Ah, ’tis the end of the Acorn Adventure. The town was strangely quiet on the subject of acorns, as if the whole week just hadn’t happened or something. I still had a few in my pockets, however, and it’s just as well I did as Wendell was about today, and it would probably be the only chance I’d get to give him one. In return, he gave me a design – a ? Block from Mario. Aces. Gladys moved out …
Now that the new Xbox Vision Camera is out, it seems lots of people are using while playing Uno. I don’t have a camera, but thought I’d log on anyway and see what people are up to. And it seems that everyone is too busy making silly faces, playing with the zoom control, and generally messing around to actually play the game. I managed to play four games, winning one, and quitting out of the rest as the game just …
Aaaaand relax. The Acorn Festival is officially over. Today was the last day to go on an acorn collecting rampage, and my final collection total stands at 178 acorns. Cornimer gave me another bit of mush furniture, but said I needed 22 more acorns for the next one – no chance. I could only manage three, and I decided to save them. In non-acorn news, Gladys the strange bird thing is trying to move out.
Well. I didn’t think that would come about so soon. OK, so most of the trophies I’ve won are bronze, and the rest are silver, but the fact remains I’ve completed all of the Career Mode events. Already. Oh well. It was fun, at least. Some of the later Nurburgring events were a bit of a chore, what with them being so bloody long! One was a race on the entire ‘Ring, which took a good seven minutes or so. …
More acorn “fun” today, racking up my total to about 160 acorns and getting even more furniture in the process. None of my animals had moved out overnight, and for the first time in a while none are trying to move out today either. Went to see K.K. Slider at the museum cafe, and he played me K.K. Western. I must be getting close to having his entire playlist by now, I expect.
A bit more play on this, including some online matches. There weren’t a lot of people online playing, and I didn’t do so well when I raced either, but it was lag-free and pretty good fun anyway. Back offline, and I’m up to Rank 8 now, have a couple of cheap Ferraris, and have about 14 of the trophies won. Most are bronze, one is silver, and one is steel.
Trousers (a guy on my friends list) and I had a go at cracking the get-30,000-points-in-co-op achievement today. It took a few attempts, mainly due to the horrific lag which kept causing problems, but we finally did it with a score of 31,000-ish. Or at least, that’s what we thought. It seems that although we broke the score needed, neither of us actually gained the achievement. Surely we don’t need 30,000 each? That’s plainly impossible in single player anyway, but …
Still on the look out for more achievements, but I think it’s going to be a bit of a long haul for this game. I’ve set about spending all my money on Lamborghinis to get the “one million credits worth of cars” and “Lamborghini owners” achievements. Of course, I did a load of races and other events too. I’ve managed to rack up about 38,000 Kudos points now, and am on tournament 9 or 10-ish.
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 …