A Gaming Diary
Archive for February, 2009
Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? (PSP)
Feb 22nd
A 2D platform game starring the cult characters from Disgaea.
Rock hard. You start with 1,000 lives – I’ve lost about 430 in six hours of play.
However, though unforgiving, it’s very well designed and very compelling.
Think Megaman and you won’t go far wrong.
Deadly Creatures (Wii)
Feb 22nd
Game completed. I’ll link to review when it goes up. In short: average, a few lovely moments, terrible final boss, four and half hours long. Not worth buying, barely worth a rental.
Street Fighter IV (PS3)
Feb 20th
There aren’t many games that can keep me up late – and fewer that can get me up early in the morning. Street Fighter IV appears to be one of them. Bed half an hour late, up an hour and a half early.
It’s really, really great. It feels familiar without feeling stale, it looks gorgeous and the net code appears to be great.
So far I’ve played thirteen matches online, all as Ryu. I lost the first twelve. And in those twelve matches I won maybe two rounds. I’m really not very good. But then a Fei Long player challenged me. I won the first round, but only just. He destroyed me in the second round. In the third round I was losing and in desperation tried an Ultra move, which I can’t normally pull off. This time it came out, though… and it hit him full force… and it did enough damage to kill him. That was an amazing feeling. To get a win online was amazing, to get it with an Ultra, well, that’s special.
After that I turned off the option to allow online challengers and went through Arcade mode on the Easiest difficulty. No trouble there until I got to my rival, Sagat, who beat me once before I killed him. And then on to Seth, who is a horror show. I was pleased to finally win a round after many attempts, only for him to then get much stronger for the next round. Took me a long time and I was worried I wouldn’t be able to complete Arcade mode before work, but I finally best him with a couple of minutes to spare. Hooray!
Now my thumb hurts.
Noby Noby Boy (PS3)
Feb 20th
New game from the creator of Katamari. Game in the loosest sense. It’s more of a software toy, really. You crawl and grow and eat and poop and jump and fly around small randomly-generated levels doing, well, whatever you feel like doing.
Words can’t very well describe it, so go watch a short video I uploaded HERE. And if that’s not enough there’s a longer one showing me playing the game for the first time HERE.
I love it – and the £3.19 price tag feels just right.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Feb 20th
Pikmin hat arrived from Nintendo!
Better late than never…
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (PSP)
Feb 19th
Why did I start the 100 Fight Kumite mode? It’s going to take me hours to get through and, in the thirties now, I seem to have started losing most of the fights.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Feb 19th
Redd sold me a fake painting. AGAIN. He also has a sword in stock I like the look of, but wants 73,000 bells for it. 73,000!
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (PSP)
Feb 18th
Scratch that, just beat him with a “one more go”. USSR all clear!
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (PSP)
Feb 18th
A lunchtime spent in World Tour mode. I levelled up from five to eight, but Zangief did his best to stop me getting that far and is now stopping me getting further. He seems to be far harder to fight than any of the other characters.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (PSP)
Feb 18th
And, so, with Street Fighter fever infecting my very brain, it was time to dig out Street Fighter Alpha 3. Pulling off moves is about on a par with the SIXAxis, but maybe a little worse. Anyway, it’s great fun, though pretty hard. Not 360 Hyper Fighting hard, but much harder than Capcom Vs SNK on the Playstation. Lots and lots of lovely characters to fight, though, and the game looks really, really nice on the PSP’s screen.
