A Gaming Diary
Archive for June, 2007
Band of Bugs Demo (360)
Jun 24th
I like this. I like this a lot. (Apart from the graphics, which seem to make things needlessly confusing.) Trouble is, it took me several goes to do level four, the last level in the demo, so I’m not sure if it would be worth getting the full version. I’ve got the points ready, but I think I might save them up for new Lumines skins or something.
Eets: Chowdown (360)
Jun 24th
Haven’t played this for a while, but it was surprisingly easy to get back into. Just did a few levels to get myself up to the end of the second world. Didn’t find any amazing shortcuts and didn’t think any of my solutions were very elegant, but they got the job done.
Pac-Man Championship Edition (360)
Jun 24th
I’ve finally stopped playing the main mode and I dipped into Challenge One. I can’t survive for the full ten minutes yet, but I’m already better than some of my terrible, terrible friends.
Forza Motorsport 2 (360)
Jun 24th
A few more time trial levels and then back to career, where I won a few races despite driving like a complete idiot. And then I fell asleep in front of the car selection screen, so decided it was probably time to stop playing.
WipEout Pure (PSP)
Jun 24th
Just to check that it was WipEout being too hard and not me being too rubbish, I dug this out. I started it up, selected a race and won it. (I’d played about five or six races in WipEout and come last in all of them.) Tried another race, a class up, and won that. Tried another race… and got blown up while I was about sixth with only about half a lap to go. Still, yes, WipEout Pure is much, much easier and a better game for it.
Also, I thought WipEout wasn’t looking too bad for its age, and maybe it’s not, but the difference when I started up WipEout Pure was amazing. It looks incredible. We’ve come a long way.
WipEout (PS3/PSP)
Jun 24th
Even Sony don’t seem to know if it’s WipEout or WipeOut or whatever. I’ll stick with WipEout, as it’s the stupidest way of spelling it.
Anyway, this is unplayable. It’s not bad, not at all, it’s just way, way, way, way, way too hard and the only reason it took off must because the graphics and sound were so amazing at the time that people were prepared to put the time in to learn to play the game properly.
It was a different time back then, eh?
Crash Bandicoot (PS3/PSP)
Jun 24th
Looks much better on the PSP screen than on the PS3. There’s something odd about on the PS3, as if the colour and contrast are turned up way too much, or something.
Anyway, what’s it like to play? Well, it’s a bit rubbish. Certainly not unplayable, but it’s very unfair and the controls don’t quite work. Still, it kept me playing for quite a while, so it has got something, even now.
Go! Puzzle (PS3)
Jun 24th
Played a bit more Skyscrapers, which is a fair bit easier now I’ve worked out what the white blocks do. (It was probably covered in the tutorial, but if it was I’ve forgotten.) Might be a bit of a cult hit, this, if it wasn’t on the PS3.
Then I tried Swizzle Blocks, which went on and on and on. I started on Easy mode and in one game swept through all the Easy and Normal levels, getting gold stars on each, before dying on the first Hard level. My score was put in the Hard mode high score table, which seemed odd, but there you go. Nobody on my Friends leaderboards yet.
Jumping Flash (PSP)
Jun 23rd
Hooray! World 3′s boss finally fell.
Unfortunately, I’m now stuck on level 4-1. The exit doesn’t appear to exist.
Forza Motorsport 2 (360)
Jun 23rd
Tried a couple of time trials. In both of them I was sixth on my Friends Leaderboard. Not too shabby, but a long way off the top times.
Once again, Trousers seems to be dominating the top spots. And he claims not to be good at games. Tch.
