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Game Diary / April 21, 2007 / John / 3
This is a bit trickier than one expects from a modern Castlevania game! Anyway, I covered everywhere I could reach in the town painting and did a bit more castle exploring. I also did a couple of quests which have yielded a double jump ability (which is handy) and defeated another boss (or two –
Game Diary / April 19, 2007 / John / 0
ZOMG! Well, firstly can I just say that Portrait of Ruin is easily one of the best looking games on the DS and equally easily the prettiest Castlevania EVAR. Nice parallax effects, a lot of 3D backgrounds and baddies and the usual whippeding action. The whole dual character thing is a bit confusing, but I’m
Completed Games, Game Diary / April 19, 2007 / John / 1
Guhh! Death’s second form is quite breathtakingly hard. Fortunately you’re free to go and find a save point after his first form. Which is just as well, because I’ve spent well over three hours play time being killed by Dracula, going off and getting up a level, coming back, getting killed, levelling again, etc. By
Geekery / April 16, 2007 / John / 0
I get so many requests for my OpenPGP key these days that I thought I may as well post it here to save people asking. You can download the transport armour version here. It’s also available on the main keyserver at http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/ under the key ID jmd at nelefa.org (but replace the at with an
Game Diary / April 15, 2007 / John / 0
Gah! I’m consoling myself with the thought that I’m not incredibly rubbish at this but that the AI does, in fact, cheat like a cheating thing. Not only that, but the hint marker that comes up almost always shows you a move that will leave you wide open to a massive damage-fest by the enemy
Music / April 15, 2007 / John / 0
I don’t, as a rule, blog about music because I listen to so much of it that I’d never get anything else done. This album, though, warrants an entry for its sheer ACENESS. I find that I get so used to bands being unable to match their over-produced studio efforts on the stage that I
Game Diary / April 13, 2007 / John / 0
ZOMG! It’s the best game EVAR! Well, it’s really good anyway. Basically, it’s an RPG in the style of Final Fantasy Tactics or Fire Emblem. Except instead of the usual style of turn based combat you play – well – bejewelled. It shouldn’t work, but it really really does. Except, even early on, it’s as
Ramblings / April 12, 2007 / John / 0
“Polled I/O FTL. You’d think the interrupt had never been designed. Oh. That was really quite geeky, wasn’t it?” “Yes. Yes, it was.”
Game Diary / April 11, 2007 / John / 0
Well, I found some vikings who were landlocked by a rampaging sea dragon and needed my help in settling it down. So, off I headed to the dragon shrine and turned my whole party into toads to cross a pond and then into mini-mes to get into a stone dragon’s gob. Once in there, I
Ramblings / April 10, 2007 / John / 0
A bit pretty, isn’t it? This is a two minute walk from where we live. It’s impossible to describe how good it is to be able to just wander off and sit on the grass in the quiet – particularly as we’re living in a fairly built up area. The thing I particularly like is