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Game Diary / February 1, 2007 / John / 0
I had to stop playing last night. It was another Ico moment – possibly the most exciting experience I’ve had in thirty or so years of playing video games. Without giving away any spoilers to anyone who’s not played the game yet, there’s a section about ten hours in where you (as Link) have to
Game Diary / January 22, 2007 / John / 0
Ooohhhh it’s just lovely. So, I’ve rescued yet another light spirit and have changed from shadowy dog thingy back to Link once again. Next up is a trip to the Goron village to find out what they’re in such a bad mood about. Bashing loads of baddies on the way, naturally. Hopefully I won’t bump
Game Diary / January 22, 2007 / John / 0
Well, I haven’t completed Dawn of Sorrow yet, but I’m temporarily stuck at a nasty big zombie dinosaur boss, so I’ve temporarily diverted my attention to the above. And it’s a work of genius. Simpler than later CV games, for sure, but still lovely. It has the same wonderful elements, including but not limited to
Game Diary / January 13, 2007 / John / 3
Easily one of the best franchises out there – this is my second run through Dawn of Sorrow (although I never completed it the last time, I’m ashamed to say). I have the valueriffic Castlevania double-pack all lined up and ready to go[0] and thought I’d better finish this one first. [0] We’re going flying
Game Diary / January 8, 2007 / John / 0
Woohoo! Forest Temple complet0rated! That’s the first dungeon done, although at seven and a half hours in, it’s taken a fair time to get to it. I’ve just wandered out of the newbie area into Hyrule Field and, well, it’s big! There’s no sign of Epona and all the kids have been nicked from the
Game Diary / January 5, 2007 / John / 0
Woohoo! Well, we have a bit of spare time on our hands so we thought “what better way to spend it than getting Mario64 from the Wii online shop channel and seeing how quickly we can finish it as a group.” So that’s what we’re doing. Ace, eh?
Game Diary / January 4, 2007 / John / 0
Well, who’d have thought I’d actually play a game? Had a wee go of Zelda today – it really is a work of art – it’s a true return to form, feeling very much like Ocarina of Time. I’m still in the first dungeon, despite having a cumulative play time of 5 and a half
Game Diary / December 23, 2006 / John / 0
Well who’d have thought it – I actually had a go of the Wii! Twilight Princess is exactly what you’d expect it to be – it’s a work of pure unadulterated genius. It feels like more of a direct follow-up to Ocarina of Time than to Wind Waker, but also has quite a dark feel
Game Diary / December 3, 2006 / John / 0
Well, the latency to the European servers from Australia is just dreadful, so I’ve opened an account on the US servers. Latency to the US isn’t much better, but at least the latency indicator is yellow rather than red. So anyway, I rerolled Trollbert on an Oceania server – I had always wished I’d rolled
Game Diary / October 22, 2006 / John / 1
What an Ace little cartridge! It has card games, board games, bowling, darts – it’s just ace! I forgot how much I like Rummy 🙂 It’s also multiplayer with a single cart and even has 7-player online multiplayer. Not only that, but it’s only twenty quid. That’s forty-odd P a game – not to be