Category: Game Diary

Castlevania – Aria of Sorrow (GBA)

Urg! Balore == defeatored! His appearance (i.e. AFTER the boss bat) is pretty funny in a campy B-Movie kind of way, but he doesn’t really put up that much of a fight. So, I can now turn into a bat and have a bag stuffed full of ridiculously powerful swords. So – two books collected,

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Castlevania – Aria of Sorrow (GBA)

  Three things. 1. Legion == defeatorated. 2. 72.6% of the map is explored. 3. Now that I’m used to playing GBA games on my shiny DS Lite, half an hour on my lad’s GBA Micro has resulted in severe cramps in my left thumb.

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Castlevania – Aria of Sorrow (GBA)

Woah, what? I’ve only done 54.3% of the map and I’m at DEATH already? Oh well! His first form was pretty easy but the second form was harder. I used every potion I had, but he went down on the second attempt. I can now do a funky sickle throw thingy and I picked up

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Castlevania – Aria of Sorrow (GBA)

Hah! I can now walk on water, I’ve found part 3 of the map and have the poisontastic Hrunting (a nice shiny sword which is very fast and does loads of damage). So, scampering around the map got me into the floating garden which has routes to various unattached floaty rooms that have annoying hoppy-about-the-placey

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Castlevania – Aria of Sorrow (GBA)

See what I mean about it being pretty and colourful? Anyway – I’ve uncovered 34.1% of the map and really only popped back to Hammer (that man has a one-track-mind) to stock up on potions after Headhunter made me use them all. I’ve got a pretty good idea where to go next, but there’s a

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World of Warcraft (PC)

Yaaaawn! Was on Warcraft for the first time in a couple of weeks last night to make some items to send to a guy at work. Bloody hell, what a chore it turned out to be! Not only that, but it was time which should have been spent whippeding skullotons in Castlevania 🙂 I think

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Castlevania – Aria of Sorrow (GBA)

Another lunchtime another boss battle. The happy chappy in this case was a particularly nasty little creature called head-hunter. Annoyingly, he had three forms (although the first arguably doesn’t count as it was so easy to dispatch) each more annoying that the last. Not difficult, just annoying. Anyway, with said boss dispatched, I now have

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Castlevania – Aria of Sorrow (GBA)

Two more bosses down – the big armoury one I can’t remember the name of, and a dirty great golemy thing that I also can’t remember the name of. The bottom line is I can now double jump and slide under things. In other news, I’ve now got access to the shop and the first

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Castlevania – Aria of Sorrow (GBA via DS Lite)

I know, I know, I didn’t mean it, alright? I was happily playing Final Fantasy III and I reached into my wee bag to dig out the charger for the DS Lite and Aria of Sorrow just kind of looked at me with a mournful expression on its wee plasticky face. So, I’ve started my

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Final Fantasy III (DS)

I’ve been waiting ages to start this, but I had (and still have, I guess) too many Castlevania games in the way. Well, it’s time for a change of pace I think. The first thought was “ZOMG!” – the introductory FMV is beautiful – exactly the type of thing you expect from Squenix. Once the

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