Hmm. Dungeon 5 is too hard. There’s one screen with a billion blue Darknuts in, and I just can’t kill them all. I can’t swipe my sword at one without another walking into me. Found the dungeon boss too, but none of my weapons hurt him. I think I need something past the Darknuts… Gave up in there and went wandering, finding The Lost Woods on the way. Ended up at Dungeon 6, and had a quick go inside. Lots …
Another game that arrived today. Well, collection of games, at any rate: Puzzle de Pon, Dr. Mario, and Yoshi no Cookie. Played all three with my wife this evening. There’s a few problems with running it on PAL Gamecube with Freeloader, in that some of the Japanese text appears as gibberish (no, real gibberish), meaning I can’t read it even if I could understand the Japanese. Puzzle de Pon was probably the best of the three. It has a new …
Although I ordering this about 27364 years ago, it has been sat at customs for aaaages. Finally got it today. It’s a bit like Super Smash Bros. only not quite. Although I had a few goes in “battle” mode, I was stumped part way through “story” mode. One of the training bits requires me to do something, but I don’t know what. Something to do with blocking, I suspect, but I can’t figure it out. Why not buy it from …
Even though I hate soldier games, and squad based soldier games most of all, I still bought this for a fiver a couple of weeks ago. Had my first play today, on co-op over Xbox Live, with the openly homosexual “madm0nkey”, whom I have previously thrashed on such titles as Project Gotham 2 and Outrun 2. However, since we were playing co-op, and I had no idea at all what to do, what the controls were (they’re not in the …
Why did no-one tell me that you could kill the four-shell-claw-thing boss with just one bomb? I ran out of rupees again, and had a go in desperation with a bomb. And lo, it died in one hit. What a great big giant pair of sweaty pants. Well, after that, Dungeon 4 was easy. Actually, it wasn’t, but I had a wander round outside, found three more heart containers, a stack of rupees, the White Sword (more powerful than my …
Kill0riZ0rEd! Hurrah! Had a quick jaunt across the sea to an island, where Dungeon 4 lay. Got the Compass, and also the Ladder Thing That Isn’t A Ladder As You Use It To Span Gaps Not Climb Stuff. With the power of the latter, I got the map, and then… …came across the boss from Dungeon 3 again. GAH! And died. And died again on my second attempt. And then on my third. AND THEN, I was out of rupees …
TOO DAMN HARD! Either that, or I have underestimated my (now lost) 1337 64/\/\1n6 5|
Yes, again. Played two more levels, and won them. Perhaps I should try playing on a harder setting, as it is a little easy…
Or Legend of Zelda, to its friends. Yes, the Japanese version of the first Zelda game. In Japanese. For the GBA. And it’s hard! Not only because it is in Japanese (that I can mostly handle – you don’t need to be able to read much of what is going on, especially if you played the English version like I have), but it is actually harder than the Western version I’ve played before. I’m sure of it. The first thing …
Been playing this a bit today on my iPaq. It’s one of those games I play a lot, but don’t report on here very often as it isn’t “mainstream”. It is, however, ACEBEST. It is sort of like Risk meets Paper, Scissors, Stone, where you have to take over territories, but do so by having ever more powerful fighters to defeat less powerful ones. Erm. That doesn’t really explain it very well, but the website for the game (and there …
End of game boss time! Almost! A black almost-clone of Joe appears, who has a bit of a gloat, then gets into a HUUUUUUUUGE robot. You know the robot battle from Viewtiful Joe? Where your robots are about the size of earth? Well, this time you and “Ultra Black Behemoth Dark Kaiser” are bigger than the sun. In fact, the baddie spends most of his time standing on the sun, and you run around the solar system’s asteroid belt avoiding …
Reel 6 – Do Androids Dream of Romantic Scene? I don’t care, but what I do care about is the sodding SuckySuck(TM) bit that is the entire reel. Yes. Why do games designers think that recycling all of the game’s bosses and throwing them at you one after another is a good idea? There is some stupid bit of story behind it this time, with “Miss Bloody Rachel” (no, that is her name) the android morphing into copies of all …
Reel 5 – Ice Edge. Look, even the names of the levels are like real actual films. How clever. And, it’s the obligatory platform game ice level. Snowballs and avalanches abound. On one bit of the level, you have to roll a snowball around to make it bigger, and then use it to block an air vent to pass by. There’s a cable car section too, and then, the BEST THING EVAAR – an Ice Climbers bit. It even has …
On to Reel 4 today – “Thunderboy Lives Twice”. This level is set in ancient Japan, it seems, so plenty of samurai film references and stuff. There’s a bizarre slide puzzle in the middle of the level, with each “block” being a room you can go inside, and you have to flip switches to shuffle the rooms around. There are three “artifacts” hidden around the level you have to get into one of the rooms. It was quite confusing at …
Well, I thought Forte was the best. It possibly isn’t – Luna=Luna is also fantastic to play, and great for racking up Dark meteos too. It is similar to Forte in that you get time to combo, but the blocks seem to hover right near the top of the screen for a bit before they fall back down again – so, if you hold down the Speed Up button, you get millions of points. Well, a few more anyway. Best …