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A Gaming Diary
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (360)
Jun 4th
The face mapping worked! I asked my wife and she said the result looks reasonably like me. Shame it appears to have made me bald – my hairline isn’t that far back! And my right eye appears to be completely out of focus, but I’m wearing a visor over them now. It’s certainly a much better result than the one I got from the original Vegas game, where I looked like a cross between a panda and an Oompa Loompa.
The game, though? Well, it’s marvellous, it really is. The enemy placement is clever, the levels allow for different approaches to encounters and the shooting works properly. Your AI teammates aren’t the cleverest of chaps, but can be very helpful. Essential, even.
And I love, love, love the way you’re constantly getting experiencing points in different categories. Seeing bonus points pop up for good kills makes everything feel more rewarding, even when you’re redoing the same section of the game for the fourth time. I very much approve.
Pocoro Demo (360)
Jun 4th
And the third community game of the night. A nice little puzzle game, but I got annoyed with it when it started getting hard. My problem, not the game’s. Well worth a look.
Dock’em Demo (360)
Jun 4th
A simple little game, but well worth a look. Ships enter the screen from all directions and you have to draw paths to their correct ports, without having any collide. It’s all good… except for the alert noise, which is the worst noise in any videogame ever. It annoys me and got to my wife so much that she had to go upstairs. It’s horrible – and I stopped playing myself soon enough because I feared I was going to get a headache.
MySims Kingdom (Wii)
Jun 4th
My wife was playing this when I got home last night, so I went and had a lovely bath and read the Fortean Times. When I got out, she stopped playing and I had a go. It really is very good. I find collecting essences a little tedious at times, but that’s my only complaint. The rest is great. It looks gorgeous, it controls well, there’s enough scope for my own creativity even at this early stage and the writing is genuinely good.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Jun 3rd
I caught a fire fly! And an eel! They both went to the museum. I also found the money rock, got all the money from it and bought everything in Nook’s. Now only a couple of hundred points away from silver membership.
Demon’s Souls (PS3)
Jun 3rd
I’ve played this for about thirteen hours now. I have completed levels 1-1 and 2-1. That’s it.
Last night I mostly played 4-1. I can get to the boss easily enough if I’m careful, but I keep getting over confident and getting myself killed. And when I do get to the boss I die within seconds. I’ve really not worked out how to avoid his attacks and haven’t had long enough to study him.
I ran out of healing items after a while, so I went back and did level 1-1 again. I died so much when I first played, but now it’s very easy indeed. I waded through the whole level with no problems at all, gathering healing items and enough souls to get myself up another level.
And then it was back to 4-1 and many more deaths. I’ll get that Adjudicator boss one day…
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Jun 2nd
Had barely any time to play this, so just logged on, talked to Chow, then left.
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (360)
Jun 2nd
Spent half an hour trying to scan my face in. Failed. And why, every time I took a picture of me facing to the left, did it flip it round so I was facing right? Is it meant to do that? Help!
Anyway, after giving up I tried the first mission, which was all sorts of fun, but I died a lot. Not Demon’s Souls amounts of death, but more than I’d expect on what amounts to a tutorial level.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Jun 1st
Went to Cheese, home to deKay. He only seemed to have cherries, so I left and came back loaded down with fruit, with I dropped in a huge pile.
It’s amazing how green that town is. I’d forgotten how much lovely grass there is in towns when they’re new, before it all gets trampled down to the brown dirt below.
