A Gaming Diary
PSP
Jeanne D’Arc (PSP)
Sep 2nd
On to Chapter Two now. I seem to have over-levelled slightly, as the new members joining my team are three or four levels below the rest. Another side effect of doing so many Free Battles is that I’ve got more money than I know what to do with.
Jeanne D’Arc (PSP)
Aug 30th
Another story mission completed. I lost Liane again, though, which meant she missed out on a ton of XP again, which means it’ll be even harder to keep her alive next time around. Healers are such a pain. I think I need to Free Battle for a while.
Jeanne D’Arc (PSP)
Aug 28th
I tried a story mission tonight and Jeanne died. I made a really stupid mistake, a cocky mistake. I thought it would be easy, so I could just run Jeanne in without worrying, but she died. Horribly. I wish there was a quick reload option, instead of having to go all the back to the main menu.
Jeanne D’Arc (PSP)
Aug 27th
Haven’t been advancing the story today. I just took some time out on one of the old levels to work out everything that was confusing me and test out powers and tactics. It’s really very enjoyable and I love the Unified Guard system, which means it’s good to keep your party together.
Jeanne D’Arc (PSP)
Aug 26th
This SPRG seems to have slipped under the radar somewhat. Possibly because it’s on the PSP. If it was on the DS, it wouldn’t look as gorgeous, wouldn’t have such lovely anime cut scenes, but it might be getting some attention.
I’ve played it for a little over two hours now and it’s rather good. Not worth buying a PSP for, but worth dusting one off for.
Equipping skills is a little confusing still, but the only real trouble is that the lovely anime cut scenes aren’t subtitlted, which is very annoying as I tend to play handheld games with the sound off. I’m sure I’m not alone in that.
Sega Genesis Collection (PSP)
Aug 25th
On the face of it, twenty-odd Sega classics for ten quid sounds like a remarkable deal. However…
Alex Kidd – Bad graphics, horrible one hit deaths. Quite fun for five minutes.
Columns – Seems to get too fast too quickly. Quite fun for ten minutes.
Comix Zone – Incredible graphics, basic but reasonable beat-em-up fun. Quite fun for five minutes.
Flicky – Can’t work out how to shoot. I’m sure I used to be able to play this, but right now this not fun for two minutes.
Gain Ground – Too hard for my twenty-first century, molly-coddled gaming brain. Quite fun, though, for about a minute and a half, until level two appears and kicks you in the crotch.
Kid Chameleon – Annoying graphical glitch means backgrounds become a slightly different colour when scrolling. Still, kept my attention for an entire game and was quite fun for ten or fifteen minutes I played.
Ristar – Looks lovely, feels a little clunky. Quite fun for ten minutes.
Shinobi III – Most enemies no challenge, then a boss comes along which is impossble. A small about of fun, followed by frustration.
Sonic The Hedehog 2 – It’s Sonic 2, which means I still can’t do the Casino Zone boss. I’m rubbish like that. Good fun up until that point, though.
VectorMan – Looks lovely, but is too hard. Quite fun for five minutes.
Okay, there are a lot more games on there, but it’s not been too great so far. Nothing’s grabbed my attention.
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee (PSP)
Aug 4th
I’ve completed all the Senior events now and am about the step up to Grand. I hope it’s not too much harder.
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee (PSP)
Aug 3rd
I’ve been having a good time with this. The events I’m doing now are just hard enough to be a challenge, without being frustrating. Had some bitter Sudden Death defeats and some wonderful victories on points. It’s good stuff.
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee (PSP)
Jul 31st
This is just as enjoyable as I remembered it, which isn’t bad after two (yes, two) years. I’ve started using the old guy to get his loyalty up. Sometime I need to find out how you get medals. There’s a space for them all, but I haven’t got any yet.
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee (PSP)
Jul 30th
The PS3 version of this is out in Japan and my lust for it is wild, but I’m not going to buy it. For it costs money and is in Japanese. So I loaded up the PSP version for the first time in many a moon. Or “months” as I sometimes like to call them. My save file is, I’m sure, a long way behind where it should be – I think some backing up went wrong somewhere – but never mind. I started it up and got my “best ever” (i.e. best on this save) score on an event (a lovely minus five over nine holes), which made me happy.
