I’ve done all the levels now, bar the final planet on the final galaxy. I’ve got 140,000 geoms, and need 200,000 to unlock it – that’s two more Bronze-to-Silver improvements. I’ve just realised – why is each galaxy a galaxy? They’re clearly solar systems. Hmm.
All these Geoms I’ve been collecting – hundreds of thousands of them – were all used up by the last few planets in the penultimate galaxy. Meaning I didn’t have enough to open the final galaxy. So I went back to some earlier levels and managed Gold where previously, I’d only managed Bronze. That let me in, and with the first three planets there all Gold’ed, I’m back in huge credit! Sadly, it costs LOADS to unlock each planet, so …
Right, I’m on the penultimate galaxy, and I’ve done three of the planets there. Not many left now! They’re all getting a bit hard though, and I haven’t managed a Silver rank in ages.
I don’t really know what to write. I really love the game, but it’s just “shoot stuff”, so there’s no real way of making an interesting diary post out of that… I’m over halfway through unlocking the galaxies, though.
This just gets better! Every planet has a different “quirk”, like you’ve only got one life, or you have huge splitting baddies, or there’s no break from the action at all, or the “grid” is a maze with walls. I’ve been powering up my Turret, which seems great for taking down huge swarms, especially on the more open levels. I had plenty of opportunity to power it up too, considering the number of times I had to attempt a level …
My Wii has had a quiet time of things recently (Eternal Sonata, Tony Hawk and Assassin’s Creed saw to that), but with both Geometry Wars and Dewy arriving today, it’s had a bit of a renaissance. First impressions are… confused. The opening sequence is exactly the same graphical style as Eledees, with the same boy in it, and the same voice actor. The game itself, however, is totally different. It lies somewhere between Mercury Meltdown and, erm, something else. You …
That’s right – Wii and DS. The Wii game arrived today, and, to my surprise, it lets you send a copy of a port of Retro Evolved to your DS. Hurrah! First up was the Wii “Galaxies” mode. It is ACE. I was expecting a slight drop in clarity of visuals (over the 360 Retro Evolved) but there isn’t really. It’s just not HD, that’s all. The level-based nature is a big difference to the game, but it works really …
Played through a bit more of this, nabbing about ten more stars. I only need about 12 now before I can face Bowser at the “end” of the game as Luigi. I’m still convinced there are more baddies as Luigi. For example, when fighting King Kalicente (is that how you spell his name?) for the second time, he chucks one hell of a lot more of those blue flaming things at you.
Haven’t played this in a while, as I’ve had a lot of Team Fortress 2-ing to do, and Peggle and other stuff, so I felt a bit bad about neglecting it. But no more! For I returned with Luigi and got him 7 more stars, taking his total to 35, and 155 overall. Just, erm, lots left to go! Got my first green star with Luigi, and my first letter from Luigi to Luigi, which is all a bit strange. …
I went into The Abyss today. It’s a bit bloody dark down there, but I did find a sperm whale and loads of new (and mostly bizarre) fish species, including a really long stringy jellyfish thing. Also found a load of dolphins too, although I couldn’t make any of them my “partner”. And there was a walrus on my boat when I re-surfaced!
Hmm. I’ve just realised that I didn’t add this game to my database when I was updating it yesterday. Hence no little box art thing. Bah. Anyway. Today I took Oldman for another dive (isn’t there anyone else who needs a tour?), and found a few more items (like a picture frame). I also unlock the Aquarium, which I filled with assorted fishes. Mostly sharks and rays, of course. And a sea lion. After that, I went night diving looking …
I HAVE A DOLPHIN! And, in a rare moment of humour, I named it “John West”. We did some tricks, although I’m not really sure how, and went swimming. Then I took Oldman for another swim to find a clown triggerfish (which we did), and he sent me an email with some gloves as an attachment. I assume I must have printed them out and folded them up to wear them, or something. And then I went and found loads …
I’ve opened up the Bedroom now, and have 28 Weegi stars to my name. I managed to get the wrong star in the Freezeflame Galaxy too, somehow, by going completely the wrong way. I’m pretty sure there were more flying ice blob things and ice bats than with Mario, though. And I was right about Luigi sliding around on the ice more than Mario. It’s like he’s been greased up or something.
Four more stars, taking me to 18 Weegi-stars and 138 stars in total. I’ve also found out today that there isn’t 241 stars overall, but 242. Amazing! Getting used to Luigi’s slippery movement now, but not looking forward to coping on the ice-based galaxies! Oh, and Cosmic Luigi is waaaaay faster than Cosmic Mario, and constantly long-jumps to go even faster. I couldn’t beat him on Honeyhive. Grr.
Not really much to say today, apart from that I’m still loving it, and managed to get up to 14 Luigi Stars, making 134 in total. This time through, I’m trying to do as many later levels as possible, so I get left with the easier ones nearer the end of the game (if that makes sense). I know it’s not really possible, as you have to do early stars to unlock later galaxies, but once all the galaxies are …