Stupid. STUPID STUPID. I beat the final opponent. He was actually pretty hard, since he knew all the “paths” to getting huge bonuses and racking up his multiplier. And he never made any mistakes either. Luckily, I knew a few paths too, and thrashed him in the final round. Hurrah! Then the end of game sequence kicks in, but I had to answer the door. When I got back, it was just finishing. And then the game autosaved. And now …
I did much better today – not losing a single match. Walked all over Sir Waddlelot, Girl-With-Fish-on-Head, Cosmos the Alien, Lunk 2 and everyone else I played. Excellent. When I ran out of opponents, [spoiler] appeared, and told me he was to be my final opponent! Woo!
Although I’ve played this before, I’ve not really touched it in single player mode. So I’ve decided this is my next game to complete. Faced three opponents this evening: Lunk 2 (who beat me), some ghosty thing with a “Play Box Advance” (who was easy to beat), and an alien. Although the alien was winning by some 900 points after the second round, I pulled back 200 or so in the third, and overtook him on the fourth. The final …
I am rubbish at this. FACT. I played another few games, and managed third place in one, and last in the other two. Am I missing something? I know you get more points for certain “tricks” and sets of tricks than others, but even getting a whopping 1-2-3 Bamboo, 4-5-6 Bamboo, 7-8-9 Bamboo, 5-5-5 Bamboo and a pair of Red Dragons wasn’t enough to whip the others. Stupid.
Another Pocket PC game, this. It’s a poor man’s Shanghai really, but passes the time. Mind you, I actually have Shanghai on my iPaq too, so I don’t really know what I’m playing NeoTiles for…
I’ve reinstalled a load of games on my iPaq now I have a new SD card to store them on, and one of them is Sim City 2000. Of course, now I remember why I wasn’t sad to see it go last time when I needed the card for my camera. It’s slow, and the screen isn’t big enough to work with properly. It might have been nicer if you could play landscape instead of portrait, but you can’t. Or …
I am really very crap at this. I hope I find some difficulty settings somewhere before I stab my DS. I’ve just played four “rounds”, each of 5 or 6 “hands”, and got progressively worse as I went on. In the first round, I narrowly missed first place, the next I came second again, then third and finally fourth. I need 1337 Mahjongg sk1llz, I think. W0rd, y0.
DYSWIDT? Well, boss after boss after boss after boss turned out to be not as bad as it seemed last night. In fact, I had almost killed his final form when I died when I played it yesterday. But hooray and hoorah, Vaati is dead and Hyrule is safe. Credits roll. Then went and spent all my shells getting figurines. I’m still missing about half of them though. Stupid things.
And I thought the Famicom Mahjongg game was hard. This one is the hardest Mahjongg game evar. But it has nice graphics and excellent music (or rather, Muzak) throughout. Sticking with it, even though I can’t read the options as they’re almost all in Kanji and I only know Hiragana and Katakana. Tch, eh?
Dark Hyrule Castle is annoying. Not because it’s hard, nor because it is tedious. It is annoying because it is full of those stupid knight things. You even get attacked by three at once in one bit. Grr. Anyway, I got to the end of game boss with two hearts remaining, and promptly died. Rubbish.
More Zelda’ing today. Lots more, in fact. After some more exploring for Kinstones, I went to the graveyard (via a go-in-the-right-direction identical-screens maze – every Zelda game must have one!) and spoke to some dead king. Then worked my way up into the clouds, did some puzzling up there, and then went up further. And further still, to the Palace of Winds, which was a pretty big dungeon in the sky and had one of the most annoying baddies EVER …
Yes, still playing. More Kinstone Fusions, more exploring bits of the town, finding more Rupees than you can shake a boomerang at, and opening a portal to some place not (yet) on the map where I sucked a demon off an old man. Oh yes.
Worked my way through, and completed the Temple of Droplets. Although there were several clever “let light through” and Sokoban type puzzle bits, much of the dungeon was, well, “Oh look! A thing! I bet [insert obvious thing] happens if I [insert other obvious thing]”. It was also obvious that I was going to be getting the Flame Torch in here too. Also, this dungeon almost had a SuckySuck(TM) bit going on, with no less than three previous mini-bosses to …
I worked my way through the Fortress of Winds, finding the Mole Claws on the way, and killed the boss at the end. He was rather like one of the bosses from Wind Waker, with his big floaty grabby hands, only had added Minishness required for defeating him. Sadly, there was no Element to be had at the end of the dungeon, as it had been taken away for “safe keeping”. Bah. Back to the town, and stacks more Kinstones …