I had been warned that the Cursed Clock Tower was going to be hard in Julius Mode, but I actually found it a fair bit easier, not least because of Alucard’s bat transformation which allowed me to avoid the spinning spikes more easily. I’m now up to Paranoia – the baddie in the mirror. And although I can avoid his attacks easily, I’m not so hot with the laser beams that bounce around the room. Also, it is a fair …
Mostly played Volfied and The New Zealand Story next. Got pretty far on TNZS, but quit as I had to answer the door. I’m really impressed by this collection. It’s probably the most enjoyable “retro” pack since Activision Anthology on the GBA. Or perhaps Sonic Collection.
Yes. On my first go. What a terrible, terrible, repetitive, glitchy, unoriginal (even at the time) and generally awful sideways scrolling beat-em-up. Yet, I played it to completion anyway. And why? Because of the absolutely fantastic Engrish in the game. “You will all be servants of the satan!” BEST.
Been playing this a bit this morning. Colony 7 was much like Missile Command, only sans missiles, and Elevator Action was fun despite the controls being somewhat unresponsive. Gladiator was more than poor, and Great Swordsman was good, if a little hard. However, I did also spend a while playing The Ninja Kids…
Another boss killed! This time, it was the Puppet Master, who was a bit more difficult than when I fought him as Soma since the voodoo dolls he has took more hits to destroy, for some reason. Anyway, he’s dead now. Went back up the Tower of despair to get the Tower Key, and my next task is to enter the Cursed Clock Tower.
Cloud-of-Bats Boss KILLINAT0RED! After only a couple of attempts too. Excellent. Then I worked my way up the Tower of Despair, where Gergoth waited at the top. I suspected it was going to be pretty difficult to kill, because although I didn’t have much of a problem when I played through as Soma, I knew it only because of his “special talents”, which the three characters I have now all lack. Anyway, twenty or so attempts later, and finally killed …
I have reached an impass. Although I now have a pretty strong team of pokeymen (all in the Level 25 region), and can kill pretty much everything in a hit or two, I don’t actually know where I’m supposed to be going next. From the volcano, I went through a cave and bumped into Team Aqua again. Team Magma then showed up and chased after them. Apparently they’ve stolen a meteorite or something. I suspect I might have to find …
Played for ages today, but didn’t actually progress very far. Spent most of my time leveling up my Aron, Zigzagoon (which is now a Linoone), and a Whismur I caught (and is now something else, but I can’t remember what). Had a few attempts at defeating the Electricity Gym Leader, and finally beat him, gaining the badge he had. That meant I could use Rock Smash, finally, which let me into two areas – one I’d already been (I’d just …
More Nintendogging this morning. Took Chris for another walk, and played in the park with the new yellow frisbee he found. Entered him in the frisbee competition (Championship rank), but he came second, even though he had 48 points. Bah. I have managed to unlock another dog breed though, by gaining enough “trainer points”, whatever the hell they are.
Haven’t seen Chris in a while, and the sodding thing hasn’t died. Or run away. Or exploded in some freak lightning accident. He had, however, forgotten “Jump!”. Entered him in a few competitions, took him for a couple of walks, and fed and watered him. And washed him, since he had fleas the size of goats.
In my last Ouendan-related post, I suggested that completing “Normal” mode was the limit of my 1337 gaming skillz. It seems that is not the case, as I managed to complete Hard Mode this evening. That’s right – I cleared all of the songs. Even Ready Steady Go! (the last one), that I took over a hundred attempts to beat on Normal. I’ve been listening to the soundtrack a lot recently, so I know the songs off by heart, and …
Well, I wasn’t going to play it, but I found myself drawn into Julius Mode for a few hours. I’ve now got all three characters in my party, and have explored a substantial area of the map. I’ve also defeated a fair few bosses too, including Dmitrii and Dario. I made it to the giant fish boss, but I’d almost gone through the “wrong” entrance to it, so there wasn’t a save point nearby. Decided not to risk it (I …
Basically just expanding my zoo more today. In fact, I’m almost out of space. Animals added include sea lions and my zoo now has a reptile house and aviary too. I had a look at my budgets, but things there don’t look good. Although I have more money than I started with, most of that came from one-off awards which have started to dry up. My outgoings are higher than my incomings and although everyone thinks my zoo is ACEBEST, …
Added some more animals to my zoo today – an elephant, two polar bears (that soon became three with the birth of a baby) and some Emperor penguins. I put a few more buildings in too, including an Animal Theatre (which is neither for animal performances, nor for surgery) and a huge gift shop. I’m getting used to the really bizarre control system, but it is still so unintuitive I keep making mistakes.
This arrived today, along with Potatio Leg Ends. Had a quick play through the tutorial, and it seems OK but suffers from a rather stupid problem – the screens on the DS seem to be the wrong way round. Basically, you use the touch screen for things that don’t need to be touch activated, and the d-pad to control the top screen, which really needs to be touch activated. And you click on a simple bottom-screen map representation of the …