With me now in 4th place on my friends list, and with stage 4 still incomplete, I thought it best to have a go to try and put right what once went wrong. So I stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and… Failed. I managed to exactly equal my high score, and I also managed to get further into stage 4 than I’d ever previously done, but it was no-go with the record breakage. Boo.
Hurrah! Seeing off Price’s semi was much easier in an Aqua (a HumVee, basically) full of homies, rather than the crap car you’re given for the mission. After a couple of attempts, Price was dead and the game was over! …except, it wasn’t. The credits rolled, but then there were a few more missions to sort out. The police had got involved with the gang wars, and Julius had been arrested by a bent cop. I won’t spoil it for …
Bah. I spend about 15 minutes completing one level, and then twenty minutes getting lost on the next one, only to die right near the end. Boo. How annoying.
New gameage! In fact, it came on Thursday, but I only got round to giving it a try today. And it’s very cute. There’s an awful lot of Japanese text in there, but I just hammered A to get past all that, and on to the platforming proper. It’s very cute. Completed the first three or four levels, which mainly involved some training sections, and collecting items for water snails and lobsters and stuff. It’s great so far! And very …
Bah. Friday is TURNIP PANIC DAY, and Nook stabs me in the pocket with a rubbish offering of 94 bells each. I paid 96. I’ll hope for a 100+ price tomorrow, which from past experience isn’t really very likely. Rubbish. Caught a million different bugs and some fish today too. Also, I have a new animal – Rowan the tiger. He’s grrrreat! Aha. Ahahahaha.
So much for Buck then. He’s actually properly bucked off now. Stupid horse. Also stupid was Nook, who offered just 44 bells for my turnips. Racoon burgers it is then. Not a lot else going to today. Most of my animals seem to be hiding for some reason.
There was a surprise game for download on the Xbox Live Arcade service today – Doom! Well, technically it’s Ultimate Doom, but anyway. Downloaded it, and played through the first three levels or so. It’s just like it has always been, only in some bizarre 1:1 ratio and smoother than ever. Online, however, it isn’t great. Some of the maps just don’t work in multiplayer, as people are too high above or below you. Yeah, you can shoot them without …
Rattled through most of the rest of the Rollerz missions, and finished all the Rollerz Strongholds. Progress was again peppered with “activities”, although I did manage to complete the demolition derby, which got me an achievement. After “the thing that happens with Lin which I won’t spoil for you”, there was a great mission where I had to ride shotgun (or rather, RPG) for Julius on the highway, destroying Rollerz’s cars. ACE. I’m now stuck trying to destroy Price’s lorry. …
52 bells today. Not that I’m surprised. Nook will be when he finds out where I’ve hidden bits of Timmy and Tommy. Buck is still MIA. I couldn’t find him anywhere. Perhaps Redd has taken him to sell? Redd was about today, but he didn’t have anything worth buying.
Didn’t play for long this evening. I managed one more Rollerz mission, but had to spend much of my time building up my respect bar to allow me to take part in it. There’s not actually much that annoys me about this game, but having to keep stopping the missions to veer off and do sideline stuff irks me a bit. Surely I shouldn’t be forced into doing them?
Hmm. This is Mario Party, only without Mario, without the actual game, none of the party, and none of the fun. You get 6 non-descript players, and a few (three in the demo) mini-games. None of those here are any good either. It’s even by the same people as Mario Party. For shame.
Just a brief play today. I have a new resident – Gladys the bird thing. She didn’t have a lot to say as she was unpacking. Buck seems to have vanished. His house is still there, but he’s not in it or anywhere else in the town. Aliens, probably. Either that or Nook has sold him for glue. It wouldn’t surprise me. I was only offered 55 bells today for my turnips too. He’s evil, is that racoon.
Managed to unlock a few more things to cook, taking my total up to (I think) 62. Apparently, there are 76 in total, and I’m almost certain I’ve done all of them at least twice and taken every available “branch” to open up more options. I can only assume I need “all silvers” or “all golds” or something to get the rest. Oh, and cutting up meat is hard. Bah.
Gosh. Not played this in aaaages. I found it in my big case o’ DS games when putting some other DS cards away, and after a load of Cooking Mama, I decided I wanted more of something similar. Imagine my surprise when I realised I hadn’t actually played all of the game previously. In fact, I hadn’t even got the high scores in about half of the characters’ sections, so I set about righting that wrong. The robot’s levels were …
Turnippage! Spent around half a million bells on turnips, at 90 bells each. Once again, I’ve left them all round Cheese, mainly outside my house and on the path near Nook’s. Many of my animals were in bed, so I couldn’t talk to them, but those who were not were complimented by me as it is Yay Day today. Compliments consisted of “j00 r0XX0r!”, “Burgermoo!” and “I wish you dead” amongst other things.