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A Gaming Diary
Nurikabe (DS)
Apr 24th
First game I’ve played in ages and there’s nothing to say about it.
I started it up, I did three puzzles, I stopped.
I think I’m just waiting for GTA IV before getting back to the gaming, though hopefully I’ll get some Mario Kart time soon.
Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
Apr 11th
I need italics.
This game is brilliant.
The wheel is a great accessory and really adds to the experience, after five or six races of falling off things, bashing into walls and failing to do tricks. I thoroughly enjoyed my time paying through the first couple of 50cc cups.
But where it got the italics was online. Just playing random people was amazing. No visible lag at all, which is incredible. Whether Nintendo have written amazing net code or amazing lag-hiding code I don’t know, but it was just as smooth as playing offline. Except, you know, instead of playing cheating AI characters I was playing real people in the UK, Germany and France. I just thought I’d try out a race or two and ended up playing for an hour. I only stopped because I had to get some potatoes out of the oven.
Grand Theft Auto 2 (PSP)
Apr 10th
Always my least favourite GTA and, oof, it’s not aged well at all. Played for half an hour or so, but failed to find the fun.
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (PS3)
Apr 10th
Just one event completed tonight, and only with a bronze medal. Still, it was a great few minutes. I’m just loving the handling in this so much.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (DS)
Apr 9th
My wife finished this today but missed a cut scene, so I’m going to try and finish it so she can see it. Made some good progress today, opening up a couple of new areas and getting my first new team members.
Ikaruga (360)
Apr 9th
I’ve owned Ikaruga on the DC and GC, but it’s never really clicked.
Tonight, though, after a good few tries of the demo it finally did. Took its time, but we finally got there.
So I bought the full game with some points I’ve had sitting around since last year and I’m about 2050th in the world, or something.
NetHackDS (DS)
Apr 9th
Game gave me a human knight today. Nothing very interesting there, I don’t think, but at least I had a pony as a pet, which was new to me. Couldn’t work out if I could ride him, though.
Got down to level six, before a milky potion made me hallucinate and fail to fight off the monsters that came to get me. I forgot to try praying again, but I’d prayed a little earlier to get over a bought of food poisoning so my god probably wouldn’t have done anything for me, anyway.
NetHack (Mac)
Apr 9th
Sometimes, this game is just awful.
I was continuing a game from yesterday lunchtime, where I’d got down to level nine in the dungeons, much, much better than normal. I had some good equipment and was doing well. I attacked a floating eye (I think) and suddenly I was dead. The message history just had “The Tengu bites” all down it and I couldn’t scroll back any further.
I guess that the floating eye had frozen me or something and the tengu had come up behind me and killed me while I was helpless, but it would have been nice to have been able to see what happened. Boo.
Mario Kart DS (DS)
Apr 9th
Did a 150cc cup. Won every race, but still only got a C ranking. I guess I’m out of practice.
I wonder if anyone plays online still? And, if so, do any of them not snake all the way around each course?
Mr Driller: Drill Spirits (DS)
Apr 9th
A few more attempts at the 1500m stage, none of them in the least bit successful.
Ah well.
