Feed, water, wash, walk. Stupid animal. CAN’T YOU HUNT OR SOMETHING? Entered Chris in the Frisbee Contest, on Expert level, only for him to fail miserably. Why is there no “Put Down” option? And why can’t I take him to the vets to have him ‘fixed’? He was getting far too friendly with Poppi on his walk.

Gah. Cutesy Nintendo games are not supposed to be hard. Or irritating. So why should Yoshi be irritatingly hard? I’m sure it wasn’t when I was playing it a few weeks ago. But now, after finishing off Chapter 4, and then the Boss (who I had stupidly assumed was the end of game boss, but no), it was on to Chapter 5, which is hard. I hate these “Get 80 coins and finish in 60 seconds!!!!” missions, and the “new” …

Blimey. I played this so much today, I got to the end. For the sake of brevity, and also to avoid spoilers, here is a condensed version of the events of the day: Mysterio called me to his “underground lair”, which was a funhouse. Killed deformed mirror versions of myself. Went to Octavius’ presentation, machine went loopy, his wife died, arms got fused to him. Dr. Octopus attacks the bank, I chase him off, he takes Aunt May, I chase …

More photos to take, and met up with Black Cat again (for the third time, I think now). She’s bloody irritating, as you have to chase her across the rooftops every time. After beating some crooks up, it was over to see Mary-Jane, and quickly off to the cinema. Chapter 7, and Quentin Beck challenged Spider-Man to a duel-of-sorts, which was much like the TV programme Gladiators. Firstly, I had to catch criminals and throw them into holes, then I …

First task in this chapter was to take some photos from assorted areas of the city. For no real reason, it seemed. Then, it was time to defeat Rhino. This was pretty easy, but involved dodging and countering his attacks rather than just hitting him. After that, it was off to Octavius’ lab for a quick visit. Spent a while afterwards doing hero-type-stuff to get Hero Points, so as to advance to the next chapter – Chapter 6.

Chris still isn’t dead, it seems. Hungry and thirsty again though, yes, but not dead. He wasn’t even that dirty for some reason. Washed him anyway. Took him for a long walk then, and he met Poppi the Labrador. They had a bit of a yap at each other, but I dragged them apart and we carried on to the discount shop. There wasn’t anything new to buy there, though. Entered Chris in the Open Class Flying Disc contest, where …

More swinging. There’s a lot of it in this game, it seems. Ran up some more buildings, delivered a pizza, beat up more people who had stolen things, went into an art gallery and beat some people there up, chased a woman across the rooftops, rode a train for a bit, chased a balloon, was ambushed a couple of times, and generally did Spider-Man Type Stuff. I’m on Chapter 4 now, it seems.

Well. The web-swinginging bits are all very nice, if a little difficult to control, and the jump-when-you-release-jump (like in Tony Hawk’s) is a little unusual for a platform beat-em-up, but my 30 minutes or so with it so far have been pretty good fun. I swung around the city a bit, beat some people up, retrieved a purse, ran up some walls, leapt on a car and smashed the window, and swung around some more. I might actually have to …

I played this for a bit. Attempted the first level twice before I completed it, managed the second level first go, and failed the third level twice. I had to stop playing then, as my wrists hurt from the overly vibratative (if that is a word) nature of the controller while playing. That and the fact my eyes were burning.

Returned to this for a bit. Not to do any remaining missions, though – just to try and jump the canyon at Arco del Oueste, and fly some planes and play with the jetpack and stuff. The canyon wasn’t jumped, though. The go-kart really wasn’t up to it, and the motorbike I found for my second attempt just didn’t have the speed needed. Tch.

Yes, yes, yes. I’ve already completed it. I know. And yes, I said it was now too hard for me. But I had a few goes anyway, and managed the racehorse level and one of the others. Pot Man was too hard. Far too hard. As in, not possible. I really do need to complete this mode though. It unlocks cheerleaders…

I went back to this today, and surprised myself by completing it. I was really plowing through the levels, and didn’t realise how many I’d completed, and suddenly I was on the end boss. Excellent! Some of the levels today were pretty difficult, and I soon lost most of the 15-or-so lives I’d racked up earlier in the game. Specifically, there was a bit where you had to roll over a collapsing bridge, then back again, before it disappeared. At …

Mission 27 – FINAL BATTLETASTIC!! And… it was easy. Too easy. So easy, in fact, I was convinced there was going to be some surprise at the end. Well, there was, but it didn’t involve any more fighting or anything. There were two fronts. I just let Rachel get on with the second front on her own, and she did a good job of seeing it off. That allowed me to concentrate on taking over towers and stuff on the …

Chris still isn’t dead, it seems. Hungry, thirsty and dirty again, but not dead. Yet. Sorted all that out and took him for a walk. We went to the park and played with the frisbee for a bit. On the way there, Chris found some rubbish and ate his way through it. Stupid dog. With his new ubar-1337 phat frisbee mad skillz, I entered Chris into the Flying Disc competition. On his first go, he only managed 4 points, but …

Marathon session on this today, whipping through several missions without breaking a sweat. Missions 23 to 26 were actually pretty easy, and I managed to S-Rank them all on my first go on each. One of them was a strange concentric ring arrangement, with a moat then a mountain range separating each “ring”. This made it hard to run supplies around the place, as there were only factories on the outer ring. There was also a volcano in the middle …