Completed a few more Super Hards this evening. About five of them, in fact, none of which were especially difficult. In fact, one of them had 5 of the 16 squares completely filled. So much for “Super Hard”, eh, readers? That leaves me just 9 left to complete before I’ve done them all. ACES.
Today, I bought the moon. And then, I sold it again. Then I ordered another one. This may seem a little mad, as each moon costs 28,800 bells, but I’ve found it’s a really quick way of bumping up Nook’s loyalty points, getting me to Platinum Status much quicker. I have about 7,300 points left to go, now. Also visited my animals, sold some fruit, watered my red turnip, and found EIGHT fossils in my town. That has got to …
Hurrah! Another day, another Age of 20! I’m still having issues with 8s though. Sometimes it doesn’t seem to recognise them at all, even though I draw them in almost exactly the same way every time. Some people have said I draw them backwards, that is, I start and the top and go left, not right. I don’t see how that is backwards, but anyway.
This evening, I played wireless multiplayer with my wife. And it’s great! Most (all?) of the minigames have been stolen from Super Mario 64DS, but now that they’re multiplayer, it seems a billion times better. The Mario vs Luigi Star Battle Hyper Fun Happy Fighter II mode is great as well – being not entirely unlike the original Super-less Mario Bros in a way. Fun all round!
Due to spending all morning either in bed or playing New Super Mario Bros, I didn’t go Sunday Morning Turnip Buying. So, using the power of DS clock alteration, I magically made it morning again. Hurrah! Didn’t want my savings to dip below 10 million bells, so only withdrew 230,000 with which to buy turnips, which were 96 bells each today. I got loads of post as well – most of it from Nook (items I’ve ordered), but also got …
Did my daily run-through of all the tests again, doing especially crap on Reading Aloud. Managed a few new 2nd and 3rd placed records though, which is rare these days. However, on Calculations x20 in the actual Brain Age test, the DS simply refused to recognise me drawing an 8. If it doesn’t instantly recognise my numbers, I always immediately Erase it and try again, but I spent so long on it, drawing an 8 over and over, that I …
OK, so with the game started (and completed) in just a few hours yesterday, I set about opening up all the pathways I’d missed – mainly with the aim of opening up Worlds 4 and 7. It seems some of the pathways I missed first run through were, in fact, the “normal” routes, and I’d accidently taken secret exits and therefore detoured. Specifically, on World 6 I seem to have missed out almost the entire set of levels. So, plenty …
Just enought time to sell a bit of fruit, buy everything in Nook’s, order a load more furniture, and then visit K.K. Slider. This week, he played “K.K. Folk” for me, and after the performance I gave him the Country Guitar Wendell had given me earlier in the week. In return, he gave me a picture of himself. ACES.
Once again managed to be pretty successful at the tests today, although my Reading Aloud score was a bit crap. I don’t take much notice of the score for that test though, as it’s always artificially lowered by me anyway, as the DS can’t keep up with my real reading speed and Dr Wossisface complains I’m going too fast. And today’s Brain Age? 20!
Yes! Already! I thought it was actually going to end a bit sooner, what with reaching the castle in World 8, but oh no – there’s more. Nothing very hard, however. I did like the find-the-correct-route bit in the “real” final castle. Very Super Mario Bros! So now it is completed, in about two and a half hours play, what next? Well, the other half of the game, of course! Loads of levels (and two entire worlds) left to unlock! …
It’s the first proper 2D Mario game in 15 years. And it arrived today. And… it’s fantastic! Spent about two hours on it so far. I’m going to rip through it to the end first, before going back and unlocking everything and finding the secrets, as that way you get the “save anywhere” option. So far I’ve made it to World 6. Of 8. Yes. Already. I didn’t unlock World 4 though, so I’ve only really done four, not five. …
Completed both rounds in “Ski Patrol”, the Russian game show. One involved rescuing a stranded skier, then taking him on a sled somewhere, and the other was about following a pro boarder, pulling tricks in certain places. After that, I spent some time on other challenges, bumping up my points so as to open up the next bit of story – which was to find the Tram Pass, which in turn opened up another area of the mountain.
Aside for selling a bit of fruit today, and collecting my letters (one of which was a present from the Town Hall telling me I have over 10,000,000 bells in my account), I spent a while clearing out my house. I was completely out of space to put anything, so packed my Snowman stuff away, sold a load of clocks and non-matching items, and went and ordered all the fruit furniture from Nook. While I was in Nook’s I cleaned …
No problems with the tests again today, and even beat another score. Didn’t bother with all of them, but only missed out two (Calculations x100 and Syllable Count). Today’s Age, however, was a slightly disappointing 23. I mis-counted one of the questions on Number Cruncher, I think.