A Gaming Diary
Archive for February, 2009
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Feb 16th
My wife won the fishing tourney over the weekend. Violet, the giant gorilla, decided she wanted to be my Valentine. Forgot all about KK Slider on Saturday night. That sort of thing.
Age of Empires: Mythologies (DS)
Feb 13th
Hit a wall. First six missions of campaign were trivially easy, but I can’t work out how the heck I’m meant to do the seventh. The enemy just throws millions of units at me and I can’t survive to build up any forces. Oof.
Going to play a few Skirmishes to try and get better before trying again.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Feb 13th
I really, really love this game, by the way. I love to get home and just spend twenty relaxing minutes or so wandering around McNulty. It’s a great way to unwind after the work day.
Age of Empires: Mythologies (DS)
Feb 12th
Got sent a copy of this to review for another site, so probably shouldn’t talk about it too much.
But I will say that after spending two or three hours doing the first five or six missions, it seems decent and there’s an awful lot of game for your money. Going to be tough to review, simply because it’s so huge.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Feb 12th
Come on! We must have donated 200,000 to the town fund by now!
And where’s my Pikmin hat, Nintendo?
Killzone 2 Demo (PS3)
Feb 11th
Another run through the demo last night. It was awesome again. Loved it.
Such a turnaround.
Maybe more people would be wanting to buy this if they’d made the demo longer, because it certainly seems to need some play before it clicks.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Feb 11th
Only had ten minutes to play last night. Didn’t do much, but my wife sent me a lovely robo clock to add to my robo collection.
Killzone 2 Demo (PS3)
Feb 10th
Blimey.
This clicked last night. Like, properly clicked. I put the sensitivity options up one notch each, which may have helped, but I don’t really know why last night it clicked when it hadn’t before. But I loved it. I was using tactics, taking headshots, spraying fire for control purposes, using grenades to flush enemies out of hiding and everything just worked.
Immensely fun and satisfying fights, like nothing I’d ever had before. The only comparison I can really think of is Halo. Which, from me, is high praise indeed. But it may – may – even have felt… better.
Seriously, I was astounded by how much I enjoyed myself.
I need to play the demo again, to see if the fun has stuck, or if this was some crazy aberration.
But, no, somehow I found an incredible game in what had previously been a standard shooter with awful controls.
No idea what happened there, no idea at all.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Feb 10th
Sahara came, asked me for old wallpaper. Went to ask the animals, but Chow had lost his key, so I spent ages – two trips to Nook’s to sell fish! – trying to find it. Eventually did, but he had no wallpaper for me. Nor did any of the other residents. FAIL.
Far Cry 2 (360)
Feb 8th
With Call of Duty 4 down, I picked this up again and spent half an hour or so getting used to the game again. Found some diamonds, unlocked a couple of safe houses, did a mission for the guy in the gun shop.
Not without irritations – saving anywhere and fast travel options would be lovely – but the gun play is excellent, which is the important thing, I feel.
