On to Reel 4 today – “Thunderboy Lives Twice”. This level is set in ancient Japan, it seems, so plenty of samurai film references and stuff. There’s a bizarre slide puzzle in the middle of the level, with each “block” being a room you can go inside, and you have to flip switches to shuffle the rooms around. There are three “artifacts” hidden around the level you have to get into one of the rooms. It was quite confusing at …
Well, I thought Forte was the best. It possibly isn’t – Luna=Luna is also fantastic to play, and great for racking up Dark meteos too. It is similar to Forte in that you get time to combo, but the blocks seem to hover right near the top of the screen for a bit before they fall back down again – so, if you hold down the Speed Up button, you get millions of points. Well, a few more anyway. Best …
Well, that puzzle was a pain in the backside. After some cogwork in one section of a level, and then the platform game staple giant crushing machines, there was a safe to crack. And it wasn’t easy, since you had to kick it (normally), then punch it (in slow-mo), then use Sylvia’s Replay to hit it three times. And there was no way of telling what you were supposed to do, so it was all down to trial and error. …
I bought this about ten million years ago, and got a natty little weeble-clock thing with it. And then, I didn’t play it. Even though I really liked the first game. Anyway. This one is MUCH easier than the first game. So far, at least. I’m played through on Kids mode, as experience on the first Viewtiful Joe proved to me that Adults mode is impossible. I don’t think all that many people managed the original on Adults mode either, …
Had a few hours play on this today, and, although the storyline improved from pointless killing to killing for a reason, the mechanics of the game didn’t, really. There was some killing in a factory, then some killing in a lunatic asylum, then some killing in a prison, then some killing outside a prison. Then, killing in a street, killing in an apartment, killing on the Subway, killing on a railway sidings, then some killing in a big mansion. Then …
Well, after the zoo (which, like every other level, was abandoned bar the baddies), it was time for a Mall. Which, was abandoned. And it was pretty pants too, searching for a video tape, then a camcorder to watch it on, then a TV to connect to it ‘cos it was broken, then the power switch to turn the electricity supply on… Then we got to see some member of Cash’s family murdered, and he smashes up the TV. Great. …
More of the same, it seems. They’d captured my family and tied them up in a zoo, so I had to rescue them. If I was seen, they’d be killed. Things were made somewhat easier by the use of a tranquiliser gun I “found”, which allowed me to drop baddies from a distance before walking up, loud as I liked, and butchering them as they slept. Yes, it is a lovely game.
Rarrrrrrgh!! I’ve been dreaming Meteos now. Seeing patterns in my sleep. Launching blocks, rearranging columns and making rows while not actually playing the game. Which is a bit wrong, isn’t it? Anyway, I didn’t unlock anything more today (except I “bought” two Time meteos), but I did beat some of my Deluge scores. But not Forte though. Got close three times – even being only a few hundred out on one attempt – but couldn’t manage more than the 177,000-ish …
YES. METEOS AGAIN. Unlocked four more planets today – Gigagush, Hotted, Cavious and Luna=Luna. Although some of them are pretty good to play on, Forte is still best. Speaking of which, I improved my score there to 177,010, putting me up on the Cyberscore rankings by, uh, a place. Maybe two. Also racked up higher scores on some of the other planets, including Geolyte and Florias. Played me-vs-3-CPU-players mode a few times as well, to get more Iron and Soil …
Hmm. I’m getting the impression that Manhunt is actually a bit pants. More than a bit pants, in fact. Once you get past the SUPARBESTness of being able to bat a thug’s head clean off, it all boils down to a poorly controlled stealth game. Not the sort of game I like, either. Highlights today were the (two) magnetic crane sections, where you had to drop a freezer on some baddies, and the surprise-the-thug-on-the-toilet bit, where you chuck a brick …
I seem to be somewhat addicted to this at the moment. I mostly just played Deluge mode tonight, and mainly only on Forte. Forte is a great planet, because it has pretty high gravity, meaning you can launch a load of blocks upwards and not have them shoot up off the screen. Be clever, and you can have an entire screen full of blocks launching over and over again, until you have a huge multiplier – I managed x21 at …
I’d played this last almost exactly a year ago (7th August 2004, according to the saved game), and spotted it on my shelf when looking for something new to play. I’d left off just after the second level – “Doorway into Hell”, so continued from there. My stealth skills have suffered. Severely. I managed to work my way though to “White Trash” (level 4) by startling every single thug along the way and gaining no “proper” kills whatsoever. It doesn’t …
Ditto for this game. Balloon Pop mode, with a target of 127 or higher (to place me 3rd on Cyberscore). Sadly, it was not to be. I managed 123 (an improvement on my previous score of 103), which got me 4th place, however. I can’t see how the current top score of 161 is possible. I’m sure I only missed 10 balloons at most, and even adding a bit of randomness, I can’t see the maximum reaching that high.
I was mainly playing today to try and improve some of my scores to add them to Cyberscore. Specifically, I tried to drop my 100 Meteo War time down from 9.17s to nearer 7s. No chance. AT the time of writing, 9.17 gets me 12th place on the Cyberscore chart for that mode. Pants.