amethyst73 | Reviews and stuff (Reply)

Food/restaurant: The Bean Scene Cafe may be physically convenient to the Mountainview Center for the Performing Arts, but boy are they sloooooooooooow. We ordered around 6:20 or 6:25. There was one order ahead of us, consisting of two dinner crepes and a salad. It should not have taken nearly half an hour for the single guy who was there to put together that order plus our two sandwiches. There are several places nearby which would probably take an equivalent amount of time to get to, acquire and order food, and return to the MVCPA by showtime which we will investigate next time around.

Theater: We went to a show that was part of a local New Works theater last night and saw Equivocation, by Bill Cain. It was very good: Will Shakespeare is asked to write a play about the 'true' (well, official, anyway) story of the Gunpowder Plot. There's lots of reference to recent/current events (Robert Cecil, the Prime Minister, cannot produce the 36 barrels of gunpowder because the powder has been dispersed - after all, together those barrels could kill a lot of people. Old weapon of mass destruction, ya know) and the writing is almost Shavian in its witty and biting humor. The second act tends to drag a bit, and will likely be the focus of future rewrites. Perhaps we'll get to see it in its final form in a year or two!

Zelda happiness: Finished the Forest Temple earlier this afternoon! It took a lot of tries to successfully use the monkey-swing, but once in the room I beat the end boss in only one go!
Now, admittedly, I drank all three doses of healing that I had with me. And after every cycle of defeating the two sub-creatures, the boss just kind of stood there and didn't do anything harmful while I attempted to deliver bombs to its head. And I had to hunt for heart-pots later on, and I had the huz looking on and offering very helpful advice... but I did it! And I have a fourth heart container!

Rayman sadness: The huz had been working on day 11 (I think) of Rayman, and had essentially just completed a somewhat nasty task... when the console crashed. This is one more reason to dislike games that won't let you save any time you want to (or at least, any time that you've completed a task, but not a day.)