Just one game today – online against someone on my friends list. He played as England, I played as Japan. I won 4-0. How embarrasing for him. Of course, he then complained that he didn’t know about the run and shoot buttons and made up other feeble excuses during a post-match IRC discussion. Him == CRAP. FACT.
Mostly just aimlessly wandering round today. I need to get into Jabu-Jabu’s belly, and, although I’ve found him, I don’t know how to get inside him. I can’t talk to him, and none of my items work on him or anything. Perhaps I need another item or something?
Does no-one play this online any more? All I could find were some idiot children trying to put on fake accents, and moaning that everyone else was cheating every time they were overtaken.
Put this on for a quick try. What an awful, awful game. Played a couple of races against the CPU, then some Drag races against a friend. What a stupid mode that is – you don’t even have to steer round corners! Then did a Sprint race, which was equally crap. Also tried Career mode, but the storyline (yes, a storyline) is pants and superfluous to the racing. As is everything else, even. And the graphics are rubbish. Lets never …
Played a few games with a friend who had come over today. Of course, he lost them all as he’s crap. Two of them did go into penalties, however.
Defeated the end boss in Dungeon 6, and was then informed that Queen Ambi had left her palace, and I could try to rescue Nayru, the Oracle of Ages. So, off I went. Some minor Splinter Celling took place on the way in, but I soon found her. She was still possessed by Veran, however, so killing him wasn’t possible without hurt her – or so it seemed until use of my Mystery Seeds and Switch Hook thingie proved otherwise. …
There is actually a bit more to this game than just drawing Pac-Man, it seems. After completing the first four chapters, I can now draw multi-use arrows – they burst bubbles, hit switches, and stun ghosts. I’ve also killed two”bosses” as well – one which required me to draw larger and larger Pac-Mans (Men?) to eat it, and another one that involved eating his eyes. Obviously. I had a poke (literally) around the extra bits, and ended up in the …
It turns out there are two Mermaid’s Caves. Well, one, technically – in the Past and the Present. And holes you blow in walls in the past affect the cave in the present too. Sadly, I needed another key to get into the cave in the past (it’s the same lock, so why two keys?), so I had to find that first. Two caves means two maps and compasseseseses too. There are a few four dimensional puzzles to contend with …
More wandering aimlessly around Rolling Ridge finally led me to the Goron Dance Hall. Oh yes. Dancing. Winning the dancing contest thing gained me a Goron Brotherhood badge which lets me go past a Goron guard. I knew where I needed to go, but there’s a locked door. The owl next to it says something cryptic about a mermaid’s secret, and, since there is a mermaid statue in Lynna City, I went off there. Wild goose chase, it was, as …
The problem with this game, is, if you leave yourself in a dungeon and then don’t play for a day or so, you get completely lost. So, almosy half an hour’s play was simply trying to remember what I was doing and where I was going. Anyway, the end boss in Dungeon 5 was pretty simple, and completely different to every other Zelda boss I can recall. It’s more of a puzzle than a boss, in fact. He’s a cloud …
Just a quick go of this to see what it’s like. It’s like, er, Pac-Man, only not. It seems fun, if a little repetitive so far. Completed the first chapter and turned it off for now.
It isn’t technically a game. You play it, but it isn’t a game. It isn’t really a toy either, as it is too much like a game. Mind you, it isn’t really a musical instrument, as it’s more like a toy. There are no levels. No scores. No power-ups. No lives. No bosses. No killing, collecting, jumping, shooting or driving. Just “things” to press and move. And they vibrate. Or jangle. Or whizz or bang or tinkle or hum or …
The weapon was a switch-with-things hook hoodilly. So, not really a weapon then, actually. Although you do use it on the end boss in that dungeon, as expected. With that dungeon out of the way, I was sent on a trek through time and, er, place to find bomb flowers to help a Goron elder. Of course, that required a sub-quest, which involved throwing bombs as the Great Moblin who muttered something about me defeating him in Holodrum (which I …
Two more levels done today. I’m up to level 15 now (yes, that does add up if you know how Populous works). A desert level and an ice level today. The computer is getting slightly harder now, and can swamp, earthquake, and even volcano me. Sadly for him, he’s also a bit rubbish at watching his own back. Besides, volcanoing a few of my castles has little or no effect when I have some 60 of them (versus his three). …