Spent a couple of hours on this today. I completed the “pre-mission mission”, and also the first proper mission in the castle thing. It all seems much like Timesplitters 2 so far. I failed the mission with Harry Tipper, though. I don’t understand how Cortez doesn’t know who he is, even though he met him in TS2. Very odd. I died once I’d set the water running, and didn’t realise that people would then see through my disguise and try …
What a shock! There was an Ice World, a Lava World and a Castle World! I must be psychic or something. And then there was a Crystal World, with the most irritating baddies in the world EVAR in it – giant bomb creatures that explode themselves (but don’t die). On the one hand, they’re great as they wipe out some of the other baddies by themselves. On the other hand, they tend to sit next to the exit and blow …
World 5-5 now. Looks as though all the game stereotypical stages are in this one – Desert World, Grass World, Forest World, etc. Ice World is up next, I think, and then Lava World. There’s bound to be a castle at some point too. I have racked up so many powerups now that it is just silly. I have over 60 bombs I can activate, should I die, but I’m sticking to four at a time for the moment. I …
More playage, and I’m up to World 4-5 now. It’s still fun, but there isn’t much difference between all the levels. They do occasionally throw in a single screen, filled with blocks, and you have to clear the baddies in under 90 seconds, which breaks it up a bit. Not much else though.
Yes, just plain “Bomberman” – the DS version, mind, but it’s still simply called “Bomberman”. Keeping in with this simple name, the game itself has shed much of the excess baggage from over the years. There are no kangaroos and no minecarts. Most of the powerups are still here, but many of them are only “active” for the level you’re currently on. The levels are much more like those on the original Bomberman games too – blocks to blow up, …
Gosh – that was quick! According to the game clock, it took me five hours 43 minutes in total, but the story was so good it was still well worth playing. I’ve found out about both D’s and Ashley’s pasts, used Another, found Jessica and Richards, and seen the credits. Hurrah!
The story in this is great, but I don’t want to reveal too much here for fear of spoiling it for anyone. Ditto the puzzles from here on in. Which I realise leaves me not very much to talk about while I’m playing it, but that’s the way it is. So there. Anyway, I’m up to Chapter 3 now, and am finding more and more out about the Edward family who lived in the mansion. I have a few ideas …
Inside the mansion, there are more puzzles to solve. They’re not that difficult yet though, still. I had to takes some photos and superimpose one over the other, I had a slide puzzle to do, and some books and to rearrange. I just need to find some more books…
In an unusual step, Nintendo released this game here in Europe before the US release, so I had to break my 20-odd strong run of imported DS games and buy my first European title. And, it’s very good. It is pretty much a Myst-like point and click adventure, with a story involving a young girl named Ashley who has found her not-actually-as-dead-as-she’d-thought Dad is actually alive and well on an island. Taking a trip over there, she loses her aunt, …
I’m now up to almost $30,000 – even higher if you don’t count the money I spent on more stats upgrades. I need to enter some tournaments now, but I can’t seem to find any.
I’m back in the black! About $10,000 back in the black, in fact. I spent some of my Texas Hold’em winnings on bumping up my stats.
Hooray! I’ve started making money now, and even paid off $5000 of my loan! “Texas Hold’em” seems to be my best variation at the moment, and I’ve found that if my two dealt cards are not a pair, then I just fold. If they are, then I bet high, and after The Turn if I have a three-of-a-kind or two pairs, then bet really high – if not, “check” and hope 🙂 I have -$9000 now, which isn’t bad considering …
Yes, I know I’ve completed it. Someone emailed me asking how to defeat the end of game boss, and, since I couldn’t exactly remember, I had a go at it again. The game is certainly a lot easier than when I played it previously, for some reason! Anyway, you blow up the goop, eat the shadow Pac-men, fire arrows at the white thing, repeat all that three times, then draw Pac-Man after Pac-Man, quickly, to eat the black thing that …
The third of the games that arrived today. Played a couple of quick games, then went into the Career Mode and started losing money left right and centre. Rubbish. I even had to take out a loan for $10,000, most of which I have also lost. I did find the Darts and Air Hockey games though, but you don’t seem to make much money on them – $100 a time? No point!
I never had this game in either of its original incarnations on the PC Engine and the Megadrive, but remember wanting it when I saw a review of it. I think the UK version either never existed or was ub3r-l@@k-r@re. It’s Breakout with two bats and zombies, basically. And it is pretty good too, making use of the second screen to see further up the level as you progress. Graphics are pretty poor though – no improvement on the Megadrive …