Videogame blather
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amethyst73Link was exceedingly dense while wandering around Snowpeak earlier.
Number of times he attempted to carry a cannonball past the rotating ice-dragon creatures in cages, or throw the ball up to a level spot, or similar, before realizing there were holes in the cages through which he could bash the creatures: More than I care to remember.
But once I noticed the holes, boyoboy, progress! I've got the (erhm) key to the bedroom.. and while the map shows no boss, I cannot believe that There Is No Boss There. There's also another chest which I haven't gotten to yet, which I'm assuming is the second heart piece (since all the other chests are gone now, and I have one but not two heart pieces from Snowpeak). It's the one on the second floor of the main hallway, which I'm sort of assuming will involve the three chandeliers. If only I could reliably make that dratted ice skeleton fall off the stairs and die, life would be considerably simpler with regards to solving this puzzle!
And, still in Zelda-land, the huz and I ran an experiment last night. He did some Librivox recording stuff in the office with the door closed, and I played Zelda in the living room on the lowest audible volume setting (and kept my mutterings quiet). No videogame noise on the recording! Huzzah! So now, while I will probably often choose to stick audiobooks on my Shuffle and do cross-stitch while the huz records, just 'cuz that's something I don't actually get to do very often, I know I have the option of game-playing! Eeeee, excitement!
Meanwhile, we sold Super Monkey Balls back to the local Gamestop for a surprisingly reasonable amount, and put the credit from that towards a used copy of Super Paper Mario. The huz played all of chapter 1-1, and has gotten his second Pixl in the town in chapter 1-2. It's huge fun to watch. Pretty graphics, if stylized, and the flipping from one dimension to the other is a real hoot. (Giant Mario is - not to pun - an even bigger hoot.) The dialogue so far is really very clever, and the play is pretty straightforward. One minor blow to Nintendo, though: there's NOTHING in the manual (and I think, similarly, NOTHING from Tippy, your hint-Pixl that you start out with) about how to enter a pipe. The huz would have gotten really frustrated had I not had a moment of insight there in the middle of chapter 1-2.
Finally, as I mentioned in my last post, we downloaded Wave Race 64 the other day, based on my vague but month-long desire for a racing game just to have something different that was a good pick-up-and-play-a-few-minutes game, and on the IGN review of it. It's fun! I'm not even vaguely competent yet at doing any of the tricks (barrel rolls and flips off the ramps, doing a handstand or facing backwards or standing up while riding), but I have mostly gotten over the initial difficulty I had with oversteering. Just playing around in the practice area is a lot of fun. We both think that IGN went a bit overboard in claiming that the water physics are still the best around, though. They're fine. They're quite nice. Amazing, I'm afraid they just aren't. But at $10, I'm not going to complain. :)
Number of times he attempted to carry a cannonball past the rotating ice-dragon creatures in cages, or throw the ball up to a level spot, or similar, before realizing there were holes in the cages through which he could bash the creatures: More than I care to remember.
But once I noticed the holes, boyoboy, progress! I've got the (erhm) key to the bedroom.. and while the map shows no boss, I cannot believe that There Is No Boss There. There's also another chest which I haven't gotten to yet, which I'm assuming is the second heart piece (since all the other chests are gone now, and I have one but not two heart pieces from Snowpeak). It's the one on the second floor of the main hallway, which I'm sort of assuming will involve the three chandeliers. If only I could reliably make that dratted ice skeleton fall off the stairs and die, life would be considerably simpler with regards to solving this puzzle!
And, still in Zelda-land, the huz and I ran an experiment last night. He did some Librivox recording stuff in the office with the door closed, and I played Zelda in the living room on the lowest audible volume setting (and kept my mutterings quiet). No videogame noise on the recording! Huzzah! So now, while I will probably often choose to stick audiobooks on my Shuffle and do cross-stitch while the huz records, just 'cuz that's something I don't actually get to do very often, I know I have the option of game-playing! Eeeee, excitement!
Meanwhile, we sold Super Monkey Balls back to the local Gamestop for a surprisingly reasonable amount, and put the credit from that towards a used copy of Super Paper Mario. The huz played all of chapter 1-1, and has gotten his second Pixl in the town in chapter 1-2. It's huge fun to watch. Pretty graphics, if stylized, and the flipping from one dimension to the other is a real hoot. (Giant Mario is - not to pun - an even bigger hoot.) The dialogue so far is really very clever, and the play is pretty straightforward. One minor blow to Nintendo, though: there's NOTHING in the manual (and I think, similarly, NOTHING from Tippy, your hint-Pixl that you start out with) about how to enter a pipe. The huz would have gotten really frustrated had I not had a moment of insight there in the middle of chapter 1-2.
Finally, as I mentioned in my last post, we downloaded Wave Race 64 the other day, based on my vague but month-long desire for a racing game just to have something different that was a good pick-up-and-play-a-few-minutes game, and on the IGN review of it. It's fun! I'm not even vaguely competent yet at doing any of the tricks (barrel rolls and flips off the ramps, doing a handstand or facing backwards or standing up while riding), but I have mostly gotten over the initial difficulty I had with oversteering. Just playing around in the practice area is a lot of fun. We both think that IGN went a bit overboard in claiming that the water physics are still the best around, though. They're fine. They're quite nice. Amazing, I'm afraid they just aren't. But at $10, I'm not going to complain. :)
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Date: 2007-09-04 06:42 pm (UTC)Don't worry, there's a boss.
I love the soup stuff - it's some of my favorite bits of gameplay in the whole game.
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Date: 2007-09-04 07:42 pm (UTC)Curious: did you have trouble at all with the sliding blocks in the ice field to sit on the switches?
I hafta admit, the soup business was pretty entertaining. I'm not certain that goat cheese AND pumpkin AND fishy-fish together would make a soup that I want to each... but if it makes the yetis happy, that's fine. :)
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Date: 2007-09-04 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-04 09:08 pm (UTC)