Don’t my animals like me any more? I mean, I know I hate most of them and would gladly push some of them under a bus, but they have no reason to hate me, surely? Purrl was trying to escape Cheese today, you see, and I’ve lost a fair few animals over the last couple of weeks already. Rubbish. Something exciting did happen today, though – Autumn came! And with it, slightly browner ground, and billions of weeds. Why doesn’t …
This arrived today. I played lots of different games, including a couple online, and so far it’s pretty good. Bowling is too bloody hard though – I keep flicking the ball into the gutter with the last bit of the throw stroke. Bah.
Went back and did the Zenith thing, and then managed to get the other car needed too, completing all the Chop Shop stuff. I then went and shot down some more helicopters, took enough hostages to get me the 50 Hostages achievement (which got me 10 gamerpoints), and borrowed a load of money from the lone shark (to get another 10 points).
With the game complete, I set about doing some of the activities, and trying some of the achievements. First up, destroying helicopters. Picked up three homies, and sat outside a Forgive and Forget shooting stuff. The police soon turned up, and I killed them, and eventually police helicopters arrived. After shooting several down, things got a bit hectic so I nipped in for a quick confessional, and the heat was off again. 13 helicopters down, 37 to go! This will …
Phew! Turnip price today was 110 bells, which although crap did give me a slight profit. Sold up, and went chatting to animals. Gladys wants a moth, Rowan wants a salmon, Kabuki wants a club shirt, and a couple of other animals want chic furniture. I didn’t give anyone anything. K.K. Slider played me another song – Comrade K.K. In fact, he played me something else first as I pressed the wrong button and chose a request, which of course …
I bought a points card today whilst out shopping, so decided to spend some on this. I’d played the demo before and thought it pretty good, and it is. It’s a bit bloody hard though! I’ve managed a few achievements, such as “complete wave 1 without moving” and “complete waves 1-3 in under 45 seconds”, but can only get as far as wave 7, so reaching waves 30 and 100 are likely to not happen…
With me now in 4th place on my friends list, and with stage 4 still incomplete, I thought it best to have a go to try and put right what once went wrong. So I stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator, and… Failed. I managed to exactly equal my high score, and I also managed to get further into stage 4 than I’d ever previously done, but it was no-go with the record breakage. Boo.
Hurrah! Seeing off Price’s semi was much easier in an Aqua (a HumVee, basically) full of homies, rather than the crap car you’re given for the mission. After a couple of attempts, Price was dead and the game was over! …except, it wasn’t. The credits rolled, but then there were a few more missions to sort out. The police had got involved with the gang wars, and Julius had been arrested by a bent cop. I won’t spoil it for …
Bah. I spend about 15 minutes completing one level, and then twenty minutes getting lost on the next one, only to die right near the end. Boo. How annoying.
New gameage! In fact, it came on Thursday, but I only got round to giving it a try today. And it’s very cute. There’s an awful lot of Japanese text in there, but I just hammered A to get past all that, and on to the platforming proper. It’s very cute. Completed the first three or four levels, which mainly involved some training sections, and collecting items for water snails and lobsters and stuff. It’s great so far! And very …
Bah. Friday is TURNIP PANIC DAY, and Nook stabs me in the pocket with a rubbish offering of 94 bells each. I paid 96. I’ll hope for a 100+ price tomorrow, which from past experience isn’t really very likely. Rubbish. Caught a million different bugs and some fish today too. Also, I have a new animal – Rowan the tiger. He’s grrrreat! Aha. Ahahahaha.
So much for Buck then. He’s actually properly bucked off now. Stupid horse. Also stupid was Nook, who offered just 44 bells for my turnips. Racoon burgers it is then. Not a lot else going to today. Most of my animals seem to be hiding for some reason.
There was a surprise game for download on the Xbox Live Arcade service today – Doom! Well, technically it’s Ultimate Doom, but anyway. Downloaded it, and played through the first three levels or so. It’s just like it has always been, only in some bizarre 1:1 ratio and smoother than ever. Online, however, it isn’t great. Some of the maps just don’t work in multiplayer, as people are too high above or below you. Yeah, you can shoot them without …
Rattled through most of the rest of the Rollerz missions, and finished all the Rollerz Strongholds. Progress was again peppered with “activities”, although I did manage to complete the demolition derby, which got me an achievement. After “the thing that happens with Lin which I won’t spoil for you”, there was a great mission where I had to ride shotgun (or rather, RPG) for Julius on the highway, destroying Rollerz’s cars. ACE. I’m now stuck trying to destroy Price’s lorry. …
52 bells today. Not that I’m surprised. Nook will be when he finds out where I’ve hidden bits of Timmy and Tommy. Buck is still MIA. I couldn’t find him anywhere. Perhaps Redd has taken him to sell? Redd was about today, but he didn’t have anything worth buying.