I’m now about 31.5 hours in to this huge, huge game. And I still haven’t even scratched the surface. Firstly, I quick-travelled to Imperial City, found the guy with the staff I needed, and brought it back to Bravil. I took it to Kud-Ei at the Mage’s Guild, who has now sent a recommendation to the Arcane University. I wandered around Bravil some more, and found a few items that I wanted to sell. I stupidly jumped off the roof …
Haven’t played this in a while, and it really showed when I started it up again today. I seemed to have forgotten most of the controls, and kept falling off ledges, taking my sword out instead of running up walls, and generally acting like my controller was back to front. Eventually got it sussed, and got past where I was previously (somewhere in the clock tower). I then had another huge baddie to kill, although he was the same as …
Joan was back today, after a week off, so I went and bought 600 turnips from her. Visited a load of my animals too, and did a few errands. Whitney-who-isn’t-Whitney has moved (back) in from someone else’s town. She’s (or is it he?) been here before, but this isn’t the same Whitney as she/he didn’t know me. Either that or they’re just stupid. Hopper wondered who I was too, but that might just be because I hadn’t spoken to him …
Hurrah! Crate puzzles solved! There were nine of them overall. However, after I’d done them all, I realised Skye was almost dead. The stupid cow had forgotten to drink, meaning her water-o-meter was at 0%. This in turn caused her not to eat (you can’t eat when thirsty) so her food-o-meter dropped to 0% too. Then, she couldn’t sleep as a result of the above, so her stamina was dropping quickly. And because of that, her HP were on the …
These crate puzzles are driving me nuts! None have been difficult so far, but they’re so far away from your main cave that you take almost a day just to get to them, then you use stamina on them just moving crates, then you have to give up after three or so to come home because Skye has been an idiot and has clearly forgotten to eat, or sleep or something and she’ll die if you don’t get there in …
I didn’t even mention that I’d played Midway Arcade Treasures 3 over the weekend. Mainly because it was rubbish. Of all the games on it, only Super Off Road was any good. Tch. So I was somewhat chuffed when Potatio Leg Ends (which arrived today) turned out to be SUPARBEST. It is worth buying just for Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands and The New Zealand Story, but then they go and stick another 26 games in there! And they’re not all …
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 …
After a hard think about which game I wanted to play-to-complete next, I settled on this. Don’t know how far in I am – not very I expect. Have done George’s first bit, then all of Nico’s bit, then back to George again. It’s pretty good so far, although some of the puzzles have been a little obvious (although this is noted by the game – George says “Oh, the old block-on-a-pressure pad trick, eh?” at one point). I was …
After 23423865873 more attempts, I defeated Gergorio III. Just. I had no energy left at all. Hurrah! The next round was really easy, and I finished that on my first attempt, before moving on to the end of game boss – who was probably the easiest character to beat in the entire game! Not only was it a simple hammer-the-button for the “strum” cues, but there was a “charge” section every minute or so, which allowed me to regain all …