Game endings and beginnings

[amethyst73]

So I finished Okami yesterday.  Most of the business on the ark struck me as a little silly; for all the "Guess what?  You get to fight this boss again!" fights, I was just ridiculously over-powered.  (The ice-element beads that I was able to buy after defeating Lechku and Nechku were very helpful: both Crimson Helm and Orochi, being fire-element beasts, were particularly vulnerable.)  The Yami fight, though?  Sooooooooooo looooooong and tiring!  But overall I'd say it was a pretty well-designed fight for a final boss. 

I ended up with ~79 stray beads (a couple of them by walkthrough).  I never figured out the fruit on the Guardian Tree over in Ryoshima North Coast.  I never understood why I couldn't walk on the fire-spiders even when equipped with an item that allowed me to swim through friggin' lava, for heaven's sake.  And (tongue-in-cheek) I never understood why Orochi wore those silly party hats everywhere he went.

Overall I really enjoyed the game.  It had more platforming than I would have liked (but I gained patience with myself - and with the occasionally fussy brush technique - as a result).  Exploring, helping people, feeding animals, and most of the dungeon work was all pretty fun.  The original game developers certainly seemed to set themselves up at the end for development of a sequel - Let's go clean up the Celestial Plain! - but as that team of people no longer exists, I wonder if it will ever happen.

We purchased World of Goo last night as our next game to play together.  We played about the first six levels in the first of five or six 'islands'.  They're already getting a little tricky... It's also an addictive little game - just one more level! just one more try on this level!  I bet I'll have a much better intuitive feel for tension, compression, and center of mass as construction concepts by the time we're done.

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[feir-fireb.livejournal.com]

I've really been enjoying Okami on the Wii myself. I've gotten a little ways past curing the Emperor and have been mostly dealing with stuff in or near Sei-An City. I'm not sure I'm a very good reviewer, having done very little videogaming over the past few years. But I know what I like.

Meanwhile, the Little Guy has actually been getting pretty good at various minigames in Rayman: Raving Rabbids, too. I worry that it, combined with the movie "Wallace and Grommit: Curse of the Were-rabbit" may be mildly warping the kids' basic understanding of rabbits.

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, the Little Guy has actually been getting pretty good at various minigames in Rayman: Raving Rabbids, too. I worry that it, combined with the movie "Wallace and Grommit: Curse of the Were-rabbit" may be mildly warping the kids' basic understanding of rabbits.

Bwa ha ha!!!!

And as long as you know what you like, then that's all that really matters with videogame play. :) Apropos of which, I've just started Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door, and unless it gets a lot more interesting in the next five-ten hours, I'm going to put it down. My gaming hours are rare enough that I refuse to spend them being unengaged by what I'm playing. After all, when we have both Zelda Ocarina and Wind Waker in the house/on the system...

[feir-fireb.livejournal.com]

Y'know, if you don't like the Paper Mario, we will happily send our mailing address to help take it off your hands :)

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Heh. :) I'll keep that in mind - though Huz will want a whack at it as well.