A Gaming Diary
Archive for April, 2006
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Apr 20th
Big Top tried to move out last night, so I asked him to say. Several times, until I got a “good” answer.
Started it up this morning to see if he’s unpacked, but he was asleep, so couldn’t check. Lazy bloody elephant.
Sahara was outside, so I gave Pelly a carpet to give to Phyllis, gave Blathers some wallpaper he’d ordered and then Sahara gave me some Meadow Vista wallpaper, which fits perfectly into my grass-floored room.
Pokemon Trozei
Apr 19th
It properly clicked this evening and now I seem to be hopelessly addicted.
Damn it.
Unown levels are a real pain, though.
Tower Bloxx
Apr 19th
Decided to download this for my phone after reading this review. Took me bloody ages to find somewhere selling it, but found it on Yahoo! in the end. Seems to be a reasonable €3 and that doesn’t seem to involve signing up for anything nasty.
Anyway, I’ve had a go and it’s good fun. Another example of one-button gaming, like Skipping Stone, but with a more fleshed out main mode where you have to build a city. It gets complicated because bigger towers, as well as being harder to build, can only be placed near certain other towers, so city layout becomes a head-spinning challenge. Well, it is for me. I’ve laid out my city in a bad way, so I need to recover it. Luckily, you can overwrite old buildings.
Only concern for now is that after a few minutes of play I’ve got up to level 11 of 20, but I can always replay. And there’s the endless high score mode there, too.
It’s one of those games that seems stupidly easy when everything’s going okay, but then can turn into a disaster with one false move. Rhythm, you see.
Pokemon Trozei
Apr 18th
It seems to be a good little puzzle game.
Bit confused by the structure. Are silhouetted Pokemon ones I’ve not got?
How do I tell if I’ve earned the prize coin for a stage? Or can I just earn multiple coins from one stage?
It’s all very complicated.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Apr 17th
I’m the Grand Arena Champion.
Other than that, I just wandered around aimlessly. My heart wasn’t in it today.
All the special items I’ve been earning are rubbish. Armor worse than stuff I’ve got, weapons that I can’t use.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Apr 17th
Gah! I got Resetti again, even though I saved before turning off last night. I hate it when that happens. This is the third time, I think. It’s very, very annoying.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Apr 16th
I felt a bit lost when I started it up, the main quest being finished with.
So what did I do? Well, I decided go to the Arena. I’d never even been into the Arena District of the Imperial City before. Bet 50G on the blue team and lost. Gambling’s never been my thing. (Though I did get my own back my stealing 500G from the bookmaker later.) So I decided to enter the ring myself.
Piece of piss, it is. I’ve been using my trusty Sickening Bow, only changing my lovely fire sword Smelter when the long range thing isn’t working. I go out, fight, come back, heal myself and then conjure up and soul trap some scamps to refill my magical weapons. At the end of the day I wander over to the weapons shop to get some repairs done. It’s a good living and I’m up to Gladiator rank already.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Apr 16th
Ah, well, the main quest was shorted than I thought. All done and dusted now.
Not the best part of the game, I reckon. All a bit dungeon-crawly.
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 16th
And a 1-0 win at home to Carlise and it’s time to put the PSP on charge.
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 16th
Phew.
I was worried last night might be a fluke, so it was some trepidation that I started the game back up.
It soon crashed as I played around with the squad and my PSP rebooted, but I hadn’t lost much. I think I’ll be saving after every match now.
(Got the same draw in the League Cup both times – Leicester, might be tricky.)
I was on the edge of my seat as my next match kicked off. Away at Chester, nine places above us in League Two. I needn’t have worried, it was a good 2-0 win.
(Looking at the official forum for the game, I’ve seen someone else has seen miracles after switching to 4-3-3. I do hope it’s just our teams and management style being suited and not some super game-breaking formation.)
