Gaming Diary

Three more Super Hard puzzles completed today, meaning I have just 13 left to do now. There’s still a good chance I might have it completed by the end of the well. Well, a slim chance. Maybe.

With all of the Hard puzzles complete, I had only Super Hard to work through. I managed three of them in double-quick time, mainly as they were all so easy. In fact, one of them (which turned out to be some kind of magic staff) had 6 of the 16 squares completely empty, and 8 of the other 10 could be filled in instantly with no deduction required. That leaves me with just 16 Super Hard puzzles to do, meaning …

Didn’t play all of the training thingies today, as I didn’t have a huge amount of time, was a bit tired, and since they’re all unlocked now it can take a fair while to get through them all. My age for the day, however, was 25. Bah.

I’ve just noticed that my post about Oblivion yesterday was my 1000th post to this Gaming Diary. That’s 1000 posts, in almost exactly 500 days. So two gaming sessions a day. Cripes. Did very little in Animal Crossing today. I got about a million (well, three) letters with presents in them for today is my birthday! Hurrah! Robin, Margie and Friga (my “bitches” then) all sent me letter and crap presents. None of my other animals, even the gay ones, …

Decided to join the Arena. Er, so I did. Warped to Imperial City, found the Arena, and signed up. Was a bit annoyed at the armour juggling I had to go through in order to wear the proper Arena “uniform”, but was soon up and fighting. Achievement Unlocked! 10 Gamerpoints Get! The first three opponents were pretty easy – a woman with a sword, a guy with an axe, and then an archer. I found that shooting fireballs at them …

This appeared on the Xbox Live Arcade downloads today, so I downloaded it. Only had the one game, which consisted of four hands, and I lost. I’d won the first two hands, then Purple won the third, and then someone else won the final hand. Even though I’d won two and he’d won one, his points from that one hand (290) were way ahead of my total (161). And, since you needed 250 to win, I didn’t. Pah.

I like the way this title is worded, as it clearly isn’t an “unlimited demo”, as it quits after about ten minutes play. That aside, and the multitude of horrible bugs (you can’t drive on sand, as you fall through it, and policewomen consist entirely of just a wig moving around the floor) ignored, then it can be considered pretty good fun. I couldn’t actually find all that much stuff to do (one time trial seemed to be it), but …

Mr Brain Doctor Man reminded me it was my birthday tomorrow. As if I’m some kind of idiot and didn’t know. I’m clearly not any kind of idiot, as I regained the Brain Age of 20 crown today! ACES. Completed a couple of sudoku too.

Explored Leyawiin for quite a while today, and opened up a few quests (although haven’t actually started any). Tried to get people to train me in assorted things, but no-one could as I was either a higher level than them, or I’d “reached my training limit for my level”. Bah. Concocted a load of potions, and finally found my tenth (and 11th and 12th, in fact) Nirnroot for that quest in Skingrad waaaaaaay back when. There seems to be loads …

Turnipage Maximum! Bought about a million bells worth of turnips for 108 bells each. That’s not far off 10,000 turnips. I struggled to find somewhere to put them all as well. Sold a bit of fruit too (the bloody stuff has almost all grown back), and got shut of some fossils as well.

Since I’d been having connection problems in the week for wifi play, I opened up my gates for an hour or so today to see if anyone could visit. And lo, Lyzzy and Matt both turned up. Hurrah! Didn’t do a lot, except have a chat (and cleared out Nook too – I’m a Gold Member now, and am working towards Platinum). No fruit today, thankfully. I’m all fruit-harvesting out!

So it seems that the lightning staff you have the option of using in order to kill the two minotaurs in the dream is actually usable. I’d been pressing the “cast magic” button, not “wield weapon” button, so it had been just telling me I was silenced. With this in mind, I jumped up onto a platform where I couldn’t be hit, and killed the two beasties without much of a problem. After that, I was back out of the …

Did pretty well today, getting in the Top 3 for most of the tests. Messed up Head Count though – sometimes it is difficult to tell if it’s 4 entering the house, or 5. Or 6. Anyway. My Brain Age was 21 (even though I topped two of the scores again), so I’m still not sure what’s going on. Completed another sudoku too.

Since I was having “issues” with Animal Crossing‘s Wifi connection, I thought I’d try Tetris and see if that worked. Within seconds, I was paired with some Japanese guy (or girl) for a game of Push Mode. They were clearly much better than me, and so the game didn’t last long, but at least Wifi was working. No idea what is up with Animal Crossing then…

Played this for a few hours this evening. Mainly, I was harvesting the 220,000+ bells-worth of fruit that was on the floor and had regrown on the trees, but I also found a few fossils and ran a few errands for animals. Wolfgang has done a runner, probably as I wasn’t gay for him, so my town is now down three animals and no-one has replaced them, so it looks a bit empty. In fact, Lucky told me so himself. …