The Great Globe Trotting Turnip Selling Adventure begins! Firstly, checked at my local Nook’s, to find turnips were bought for 79 bells each. I bought them for 104, so that was no good. Then I onlined my DS up, and visited Red in Lancre. Her Nook’s was shut for remodelling. As was Deckard’s, he said when he turned up to visit. I left Lancre and went to Venture to see Rev. His Nook’s was buying for 70-something bells too, so …
Fishing and shell collecting again. I’m sure you’ll spot a trend occuring in these posts about Animal Crossing, you know. Bumped into Lyle, a slimey little man in cahoots with dodgy geezer Crazy Redd. Lyle forced me to buy insurance for 3000 bells. I don’t really know what that will mean, now, but I don’t expect to ever get my money back. Also saw Apollo, an eagle who has moved into my town. He’s was “on patrol”, “protecting the innocents …
I used to have this for the Spectrum. It was crap. I also have it for the Megadrive. It is crap on that as well. Luckily, the arcade version isn’t, mainly due to twin-stickness making it much easier to aim your shots. It’s a bit of a cross between Parodius, Ai Cho Aniki, and Robotron, with some added Fantasy Zone shops. It was pretty good too, with bizarre bosses and the best Japlish cutscenes and ending ever. Probably. Completed then. …
Is this a review? Yes. Probably. It’s hard to review a game that isn’t a game though. I’ll try. Little Inferno is a toy. Sure, there’s an end, and yes, it has some (very minor, almost optional) gameplay components, but you don’t die and all you need to complete it is time. In this toy, you burn things. All the things. You’re provided with a Little Inferno fireplace, some money and a catalogue, from which you order things to burn. …
I’ve been tracking which games I play, on my Gaming Diary, for 6 years now. It’s helped me realise how many different games I play, and how many I complete. This year, however, I’ve additionally started tracking the games I buy, and how much I paid for them – the aim being to scare myself into how much I spend on gaming. Thing is, just knowing that it’s logged has actually made me more frugal with my spending. Not only …
Eternal Sonata (360 11/01/2008) Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground (360 20/01/2008) Assassin’s Creed (360 03/02/2008) Geometry Wars Galaxies (Wii 10/02/2008) Half-Life 2: Episode One (360 12/02/2008) Half-Life 2: Episode Two (360 16/02/2008) Tomb Raider Anniversary (360 09/03/2008) Commanders: Attack (360 19/03/2008) Undertow (360 25/03/2008) Beautiful Katamari (360 27/03/2008) skate. (360 14/04/2008) Me and My Katamari (PSP 26/04/2008) LocoRoco (PSP 02/05/2008) Nodame Cantabile (DS 04/05/2008) Grand Theft Auto IV (360 07/06/2008) Link’s Crossbow Training (Wii 14/06/2008) Assault Heroes (360 05/07/2008) Zack and …
(shamelessly stolen from The Jim Manka-Taylor Project) Directions: Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrassing it is. How many songs: 1559 Sort by song title First song: Absolute Beginners – David Bowie Last song: 1984 – David Bowie Sort by time Shortest Song: Hello, MOM – Kyle Gabler Longest Song: These Dreams – Robbie Williams Sort by album First Song: Aladdin Sane – David Bowie Last Song: World …
For four years now, I’ve kept a diary detailing the games I play. Part of the reason was to see how many games I buy (and to reduce this number), and how many I complete (and to increase this number). 2008 saw a drop in completed games – 33 compared to 61 in 2007. I don’t think this is bad, when you look at the games I’ve been completing. In 2007, there were quite a few shorter games, including 5 …
Almost exactly 11 years ago, I played and completed (and then played some more) the original Fantasy Life game on the 3DS. I really enjoyed it, and after all this time I was excited to play the sequel. Only, it isn’t really a sequel. There’s nothing, plot wise at least, that links this game to the previous one. Sure, the mechanics and graphical style are nearly the same, but there’s no story continuation or even, as far as I can …
A while back, I played the demo of this and enjoyed it enough to stick it on my wishlist until it went on sale. Eventually, it did! While it might not look like anything special, and there are a million late-90s style 3D platformers around, what this has that most of the others don’t is a properly controllable character. As in, the jumping and “steering” physics and controls feel right. You know how on the Super NES, Mario in Super …
Searching for this online is a pain because Google thinks you’re talking about the animated film “The Sword in the Stone”, which this Game Gear game, hidden in the Evercade’s firmware, has nothing to do with. Instead of being related to that, the game is essentially a visual novel, albeit one that plays out more like an RPG. You pick one of three characters, and then have a quest given to you. The world you all inhabit is, well, here’s …
Cocoon is a brain melting turtles-all-the-way-down puzzle game. Imagine your standard buttons to open doors puzzles, where you put an item in a certain place to make a door open or a platform move. Now, make it so that the item you moved is actually a container, which you can enter. Inside, is another world, with it’s own series of puzzles Complicate that further, by having several of these items, which can be carried inside of each other. And, sometimes, …
Yes, yes. We’ve all played Metal Slug before and own it on various compilations a hundred times over but that doesn’t stop it being good. And! This time I completed it in co-op with my daughter, which I’ve never done before. It has horrible slowdown, which I don’t remember from any other version but apparently even in the arcade it did that. Not what you’d expect from what was, at the time, the most powerful gaming device in the world. …
Remember a while back I played a game called Shin Chan The Endless Subtitle About Seven Days Of Summer Or Something? It’s one of those lazy Japanese summer games by Kaz Ayabe where you go fishing and catch bugs and do lots of minor things with very little consequence. Natsu-Mon is one of them. This time you’re a boy who’s part of a circus troupe, staying at a guest house in a small town for the summer. You run errands …
I’m a little sad now that the whole Xenoblade Chronicles trilogy has come to an end. This feature-length DLC for XC3 might be the last time we see the worlds created for the series, as although it did manage to forge some links with Xenoblade Chronicles X, I understand that’s not really related and the “links” are really little more than Easter eggs. Sad. But the good things! Future Redeemed is set about 500 years before Xenoblade Chronicles 3, in …
