I’m still working on the Vice Kings missions, with some other activities thrown in for good measure. I really like the Insurance Fraud ones, which are especially easy with a SWAT van! I seem to have run out of Vice Kings missions now, actually. There are some crown markers on the map (all denoting strongholds), but no actual missions. Odd. I expected at least one more. Roamed the map for a bit, started a car stealing activity, and then went …
In The Groove is a DDR type game, and this demo is for the PC or Mac, and came free with my recent Play Asia order. I only played a couple of songs, as dancing games don’t really work using a keyboard, so there wasn’t much point trying further. It’s OK, but almost exactly the same as DDR. Only with completely unknown tracks.
Saturday evening again, and another trip to the cafe to see K.K. Slider. This time, he played me Senor K.K. The rest of the animals failed to pester me for items of furniture and clothes today, which was nice, although I did have to give Purrl some more medicine as she’s still sick. Why does it always take so long for the animals to get well again? Perhaps there’s a clue in their dialogue when they say things like “I …
Played quite a bit more of this today. I was mosting completing things on the Vice Kings mission line, including blowing up a recording studio, taking over some “hoods”, and racking up my money and “rep” by doing side activities. The best of these activities that I’ve tried so far is the Insurance Fraud one. You have to throw yourself under cars to claim money on your insurance. Of course, trying to bounce yourself off the bonnets of several cars, …
Weeds. Where the hell are they all coming from? There were millions of them again today. Spent a while cleaning them all up, and then went fishing. Caught a few fish I haven’t had before, and talked to the animals again as usual.
Started playing this today. Completed enough of the first missions to open up the Vice Kings missions, which I’ve made a start on. Also took part in several side “activities”, such as Snatch, in order to get my respect bar up – you need to do that in order to open up more main missions. So far it’s pretty good, although it isn’t as great as San Andreas. It doesn’t have bikes. Or helicopters (yet, at least), fire engines, or …
Hmm. I t seems that saving your game in the middle of a level doesn’t actually let you restart from that point next time. Which is a pain. That meant I had to redo the whole level, but at least they’re not too long. Got a few more things from the vending machine (including a new outfit and a new guitar, the latter of which spits out fish – no really). The boss at the end was a big TV …
This game was super cheap at Play Asia, so I bundled it in with another game. I love Puffy (the band), but am not keen on Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi (the cartoon), so it was a bit of a split decision to buy the game. Cheapness won out, though. As usual. And, well. It’s very odd. Imagine crossing Streets of Rage with Guitar Hero. And then coating it in Viewtiful Joe and Alien Hominid stuff. It’s a side scrolling …
Not much going on in my town again today. I just spent a while talking to animals and finding that I still don’t have access to the stuff they need (well, except Bluebear’s modern furniture, but I think she has more than enough of that already). I must have pulled up some 30 weeds too. I don’t know where they’ve all come from, but there are loads around at the moment. I’ve also noticed that it hasn’t rained in a …
As my gamerscore was getting close to 4000 points, I needed something to give me a few extra points to bump me over. Pac-Man gave me that, with the “Clear Round 21” achievement, which I managed today. I now have 4001 points!
Completed the tournement I started last night, which ended in my victory, and I unlocked a couple of achievements as a result. I lost the first game, but won the other two. I then played an online game, and lost without scoring a single point. Rubbish.
Since Mr. Trousers has beaten my high score (by just 500 points – 245800 vs. my 245300), I had a go at reclaiming my crown. Not a hope in hell. After several goes, I only broke 100,000 once, getting something in the region of 115,000. Gah. My 1337 skillz are depleted.
Fancied a change and so dusted off my unplayed copy of Table Tennis and gave it a go. Completed all of the training sessions, getting a staggering 5 gamerpoints for the achievement. Tch. I then took part in the Amateur Circuit tournement, and totally thrashed the first two opponents. I won the third match 2-1, which was a lot closer, but I saved my game and quit for the day as it was getting a bit late.
Redd had a couple of things I didn’t have already today – a hospital bed and a judge’s bell. So I bought them. I still don’t have access to any of the items that my animals are asking for, so I hope they change their minds soon… Purrl is still ill. I’ve been giving her medicine each day, so she should be OK soon.
After a bit of wandering round, I realised I probably hadn’t completed the dwarf mines bit of the game, so I went back in. Found a Sprite, who conned me out of 100 Gold. However, I got it back after I defeated a boss and it joined my “party”. It’s crap though, and it died several times before I got to the Haunted Woods. Once in the woods, I found the girl from before (who had left me) and she …