A Gaming Diary
Archive for March, 2007
Slitherlink (DS)
Mar 22nd
Whoa! I was getting through the puzzles okay, but then got to about number twelve and it has no zero squares, so I have no idea where to start. New techniques needed – soon!
Sam & Max Hit The Road (DS)
Mar 22nd
More of a tech-test than a play session, but I managed to get it working and watched the initial cut scene and then talked to Max in the first room. Hooray for emulation!
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (360)
Mar 22nd
Beat the boss who is me, got the Soul of Wolf, then died a long way into the Long Library, making me gah and gnash and turn the game off.
I wasn’t enjoying it that much anyway. Any illness that can stop me enjoying Castlevania is evil. Evil!
Virtua Tennis 3 Demo (360)
Mar 22nd
Off work sick, remembered about this, tried it out.
Now, either it’s because my head is all messed up with purest ill or it’s because the difficulty level is insane, but in four matches I managed to score a grand total of two points.
I don’t think I’ll be buying this.
Slitherlink (DS)
Mar 21st
My wife’s had this a while and has told me it’s great, but it took John Walker’s amazing review on Eurogamer to convince me to try it out.
It’s excellent, indeed, but I fear my brain may not be up to the later puzzles, given how much it’s already struggling.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (360)
Mar 21st
Yes, I have the Playstation version. But it’s on a disc and therefore not the future, so I used some points to get the 360 version. (There’s also the fact that I have no idea where a Playstation memory card might be.) It’s just as I remember it… almost. I don’t remember the mirror-me being so bloody annoying. I’ve left it for a bit.
(If you don’t know what “just as I remember it” means it translates to “one of the best games ever made”. The graphics aren’t as good as I remember and the endless GBA and DS versions mean it’s slightly over familiar, but it’s still wonderful.)
Trip To Gamestation
Mar 17th
So, this afternoon my lovely wife and I wheeled about a hundred and fifty old games or so up to Gamestation.
They wouldn’t take Just Cause or Tomb Raider: Legend because they were imports. I’d forgotten about that. Just Cause was actually a PAL copy, but had “Distribution outside the UK only” written on the back, so I they wouldn’t take it. They also couldn’t take Michigan: Report from Hell, which though an official UK release was obviously so badly distributed that no copies even made it as far as the Gamestation central computer.
When pulling the games out of the bag I decided I couldn’t part with Mario Golf, Hitman Contracts, Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution or Thief: Deadly Shadows, so they come home with us, too.
Anyway, after all that I was given a credit note for a massive £543, which means that on Friday we can get a Playstation 3 with two or three games. Hooray!
I’m now absolutely terrified of losing that credit note. I’m effectively going to be carrying around over half a grand in my wallet for the next week. Eek.
(If I left it at home I’d be terrified of a fire burning it up, or rats eating it, or gremlins stealing it, or a local time-space disturbance sucking it into an unholy vortex.)
Splatterhouse (Wii)
Mar 15th
As a Friday The 13th one I had to buy this. It’s not at all bad. I got to Stage 4 and then my credits ran out. Not too bad.
The boss with chainsaw arms and a bag over is head is awesome.
2*Ash + Jason(Part II)
Er, that’s his formula.
Peggle Deluxe (PC)
Mar 15th
I’m now on the 400,000 point levels. They are really rather tricky, but great fun.
I’ve got my wife addicted now.
New Adventure Island (Wii)
Mar 14th
Put this on for a few minutes after checking the voting channel with my wife. Started the session on level 2-1, ended the session on level 2-1. I hate frogs.
