the racial stereotypes grating after about five seconds (and the worst faux-German accents ever), I’ve only got a couple more goals to do. …
After the success of last weekend’s Hawking, I started up this one today. Well, since American Wasteland is out now, I’d better get on it anyway. You start off in the Warehouse. Again. Never seen that level in a TH game before. Racked up most of my stats while I was there, and did the “training” things, which were somewhat menial given the number of TH games I’ve played over the years. “Perform three Ollies!”. How difficult. Then moved on …
Still not entirely sure what I’m actually doing in this game, and I don’t understand why I keep getting “Bonus”, “Reg Bonus” and “Big Bonus” rounds where I seem to win every single spin of the wheels. Anyway, I somehow unlocked the next rounds of Blackjack, Spot-the-Difference, and Rub It! mini-games, so completed them. And lo – another naked girlie is unlocked, amongst other pictures. How rude.
Had another go at “Dead Zone”, Zone 7, and found and collected the Emerald again, then went on to complete the zone and defeat the boss at the end – who turned out to be Blaze the Cat, who was easy to beat. Then “Final Zone” opened up on the map, and it’s a boss fight with Eggman Nega (yes, it wasn’t Eggman after all) in a giant mech suit. I tried a few times to kill him, but failed, …
Yes. It really is called that. And I haven’t got much of an idea as to what I’m actually doing in the game, as it is all in Japanese. I know it’s mostly a fruit machine game, but the top screen keeps doing things and people appear and twirl their moustashes or jiggle their breasts (as gender dictates), and sometimes I have to play blackjack at the same time as playing the slots and it all gets very confusing! I …
After waiting almost TWO MONTHS, and with Royal Mail losing the first delivery of this game, it finally arrived today. So I played it a bit. It’s pretty good. The graphics are a lot like Yoshi’s Island on the SNES, and it’s all cute and bouncy and everything. I’ve played through all of World 1 up to the boss, Petey Pihrana. Who you have to kill in an almost identical way to in Super Mario Sunshine. Didn’t manage to kill …
Went back to Zone 2 and picked up the Chaos Emerald there, before trying Zone 6 again. Managed to get through it this time, and beat the boss. Then it was on to Zone 7, and shock! It’s set on a spaceship, and there are gravity flippy things! How completely new for a Sonic game! Found a Special Stage on Act 1, and failed to complete it because it’s too hard. Luckily, there was the right sort of level structure …
Two more Chaos Emeralds GET! Went through the first Act of the up-in-the-sky level again, stopping off to pick up one Emerald there. Then tried the second Act, but died a few times due to not looking where I was going. Tch. After that, I went back to the first Act of the first Zone (Leaf Forest, or whatever it’s called) and picked up another Emerald. That means I have five now, with only Zones 2 and 7 left to …
Another Zone done. I can’t remember the name (again), but it’s the Metropolis Zone From Sonic 2 On The Megadrive One. You know, with the pipes and the steam and stuff. And I got another Chaos Emerald too, which makes three. Go me. Moved onto the zone after that as well, which is a whole lot of down. And died. A lot. I did manage the first Act (with hanglider!), but the second had too much sky and not enough …
This seems somewhat easier from where I left off, you know. Bizarre. Anyway, completed two zones – the Sandopolis replacement, and the Carnival Night replacement, and defeated both of the bosses at the end of them. It really is very fast. Very, very fast. I also managed to get into the Special Stage a few times, and grab two Chaos Emeralds. Yes, I went in more than twice, but you can only get one Emerald per Zone, it seems, so …