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Gaming Diary

Oekaki Puzzle Battle (DS)

Just the one puzzle today, a Super Hard one, which was really quite difficult due to the chequerboard-type nature of so many of the squares. It took about 20 minutes to do, which is forever for one of these puzzles. Anyway, I have 10 Super Hard puzzles complete now, only 20 to go…

Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)

And still the fruit keeps coming. I’m not sure I can cope with it all. Fruit overload! Sold about 60,000 bells worth today, but aside from that I didn’t do very much else, apart from turnip duties. Nook offered me just 80 bells today (is that in the 80s every day so far this week then?) so I didn’t sell any. Looks like it might be another end-of-the-week, hope-for-a-price-elsewhere session then.

Brain Age (DS)

Aside from “TWO” being recognised as “NINE” in Voice Calculation, I didn’t have much in the way of problems today. At least, not in terms of actual scores. I did have a HUGE problem with (once again) Reading Aloud – it took me more than 20 attempts to get the thing to actually allow me to read it, as it kept complaining I was reading too fast. Bah. Today’s Brain Age: 24 again. Even though I did better than yesterday …

Don Doko Don (Xbox): COMPLETED!

I’d never heard of Don Doko Don. I don’t even recall seeing it on MAME. But I set about playing it (on Taito Legends 2) anyway, and then ended up completing it. Like several of the games on Taito Legends, Don Doko Don is very similar to Bubble Bobble. You have a single screen per level, and one or two players have to defeat all the baddies on the level to progress. Where Bubble Bobble have Bub and Bob, dinosaurs …

Lost Planet (Demo) (360)

With it being E3 this week, loads of trailers and a few demos have appeared on the Xbox Live Marketplace. I’d heard absolutely nothing about Lost Planet so I thought it ideal to be the one I downloaded. Obviously. And it’s, erm, bizarre. In many ways, it’s fantastic (the napalm-like fire explosions and the snowstorm effects are great. The Bionic Commando zipline grappler device is underused (in this demo, anyway), and there only seem to be three types of baddie. …

Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)

86 bells for turnips today, which was poor. Again. Made about 80,000 bells from fruit, although there’s still a bit on the ground and I know most of it is going to grow back again tomorrow anyway. Found a few fossils, but I’d already got them so they were sold off too. Still no sign of Wendell. Haven’t seen him in aaaaaages now, and I have a big pile of red turnips to give him.

Brain Age (DS)

Once again, I am confused. For the three Brain Age tests, I broke one record, and came third for the other two. And my resultant age? 24. Now, 24 is good, but I don’t understand why I got it and not 20, when I got such high scores (or low times, if you prefer) – better than when I got 20, in fact. Why does it seem to “raise the bar” every day? Is it supposed to? Anyway. In general, …

Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)

Not selling the fruit yesterday was a bad idea – there’s TONS of it in Cheese today, both on trees and on the floor. I spentabout half an hour clearing it, and made about 120,000 bells, but I’ve barely made a dent. Turnips were 80 bells today, which was crap. So I didn’t sell them. Nook was a bit preoccupied anyway, with hair concerns. Went shopping at Crazy Redd’s, but I already had a Calm Painting. I did buy his …

Brain Age (DS)

A triumphant return to form after the slightly poor results of yesterday gave me a new record on one of the tasks, mostly 2nd and 3rd placed scores in the others, and 18 seconds for the Calculations x20. I can do it without thinking now. In fact, that’s the way I do it best! Brain Age for the day – 20! ACES.

Oekaki Puzzle Battle (DS)

Completed two more each on Hard and Super Hard. One of each was really easy, with loads of 9 and 10 rows and columns, but the other one of each were both pains having not much in the way of complete or end rows to work from. Got my lowest Super Hard score so far – 88. Rubbishness.

Taito Legends 2 (Xbox)

This arrived today (along with a copy of Project Gotham Racing 2, which I already own), so I thought I’d have a quick play and see what games are on there. Played Cameltry, Bubble Bobble Memories, Pop ‘n Pop, Space Invaders DX, some isometric fighting game, and a few others. Of course, Bubble Bobble Memories was the superacebestest of the lot.

Brain Age (DS)

My results today were a little disappointing, most of them being slightly lower than previously. Perhaps I wasn’t concentrating or something. I had problems readng too fast for the Reading Aloud test too, which is annoying. Worst of all, my Brain Age was 26. Pah.