A Gaming Diary
Archive for December, 2007
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness (PSP)
Dec 4th
Same as yesterday. Same level, same team, one Prinny died again, two characters levelled up.
It’s like Groundhog Day round here.
Team Fortress 2 (360)
Dec 4th
Again, a friends match turned into a no-friends match, so I had to leap into a random game. (After going through the final bit of the commentary I’d not heard yet.) This time I knew my limits and wasn’t as awful as I had been the other night. As the Pyro I got a few kills, as a Medic I did some useful healing.
Our team was utterly outclassed, though, and we lost every game heavily.
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness (PSP)
Dec 3rd
Only had ten minutes spare this lunchtime, so just replayed a story level with some of my low-level characters. One of my Prinnies got killed, which was a shame, but I did level a couple of other characters up, so it was worth doing.
Bite-sized chunk gameplay at its very best.
PixelJunk Racers (PS3)
Dec 3rd
We came to an understanding this weekend. Previously bitter enemies, I no longer think that the game’s completely broken. I can even see that it hits all the unambitious targets that it aims for. However, it doesn’t work with my brain and I don’t think I’m ever going to get any fun out of it.
Kula World (PSP)
Dec 3rd
A great lost Playstation game, that has apparently been fetching massive amounts on eBay over the last few years. It’s a 3D, rolling-ball puzzle game and it’s quite good fun, though I’ve seen nothing yet to suggest that it’s some amazing lost classic.
Unless I’m missing some camera controls you need to memorise the layout of the levels as you sometimes have to jump to places you can’t see and only know about because you saw them earlier in the game. Which seems a little unfair to me.
Beats (PSP)
Dec 3rd
A download from the PSP store. It’s a pain the rear to use if you’ve got a Mac, as you have to use special PC-only software to download stuff which is, obviously, impossible. Luckily, things you buy appear in your download list in the PS3 version of the store, even if you can’t buy them there, so I was able to buy the game on my Mac, then download it on to my PS3 and then transfer it from that to the PSP. Phew.
Was it worth it? Yeah, probably. It’s a rhythm action game that uses your own music (so I guess it’s similar to that iPod game that came out recently that I can’t remember the name of and can’t play). I’ve tried it with Johnny Cash, Gretchen Wilson and CSS, to name a few, and while I never really felt the connection between the game and the music I did have fun. It’s pretty frantic, even on Normal, but not stupidly hard.
World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets (DS)
Dec 3rd
I guess it does what it says on the tin, but it’s really, really dull. Matches take hours and hours to play – I spent all of Saturday afternoon plugging away – and it’s really, really easy to win. It’s just a test of patience and forcing yourself not to go all in on ridiculous hands just to try and make things slightly more exciting.
Still, I got to play against Jennifer Tilly, which is something.
