Category: Game Diary

Zelda – Link to the Past (GBA)

Pendant of Courage GET! Ice Staff GET! Bow GET! Book of Whatsisface GET! So, I’m off to the dungeon in the desert (Southwest of the map, if you know the game) next. Had a few detours along the way, but nothing awful. Link to the Past is by far the hardest Zelda game I’ve played,

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Zelda – Link to the Past (GBA)

Well, it’s Zelda time again. I’ve never really made a concerted effort with Link to the Past, despite really enjoying what little I’ve played of it. I always got a bit lost because I really didn’t have the time to invest in it. With two hours on the bus every day, however, that’s no longer

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Stats and Stuff

Well, not many posts of late. The only things I’ve really been playing are World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, and I really don’t think anyone would be interested in what stats my black mage or tauren druid have. So I’ve been kinda quiet. I have also had a bit of multiplayer fun

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Random Guff

Been playing quite a few things of late. World of Warcraft has sucked me back in again, and I now have a cute little gnomish rogue who is, frankly, lethal. I’ve just reached Ironforge for the first time and, after the newbie lands, it’s a bit of a culture shock. I feel like a country

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Eve Online (PC)

Bah. I made the mistake of paying attention to something someone at work was talking about. He mentioned Eve Online and I though ‘oh, an MMO that seems to have slipped below my radar’. So, I had a look. It has a fourteen day free trial. ‘Oh well,’ I thought again, ‘nothing ventured nothing gained.’

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An Open Letter to Activision

Dear Activision, Recently, my ten year old son purchased Lionhead Studios’ ‘The Movies’. On attempting to install it, however, he discovered that the DVD drive in the computer he proudly assembled himself would not read the DVD. It reads all other DVDs just fine. He asked if I could try the disk in my computer

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Mario and Luigi (DS)

Seven hours and fifteen minutes in and I managed to rescue all the Yoshis. Hooray! It involved getting eaten by the big pink thing – which was deliberate, obviously. Ahem. Anyway, I ended up wandering about in its innards on a Yoshi hunt, before defeat0ring a big nasty boss beastie and then being part of

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Mario and Luigi – Partners in Time (DS)

Making some progress. I’m currently dotting around on Yoshi’s Island, following a traumatic experience where a big pink dinosaur had eaten all the Yoshis! Made a bit of a nob of myself but letting loose a cry of ‘no! Don’t eat the Yoshis, ye big stupid pink thing!’. On the bus. Got some strange looks.

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Oops

Not been any updates for a few days now. I’m getting the bus into work these days, so you’d think I’d have plenty of time for gaming joy. Sadly not, though. Thing is, it’s been a very long time since I’ve got the bus anywhere at all, so it’s taking a wee while to get

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Mario RPGs!

Well well, it’s a Mario RPG frenzy! I’ve been playing Paper Mario 2 on the GameCube and Mario and Luigi DS on the bus! They’re both very similar games although, surprisingly enough, it’s the DS version which has the deeper gameplay, certainly as far as combat moves are concerned. In fact, some of the chained

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