Hurrah! Or at least, “Hurrah to some extent!”. I managed to get past stage 5, finally. That’s the sort of scrolly maze thing which requires pixel perfect ship maneuvering. As a result, I reached the Base Stage, but didn’t really know what I was supposed to do until I realised there was a thing I needed to shoot. I then remembered you could collide with the base, and you’d win (but not lose as life), so few at it, and …
Gngh! Too hard! I’m trying to work my way through all the Snatch missions, and although I’ve finished the Rollerz one already, the Vice Kings one, on level 8, is just too hard. There’s not even anything specifically difficult about it – I just can’t do it. Usually my car gets blown up by a molotov, or I have to swap car and then my bloke just stands there instead of entering the car I’m standing right next to. I’ve …
Played more games with my wife this evening. Found a version of Dominos which seems most “normal” (“Block”, in case you’re wondering), as well as many games of Spit! and several goes on Hasami Shogi. Played plenty of others too, though.
Another somewhat lax day in Cheese. Did my usual stuff of buying things I didn’t already have, and chatted briefly with my animals, as well as a load of weeding (which seems pointless now as it comes back with a vengance each day). Also gave three of my animals some clothes. Do I look like a walking branch of Oxfam or something?
Hurrah! I broke 100,000 points! Sadly, this did not gain me any achievements, nor did it get me to the top of the in-game high score table. And I managed it by only getting to wave 7. This game is too hard. FACT.
Played this with my wife for quite a while this evening. The Balance game got quite ridiculous as we had about ten blocks stacked up, lengthways, up the middle of the see-saw. I lost horribly at Bowling, Dominos confused us with it’s silly “5 Up” rules, and the battleships “clone” was OK, but the one-square-big “ships” were rubbish.
Well, Purrl didn’t move out, so perhaps my animals do like me. Having said that, they’re not all that interested in talking to me today. Redd was about, and I bought a merry-go-round from him for the alarmingly cheap price of 1,800 bells (or so). Maybe he was ill, or something. And weeds! What’s with them? Billions of them again today.
Strangely, and rather like many of the Xbox 360 games I’ve completed this year, this game’s last few levels seemed to get shorter and shorter (and the bosses easier and easier) until quite soon I’d done the final three stages and it was complete. It was quite fun, but ultimately pretty repetitive. I did unlock a fish I could stroke though. Which was nice.
Played this some more, mainly in two player download play mode with my wife. It’s really quite good in this mode, although I’ve found some of the rules to the games to be a little bit strange. It’s probably because they’re different variations than I’m used to, I suppose. Also did the first three games on Stamp Mode.
Don’t my animals like me any more? I mean, I know I hate most of them and would gladly push some of them under a bus, but they have no reason to hate me, surely? Purrl was trying to escape Cheese today, you see, and I’ve lost a fair few animals over the last couple of weeks already. Rubbish. Something exciting did happen today, though – Autumn came! And with it, slightly browner ground, and billions of weeds. Why doesn’t …
This arrived today. I played lots of different games, including a couple online, and so far it’s pretty good. Bowling is too bloody hard though – I keep flicking the ball into the gutter with the last bit of the throw stroke. Bah.
Went back and did the Zenith thing, and then managed to get the other car needed too, completing all the Chop Shop stuff. I then went and shot down some more helicopters, took enough hostages to get me the 50 Hostages achievement (which got me 10 gamerpoints), and borrowed a load of money from the lone shark (to get another 10 points).
With the game complete, I set about doing some of the activities, and trying some of the achievements. First up, destroying helicopters. Picked up three homies, and sat outside a Forgive and Forget shooting stuff. The police soon turned up, and I killed them, and eventually police helicopters arrived. After shooting several down, things got a bit hectic so I nipped in for a quick confessional, and the heat was off again. 13 helicopters down, 37 to go! This will …
Phew! Turnip price today was 110 bells, which although crap did give me a slight profit. Sold up, and went chatting to animals. Gladys wants a moth, Rowan wants a salmon, Kabuki wants a club shirt, and a couple of other animals want chic furniture. I didn’t give anyone anything. K.K. Slider played me another song – Comrade K.K. In fact, he played me something else first as I pressed the wrong button and chose a request, which of course …
I bought a points card today whilst out shopping, so decided to spend some on this. I’d played the demo before and thought it pretty good, and it is. It’s a bit bloody hard though! I’ve managed a few achievements, such as “complete wave 1 without moving” and “complete waves 1-3 in under 45 seconds”, but can only get as far as wave 7, so reaching waves 30 and 100 are likely to not happen…