Hmm. I’m glad I tried this demo before buying it. It looked great in screenshots and stuff, but, well, isn’t great. I don’t like the controls, and the game just seems to be three types of game at the same time (a platformer, a game like Lilypads on the Atari 2600, and a collect-em-up) and it just doesn’t work.
It took most of the day (when I wasn’t playing other things) to download, and I was a bit disappointed at there only being two “tracks” (both in Tokyo), but well, it is a demo. And it’s great. I played the two tracks, one was a race, and the other a timed run. Finished both with ease. It’s just like PGR2, only with nicer graphics. Not all that much nicer, though, which was a bit disappointing. It’s just like, well, …
A few more goes, on Marathon and also on Timed. Timed is just the same as Marathon, only with a timer that ticks down. You add more seconds to it by matching tiles. Didn’t score so well this time. Also, how the hell are you supposed to manage to get six flower tiles in a flower shape? And then get six of the pearls they create together? Madness!
Yes, I know. Playing Hexic requires the purchase of an Xbox 360. Which I bought this morning. And I bought no games for it, as I wanted Oblivion, but wasn’t prepared to pay the £50 everywhere wanted for it (except most places didn’t actually have any copies at all in). I did get a 2100 point card for spending on XBLA games, but before spending that, I had just Hexic to amuse me. It is nice, and all, and quite …
Turnips were 122 bells this morning. I sold about one fifth of all I had, to ensure I made at least some of my money back. The rest I’ll leave until this afternoon for a better price. Today was also two things – Fleamarket Day (I couldn’t buy anything as only one animal would let me their the house – Friga – and she was ill), and Cherry Blossom day (some of the trees have blossom on them).
Three more missions completed this evening, including an irritating one where I had to kill two bosses (one of which was the train again), and then escape from the complex in five minutes. It would have been easy, except that there were loads of baddies in the way, and if you die you have to start the whole escape run again (rather than just the room again, like you would normally). Managed it eventually. There was another repeat boss later …
Hurrah! Wifi Tetris! On the DS! And it’s great! So far, anyway. Played single player “classic” mode, and made it up to Level 11, before Link appeared and everything went wrong and I lost. I then had a go on 4-player over Nintendo Wifi Connection, and, erm, came last. In my defence, everyone else had played 20+ games online already. After that, it was a quick go on Catch Mode. It reminds me of another game, but I can’t think …
Well, it looks like, once again, Tim Miller’s suggestion that turnip prices were highest on Thursday or Friday was complete nonsense. 109 bells each is what Nook offered me today, making Wednesday the highest (so far) this week at 127. Gah. This now means I have to hope for a decent price tomorrow, or that someone is online with maximum bellage at some point. Again. Sold about 20,000 bells worth of fruit today, and bought a Blue Clock to go …
I’ve now managed to do up to (and including) Level 19 on Easy mode. I also completed Level 1 on Normal, which isn’t actually any harder than Easy – it’s just four Easy puzzles arranged in a 2×2 square. I’m sure that the “items” you unlock from completing puzzles eventually let you take part in some sort of super-deformed robot fight, but I can’t figure out that bit.
Fruit galore! 80,000 bells get! Turnips 42 bells each! Tom Nook castrated! Sable talkative! Caroline greeting’d up with “Word up to yo momma”! Pierce moved in! Friga still sick! No fossils anywhere! Letters with shells attached sent! Animals chatted to! Tune in tomorrow for more hilarious Animal Crossing stories, same bat-time, same bat-channel!
Still not much fruit lying around, and no fossils or gyroids or anything like that about either, so money making was somewhat limited today. Spent my time talking to the residents instead, and gave Friga more medicine. She so sick. I’m trying to make Sable and Brewster a little more talkative, by visiting them every day. It seems to be working with Sable (I actually had a conversation with her today), but Brewster still seems to be capable of only …
Er, cripes. That was a bit unexpected. I played just one more level, and it turned out to be the last one. It was a little more difficult than previous levels, mainly due to stupid mines you had to slide past or jump over, but still not too difficult. The end boss was another helicopter, who was, again, easy. So after the credits, I was given a “secret code” (1984), which when typed into the Secret Code option on the …
For a change of pace (er, or not, since I’ve just played Animal Crossing), I thought I’d have a go at some more of the puzzles on this game. I’ve now completed the first 12 on Easy. And yes, they were very easy. I did start one on Super-Hard, and thought I’d completed it. I then realised that the “grid” was just one of a 4×4 arrangement of grids, so I had another 15 to do. That’ll learn me to …
Turnips were 124 bells today. I will not sell that low! Must get more! Perhaps if I brutally maim Timmy and Tommy, Tom Nook might be a bit more agreeable with regards to cash for vegetables… Got stacks of letters today, all with presents in. Sadly, most of the presents were crap (three lots of Imperial Wall, for a start). Not even one of Friga’s many bonsai either. And I gave her medicine because she was sick! What a waste …
Loads of fruit about today. 100,000 bells worth of it, in fact. Sold all that, and watered my red turnip. Went round visiting all my animals, giving Rosie a new shirt as she’d spilt chilli or something on the one she was wearing, and did a couple of errands. Sent letters to most of my animals, with shells in them in the hope I’d get all the stuff in their houses. Friga’s house is full of bonsai, so I’d like …