A Gaming Diary
Archive for April, 2006
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Apr 23rd
Rubbish fishing today.
Hardly anything and what there was was tiny.
Ended up finally getting hold of a 47.5 inch sea bass, which is the current leader in today’s tournament.
Blazing Angels Demo
Apr 23rd
Tried this again. Someone left a long comment here saying I should and I noticed deKay had played it, so I thought I’d jump in again.
The voice acting hasn’t got any better.
But this time I managed to drop the flyers over the church in the tutorial bit. Hoorah! And then I shot some Germans down and sunk some battleships and shot some more Germans down and then let parliament get destroyed. Because I’m rubbish. I’ve always been terrible at lfying games and this is no different. It’s better than most – rather like Rogue Squadron without the Star Wars – and it was quite fun at time, but I ended up just getting annoyed with having to wrestle with my plane, as I always seem to in these games.
Better second impressions than first impressions, then, but I can’t see myself buying it. I probably wouldn’t even play it much if I got it for free. It’s just not for me. Apart from the voice acting, though, it doesn’t seem bad as far as these things go.
SiN
Apr 22nd
Came free with a pre-order of SiN Episodes on Steam, so I thought I’d give it a go. I was aware of it when it came out, but I’m sure my PC was up to it, even if the game hadn’t been notoriously buggy.
It doesn’t seem buggy so far, but it does look quite, quite horrible. However, after a few moments getting used to the feel of the thing, I began to enjoy it. A run and gun FPS with hostages, headshots and helicopters. Being old it ran completely smoothly at a fair old pace. Nice.
But then I got to a bit with security guns firing at me and I couldn’t work out to get past them, so I turned it off.
Space Channel 5
Apr 22nd
Thought I’d try this again. I’ve had an extra five or six years of video game practice since I last tried it, after all.
But, no, I still can’t get past level one. I normally end with a viewing figure of 13% and less than 15% means cancellation.
I don’t think I’ll ever see level two, but maybe I’ll try again in another five years.
It’s ridiculously hard and it’s made even more annoying by the fact that everyone else on earth seems to think it’s stupidly easy. Bah.
Tower Bloxx
Apr 21st
I’ve got 10,568 people living in my city now, but it’s getting really tricky to find ways to get more in. I really need to think about how the layout rules work.
It’s a head-scratcher, planning this city.
Pokemon Trozei
Apr 20th
Of course, the next time I tried after posting that last message I kicked her arse all the way to… er… [POKEMON LOCATION NAME]. You’d think I’d remember at least one, wouldn’t you?
Chu Chu Rocket Demo
Apr 20th
A mobile phone demo, that is. You can get it for free, with no hidden nastiness that I’ve noticed, by texting CHUCHU to 60030 if you’re in the UK, which will give you a link to the WAP site. So, er, that’s free apart from any WAP charges. Which is slightly different.
There’s not much of it, truth be told. Took me less than two minutes to do the three puzzle levels and the challenge level included in the demo. Really could have done with a bit more meat, maybe including some of the harder levels from the 100 included in the full game. The three “puzzles” in the demo are ridiculously trivial.
Ah well, I won’t buy it, at least not right now. But I might dig up my old GBA copy and shove it in my Micro tonight.
Oh, and you can play it for free online here.
Tower Bloxx
Apr 20th
I’ve now filled my city with towers and it has a population of 7,980 and is level 14/20.
I’ve been given a parade by my citizens… and been told that to get to the highest city level I need a population of 19,000.
This may take longer than I was expecting.
Tower Bloxx
Apr 20th
BAD THING: It’s bloody hard to play on a moving bus.
GOOD THING: My city building progress has slowed down a lot, which should help me get a few more precious minutes from that mode.
