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Over in the corner sits another Mario game feeling all unloved (Super Paper Mario since you asked), since Super Mario Galaxy has taken over my gaming life. In one sense I’ve completed the game, Mario has rescued Princess Peach, but in another more real sense I’m not yet there. So far I have 106 stars, all that is left is a handful of hidden stars (two of which I’m completely unsure of) and several meteor stars (including the purple coin star in a toy galaxy and I swear it is impossible). So far I’ve avoided the lure of gamefaqs and I’m hoping that’s the way things will remain.

The Christmas gift token from work bought Zelda on the DS and it is really good – fairly easy (the puzzle quotient isn’t exactly high) – but fun. The game makes excellent use of the stylus and it is the first DS game where I have genuinely enjoyed using the stylus for navigation.

I completed the game after a couple of weeks of regular play, although I’m all too aware that somehow I missed out on getting a fishing rod for Link.

Blimey – you can almost see the tumbleweed round here.

I can’t promise regular blogging, since I seem to have other things on my mind – I have an idea for something I’d like to try writing in Rails, the day job is in need of overtime and I’m not playing as many games as I’d like.

In the mean time a couple of posts on what I’ve played since Christmas.

I’ve completed Paper Mario (just ahead of one of the kids), defeating Bowser wasn’t so much hard as time consuming. Despite being very linear I enjoyed myself (obviously! if I hadn’t I’d have given up a long time ago). The end of game credits seemed to go on forever.

Edit: somehow this post is being hacked, I guess I’d better keep an eye on things

In light of all the fuel price moaners:

from better transport (who in turn got their figures from a DFT publication) – it turns out the people moaning about fuel tax may be looking in the wrong direction.

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Paper Mario is really good, good enough that I don’t normally notice the N64 era graphics and the extremely linear plot (although with its RPG elements – that is not entirely surprising). I’ve recently finished Chapter 6, I wasn’t really prepared (Mario didn’t have much in the way of HP, FP or stars) for the encounter with the boss Huff n Puff and consequently it was quite a tough battle.
I’m currently working my way through the sewers under toad town opening up warp pipes back to other areas, but Chapter 7 (and the final star) beckons.

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Over the summer I played this a lot with the kids, and I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately I got stuck on the Pokémon League and it looked like I wasn’t going to get through without a lot of grindingtraining. Not so! Today I indulged in an old RPG trick and bought a 100 heal potions and 30 revives and got through by the skin of my teeth. Hopefully the remaining game will seem a little more fun.

At the end of the Pokémon League I had found (not caught) 148 Pokémon in the Sinnoh Pokédex, i.e. 2 are missing.

I may have been neglecting the blog, but needless to say I have been gaming.

Paper Mario is currently my main game on the Wii, and it is really good. I never played on an N64 so it is all new to me. I’ve just started Chapter 3 (having already defeated Goomba King, Koopa Bros and Tutankoopa), Mario is currently standing outside a haunted house, and if the preceding forest is anything to go by there should be the odd light fright.

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I completed story mode (without True Jedi) ages ago, but other games came along and I forgot about Lego Star Wars. Recently the eldest two have started playing and I picked up my save to have another bash. Last night I finally got the last red brick on “A New Hope” – annoyingly hidden at the end of chapter 6 in a fairly obvious place (so obvious I can’t believe I missed it), that leaves 24 gold bricks and 5 red bricks in the remaining episodes.

just wow.