‘Twas Brillig*

I haven’t blogged for a bit, mainly because I haven’t done much gaming, that should change when I get my DS with MK and Zookeeper for Christmas and #1 gets Nintendogs. I’ve been playing Sonic Advance 2 on R’s GBA SP, Super Mario Sunshine (with and without #1), Mario Party with #1, Mario Kart with #1 and #2 and Sonic on the Xbox. I have really fallen out with the Xbox since it won’t play several games, I suspect #3 is to blame since several discs have large scratches on them.

I wanted to play Knights of the Old Republic but the Xbox was having none of it so I played on Gelato Beach. I collected the shine for episode 8 and then had a go at getting to 100 coins - only achieved 87 (bugger) even though I could see where there were some more. Nevermind it doesn’t look impossible.

I’ve been playing a game in parallel to the one with #1, ostensibly to have some idea what is coming up, but Sunday showed I was lagging. I spent this evening playing catch up I now have 28 shines compared to our main game’s 21 :). The secret of the yoshi merrygoround on Pinna Park is starting to annoy me - I get near the end and die horribly.

Back to SMS with #1, lots of Pinna Park and we finally got Yoshi.

After a trip to Toys’Я’Us (where I played the demo of Nintendogs), #1+#2 wanted to play battle mode which was fun, #1 is getting a lot better.

Played Mario Party 4 with #1, R and #2 rolling the dice. #2 wouldn’t be up to joining in the games yet, but I will have to get a fourth controller soon and i guess it ought to be another wavebird. I hope that, when it is released, extra controllers for the Revolution are cheaper.

Played with #1 and completed Petey Piranha Strikes Back (which was enjoyable) and Wiggler Ahoy! Full Steam Ahead! (which was kind of annoyingly repetitive).

Post swimming game of SMS with #1 (and #2 watching), #1 does all the running about and I do the hard work, mostly spent on Red Coins of Windmill Village (AWOOGAH! spoilers) , since we took ages finding the last coin. After that #1 spent some more blue coins and we had a look at Mecha-Bowser Appears! (AWOOGAH! Spoilers) which kind of scares me.

Fantastic!

#1+#2 are still not too good at the racing side of things (although #1 is now at least scoring points), but battle mode is lots of fun.