Gaming Diary

An overall Brain Age of 4×5 today. Or 5×4, if you prefer. There’s not really much of a challenge left to the game now, it seems. Managed another top 3 score for one the Brain Age tests – the Maze one.

Turnip sellage! Fatality! Sort of! Skipai was online with his Nook’s buying for 513 bells each. I managed two trips, selling enough turnips to make over 1.5 million bells. Sadly, Skipai’s town was so busy it was hard to get back in, and he soon gave up with the resultant connection crashes. I still have a pile of turnips to sell, but I might get a decent price “locally” yet. While out visiting, I gained a jester shirt from Talisker, …

So it seems that I was about a minute away from a save point. Well, actually I was less than a minute from a warp back to my ship, which is a save point. Anyway. Warped and saved. Then decided to play a couple of multiplayer games online. Just played against random people, and on my first game the host quit. On the second game, however, I came second. Which is pretty good, I thought. The trick seems to be …

I absolutely hated the demo, you know. Controls were rubbish. There was no lock-on. It all looked a bit “meh”. It just wasn’t Metroid, basically. And now look at what I’ve gone and bought! Tch, eh? And, well. The controls seem much the same. The graphics have improved quite a bit, though, but there’s still no lock-on and it still doesn’t feel quite right. It’s also a bit difficult to hold the DS in one hand, operate the d-pad, and …

Had an opportunity to play on a weekday morning today. Not that I would have missed much. Gave out a few shirts to animals that asked for them, and got a present in the post from Nan for letting her visit my house yesterday. One of my animals gave me a King Tut Wig, which looks ACE, but appears to be cursed, since I keep falling over when I wear it. There seems to be a complete lack of fossils …

With the music quiz starting to become repetitive, it was time to move on to a new set of questions. So, as this arrived today, my wife and I played it tonight. Basically, it’s the same game as before, but with general knowledge questions instead of music ones. You get pictures to look at now, as well as sounds, which mixes things up a bit. There’s a new round too – Hitman, which is a bit pants. Anyway. We played …

Got a new record in Calculations x100, completing it in 1:43, three seconds lower than the previous best. Didn’t do too badly in the other tests either, and bumped my run of Brain Age 20s up to 16 in a row too.

Nan’s old-school furniture (a classic desk) arrived in the post, but she wouldn’t let me give it to her. Instead, she demanded to come and see my house, so I let her. While waiting for her to arrive, I sold some fruit, gave Kody a new shirt, completely failed to find a Jester shirt for Frobert again, and couldn’t give Margie any more white furniture as she said her house was full. Bah.

After several attempts, I managed to get the final coin in the castle in World 6. It was where I expected it to be, but I obviously hadn’t tried hard enough. Anyway, that’s World 6 completed now. Moved on to World 4. Yes, I realise I’m not doing them in order. Got the missing Star Coins in one level, and then unlocked and completed (without one of the coins) another level.

Didn’t have a particularly successful day in Cheese today. Bunnie is still ill (although i did give her more medicine), I still can’t find a Jester shirt for Frobert, Nan wanted more old-school furniture (of which I had none, so had to order it from Nook), turnips were just 33 bells each, Redd’s paining was a fake, and I found no fossils or anything good. I did, however, manage to give Margie more white furniture (still no picture, though), and …

Most of the results were an improvement over yesterday, although I didn’t set any more records or anything. Overall, another 20. That’s 15 in a row now.

Played through most of World 6 picking up Star Coins. I have all of them on that world now, bar the final one on the last castle. I’m pretty sure I know where it is, but can’t seem to jump high enough to get to it. I think I need to do some sort of triple jump, but there isn’t the space to do it.

Since today is Munkie Day (no really – it is), I thought I should honour it with an inaugoral play of Super Monkey Ball. And, since my DS is the consol de moment, what better than Touch and Roll? Which, as I now recall, is too sodding hard. I have the Volcano World, on which I get stuck on level 7 or 8, and then Ice World where I got to level 9 or 10, and lost 16 lives. It’s …

Just the test today, and I managed 1304g. The distribution chart gave me the brain of a decorator (or something equally stupid), and I went up a grade from B- to B. Brain the size of a planet, me. Or is that plant?

What a surprise! 20 again today! However, almost all of my trial scores were slightly lower than yesterday, prompting many “A little tired, are we?” comments from Dr. Deformed Head. I blame the heat.