Um. I have absolutely no idea what I’m supposed to do. I started, created by character (a female human), and then talked to some guide bloke who told me about the Guardians or something. Then the game crashed and I had to reload. I then wandered around the stace station looking for missions, only to be told I can’t take part in any yet. Then I danced for a few minutes, and then went to another city, where the game …
Just a quick visit to Cheese this evening, mainly to collect more acorns (and get some more Mush furniture), but also to see if Sally had moved out. She hadn’t, which is good as I haven’t got her picture yet. Actually, I haven’t had anyone’s picture in quite a while, but then, I haven’t been paying the animals much attention recently. Oh, and Kabuki is trying to move again. Idiot.
It’s slightly disturbing the way that Cornimer shouts “Acornio!” at you when he tells your fortune. I keep reading it as “Acornholio”, which is probably even worse. So I collected a big stash of acorns, which gained me a few more items of Mush furniture. My animals were still on about acorns, and didn’t want to give me any jobs to do or anything, so they’re a bit boring at the moment. Kabuki didn’t move out, but now Sally is …
Although this was expected to be available for download about a month ago, it didn’t appear. However, there it was on Xbox Live Arcade today for 400 points, so I downloaded it. I’d never really played it properly before, just “in passing” when I happened to find an emulator with it available or saw it in the arcade for 10p a go or something. I also used to get this and Mr. Do! mixed up, as at first glance they …
Worked my way through more tracks today (with the Starnose, which took ages to get used to as far as drifting is concerned), completed another “circuit”, and unlocked another car – the Gaplus car. ACE. When you drive it, you get a remix of the Galaga (or, I suspect Gaplus) music. Which is also ACE.
Acorn Festival! Hurrah! “Cornimer” (who looks suspiciously like Tortimer in an acorn mask) was about, and asking for acorns to be give to him. I collected up loads, but didn’t realise you could tell which ones were rotten – and you’re not supposed to pass them on. Anyway, I collected 37, which got me two lots of Mush furniture. My conversations with animals today were mostly acorn-based, and so pretty dull. No Crazy Redd today, probably due to the acorn …
It’s cheapy-cheap at Play, which is where I got it, but then realised I could have saved 15p by buying from Play-Asia. Bah. Make not the same mistake! I didn’t really know what to expect. All of the other Ridge Racers have left me cold, and the DS version is one of the worst games ever created, but this, is actually pretty good. In fact, it’s not far off Outrun 2 good. Well, it may perhaps be 75% of the …
My notice board says that the Acorn Festival starts tomorrow. ACES! My animals were not especially chatty today, although the not-moved-out Kabuki did want a shirt so I gave her (or him) a Blue Grid one I found on the floor. Found a fossil for the first time in a couple of weeks, not that I need it as I have them all, but still. I haven’t seen a pitfall in ages either. Perhaps the ten billion weeds have covered …
What went wrong here? Although I’ve never really liked Strider all that much, it isn’t a bad game. It’s also quite different to most platformers, as you can climb walls, hang from platforms, and that sort of thing. Only, you can’t. The NES version of Strider, it seems, does away with everything that is Strider and removes it. So now, it’s just a generic crap platformer. Rubbish.
Wow! This is great! I always kind-of liked Final Fight, but thought Streets of Rage to be somewhat better. I did wonder if a super-deformed version, on the NES, would actually be any good. And it is! It’s a bit simple, but there’s actually more to it than the original game, as there are more moves and you gain experience points and levels improving your strength, health and move-set. It’s a bit hard though, as a continue sends you back …
Two crap EA demos in two days. Who’d have thought it? Firstly, what’s with the stuttering during the set-piece cutscenes? It’s like it’s using the same engine as NFS:Carbon it’s so bad. Then there’s the carding system. I managed to get three red cards and two yellows in less than 6 minutes of game time (not real time). I conceed that one of the reds was my fault (although the tackle wasn’t exactly nasty), but one of the others was …
I started off by finishing a few of the recently-found Snatch missions, before moving on to pimping up my Mag (which I’ve been using as my car of choice for later Snatch missions as it’s pretty durable and can carry three passengers). I then found a new Insurance Fraud activity, so set about clearing that one out too (which was pretty easy, even without the police-car-head-on tactic). I also killed a load of people (starting with the DJ) in a …
Today’s animal-wot-is-trying-to-leave is Kabuki. Again. He-she seems much more resolved to go this time, however, leaving no suggestion of staying even after multiple attempts at persuading him/her otherwise. It was also a flea market day today. I went round a few animals’ houses, but with Kabuki all packed to go and most of my other animals outside (and Bluebear refusing to sell me anything) all I picked up was a bed, which I suspect I already have in my catalogue. …
Hmm. As I cheered the fact I’d completed the last Snatch mission, I realised that, in fact, there was another location to do with 8 more Snatch missions. Pah. Set about doing some other stuff instead – a couple more Mayhem missions, hunted for some more CDs and tag locations (I found none), and generally just explored a bit more.
Oh lord. I thought the Sonic demo was bad enough. This is even worse. It’s jerky, it lurches all over the place like grandad after he’s been on the Guinness, and the handling is just all wrong. In Circuit Mode you can barely steer at all – it’s like you push the left stick as hard as it will go and it just about registers as slightly off-centre, and in Drift Mode it’s like you’re on ice and a slight …