I’ve been a bit busy this week so haven’t had time to fill in my diary. So here’s a brief rundown of what I’ve been playing: Me and My Katamari (PSP)It’s been this for most of the week. It is good and all, but I’m finding it a bit limiting. There are so few locations in the game (even fewer than the 360 version, in fact) that almost every level is a repeat of the last, with a different – …
Hurrah for new games arriving in the post! Boo that this should have arrived last Monday and my local post is crap. Hurrah for it being aces! Boo for it having really difficult controls (no dual analogue sticks). Hurrah for that not really mattering all that much. And most important of all, hurrah for the King of all Cosmos: Swimsuit Edition! Amaze! I’ve only completed two levels (and the training) so far, and it feels much more like the PS2 …
Haven’t played this for just over a week or so, it seems, so I did get a little confused as to the rhythms for the commands. I need to take on a load of guard posts, but after three defeats (the first because one of the posts has a Patapon squishing device on it!) I decided to try something else instead, and went back to an earlier level for a bit of hunting. After that, I returned to kill Dodonga …
Amazing! I finally managed to finish level 2! And not just level 2 (the learn-to-drive one), but also level 3 (the fleamarket one). Level 3 was actually much, much easier for some reason. Now, I have to bake a cake out of fish, and, after $hlmun attempts, I still can’t do it. It’s far too hard. Even though my rapping appears to be in time, it clearly isn’t.
With skate. done and dusted, I was going to move on to something new, but then realised how many old games I still have uncompleted, and saw this on the shelf. I was at just-over-4-stars previously, and today spent almost two hours barely improving on that. I think the bar is now at around 20% full, rather than 10%. Mostly spent the time prospecting for stuff and growing trees, but also moved a fortune teller in, and completed tasks for …
I’ve just realised – I’ve not added this to my list of games I own. Hmm. Anyway, me and my wife played one game on this, which I won. It’s the first time I’ve played it on my new 360 Elite (having gotten rid of my old 360 mainly because it wouldn’t play it). After our game, my wife played it alone for a bit. Then it crashed. Now it won’t play any more. What the hell?
ALL DONE! Well, except the online stuff (although see about that in a minute). First off: the two races. The slalomy one that ends up in the big round bit of road didn’t take too many tries, the the one in the Old Town (where 2×2 of the racers start on opposite sides of the road) was EVIL. Even though I finished in first place several times, I came last due to not going through enough markers. On the flip …
For some reason, three of the races I’d previously completed were unlocked again. So I attempted them all, but only managed to win two. That leaves the remaining one and the one that I hadn’t completed before left to do. I then set about ticking off a few milestones – namely the smash myself to bits ones, mainly by throwing myself under cars and jumping off the megaramp at the X-Games stadium at funny angles to land on my face. …
I didn’t mean to play it, as I was using it to test my graphics card. But I ended up “testing” for 45 minutes – which is 100 turns and the full duration of the demo. Oops.
Right. That’s all the tutorial and the first 13 episodes (each with five levels) now completed. However, I am stuck. The 4th level on the 14th episode is a million times harder than anything I’ve yet come across. It has three missile launchers in the middle, which prevent me from progressing at all, let alone hitting the three impossible-to-reach switches needed. Grr!
Working through the Challenge mode now, and some of them are bloody hard! Managed to do all the 35/45/55 peg challenges, and a few All Clears, but the 300,000 point ones are almost all beyond reach.
I think this would be my very first completed iPod game. Hurrah! The last five levels were indeed somewhat hard, with the moving helix on the last one being a pain especially, but they’re all pretty tough. And that’s it! Well, except all the Challenge Levels. Ace!
When I looked at the iTunes store last night, I intended to only buy the recently added Sonic the Hedgehog. But somehow, I bought Peggle as well. And ohmygodwhat? It’s a bit bloody addictive, isn’t it? I played a bit at work (it is last day of term!), then in the pub waiting for my wife to finish work, then most of the evening. I’ve done 50 of the first 55 levels, and love it. So much fun for just …
Since I’ve done it over there, I thought it best to reciprocate here too. Thing is, I have two blogs. There’s this one, which is a diary of all the games I play, and there’s my other one which is full of random stuff. I’m not just about games, you know! There’s all sorts of stupid pictures, general geekery, and, uh, yeah – games. Aces, yes? It’s recently come to my attention that I’ve got two sets of readers. Some …
I was stuck on one level for aaaaaaages, but then I had a stroke of genius and moved on. I’m on Floor 6 now, on the 3rd or 4th level there. Things are getting a bit tricky, because not only do you have to navigate the “get the hearts” phase, and the “get to the chest” phase, but sometimes you now have to look ahead to the “leave the level” bit – I’d inadvertently blocked myself in a couple of …