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A Gaming Diary
Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
Aug 3rd
Picked 200,000 bells worth of fruit while Eastenders was on. Now only have to find another 70,000 to pay off my final mortgage and be free of Tom Nook forever.
Singstar (PS3)
Aug 3rd
No new songs today, but the wife and I rocked some old ones. We beat our previous high scores on just about every track we played. I’m not sure what was special about today, but I seemed to be just a little better than normal. I still can’t hit a single note in some songs though. Not sure why, but Losing My Religion is just impossible for me. And the less said about The Greatest Love of All the better.
Soul Calibur IV (360)
Aug 3rd
Oh dear. I’ve not even got to floor twenty and the Tower of Souls is getting hard for me. Maybe I need to work out how to play properly, but that sounds like an effort.
Went online for a few ranked matches and lost every single one – though today I did win a few rounds.
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 (360)
Aug 3rd
Last time I checked, deKay still hadn’t beaten my Deadline score, I’d got back above him in King, but he was winning everything else.
Got the Treaty Achievement today. Can’t do Wax Off, which is annoying as the status updates are quite distracting when I’m playing Pacifism. Not sure what the others are that I’ve got left to do, except for Smile, which will probably elude me forever.
Jeanne D’Arc (PSP)
Aug 3rd
A great big clump of story missions this evening. The story has gone in a slightly unexpected direction. One which is fine by me, but which has really mucked up my wife’s game.
Hopefully it’s not a permanent thing.
Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
Aug 3rd
Fireworks night! Hooray!
And a new KK Slider song – KK Folk. How can this game still have new things in after all this time?
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 (360)
Aug 3rd
It would be nice if people I’d passed in the leaderboards didn’t play again.
It’s a bit soon to making any real judgments, but this game feel special in a very rare way. I think this might be a long-term game.
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 (360)
Aug 2nd
When I started playing today deKay was above me on all the leaderboards. By the time I finished, I was ahead on four of them. I’m never going to beat his Pacifism or Sequence scores, though.
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 (360)
Aug 1st
LIke the original, but much, much better. Six different modes, no boring minutes at the beginning of a game.
I’m not bottom of my friends list – Turbohat has that position sewn up in almost every mode – but I’m not not doing too well. There seem to be a couple of groups of people in each leaderboard. To borrow deKay’s analogy, they’re like the Premiership and the Championship. I’m doing okay in the Championship, but I doubt I’ll ever get promoted.
Current favourite game mode is easily Pacifism, which is incredibly addictive and fun. All the modes seem to be worth playing, though, which is quite amazing.
Also, top marks for the unlocking system – and for having the next score on your friends list displayed when you’re playing. Although suddenly noticing I’ve overtaken deKay, or whoever, tends to make me die.
