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Gaming Diary

Nintendogs

Just a quick go to pet Chris some more, and water him again. Bought him a frisbee (sorry, “flying disc”) and we had a play with that for a bit too. Also bought a rubber brush, and it made me giggle when I used it and it said “Chris is clean now!” when the “real life” Chris is anything but.

Advance Wars: Dual Strike

It’s just like the GBA game! Only, better. In some non-identifiable way. There’s a new CO, Jake, who is “street”, word, owned, yo, and although others have found him more than irritating, I think he’s ace. Played through to Mission 7. There’s not really much to say, except it’s great.

Nintendogs

YES YES YES! Puppy pwnage! Set it up, and played with some of the puppies in the kennels, then picked out a male Yorkshire Terrier. My plan is to make him gay. Called him Chris, after one of my friends. It does seem a bit disturbing shouting “Chris! Chris! Good boy!” at my DS though. After teaching him his name, I petted him a bit and bought some food and water for him. Then I taught him “Sit!”, and then …

Firefly

Well duh. You’re supposed to collect the fried egg things first, and then you can get into the gun thingy much more easily. And you get energy back that way too. Note to self: Next time, read the instructions.

Firefly

The rllmuk forums have suggested this Spectrum game as a game to play this month. Oh dear. I’m a bit pants at it. I’ve figured out how to teleport, and how to kill the gun placement wotsits, but the guns keep firing at you as you try and get inside them (like you need to do) and my energy drops and then I die. How, exactly, are you supposed to do it?

Jump Superstars

Well, the walls were easy today. Stupidly. I used, erm, Bloke From Dragonball in the end, destroying all the walls with 30 seconds to spare. No idea how I was going wrong previously. And now I’m stuck again. I did some more “missions”, killed some people, etc, but I’m on another mission with no idea what to do. Looks like it’ll be back to GameFAQs to read up on what to do this time…

Jump Superstars

Aha! Thanks to the wonderous magic that is this page on GameFAQs, I found out what I was supposed to do and worked my way through the missions some more. The path between them branches a bit, it seems, but you still need to do them all to progress – I’ve completed Grassland 2-1, but I can’t move on to 2-2 until I finish 1-7. Which isn’t going to happen any time soon, since I have to destroy all the …

Nintendo Puzzle Collection

Another game that arrived today. Well, collection of games, at any rate: Puzzle de Pon, Dr. Mario, and Yoshi no Cookie. Played all three with my wife this evening. There’s a few problems with running it on PAL Gamecube with Freeloader, in that some of the Japanese text appears as gibberish (no, real gibberish), meaning I can’t read it even if I could understand the Japanese. Puzzle de Pon was probably the best of the three. It has a new …

Jump Superstars

Although I ordering this about 27364 years ago, it has been sat at customs for aaaages. Finally got it today. It’s a bit like Super Smash Bros. only not quite. Although I had a few goes in “battle” mode, I was stumped part way through “story” mode. One of the training bits requires me to do something, but I don’t know what. Something to do with blocking, I suspect, but I can’t figure it out. Why not buy it from …

Ghost Recon: Island Thunder

Even though I hate soldier games, and squad based soldier games most of all, I still bought this for a fiver a couple of weeks ago. Had my first play today, on co-op over Xbox Live, with the openly homosexual “madm0nkey”, whom I have previously thrashed on such titles as Project Gotham 2 and Outrun 2. However, since we were playing co-op, and I had no idea at all what to do, what the controls were (they’re not in the …

Pocket Slay

Been playing this a bit today on my iPaq. It’s one of those games I play a lot, but don’t report on here very often as it isn’t “mainstream”. It is, however, ACEBEST. It is sort of like Risk meets Paper, Scissors, Stone, where you have to take over territories, but do so by having ever more powerful fighters to defeat less powerful ones. Erm. That doesn’t really explain it very well, but the website for the game (and there …

Viewtiful Joe 2 – VIEWTIFULLY DONE!

End of game boss time! Almost! A black almost-clone of Joe appears, who has a bit of a gloat, then gets into a HUUUUUUUUGE robot. You know the robot battle from Viewtiful Joe? Where your robots are about the size of earth? Well, this time you and “Ultra Black Behemoth Dark Kaiser” are bigger than the sun. In fact, the baddie spends most of his time standing on the sun, and you run around the solar system’s asteroid belt avoiding …

Viewtiful Joe 2

Reel 6 – Do Androids Dream of Romantic Scene? I don’t care, but what I do care about is the sodding SuckySuck(TM) bit that is the entire reel. Yes. Why do games designers think that recycling all of the game’s bosses and throwing them at you one after another is a good idea? There is some stupid bit of story behind it this time, with “Miss Bloody Rachel” (no, that is her name) the android morphing into copies of all …