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Game Diary / January 28, 2008 / John / 0
Ahem – anyway, multiple entries today. But not really in the order they were played. First off, a bit of “The Thing” on the PS2, which I used to own on the xbox and never got round to playing. It seems ok – some nice psychology things going on, but seems like a fairly basic
Game Diary / January 25, 2008 / John / 0
This was a bit of a surprise! I haven’t posted anything on it yet because I’m “only” six hours in and I’m still waiting for all the bad things the review sites moaned about to kick in. Which they haven’t. At all. Thing is, gamespot, eurogamer, all those guys, complained that Hoshigami is a bit
Game Diary / November 21, 2007 / John / 1
ZOMG! I actually played a game! AMAZING SCENES ((C) 2007 DeKay). And it only took about 30 seconds of play to remember just how awesome Super Paper Mario is. I was climbing up the inside of a tree and getting up to all kinds of wierd puzzly switch-pressing antics before have a mini-boss battle with
Game Diary / November 20, 2007 / John / 0
Right, so I was playing Breath of Fire and really enjoying it. I was also playing Paper Mario and really enjoying that. And Phantom Hourglass. And Super Paper Mario. And Sin and Punishment. And Endless Ocean. And then I stopped. And I don’t know why. All the gaminess has gone from my life. Metroid Prime:
Game Diary / October 28, 2007 / John / 1
It was a foregone conclusion that the only thing to break my post-Zelda ennui would be another Zelda game. And this one is pure Zelda but in your pocket. By that, I mean it’s a modern, 3D Zelda, rather than a top down Zelda. Not that that’s hugely important, but – well – it’s pretty
Game Diary / October 19, 2007 / John / 1
Whenever anyone mentions RPGs (Japanese style, rather than, say, Neverwinter Knights) conversation rapidly moves to Final Fantasy. As a result there’s little or no talk about the other awesome RPG franchises on the SNES. Foremost of these is the Breath of Fire series. This goes for me as well – I hadn’t played a Breath
Completed Games, Game Diary / October 14, 2007 / John / 0
It is complete – at a little over 50 hours, and I reckon there’s 2-3 hours of optional stuff and at least 10 hours of fishing quests still in there. The ending was as epic as games get, really, with lovely protracted titles showing events in the world after the end of the story. Spoiler
Game Diary / October 14, 2007 / John / 0
It’s unprecedented! OK, so I’ve just defeated what turns out to be the penultimate boss and it used irritating and unnecessary gaming cliche #1: The SuckySuck(tm). But hang on a minute – it was easily the best, funniest, and most entertaining boss battle in the game so far! Essentially, the bad guy warped to half
Game Diary / October 13, 2007 / John / 0
Well, I have to say that the Sky City is the most annoying Zelda dungeon I’ve ever done. Thankfully, though, it was pretty short and was saved by having a fun (if a bit easy) boss at the end. So, now I’m through the mirror and off on a rampage to hunt down the Big
Game Diary / October 10, 2007 / John / 0
I think I’m on final approach now. After a mad scurry about the landscape finding random stuff, I arranged to have myself shot into the sky from a giant cannon and ended up in the Sky City / Castle / Whatever. In this place, I expect I’ll find a miniboss, a boss and the final