Gasp! I seem to have done loads more on Lost in Blue this afternoon. Not least: Finished my raft. The hardest bit was actually finding enough logs, as they don’t spawn all that often and they’re pretty rare. Needed about 12 in total, and you only get them at a rate of one or two a day, if you’re lucky. The raft took me across the lake, to a place where there was another cave, some hot springs (where you …

Getting on quite well with my raft. I’ve built the first two-of-six “parts” for it, and have everything I need for the next one or two parts. There seems to be a bit of a shortage of logs, though. My fishing rod is great. I can catch one fish now which practically gives me an entire day’s required eating. I went hunting for deer, but missed it with my arrows, and then it ran away. Found what looked like a …

Well. I’ve done loads on this today! I think, in game time, I’ve spent some 12 days on it. I’ve explored a load of the island, found some animals, a jungle, some vines, loads of different fruit, built a better bed to sleep in (which helps to built stamina overnight), built a shelf, made a fishing rod and a bow and arrow, made a few shortcuts, and generally had a much better time of staying alive. The next “big task”, …

I HAEV TEH STICK! Suddenly, the game seems a hell of a lot easier. I don’t have to spend every day almost dying! I can now catch a few fish with my Spear Of Ultimate Powar, and then dig up a few clams, bung it in with some seaweed and Skye can whip up something disgusting-but-edible that prevents us from having The Longest Sleep. Excellent. I also found a new area that I couldn’t get to previously, as there was …

Caved in and started playing this, even though I still have other games on-the-go. It is basically a DS “re-imagining” of the GBC game Stranded Kids. And it is pretty good, if not more than a little frustrating. On my first go, I died before getting anywhere. I have now managed to make it through to day 9 on the island, finding the girl Skye, building a fire every day, making assorted “recipes” which offer little or no nutritional value, …

Mostly played Volfied and The New Zealand Story next. Got pretty far on TNZS, but quit as I had to answer the door. I’m really impressed by this collection. It’s probably the most enjoyable “retro” pack since Activision Anthology on the GBA. Or perhaps Sonic Collection.

Yes. On my first go. What a terrible, terrible, repetitive, glitchy, unoriginal (even at the time) and generally awful sideways scrolling beat-em-up. Yet, I played it to completion anyway. And why? Because of the absolutely fantastic Engrish in the game. “You will all be servants of the satan!” BEST.

Been playing this a bit this morning. Colony 7 was much like Missile Command, only sans missiles, and Elevator Action was fun despite the controls being somewhat unresponsive. Gladiator was more than poor, and Great Swordsman was good, if a little hard. However, I did also spend a while playing The Ninja Kids…

I have reached an impass. Although I now have a pretty strong team of pokeymen (all in the Level 25 region), and can kill pretty much everything in a hit or two, I don’t actually know where I’m supposed to be going next. From the volcano, I went through a cave and bumped into Team Aqua again. Team Magma then showed up and chased after them. Apparently they’ve stolen a meteorite or something. I suspect I might have to find …

Played for ages today, but didn’t actually progress very far. Spent most of my time leveling up my Aron, Zigzagoon (which is now a Linoone), and a Whismur I caught (and is now something else, but I can’t remember what). Had a few attempts at defeating the Electricity Gym Leader, and finally beat him, gaining the badge he had. That meant I could use Rock Smash, finally, which let me into two areas – one I’d already been (I’d just …

More Nintendogging this morning. Took Chris for another walk, and played in the park with the new yellow frisbee he found. Entered him in the frisbee competition (Championship rank), but he came second, even though he had 48 points. Bah. I have managed to unlock another dog breed though, by gaining enough “trainer points”, whatever the hell they are.

Haven’t seen Chris in a while, and the sodding thing hasn’t died. Or run away. Or exploded in some freak lightning accident. He had, however, forgotten “Jump!”. Entered him in a few competitions, took him for a couple of walks, and fed and watered him. And washed him, since he had fleas the size of goats.

In my last Ouendan-related post, I suggested that completing “Normal” mode was the limit of my 1337 gaming skillz. It seems that is not the case, as I managed to complete Hard Mode this evening. That’s right – I cleared all of the songs. Even Ready Steady Go! (the last one), that I took over a hundred attempts to beat on Normal. I’ve been listening to the soundtrack a lot recently, so I know the songs off by heart, and …

Basically just expanding my zoo more today. In fact, I’m almost out of space. Animals added include sea lions and my zoo now has a reptile house and aviary too. I had a look at my budgets, but things there don’t look good. Although I have more money than I started with, most of that came from one-off awards which have started to dry up. My outgoings are higher than my incomings and although everyone thinks my zoo is ACEBEST, …

Added some more animals to my zoo today – an elephant, two polar bears (that soon became three with the birth of a baby) and some Emperor penguins. I put a few more buildings in too, including an Animal Theatre (which is neither for animal performances, nor for surgery) and a huge gift shop. I’m getting used to the really bizarre control system, but it is still so unintuitive I keep making mistakes.