The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Game Diary / September 30, 2005 / John / 0
This is my new daytime game. The reason I’m making a distinction between daytime and nighttime games is because the other title I’m playing is Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow on the DS and I only get access to the DS when I can prise it from Debbie’s clutching grip of doom. At least until she’s
Completed Games, Game Diary / September 29, 2005 / John
‘Tis ended! Mecha-Ridley is a rusty bag of nuts and bolts. The expected Predator moment (Get to da Choppa!) happened and I had a short amount of time to leg it. The lack of access to a save point worried me a little, but as it happens I escaped with over a minute left on
Game Diary / September 29, 2005 / John / 0
Gnaargh! Another boss! Mecha Ridley is a dirty great thing that takes up half of the screen and has a vulnerable spot about zero pixels across which is only vulnerable to missiles and is two high to hit from a standing start. So, you have to hop in the air and hit it with a
Game Diary / September 29, 2005 / John
Well, after an annoying but mercifully short stealth section, I now have FULL POWAZ! And I spent the first fifteen minutes or so revisiting all the annoying bits that’s driven me nuts for the past forty five minutes and blown the bejeebers out of the Space Pirates there. So, it’s now back to the surface
Game Diary / September 28, 2005 / John
Did I mention I detest stealth games? And that I have a special loathing for stealth in a game which doesn’t really need it? People buying Metroid games are buying them because they expect a lot of running around blowing stuff up. They don’t expect to be buying a hiding simulator. Seethe.
Game Diary / September 28, 2005 / John
MOTHER BRAIN DEFEAT0RED! About two seconds after I sent a spleen venting email to DeKay, I gave it another go and turned that doggone brain into spongey morsels. Immediately following this is a rather tense dash up a vertical arrangment of collapsing platforms. This latter is done against the clock with much booming and shaking
Game Diary / September 28, 2005 / John / 0
NeYaaaaargh! Mother Brain is a dirty great pulsating GIT. If I’m not being knocked into the lava I’m being flattened by her Gaze Of Death. I suspect I’m not using the screw attack to best advantage. FAIL. Must Try Harder.
Game Diary / September 27, 2005 / John
Mother Brain Found! Mother Brain ripped my spine out through my arse. Gah. I’m going to have to try a different strategy. Wonder if there’s a way to take out those irritating stingy polo-fruit type things. Or the cannons. Or the lava. The giant pulsating brain I can handle – it’s all the ancillary wierdness
Game Diary / September 27, 2005 / John / 0
How could I have forgotten! Before moving on to the Metroid infested area, I kicked Ridley in the spleen to repay it for my earlier humiliation. Now, moving swiftly on – one hour’s play at lunchtime has seen me moving across a single deck to the next save point. Metroid’s are fecking evil. It’s the
Game Diary / September 26, 2005 / John
7 Hours in. Screw Attack Get! It’s a mixed blessing really. Ok, it opens up loads of new areas and is a very effective attack strategy, but it can make negotiating tricky areas a tad more difficult due to its habit of annihilating platforms. Anyway, I’ve reached Taurian and finding corridors full of dead space