Another game that arrived today. Well, collection of games, at any rate: Puzzle de Pon, Dr. Mario, and Yoshi no Cookie. Played all three with my wife this evening. There’s a few problems with running it on PAL Gamecube with Freeloader, in that some of the Japanese text appears as gibberish (no, real gibberish), meaning I can’t read it even if I could understand the Japanese. Puzzle de Pon was probably the best of the three. It has a new …

Although I ordering this about 27364 years ago, it has been sat at customs for aaaages. Finally got it today. It’s a bit like Super Smash Bros. only not quite. Although I had a few goes in “battle” mode, I was stumped part way through “story” mode. One of the training bits requires me to do something, but I don’t know what. Something to do with blocking, I suspect, but I can’t figure it out. Why not buy it from …

Even though I hate soldier games, and squad based soldier games most of all, I still bought this for a fiver a couple of weeks ago. Had my first play today, on co-op over Xbox Live, with the openly homosexual “madm0nkey”, whom I have previously thrashed on such titles as Project Gotham 2 and Outrun 2. However, since we were playing co-op, and I had no idea at all what to do, what the controls were (they’re not in the …

Yes, again. Played two more levels, and won them. Perhaps I should try playing on a harder setting, as it is a little easy…

Been playing this a bit today on my iPaq. It’s one of those games I play a lot, but don’t report on here very often as it isn’t “mainstream”. It is, however, ACEBEST. It is sort of like Risk meets Paper, Scissors, Stone, where you have to take over territories, but do so by having ever more powerful fighters to defeat less powerful ones. Erm. That doesn’t really explain it very well, but the website for the game (and there …

End of game boss time! Almost! A black almost-clone of Joe appears, who has a bit of a gloat, then gets into a HUUUUUUUUGE robot. You know the robot battle from Viewtiful Joe? Where your robots are about the size of earth? Well, this time you and “Ultra Black Behemoth Dark Kaiser” are bigger than the sun. In fact, the baddie spends most of his time standing on the sun, and you run around the solar system’s asteroid belt avoiding …

Reel 6 – Do Androids Dream of Romantic Scene? I don’t care, but what I do care about is the sodding SuckySuck(TM) bit that is the entire reel. Yes. Why do games designers think that recycling all of the game’s bosses and throwing them at you one after another is a good idea? There is some stupid bit of story behind it this time, with “Miss Bloody Rachel” (no, that is her name) the android morphing into copies of all …

Reel 5 – Ice Edge. Look, even the names of the levels are like real actual films. How clever. And, it’s the obligatory platform game ice level. Snowballs and avalanches abound. On one bit of the level, you have to roll a snowball around to make it bigger, and then use it to block an air vent to pass by. There’s a cable car section too, and then, the BEST THING EVAAR – an Ice Climbers bit. It even has …

On to Reel 4 today – “Thunderboy Lives Twice”. This level is set in ancient Japan, it seems, so plenty of samurai film references and stuff. There’s a bizarre slide puzzle in the middle of the level, with each “block” being a room you can go inside, and you have to flip switches to shuffle the rooms around. There are three “artifacts” hidden around the level you have to get into one of the rooms. It was quite confusing at …

Well, I thought Forte was the best. It possibly isn’t – Luna=Luna is also fantastic to play, and great for racking up Dark meteos too. It is similar to Forte in that you get time to combo, but the blocks seem to hover right near the top of the screen for a bit before they fall back down again – so, if you hold down the Speed Up button, you get millions of points. Well, a few more anyway. Best …

Well, that puzzle was a pain in the backside. After some cogwork in one section of a level, and then the platform game staple giant crushing machines, there was a safe to crack. And it wasn’t easy, since you had to kick it (normally), then punch it (in slow-mo), then use Sylvia’s Replay to hit it three times. And there was no way of telling what you were supposed to do, so it was all down to trial and error. …

I bought this about ten million years ago, and got a natty little weeble-clock thing with it. And then, I didn’t play it. Even though I really liked the first game. Anyway. This one is MUCH easier than the first game. So far, at least. I’m played through on Kids mode, as experience on the first Viewtiful Joe proved to me that Adults mode is impossible. I don’t think all that many people managed the original on Adults mode either, …

Had a few hours play on this today, and, although the storyline improved from pointless killing to killing for a reason, the mechanics of the game didn’t, really. There was some killing in a factory, then some killing in a lunatic asylum, then some killing in a prison, then some killing outside a prison. Then, killing in a street, killing in an apartment, killing on the Subway, killing on a railway sidings, then some killing in a big mansion. Then …

Well, after the zoo (which, like every other level, was abandoned bar the baddies), it was time for a Mall. Which, was abandoned. And it was pretty pants too, searching for a video tape, then a camcorder to watch it on, then a TV to connect to it ‘cos it was broken, then the power switch to turn the electricity supply on… Then we got to see some member of Cash’s family murdered, and he smashes up the TV. Great. …

More of the same, it seems. They’d captured my family and tied them up in a zoo, so I had to rescue them. If I was seen, they’d be killed. Things were made somewhat easier by the use of a tranquiliser gun I “found”, which allowed me to drop baddies from a distance before walking up, loud as I liked, and butchering them as they slept. Yes, it is a lovely game.