Started off by asking the Thieves’ Guild bloke for another job, but him saying I needed to nick more stuff and sell it to the guy in Bruma. So I warped there, stole more alembics and retorts and stuff from the Bruma Mage’s Guild and sold them on. For some reason, I didn’t go back to the Waterfront and carry on the Thievery, but instead went returned to the Arena. I seem to have honed my block-then-attack skills somewhat now, …
You know, this is the best platformer I’ve played in years. Lots and lots of years, in fact. Ten or more. Yeah, Sonic Rush was great, and some of the Sonic Advance games were pretty good, but this is fantastic. Everything about it is so right. Controls, level design, secrets, retro-ness and everything. ACES. So today I finished off the two “secret” worlds – 4 and 7. By “finished”, I of course mean “defeated the boss in the castle at …
No turnip sellage today either, with Nook offering just 47 bells each for them. Looks like I’m going to run out of days to sell again this week. Mad panic tomorrow then, begging for people with good prices to open gates for me. Dr. Shrunk paid a visit to Cheese today, and I learned how to display “approval”. Sadly, I had to lose another gesture, so I deleted “distress”. Clapping is ace. Nan came round to visit my house, but …
Another day, another test of BRANES. Although the training went well, even improving some of my scores further still, sadly my Age for the day was a little disappointing. After my five days of 20s, today I got 22. Bah. I’d have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t have been for the DS misdetecting two 8s as 6s. Hate.
Back in the Arena this evening. And, well, it’s a bit easy isn’t it? I worked my way up to Gladiator rank (that’s four more achievements and 40 more Gamerpoints) without any difficulty, but then stumbled on the round where you fight three prisoners at once. My main tactic of fireballing from a distance, and block-then-swipe up close falls down when being attacked from three sides at once. Tch. Took a break from the fighting then, to buy some more …
More brain “fun” today. Did about half of the tests, and did pretty well on them all. No “8 issues” today either, which was good. But you don’t care about that, do you? All you want to know is How Old Is My Brain(TM) isn’t it? 20! Hurrah!
Quite a brief play this evening. Sold enough fruit to clean out Nook again (he must be loaded now), and to order yet another moon. I have 6,500 or so points left before becoming a Platinum Member in the loyalty system. Turnips were 94 bells today. Had another bizarre moment when, after Nan told me that Lucky and Friga act more like brother and sister than friends, Margie then explained how cute it was that Lucky and Friga were together …
Multiplayer only this evening, playing both random minigames and two player Mario vs Luigi mode. Both modes are actually really good fun to play, with Mario vs Luigi mode reminding me of the original Mario Bros (sans Super), and the minigames being a little like Mario Party. I won, of course.
As well as my daily turnip watering, turnip not-selling (98 bells today), daily animal chatting and daily buying everything at Nook’s, I’ve also added a new daily “chore” to the list – ordering moons from Nook. I got two yesterday, and boughttwo more today. Shame they don’t sell them on sticks. That’d be ace.
No problems on the daily training tests today, and in fact, I managed to get a new high score on one of them. I don’t bother doing all the tests each day now, I just do at least half of them, and vary which ones from day to day. My Brain Age was, once again, 20. That’s 4 days of 20 in a row!
It seemed I had only 7 left to do, not 9. Clearly, I can’t count. So I made an effort to finish them all off this evening, which wasn’t that difficult as all bar the last one were really easy. The last one was a golden butterfly. Or a moth. Or something like that anyway. Nice. GAME OVER!
Completed a few more Super Hards this evening. About five of them, in fact, none of which were especially difficult. In fact, one of them had 5 of the 16 squares completely filled. So much for “Super Hard”, eh, readers? That leaves me just 9 left to complete before I’ve done them all. ACES.
Today, I bought the moon. And then, I sold it again. Then I ordered another one. This may seem a little mad, as each moon costs 28,800 bells, but I’ve found it’s a really quick way of bumping up Nook’s loyalty points, getting me to Platinum Status much quicker. I have about 7,300 points left to go, now. Also visited my animals, sold some fruit, watered my red turnip, and found EIGHT fossils in my town. That has got to …
Hurrah! Another day, another Age of 20! I’m still having issues with 8s though. Sometimes it doesn’t seem to recognise them at all, even though I draw them in almost exactly the same way every time. Some people have said I draw them backwards, that is, I start and the top and go left, not right. I don’t see how that is backwards, but anyway.
This evening, I played wireless multiplayer with my wife. And it’s great! Most (all?) of the minigames have been stolen from Super Mario 64DS, but now that they’re multiplayer, it seems a billion times better. The Mario vs Luigi Star Battle Hyper Fun Happy Fighter II mode is great as well – being not entirely unlike the original Super-less Mario Bros in a way. Fun all round!