I’m really, really getting annoyed with this game now. Mainly the bugs (more on one of them in a bit), but also with the irritating way you have to redo large sections of the game for a second, and even third time. Even more if you count the Past and Present “versions” of areas. Who decided that would be a good idea? So a minor couple of bugs at first. Well, I say minor, but they’re actually game destroying fall-in-pit-don’t-die-quit …
It seems that I was wrong to sell turnips yesterday. In a shock reversal of the Law Of Tim, they were worth 284 bells this morning. Rubbish. I did make 60,000 from fruit though, but there were no fossils to be found anywhere. With that money in the Post Office, I now have a million bells. RICH! RICH I TELL YOU!
Tim Miller insists that the best turnip prices are always on a Thursday or Friday. As I have noted previously, this has never been the case with me, with my best prices coming on Tuesday, Wednesday, and sometimes Saturday. Today, however, turnips were selling for 222 bells – my highest all week. And yes, it is a Friday. So, for the first week in more than three months, Tim has been right! Unless, of course, I get a higher price …
Had 15 minutes to spare today, with only my N-Gage for company. Rummaged through the installed apps to find XIII. I have no idea where it came from, as I certainly don’t remember installing it. It isn’t really suitable for the N-Gage either, since it plays in the top left 1/8th of the screen and so is tiny. Anyway, it’s a bit pants. It’s a bit like Midnight Resistance on the Spectrum. Assuming my memory of that game is correct. …
100,000 bells made today! Actually, more than that, but I bought a froggy chair and a ponderosa bonsai with some of the fruit/gyroid/fossil money I’d earned. Then, of course, I shot down a present containing a ponderosa bonsai. Rubbish. It seems that I am Caroline’s best friend now. She keeps being dirty at me too, which I’m finding a little bit disturbing. She sent me a beach chair in the post. Her house is full of seashells I’ve been sending …
Yes, yes. Another new game. I seem to be accumilating them at a rate of one a day at the moment. I wish they’d stop making new ones for a bit so I could catch up… Anyway. True Swing Golf is, as the name suggests, a golf game where you “swing” the stylus to swing your club. And it works reallt well – far better than the “power meter” type systems in other golf games, and more realistic than the …
Not much fruit to harvest today, but what little there was, coupled with three already-donated fossils, sold for around 35,000 bells anyway. Quite of bit of that went to Crazy Pikey Redd for his fake “Awesome Painting”. Sadly, I couldn’t kill him with my spade. Turnips were 88 bells today. Higher than yesterday, but nowhere near selling point yet. Alice sent me an exquisite rug. How nice of her. I sold it. Caroline told me how I was her best …
Chapter 18x was really easy, even though I took all the wrong units in to battle. I knew there would be a load of magic users to fight, so I took all my magic users in. Then, of course, after a few turns, someone casts Silence over half the map, and renders them all useless. However, it also rendered all the enemy magic units useless too, and all of the huge knights dotted around were easy enough to kill off …
Made almost 100,000 bells harvesting and selling fruit, and by selling a couple of fossils and some junk and fish I had left over from another day. Also went and spoke with all my animals, including Chow, a panda who moved in today. Alice the Koala came over to see my house, and gave me four stars! Tom Nook was offering just 71 bells for turnips today, so I shot him in the face with a harpoon.
Played just one match this evening as my DS battery keeled over. I can’t remember who I was playing, actually, but I won anyway. Didn’t win by the huge margins I had previously on other matches, with the score at 5-3 at full time. They seemed to be much better at taking the ball off me than other teams had been.
After just three attempts this evening (dying at about 350 and 650m on the first two attempts), I completed 1000m mode, and therefore, the game! I lost my first life at around 400m, and the second at 600m. When I got to 900m I made a dash for it, picking up just two easy-to-grab air tanks along the way, and making it with just 20% air left. I then watched the credits, which made no sense whatsoever, and checked to …
That bit in the tomb with the Dahaka is a bit of a pain, isn’t it? It didn’t help that my sand wasn’t working AT ALL for this section. You basically run round three different route, being chased, and end up back in the same tomb each time. You then pull a switch each time too, and stuff moves, and then you run off again. Although you can’t save for any of it, if you die, you’re only returned to …
Ran round selling fruit and fossils for a bit before taking my earnings over to Joan for 900 turnips. I had plenty more fruit to sell, but ran out of time before she left. 900 will do, anyway. After that, Tortimer announced the fishing tournament, and so I went catching fish for a bit. The best I could manage was a 43.8 inch sea bass, which was beaten by a 45.4 inch one from Walker. After that, all I could …
Finally managed to get past the Bugged Spikey Pits of Oblivion on my way out of the Clockwork Tower (although I did fall in once, and again, couldn’t get out). Got back to the Central Hall, and the woman in red gave me another sword. Then it was off to the other tower – the Water Tower. First, it was through some area with hanging gardens in it. I was stuck there for a while trying to figure out how …
Had a go at completing two more worlds today, and failed. I managed to get as far as the last level on the Volcano World, but lost some 10 lives or more there failing to do it. Much the same story for Ice Lolly Land, although I didn’t have so many lives left at the end but failed to finish it anyway. The really narrow path at the end of the course got me every single time. Played Monkey Bowling …