Category: Game Diary

Castlevania – Harmony of Dissonance (GBA)

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

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Castlevania – Dawn of Sorrow

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

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Legend of Zelda – Twilight Princess (Nintendo Wii)

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

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Super Mario 64 (Wii virtual console)

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?

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Legend of Zelda – Twilight Princess (Nintendo Wii)

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

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World of Warcraft – Trollbert Reborn

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

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42 All-time Classics (Nintendo DS)

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

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World of Warcraft (PC)

I have too many characters. It’s official. I’ve been having a blast with ol’ Pooky recently. I got him over the horrible hump of the early twenties. It seems to be a bit of a rough spot with mages – not enough damage to attack anything higher than green and groups are hard to come

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Monster Hunter Freedom (PSP)

This is a kinda fighty-RPG-Lite, and it’s not at all bad. So far, my little girly warrior (Bague, natch) has done the first six quests (or thereabouts) so it’s still early days. I did start out with an outrageously large sword which took ages to swing. This was fine and well until I encountered my

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