A Gaming Diary
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Braid (360)
Aug 16th
Got the remaining puzzle pieces in World 3, got all the ones in World 4 and am currently pretty confused by World 5.
It’s a good, fun puzzle/platform game, but I don’t see where the 10/10s are coming from, or the love for the story. Either I’m missing something or, well, it’s videogame-good and not good-good.
SBK08 Demo (360)
Aug 16th
It’s bikes. Ones with engines. Ones I can’t drive. I have no idea whether it’s any good or not, I do know that it’s not for me.
Four wheels good, two wheels bad.
Fable 2 Pub Games Demo (360)
Aug 16th
Rubbish, but the card game is strangely addictive.
I’d never, ever even consider buying it for 800 points, but it might be nice to get for free with a pre-order, if Microsoft actually manage to organise it.
Bionic Commando Rearmed Demo (360)
Aug 16th
I like this. Quite a lot. Maybe enough to buy.
Hard but fair, based on the demo. Pity it doesn’t let you fight the boss, because that would definitely decide me one way or the other.
As well as the conversion of the old NES game, there are also some VR-style challenge missions. There are two available in the demo. The first is slightly tricky, the second is incredibly hard. Goodness know what the rest are like.
Braid (360)
Aug 12th
I went back and did World 2 again. Some of the jumps took a good while to get right, but I didn’t have any real problems. At least I remembered all the solutions to the puzzles. I moved on to World 3 and didn’t manage to get all the puzzle pieces before having to stop playing so we could watch Richard Dawkins on the telly. I think I’ve got two left. One I might be able to work out when I go back, but another is completely baffling. It looks like I need to speed something up – but how can I do that when I can only reverse time? Hopefully fresh eyes this evening will reveal the solution.
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 (360)
Aug 12th
Half an hour playing Pacifism. I got a new high score and went up a place on my Friends Leaderboard, but it wasn’t a huge improvement. Just an extra million or so. Still, better than nothing.
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 (360)
Aug 8th
Went to bed a few minutes late because I couldn’t stop trying to get Wax Off. I failed. Didn’t even get close.
I need to get that Achievement, because it’s distracting me when I try to play Pacifism.
Facebreaker Demo (360)
Aug 7th
Took a long, long time to process my Xbox Live Vision camera pictures to make a face and ended up with a fighter who had all my facial features but looked nothing at all like me. It was all a bit strange – and the head was tiny.
Didn’t find much to recommend in the game, either. A basic fighter that didn’t seem to have any of the fluidity or finesse of decent fighters.
Alone in the Dark Demo (360)
Aug 7th
Far too dark, clunky, annoying. Really couldn’t be bothered with it and after dying while rappelling down a wall past big fans and broken electrical cables I turned it off.
