I don’t really know why I’ve started playing this again in the last few days, but it’s actually a lot better than my memory seems to suggest. I mean, it’s not a bad game at all, but of the four games I got at or around the 3DS launch, I liked it least. Mainly because I’ve never really been a fan of Ridge Racer. But I’m enjoying it now, and I’ve completed three more Grand Prix events in it as …
I’ve not posted in a while, aside from to mention Yakuza 3 and Old World Blues, but I have still been playing games. Here’s a round-up of what’s been going down over the last few weeks: Professor Layton and the Lost Future (DS) I actually completed this at the start of the year, but as I did with the previous two games once the story was done I left the remaining puzzles until near the release of the following game. …
Bought this a few weeks ago, even though I’d never heard of it. It got a couple of reasonable reviews, and I liked the premise (you’re a ghost who can possess enemies, using them and their powers to progress). I suppose it’s like a cross between Kirby and Messiah or something. On the Game Boy. It was pretty short (as many GB hames seem to be), and pretty difficult too, but I really quite enjoyed it. It looks like I …
I haven’t actually added up all the puzzles that there are, but it’s over 150. Probably 200-ish. But now, they’re all done! I was expecting another set of puzzles after completing the Star ones, since there’s a gap on the screen where I thought another option would appear. One did, but it was just a time trial option and used the same puzzles as I’d already done. So, completed then! And it’s also logged as my 3rd most played 3DS …
Yes, it’s a game. You have to play it, it can be completed, therefore – it’s a game. FACT. So you “play” it by walking around with your 3DS hoping to bump into other people who have puzzle pieces you don’t have, or use the “coins” accumulated from walking to buy random pieces. Eventually, with luck and sore feet, you get all the pieces for all the puzzles. Like I did today! Yay!
Completed as in, level 99 beaten. After which it just returns to level 1 again, and doesn’t get any harder. Actually, after about level 20 or so I didn’t notice it getting any harder anyway, but for some reason levels 97, 98 and 99 were incredibly easy with a slow moving Qix and plenty of time before the sparks came after me. I wonder why?
I loved Mario’s Super Picross for the SNES, which I picked up on the Wii Virtual Console a few years ago. It did take FOR EVAAR to complete though, so I wasn’t going to get the Game Boy version for the 3DS. Then, of course, I did. And it’s excellent, of course. Yes, so there are a few fewer puzzles, and yes, the biggest puzzle is only 15×15, but that’s actually good as it means I don’t get so stuck …
You know, I found that I did, in fact, have a copy of the DX version for the Game Boy Colour after all. As well as the non-DX version. And I’d totally forgotten. Tch, eh? Today, I completed it. Since I last posted, I did some of the Turtle Rock dungeon before moving off to go and find the boomerang and collect some seashells for the level 2 sword. With both of them obtained, I was pretty much indestructible, easily seeing …
You know, I’m pretty sure I’m buying every single Virtual Console game out for the 3DS. I got Zelda the other week, and as well as that I’ve also got Kirby, Donkey Kong, Mario Land, Qix, Double Dragon and Fortified Zone. I’m only missing Tennis and Alleyway and I just know I’m going to end up with them too if there’s a slow week… But back to Zelda. Somehow, back in 2005, when I was running through pretty much every …
Well, some idiots recommended this as a good Game Boy game, and because I’ve not played it before I believed them. And it’s rubbish. And hard. But mainly rubbish. But I’ve completed it now so it can be forgotten about forever. Hurrah!
Another short Game Boy game! From buying to completing, took me 32 minutes. Yes, it was short and easy. But oh so lovely! Many people forget that the Kirby’s trademark ability-copying “power” wasn’t actually in this, his first game. In fact, he has very few moves – he can’t run, slide or squirt water when swimming. In a way, it feels like a cut-down port of the NES game, which of course it isn’t. Anyway, I enjoyed it, and I’ve …
This was a much longer game than I remember it being, but somehow it seemed much easier. I have memories of having 70-odd lives reaching the final boss, then losing 67 of them on him. That seems like a lot of lives, but they’re very easy to come by (you normally get 2 or 3 each level, then after every four levels when the time score is counted up, you usually get another 5 or 6) and I did die …
Well, this was quick. I bought, downloaded, played and completed Super Mario Land (the original Game Boy one, now on the 3DS Virtual Console) all in just over an hour. And I only died once. And finished it with 40+ lives. And it was ace.
Yes, I’m still playing it! Obviously with Lego Harry Potter being ALL CONSUMING for a while I’ve been playing it less, but I still do a mission or so every couple of days. It’s probably the best way to play it, actually. I failed my first mission today, due to a poor choice for the level when picking a team of three. I just didn’t have the firepower to take down all the trucks necessary. I’ve done it now though, and am …
“So how do you complete this then, eh?”, I hear you ask. I bet you’re thinking I got to the credits with one character and that was it. Well, no – I did it with all 35 characters. All of them. 15 hours later… done! I also played online a bit over the last week or so, with various people. I’m not very good, so generally lost more fights than I won. Sadly, it wasn’t better skill that beat me …
