A Gaming Diary
Archive for December, 2005
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Dec 28th
Not much going on today, what with Nook’s being shut both here and Teacozy. But I popped over and chatted to the Teacozy animals and then came home and entertained P’anther for a while.
Really not much to report, just the same old village life.
Tomorrow’s task will be to try and improve the state of Deena’s house. It’s horrible.
Xbox 360
Dec 28th
Well, I download the FIFA 360 demo earlier, so thought I’d give it a go. Very disappointing, in that it doesn’t seem to be as amusing crap as I’d expected. Didn’t give me enough time to work out how good it was before dumping me back to the menu, but it seemed to be somewhere between just about acceptable and sort of all right. Depends on whether it’s possible to get through the CPU defence, which I seemed to be unable to do.
Then I played a couple of games of Geometry Wars 2, but didn’t even get half-way towards my high score. Gah.
Then a couple of games of Mutant Storm Reloaded. The first game was a disaster, but my second game saw me increase my high score, but I died annoyingly close to getting a cool million points. Still, stretched my lead at the top of my Friends leaderboard, so I can’t complain. I am the Mutant Storm king!
Need For Speed: Most Wanted
Dec 27th
Okay.
It really does have a terrible framerate which actually makes it harder to play than it should be.
But despite that it really is a very good game indeed.
When you get into a proper police chase it’s bloody marvellous. Like a slightly more refined but less funny GTA, or something.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Dec 27th
Went to Teacozy for a visit and then p’anther from Teacozy came to visit me. Dinsdale and deKay popped in, too, which was nice.
However, I’ve spent all day fishing without catching anything decent and Dinsdale wandered in and within a couple of minutes had grabbed a fossil fish. Argh!
I seem to be too slow for the fishing. I lose quite a few that seem to swim off before I can hit the button. Gah. Reactions too slow.
Kody’s leaving. Can’t say I’m too bothered. He was all right, but a bit annoying at times.
Was going to visit Teacozy again when p’anther left, but my DS told me the battery was dying, so I’ve had to stop playing for the day. Ah well.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Dec 27th
Only three stars?
But my house is great! Great!
Bloody animals.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Dec 27th
I’ve just remembered that I’ve got Dotty come round at seven for a visit.
I’d completely forgotten until just now. Good thing I remembered in time.
Gah! This game is taking over my life!
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Dec 27th
I’ve finally sent Robin a letter asking her politely if she wouldn’t mind moving out. I’m also pressuring Big Top for information about his past. Why won’t he take his mask off? Why’s he moved here? What dark secrets is he hiding, in short?
Lots of fruit-selling and fishing today and I still haven’t got enough to pay off ten percent of my new mortgage.
Nook really is a crook.
Christmas Gaming
Dec 26th
Well, my brother brought his PS2 home for Christmas, so I watched him play Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Looked much nastier than the 360 version, but it did seem smoother, oddly. It seemed to have a lower framerate, but not as weird-looking. Maybe. So I’ve no idea what’s wrong with the 360 version. Maybe it’s frame-skipping or something. I just know it looks odd. I’m just very confused.
Other than that, I just played the Gameboy Micro and DS. On the DS it was Animal Crossing all the way. Got the next house upgrade, but didn’t buy any turnips this week.
On the Micro I played Final Fantasy… and completed it! Yes! My first ever completed Final Fantasy. A little over twenty hours in total, I think. I missed out a whole optional dungeon and some optional bosses and there was at least one side quest I didn’t complete. But it’s finished. World saved and all that.
Then I moved on to Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. I tried it before and got about three and a half hours in, but the distance between save points and controls annoyed me too much. It’s got such a good reputation that I thought I’d try again… and I’m only a couple of hours in, but I don’t like the controls and the save points are annoying me again. So I might not stick with it this time, either.
Game Boy Micro
Dec 23rd
I bought a silver one.
Came with a free copy of Banjo Pilot which, er, might not be completely awful. You never know.
Does it look nice? Well, yeah. I think it looks about 54% as nice as the Famicom one.
It’s funny. When I bought the Famicom one I was basically buying a fetish item. I was unconvinced of the actual utility, but in love with the look of thing. Since it arrived, though, it’s become an essential item. Even if I don’t play it on a certain day, I’m glad it’s in my pocket. It’s just something that’s there if you need it.
It’s like a mobile phone.
Or maybe a torch.
Or deodorant.
You know.
Game Boy Micro
Dec 23rd
I stepped on it.
It broke.
I am… unhappy.
It needs replacing. Now. However, all the UK colours are rubbish. Oh well, I guess I’ll have to suck it up and get one from Game this afternoon, even if it won’t look as nice as the Famicom one there. Assuming I can afford it. This is a bad time of year for things to break.
