No messing with demo mode for this, it’s Bomberman, so was bought straight off. Firstly, the bad: I don’t like the 3D graphics. I much prefer proper sprites, like the Saturn and PCE versions I’ve played recently. Secondly, the not-quite-overhead view is annoying, and although you can click the right stick to flick it back to the way it should be, you have to do this every single game – there’s no option to set it as default. Next, there’s …
Lots of play on this today. So much so, in fact, that I gained the achievement for 5000 points in total! Also played it online, and got the achievement for a 9+ tile city, although I didn’t win the match. Came second though. The rest of play was offline against the CPU, and loads of games against my wife. It seems farms are the keys to maximising your score, so I try to get in early with follower placement. Sometimes …
Didn’t play this for long. I was scrolling through my XBLA games list (some 40 games long now) and realised I hadn’t played this all that much. So I had a few goes on the Speed Machine table, and eat my previous 50 million score… by getting almost 300 million. And I’m not sure how. One minute I was stil around 35 million, the next I’d broken 250. Managed to get two achievements for this too, and reached second placed …
And not just completed – completed without losing a life! I didn’t really even have to try that hard, actually, although I did nearly plunge to my doom on Scrap Brain Zone 1. Which would have been a bit of a pain. And I almost drowned twice on Scrap Brain Zone 3. But I did it, which is all that’s important! Then I went and started again, to try for the Win In 40 Minutes achievement and the Fast Marble …
I seem to be playing this almost solely in two player with my wife these days. Not that that’s a bad thing, just an observation. Anyway, played five games (without the river expansion, I should add) and won four of them.
It’s another 400 point Sega game, also arriving on XBLA today. And I completed it on my first go. As the woman, whose name I’ve forgotten. I keep wanting to say “Blaze”, but that’s Streets of Rage. The bosses in this are just as easy as I remember. Dash attacks make short work of them, provided you can time everything right, but having other baddies floating around at the same time complicate matters. I think I lost 15 lives overall, …
No, not the awful recent 3D “masterpiece” that I refuse to buy, but the original Megadrive version, available today on XBLA. Yes. I already have this game twelventyzillion times. Yes, I have completed it on the Wii since Christmas. Yes. I did buy it. Again. But it is lovely, see? And this version lets you save your game whenever you want! And there are leaderboards! So it was worth it, yes? Of course it was. Anyway. I’m up to Spring …
My wife has been practicing this vs hard computer opponents, and so has upped her game considerably since we last played. Now there is increased deviousness in castle-stealage and farm planning, which makes things a bit harder for me. I did, however, manage to beat her 2-1 this evening.
Yet more play on this with my wife this evening. We played a few games with a third (AI) player, but it just made things confusing. We also played with the river expansion turned on for a few games, but that too made it more confusing. So we went back to playing it normally.
I started off with a ranked match against someone whose gamertag had far too many numbers in, and was losing for most of it. Then I picked up a bit, and had figured that one of my farms was going to completely obliterate his score in the end. Sadly, that didn’t happen – he must have had another follower somewhere and so we both got farm castle bonuses. It was close though, he won 97-95. I then played quite a …
Ha! In a shock reversal of fortunes, I was aces this evening, beating my wife in all four games we played. Excellent. I should point out that I don’t physically beat my wife. I meant in the game, you know? As in, I won?
So I stupidly decided to play this with my wife. She was concerned that because I’d played it already, and she thought it was horribly confusing to play, that she’d have no hope of winning at all. It didn’t really surprise me that she won the first game. After all, I wasn’t being as evil with castle/road blocking as I could have been, suggested better moves than ones she was contemplating, and generally just concentrated on her moves rather than …
As expected, I bought some more points and unlocked the full version. Played a game against the computer, and lost horribly as I didn’t seem to have a strategy for placing my followers in sensible places, as so all were pretty useless. I then played online against “Richrad Live“, who thrashed me for the first half of the game, then I almost caught him up, then near the end he broke free by miles again, but in the end-of-game points …
Wow! There are 25 of us super-secret Missile Command players now! It’s an amazing elite club. Bet you’re all well jealous. Sadly, I’m not Best In The World any more. In fact, I was 5th. Tch. However, I did improve on my 29,500-ish score to reach 45,000-ish – putting me back up to second! Hurrah!
It’s a boardgame. And, after playing the tutorial, it all seems horribly confusing. However, after playing one game proper, it has clicked and is actually very simple. And very good it is too, so I suspect I’ll be buying this tomorrow. I just need some more points as I spent the last of them on Missile Command…