The “other guy” was called Agarmir, it seems. I have a terrible memory for game character names. Anyway, I hung around outside his house until he left, and then picked the lock in order to get in. Couldn’t find much inside, until I picked the lock to his basement and found a book – a book containing the spoils Agarmir had got from grave robbing. And then he’s been selling them to Thoronir cut price. With book in hand, I …
This is a great game! The graphics have that bizarre shiny-sticky-plastic look to them that plagued Kameo, but it doesn’t matter here. People have likened Marble Blast to Super Monkey Ball, but they’re not really all that similar. Marble Blast‘s levels are more maze-like, with jumps and power-ups, whereas Monkey Ball is all skill and speed. There’s no time limits here, although levels have a “par time” to beat. Some levels have gems to collect, and gravity direction switches too …
This arrived today, so have a quick go on some of the modes. It basically consists of three main types of game: Shanghai, Shisensho, and some sort of “falling” Shanghai, where there’s “gravity” at the bottom of the level and removed tiles allow others to fall. Completed a “standard” Shisensho level, but failed the others.
Went back to Zone 2 and picked up the Chaos Emerald there, before trying Zone 6 again. Managed to get through it this time, and beat the boss. Then it was on to Zone 7, and shock! It’s set on a spaceship, and there are gravity flippy things! How completely new for a Sonic game! Found a Special Stage on Act 1, and failed to complete it because it’s too hard. Luckily, there was the right sort of level structure …
More play on this today, as I’m certain Sonic Rush will be appearing on my doorstep tomorrow, so I should get it out of the way first. It really looks gorgeous on my Game Boy Micro, and as I said yesterday, it’s much more fun than Sonic Advance 2 (which in itself didn’t seem to be a bad game, until I played this). Up to level 5.3 now, which is some kind of “digital world”, and has many nods to …
Well, I’ve managed to wipe out many of the rooms full of Wizzrobes now, in Dungeon 6. They don’t seem to reappear if I don’t exit the dungeon, which is helpful. I did leave for a short while, however, and tried pushing things all over the place now I have my Power Bracelet. This resulted in finding a better sword – the Master Sword, I suspect – in the Graveyard. That helped rather a lot in the dungeon… Also in …
I seem to be somewhat addicted to this at the moment. I mostly just played Deluge mode tonight, and mainly only on Forte. Forte is a great planet, because it has pretty high gravity, meaning you can launch a load of blocks upwards and not have them shoot up off the screen. Be clever, and you can have an entire screen full of blocks launching over and over again, until you have a huge multiplier – I managed x21 at …
It took many, many attempts, and lots of dying very quickly, but I finally figured out the way to dodge Nightmare in his second “phase”. Well, I’d figured it out already, it was just because my Space Jump skillz were not ub3r1337 that I couldn’t put them into place. Some of it was also down to luck – namely, where he stopped. In certain places it meant I could fire off a million rockets into his face, in others only …
More Zelda’ing today. Lots more, in fact. After some more exploring for Kinstones, I went to the graveyard (via a go-in-the-right-direction identical-screens maze – every Zelda game must have one!) and spoke to some dead king. Then worked my way up into the clouds, did some puzzling up there, and then went up further. And further still, to the Palace of Winds, which was a pretty big dungeon in the sky and had one of the most annoying baddies EVER …
Bit of a marathon session on this today, it seems. Started off this evening by visiting Lady Grey in Bowerstone. She wanted a black rose from me, and now wants me to buy a house. Sod that! Started a quest looking for the Archeologist again, who was held prisoner by some wierdy things with two headed staffs and blade-sticks. Some idiot guards joined me to help out, although most died. After saving him, he told me where to find my …
So General White wasn’t as hard to find as it appeared. It made the trek around the entire world even more pointless though, as you’ll find out if you play it. Anyhoo – TO THE MOON! And on the Moon, there are lots of baddies. And the gravity makes you walk slow, and jump fast (and high). Found the base on the Moon where Peach’s sections take place, and there are quite a few puzzles to solve. And one of …