There was a surprise game for download on the Xbox Live Arcade service today – Doom! Well, technically it’s Ultimate Doom, but anyway. Downloaded it, and played through the first three levels or so. It’s just like it has always been, only in some bizarre 1:1 ratio and smoother than ever. Online, however, it isn’t great. Some of the maps just don’t work in multiplayer, as people are too high above or below you. Yeah, you can shoot them without …

Rattled through most of the rest of the Rollerz missions, and finished all the Rollerz Strongholds. Progress was again peppered with “activities”, although I did manage to complete the demolition derby, which got me an achievement. After “the thing that happens with Lin which I won’t spoil for you”, there was a great mission where I had to ride shotgun (or rather, RPG) for Julius on the highway, destroying Rollerz’s cars. ACE. I’m now stuck trying to destroy Price’s lorry. …

52 bells today. Not that I’m surprised. Nook will be when he finds out where I’ve hidden bits of Timmy and Tommy. Buck is still MIA. I couldn’t find him anywhere. Perhaps Redd has taken him to sell? Redd was about today, but he didn’t have anything worth buying.

Didn’t play for long this evening. I managed one more Rollerz mission, but had to spend much of my time building up my respect bar to allow me to take part in it. There’s not actually much that annoys me about this game, but having to keep stopping the missions to veer off and do sideline stuff irks me a bit. Surely I shouldn’t be forced into doing them?

Hmm. This is Mario Party, only without Mario, without the actual game, none of the party, and none of the fun. You get 6 non-descript players, and a few (three in the demo) mini-games. None of those here are any good either. It’s even by the same people as Mario Party. For shame.

Just a brief play today. I have a new resident – Gladys the bird thing. She didn’t have a lot to say as she was unpacking. Buck seems to have vanished. His house is still there, but he’s not in it or anywhere else in the town. Aliens, probably. Either that or Nook has sold him for glue. It wouldn’t surprise me. I was only offered 55 bells today for my turnips too. He’s evil, is that racoon.

Managed to unlock a few more things to cook, taking my total up to (I think) 62. Apparently, there are 76 in total, and I’m almost certain I’ve done all of them at least twice and taken every available “branch” to open up more options. I can only assume I need “all silvers” or “all golds” or something to get the rest. Oh, and cutting up meat is hard. Bah.

Gosh. Not played this in aaaages. I found it in my big case o’ DS games when putting some other DS cards away, and after a load of Cooking Mama, I decided I wanted more of something similar. Imagine my surprise when I realised I hadn’t actually played all of the game previously. In fact, I hadn’t even got the high scores in about half of the characters’ sections, so I set about righting that wrong. The robot’s levels were …

Turnippage! Spent around half a million bells on turnips, at 90 bells each. Once again, I’ve left them all round Cheese, mainly outside my house and on the path near Nook’s. Many of my animals were in bed, so I couldn’t talk to them, but those who were not were complimented by me as it is Yay Day today. Compliments consisted of “j00 r0XX0r!”, “Burgermoo!” and “I wish you dead” amongst other things.

Just a quick extra go this evening, in order to go and visit K.K. Slider and listen to him “do his thang”. Or something. His track today was K.K. Metal, which wasn’t fantastic, but a million times better than K.K. Dirge, at lest.

Completed several more levels today. They’re actually getting a bit easier now, as I keep bumping Ami and Yumi’s stats up a bit in the sushi game you play after finishing a stage. Levels played today included a wild west themed one, and a medieval one.

OK, so technically it isn’t a Mac game. It’s actually the DOS “talkie” version, being played on my MacBook under ScummVM. But anyway. So I explored a few places, found a ladder, tried to nick a broom from a witch, spoke to some woodworm and then reached a troll on a bridge. It has, of course, been hilarious so far.

Having exhausted all of the recipes available to me, I set about finding others. You see, sometimes when cooking you get to open up other recipes along the way, like turning beef curry into beef stew instead. Found a few more, and now have about 55 or so available.

Oh noes! I didn’t play yesterday, so missed out on possible turnip sellage! I could have set the clock back, but I forgot to do so. Luckily, then, Nook was giving a decent price this morning – 192 bells. That’s enough to double my money this week, so I put half in the post office and left the rest in my pockets for buying more turnips tomorrow. As for other things going on in Cheese, Chief has moved out (already), …

After a few more (accidental, in one case) hostage “missions”, I set about doing the next two Westside Rollerz missions. The first was a race, of sorts. I didn’t have to win, however – I just needed to get close to the Rollerz and taunt them enough to make them use a nitro boost. Which was rigged to make them explode, of course. Obviously. Then I had to attack some garage owned by Donnie, and Lin (a Saint, but undercover) …