A Gaming Diary
PSP
Football Manager Handheld
May 5th
I decided not to apply for the Southampton job and was rewarded with a win against Bournemouth and a draw against Hull. In both matches the opposition goalkeeper won Man of the Match. Bastards.
Football Manager Handheld
May 5th
First two matches of the season this morning. League One now, remember, so I wasn’t hoping for much. Came away with an unlucky draw and a lucky win, which isn’t bad for starters.
However, Southampton have sacked their manager. I’ve got all morning to decide whether or not to apply for the job. (Er, while I write some PHP code to talk to a Microsoft SQL database. I’m not just going to be sitting around pondering.) It would take me up to the Championship, but Southampton’s finances are insecure so I might be stuck with a rubbish squad and no money. I had told myself I’d apply for any job just to get away from Torquay, but after two half-decent games this morning I’m thinking that maybe I should stick with them.
Hmm… chin stroking time and no mistake.
Mega Man Powered Up
Apr 29th
I couldn’t get any further with the Old Style game after playing more, so I tried New Style, which is more different than I thought it would be. There’s an extra initial stage and the two main stages I’ve seen so far are very different from the originals, but with lots of hints of the original layouts. Anyway, did the first stage with Mega Man and Roll, then did the Cut Man stage with Mega Man. Tried the Gut Man stage after that, but just couldn’t do it. That left me with a completion percentage of 0.6%. Of New Style mode, not including Old Style or the challenges.
And talking of challenges, I’d unlocked the Cut Man ones, so did the first two of them without much trouble. Then the third one took me a long, long, long time. Number of goes well into triple figures. But unlike, say, Marble Blast, it doesn’t feel unfair or impossible. The fourth Cut Man challenge was hard, but much, much easier and went down within thirty or forty tries. The fifth one… well, I took one look at it and ran away. Tried the third Mega Man one, having down the first two earlier, but just couldn’t do it. After about twenty tries I was really feeling tired, so I just gave up.
I’m knackered and the battery is low again, anyway. You do get an awful lot of game for your money.
Mega Man Powered Up
Apr 29th
I’ve just used up a fully charged battery on this, near enough. PSP needs more battery life.
Mostly Old Style game, which is almost the same as the original Mega Man game. Music and graphics have been changed and enemies and bullets don’t pass through walls any more, which makes a big difference. Did the Cutman level – twice, because autosave, er, doesn’t – then the Gutman level, then the Bombman level. No real trouble with any of them. Then tried the Elecman level. Getting to the end isn’t a problem, but Elecman has a stupidly powerful attack and I can hardly get any hits in before he kills me. It’s annoying. So I tried the Iceman level and haven’t been able to get to the end of that at all yet.
Other than that, I tried a couple of the challenge levels, which were fun. I see you need to play the New Style game to unlock new challenges, but I don’t really want to play that until I’ve finsihed off Old Style. However, Old Style may be a bit too tough, so maybe I’ll have a crack at New Style later.
Also went online and downloaded a user made level called “Just try it!!” Was fine until I got to a bit I just couldn’t do at all. Broken level or am I just rubbish? I don’t know.
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 29th
Ah. No transfer budget. Well, £3K, which is as good as nothing.
Played my three pre-season friendlies. Not good results.
This coming season may be… tricky.
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 29th
End of my first season.
English League Cup: Second Round
English FA Cup: Fourth Round
English League Two: 3rd
Yes, third. We climbed that far back up the table by the end, helped no end by Robinson turning into a goal-scoring god for the last few matches of the season. Only third on goal difference, mind. In fact, we had exactly the same won, drawn and lost stats as Bury, the team who came fourth. We also had scored the same number of goals. The only difference was that they’d let in twenty (!) more goals than we had.
And third means automatic promotion. So now League One beckons. It’s quite scary. I don’t think I’m going to hope for more than survival. I wonder if I’ll get any transfer funds?
Connell, one of my best strikers, won the young player of the year award for League Two. I’d be more pleased if he hadn’t broken his leg a couple of weeks before the end of the season. We’ll be lucky to see him in action this year.
Football Manager Handheld
Apr 28th
League form inconsistent in February and early March, but we’re still looking for a play-off place.
More importantly in my head right now we’ve just lost the LDV Vans Trophy on away goals. A horrible injury in the second leg and it finished 2-2 against Cholcester at home after a 0-0 first leg. I am gutted. Completely. Sick as a parrot, even.
