A Gaming Diary
Archive for April, 2008
Ikaruga (360)
Apr 9th
I’ve owned Ikaruga on the DC and GC, but it’s never really clicked.
Tonight, though, after a good few tries of the demo it finally did. Took its time, but we finally got there.
So I bought the full game with some points I’ve had sitting around since last year and I’m about 2050th in the world, or something.
NetHackDS (DS)
Apr 9th
Game gave me a human knight today. Nothing very interesting there, I don’t think, but at least I had a pony as a pet, which was new to me. Couldn’t work out if I could ride him, though.
Got down to level six, before a milky potion made me hallucinate and fail to fight off the monsters that came to get me. I forgot to try praying again, but I’d prayed a little earlier to get over a bought of food poisoning so my god probably wouldn’t have done anything for me, anyway.
NetHack (Mac)
Apr 9th
Sometimes, this game is just awful.
I was continuing a game from yesterday lunchtime, where I’d got down to level nine in the dungeons, much, much better than normal. I had some good equipment and was doing well. I attacked a floating eye (I think) and suddenly I was dead. The message history just had “The Tengu bites” all down it and I couldn’t scroll back any further.
I guess that the floating eye had frozen me or something and the tengu had come up behind me and killed me while I was helpless, but it would have been nice to have been able to see what happened. Boo.
Mario Kart DS (DS)
Apr 9th
Did a 150cc cup. Won every race, but still only got a C ranking. I guess I’m out of practice.
I wonder if anyone plays online still? And, if so, do any of them not snake all the way around each course?
Mr Driller: Drill Spirits (DS)
Apr 9th
A few more attempts at the 1500m stage, none of them in the least bit successful.
Ah well.
Nurikabe (DS)
Apr 9th
Haven’t played this in ages, but fancied a break from NetHack half-way through the evening. Did two or three puzzles. Took a few minutes to remember/work out how it all worked, but got there in the end. I think I prefer it to Slitherlink, you know.
NetHackDS (DS)
Apr 9th
Another evening mostly filled with NetHackDS. I was letting the game choose for me, so I ended up playing as a lot of races and classes and got killed in a variety of ways. Like attacking a shopkeeper while hallucinating. Not a good idea. I keep kicking myself if I die and have forgotten to pray, though. I’ve also taken to sacrificing stuff on altars when I see them, though they’re pretty rare. At least, they’re rare at the depths I normally get to.
NetHackDS (DS)
Apr 8th
Today the DS gave me an orcish rogue. I got my best score ever in the DS version – still pitiful, but better – but starved to death on level five of the dungeon. If only my dog hadn’t eaten all those jackal corpses before I could get to them…
NetHackDS (DS)
Apr 8th
This ate up most of my evening yesterday. It really is a very good substitute to the Mac-based version I’ve got. Some things are slightly clunkier, simply due to the nature of the input devices, but it mostly works superbly well. (And it’s nice that it uses the tileset that I’m used to, too.) The main problem is one I’ve mentioned before – it’s far too easy not to notice that your hungry and end up dead because of it.
Nothing much of note happened last night. I started, I got a few floors down, I died. Over and over again. Sometimes it seemed unfair, like when I walked into a room and was immediately by a hobbit firing a magic missile at me. But that’s NetHack for you.
The biggest thing of note was that in one game I – ironic gasp! – didn’t actually play as an orc barbarian. I let the game choose for me and I ended up as an poncy elven ranger. Still, he did okay. No worse than anyone else, anyway.
NetHack (Mac)
Apr 7th
No stupid deaths today, really, just lots of being beaten to death by monsters while wearing cursed gear. Yeah, I know I should identify things before wearing them, but identity scrolls are few and far between in the game. I’ve never managed to uncurse items in NetHack, either. Not because I don’t know how, just because I’ve never had the stuff to do it.
Sigh.
