A Gaming Diary
Archive for May, 2009
Rag Doll Kung-Fu: Fists of Plastic (PS3)
May 23rd
Costs £7.99 on the UK PSN store, but was free on the US one, so I grabbed it from there. It’s not a bad little fighting game, actually. Not sure I’d be happy with it for eight quid, but for free I’m very happy.
Noby Noby Boy (PS3)
May 23rd
We’ve reached Mars! I got another couple of trophies today!
I really, really love this game. I didn’t think I’d play it as much as I have. I really thought it would be a short-lived novelty, but I keep coming back. I played it last night, I played it more today. It’s just wonderful escapism.
PixelJunk Racers (PS3)
May 23rd
Nope, I still can’t control it. I try every year or so, but it never clicks.
PixelJunk Monsters (PS3)
May 23rd
Haven’t played this for years. Or since it launched, which must’ve been over a year ago now. I think.
Anyway, it’s a decent little game now as it was then. Maybe a little harder than it could be, but I don’t mind.
Dark Mist (PS3)
May 23rd
Another twin-stick shooter? Really? Anything to set it apart from all the others?
Well, not that I’ve really seen, but it’s good, solid fun. Certainly not essential, as far as I can from some limited play, but worth a look.
Trivial Pursuit (360)
May 21st
Four more games last night, still no repeated questions. Excellent stuff. I won the first two, but then my wife came back to win the second two, which meant she was the winner, because the first two were just practice games… or something.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
May 21st
I bought a giant moon. 32,000 bells well spent, I feel.
Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce (PSP)
May 21st
Ooh, interesting new type of mission last night. A ten minute time limit and and a load of areas filled with big baddies capable of stunning you to get through before reaching the boss. I was cutting it a little fine – I went off to get the bonus objective on the way – but found a time extender at the entrance to the final area. Didn’t find any items to help me get new weapons, though.
Two Worlds (360)
May 19th
Awful. Just awful.
Not only was it a seemingly endless parade of “run here, trigger cut scene, run back, trigger cut scene, run here, trigger cut scene” but something about it has left me feeling physically ill. I assume something about the graphics (framerate?) but the voice acting is bad enough that it might be the cause.
Just… imagine Oblivion, but from a parallel universe where everything about Oblivion went wrong. It’s Oblivion with a sinister goatee. And one leg. One arthritic leg. One gangrenous, arthritic leg, limping jerkily in the general direction of… of… of… I dunno. Vomit, maybe. A giant lake of vomit.
It looks awful, it sounds awful, the quest design (at least for the forty-five minutes I played) is beyond awful, the combat is… almost serviceable, actually, if quite dull, but having to fight boring wolves and boars every six yards gets old, fast.
This is going cheap on the Internet these days, but your time is worth more than this. Even if you’re an unemployed immortal who has played every other game ever made, go and draw a pretty picture or help someone across the road or something. Just don’t play this. It’s not worth it.
Mind you, maybe it gets better…
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
May 19th
We have a new neighbour! She’s a kangaroo called Matilda. Seems nice, but we didn’t talk much.
