‘Twas Brillig*

Green elephant - Got!

I only had to complete 10 games on yellow elephant - which leaves me feeling a little sorry for #1 (his best on yellow elephant is 9 games). It is only to be expected (but still seems weird), but one of my kids has reached the point where he can beat me at video games. #1 is already better than me at Wii Sports.

The green elephant level isn’t sudden death (like the yellow elephant) - you have four lives, but this time games start without telling you how to hold the form baton.

This morning #2 unlocked an elephant level that I hadn’t - a yellow one. This level is sudden death, i.e. complete as many games as you can without making any mistakes. I’ve now rectified the situation and I now have a yellow elephant as well.

We also had our first go at multiplayer wario ware - there is a very funny game where two players have to cooperatively complete an obstacle course jumping over obstacles.

Well I wasn’t expecting that, there is a new channel available for download via the shopping channel - a regional/global polling system, current polls are (highly shortened):

• (Regional) Boiled eggs or fried eggs
• (Regional) Sleeping or eating
• (Regional) going out and partying or staying in and relaxing
  
• (Global) cats or dogs

I’ve highlighted my votes. Up to 6 people per Wii can vote and as well as casting a vote you can predict how you think the vote is going to go. Very much a minor diversion.

It’s taken ages (I was expecting gold much sooner), but I’ve run out of missions in tanks - I completed mission 20 and the game just quit. The message posted on the message board by Wii Play implies that next time I play there will be more missions available. Most of my tanks were lost on Mission 12 which I’m sure is easier than I make it look. Mission 20 introduces white tanks which are a touch of pure evil.

2340 points in fishing tonight

There are times when gaming becomes obsessional and I’m afraid this is one of those times. For the last couple of nights I’ve been aiming for the platinum at billiards: repeatedly taking the first shot hoping to pot enough balls off the break that I could make good progress (last night I got five in off the break, but only managed 54 points); any failures - missed shots, fouls etc - meant immediately restarting. Tonight I got 60 points (no fouls and 7 shots) and a platinum medal. I believe the scoring is based on an opening score of 81 and every foul and/or shot taken reduces the score by 3. In theory that opening break of 5 should have given me (assuming no mistakes and a pot per shot) 63 points - so I don’t think I did that badly. Tonight my opening shot only potted two balls, but four of the remaining balls were paired up near the pockets - which made things much easier.

A quick go at Pose Mii while intellij loaded and compiled…

…and now I have no more bronze medals!

It turns out Gaz has got the platinum medal at Shooting Range using two wiimotes - so I just had to give it a bash. We both think 600 points is the target for platinum.

Honestly I’m not a fanboy, but this made me laugh. Clicking on the image gives you this.

I eventually worked out how to get past the sword boss (16 points. I needed to give a quick push - rather than attempt a steady one!), which unlocked the Tiny Wario level (19 points) which I completed fairly easily (the dancing boss stage was probably not a pretty sight!). I now have unlocked multiplayer, a mix up stage, staff credits (very Mii like - except their Miis have nice clothes) and Orbulon (whatever that is).

Hmm, far too many parentheses, but I can’t be bothered to rewrite this.