You know, I’m almost four hours in to this game now, and I still haven’t actually done anything much yet. Today, I spent the best part of an hour jumping round Imperial City. No, really. Just walking and jumping. Of course, I was waiting for Thorimir (I think that’s his name, anyway), the dodgy trader from yesterday, to open up shop so I could have a “quiet word” with him, then followed him when he left work and went to …
Still plugging through Career Mode. Played about 5 or 6 matches today, and won them all. The only one that gave me any concern was the 4th Round (I think) “English Cup” tie against Newcastle United. Neither side had scored by 40 minutes in, and they’d been playing much better than me overall. Thankfully, I got two in before half-time, and then went on to win 5-0.
Having two DSeseseses really increases the usefulness of some games, it seems. Played this for a while against my wife. It’s just a great as the GC version we used to play, only, er, we don’t need to use the GC to play it. There’s validation in that statement somewhere, I’m sure.
Haven’t played this for a while, and now I have my shiny new DS Lite I thought I’d have another go on the fantastic new screens… Still playing through story mode, and I’ve completed all up to Level 14 or so, and defeated three bosses now. There’s a new option on the map screen to play a “survive for x minutes” game, which I played too. After all that, I played multiplayer with my wife. It took a while figuring …
My DS Lite has arrived! If you follow my posts on assorted groups and forums, you’ll know it was lost by DHL for several days, but it’s here now! Besides fawn over it for a bit, the first thing I did was link up with my old DS, and visit my wife’s town. Took over loads of money and fruit for her. She’s only about a month into the game and has only one non-native fruit, so now she has …
Attempt number two at killing the marauders ended somewhat better than the first time, not least because the one that kept shooting fireballs at me kept hitting the floor with them instead of me (I was hiding down some steps), and so I kept shooting arrows at him. After that, and after raiding the bodies, I left the fort and headed back to Imperial City. Found loads of mushrooms on the way, so picked them. It was the middle of …
Finally! I have an actual real 360 game that isn’t a demo or an Xbox Live Arcade download! And it is actually pretty impressive too. Perhaps the last game like this that I’ve played was probably some Amiga title which I’ve forgotten the name of. I was always tempted by Morrowind, which is the game before Oblivion in the Elder Scrolls series, but the PC version would run like poo on my PC (at the time) and the ten minute …
Played Adventure Mode again for a while. Managed to reach level 4-5, but then failed. Failed due to my own stupidity too, as I just kept mis-shooting near the end in a bit of a panic, and ended up adding so many balls to the run that I ended up dying. Stupid.
Not a lot to do today, what with no turnips to sell or water, and the flower festival is over (and I won the Green Thumb! Hurrah!) so my garden doesn’t need tending. Spent a while talking to the animals, selling fruit, finding fossils (all of which I already had) and buying everything in Nook’s shop again.
Managed to do the half-pipe level! Hurrah! It seems the trick is to jump repeatedly across the “bottom” of the pipe, which makes you build up speed to make it up the other side. I still couldn’t manage the other two Advanced levels though – the mountain one, and “Schadenfreud” or whatever it’s called. Pah. Went and did a load of Intermediate again to get Par times. I only have two left to do – the spelunking one being one. …
Since I couldn’t play it last night, I set my DS’s clock back to 9pm yesterday so that I could visit K.K. Slider. He played me a song (which I’ve forgotten the name of). I then put the clock right to play some more. No Joan today, as it is still the Flower Festival. That means no turnips. It does mean that I don’t have to worry about getting a decent price today, though. Instead, I planted even more fruit …
Sold the rest of my turnips today, for only 90 bells each. I’m not too fussed though, as I made such a huge profit already. Planted a few more flowers near my house. I can’t actually plant any more now as there’s no space. Hope I win! Also planted some more fruit trees around the place, but mainly near Nook’s so I don’t have to go as far each time I want to sell the fruit. Also bought all of …
A few games online tonight, and bizarrely someone I was playing against knew me from the Nintendo UK forums. Very strange. I didn’t do especially well, but then I had just got back from the pub.
Didn’t play for long this evening due to lack of time, but I did managed to squeeze in a quick session. Enough time to sell about 20,000 bells worth of fruit, plant some more, and water my red turnip. Friga tried to move out too, but I think I’ve convinced her to stay.
With a Tim Miller-theory-beating 67 bells per turnip price in Nook’s today, I was glad to find that new-player Jonathan (in Sundale) had Nook buying for 417 each. I popped over with 1500 of them, making almost half a million bells profit already. I have another 1000 or so to flog, but ran out of time before Jonathan disconnected. Still, even if I don’t sell, I’m still bells-in this week. Also did the usual talking, watering, fruit selling. I’m over …