I have about ten million known good games as-yet unstarted sitting on my shelf. Things like Metroid Prime: Echoes and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. I even got Fahrenheit cheaply this morning. So what did I decided to pick up and play today? Well, this obviously. Graphically, it’s nothing special. Originality is out the window. The puzzles are few and simple, and there’s nothing much to recommend it. However, there’s lots to shoot and the dialogue is genuinely funny. Best …

Oh no! I thought I’d kicked the habit after my Tony Hawk-a-thon in the beginning half of the year. This was mainly due to the there not actually being any Tony Hawk games left for me to play (well, besides the awful GBC games which are nothing like the “real” versions, so they don’t count). And now look what was on the Xbox Live Marketplace! So, Project 8 then. The demo is a bit restrictive (in time, area, and goals), …

No. Just no. Even worse than usual today, with a staggering 13,000 points as my bast score. RUBBISH.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 seems to be a “bonus” Xbox Live Arcade game, as it appeared last night, rather than on the usual Wednesday. Played single player mode for a while, reaching Scorpion on level 5. All the fights before him were easily won by me as Sub-Zero, but I simply can’t defeat Scorpion as anyone. I’m also not doing so great remembering all the moves. I used to know virtually every special move, fatality, babality and friendship finishing move …

Still no joy with actually getting a decent score. I have improved even further, but I’m still miles away from the quarter of a million needed for the next achievement. Managed to get past the skin I normally die on, but didn’t last very long on the one after it.

A pretty dull day in Cheese today. No-one was really doing anything, nothing special was going on, and there was nothing good to buy from the shops. Kabuki kept asking me about a “mysterious otter”, leading me to believe that Pascal was about somewhere, but he was nowhere to be seen. Stupid animals, getting my hopes up that something might actually happen.

Although I still have quite a lot of game to work through, I managed to complete the rest of the route I was taking, netting me some gamerpoints and, most importantly, the end of game credits. Now to make a start on playing through some of the other routes, which seem bloody hard. Wish me luck.

Bah. I’m still rubbish at this. Managed to get my score up to about 40,000, but that’s nowhere near what I need for the next achievement (250,000). My current sticking point is the skin with the red-circles-in-green-squares and vice-versa. It makes my eyes cry actual blood.

Letters galore! All my animals replied, except Rowan (but then, I did swear in his letter so I’m not surprised). Sadly, they all sent me rubbish – wallpaper I already had and stuff like that. What a waste of time. Finally got round to clearing out my house a bit to make room for the mush furniture. Had to dump a load of gyroids to do so, though.

Really made some progress on this tonight. Completed about 12 or so races, which takes me to just three races away from the bottom right of the map. I’ve unlocked another car (a Pac-Man one), but I don’t want to use it as it’s one of them non-standard drift ones, and I can’t cope with them.

New game on Xbox Live Arcade day! Lumines Live is the XBLA version of the PSP game of the (almost) same name. And I’m rubbish at it. I got 5,500 points on my first go, then managed arounf 100,000 on my second. I’ve gained an achievement for that, and another for getting rid of 30 blocks in 60 seconds on Time Attack mode. Had a go at the 180 seconds one, but didn’t even get near the required 90 blocks. …

Tuesday in Cheese is always Crazy Redd Visits And Tries To Rob You Of Your Money Day. Today, he tried to sell me stuff I already had, so none of my money went to fund his illegal schemes. Not a lot else was going on, but I did find a load of stationary in the lost property, so I wrote abusive messages to my animals. I implied Rowan was gay, told Rodeo (a bull) to eat more beef, suggested that …

Nooooo! Project Gotham has broken it! The handling on Project Gotham is so completely different, that I really struggled to control my Kilik Starnose thingie and it’s wierd drifting mechanism. Try as I might, I just couldn’t complete one of the tracks. So, I changed my plan to do a “loop” on the map into a plan to make my way across the bottom of the map to the right. This meant that I could use my Gaplus car instead, …

Ah, ’tis the end of the Acorn Adventure. The town was strangely quiet on the subject of acorns, as if the whole week just hadn’t happened or something. I still had a few in my pockets, however, and it’s just as well I did as Wendell was about today, and it would probably be the only chance I’d get to give him one. In return, he gave me a design – a ? Block from Mario. Aces. Gladys moved out …

Now that the new Xbox Vision Camera is out, it seems lots of people are using while playing Uno. I don’t have a camera, but thought I’d log on anyway and see what people are up to. And it seems that everyone is too busy making silly faces, playing with the zoom control, and generally messing around to actually play the game. I managed to play four games, winning one, and quitting out of the rest as the game just …