A Gaming Diary
DS
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (DS)
Sep 23rd
Still playing this.
Still not quite sure why.
Got some new team members this evening. That’s nice.
Harvest Moon DS (DS)
Sep 23rd
My wife’s playing this (and the GBA version), so I decided to have a look. Like all new Harvest Moon games, it’s a mixture of the utterly familiar and completely baffling. In this case, with a very odd interface that relies on both the touch screen and the buttons in odd combinations. I’ve not played it much yet, there’s a learning curve I need to battle through.
Mega Man ZX (DS)
Sep 20th
Stuck game on Easy mode, sat through the incredibly long initial cutscene, killed the first boss and now I’m on my first mission… except I can’t work out where to go. Am completely stuck. Feel stupid.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (DS)
Sep 20th
Well, I can now recruit new members for my rescue team. At least, I can in theory. Apart from the one given to me as part of the story I’ve not managed to find any more.
It’s got a bit tiring to be honest, so far there’s not enough meat to the dungeon crawling and the crawls are too short compared to the time spent buggering around in town sorting out items and getting new jobs and such.
Hopefully just a problem in the initial stages.
Oh, and there’s a surprising amount of story in the game, too. Not very interesting story, but it’s there.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (DS)
Sep 19th
My first roguelike.
No, it’s not my first roguelike, that’s what it should be subtitled. (Except making the name of the game any longer might cause something to collapse.)
Anyway, you’re not an adventurer, you’re a Pokemon. You don’t find scrolls and swords, you find berries and gummies.
The levels are not huge and sprawling, just small and compact.
But it’s fun enough and I’m sure it’ll get more complicated later on. And it gave me an interview at the beginning and told me I was bulbasaur. Fair enough, I guess. I chose Pikachu to my companion, because, well, he’s Pikachu, I guess. (I’m sure I should have thought about which type of Pokemon would be best complement my grass type Pokemon and all that, but, you know, come on.)
Anyway: fun.
Lego Star Wars 2 (DS)
Sep 18th
Oh dear.
This just doesn’t really work on the DS.
And I’m not sure if it isn’t the fault of the DS Lite’s d-pad.
Metroid Prime Pinball (DS)
Sep 10th
I think I’m starting to get into this. My scores seem to be improving. I’m still quite sure what I’m doing, but I think I’m learning. You need to collect enough artefacts to light up SAMUS to move to a boss level, or something.
Manual? Pah!
Star Fox Command (DS)
Sep 10th
Seems okay. Controls aren’t too bad, though every now and again I get up and down confused. Depends whether I concentrate on the crosshair or the ship, or something.
Only done the training and the first level, but I had some fun.
Metroid Prime Pinball (DS)
Sep 7th
Finally got around to trying this. It seems all right. Games are about the right length for me, too, and not endless endurance matches like some GBA pinball games I could mention. Not much idea of how the table I tried works yet, mind.
