OK, so I’ve got it all figured out now. Well, not all, but some. I was told that there are some missions in the Linear Line (or something), so went along to there and worked my way through two areas. After that, I found a party to join in a third area, and we made our way through that. It’s quite good fun, but, like what I found with Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast, and Blue Burst on the …
Even more acorns today. I think I have about 125 of them now. I don’t know how much Mush furniture you can actually get from Cornimer, but I must be in with a pretty good chance of getting the lot, I expect. I have 6 or 7 items of it now already. Kabuki is still trying to move out today. I tried to convince him/her not to, but I don’t really care any more. I haven’t seen Bluebear for a …
Even though I broke my finger opening the box for this when it arrived today, I still decided to give it a go. My first thought is “it’s not as good as PGR2“, mainly due to having all the supercars from the off. I liked having all the different classes of car to work through, but it seems stupid that you might as well just buy a fast car and that’s it. The game even seems to adjust the difficulty …
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 …