This week, I’ve been very pushed for time with work, gigs
with the bands, playing video games took something of a back seat for me! But I
managed to get some games in.
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| This happened quite a bit... |
The first one was, to my surprise, New Super Mario Bros on
the DS. I happened across someone who had the same game and we had a go with
the multiplayer mode; Mario vs Luigi. In this, you have to collect five stars
before your opponent does, using power ups and platforming to hamper your
opponent any way you can. There’s a lot of fun to potentially have with this
mode, however I should point out that the person I was playing against is very
young and there was something of a disparity in skill level, so we didn’t play
for very long!
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| The Dark Angels... |
I continued my eternal crusade on, er, Eternal Crusade in those
evenings where I had a bit of time. I’m still enjoying it, and I’m becoming a
lot more familiar with the different classes now. I’m still absolutely hopeless
at it, typically finishing somewhere in the bottom third of the leader board,
and against players who have been playing since launch I haven’t got a chance.
I’m also starting to notice the fact that there’s not really that many maps. It
could do with a few more, to vary things up a bit! But on those times where I
manage to sneak up behind someone and one-shot kill him, or capture a control
point, or take out three guys at once (the latter happens at very infrequent
intervals!) it’s really good fun, and I think this will see me through a long
time yet.
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| With a chin to rival Buzz Lightyear... |
My new game for this week was Diggy’s Adventure on my Kindle
Fire. This is a game where you have to make your way through a top-down cave by
digging through collapsible squares of sand, gravel and the like. Each dig
takes a certain amount of energy, and if you run out, you either need to manage
your resources to make it last longer, or buy some more in micro payments! It’s
competently-designed, doesn’t take itself too seriously (either that or the
developer’s writing team had the week off!) and was a nice enough way to fill
half an hour. But there’s not much challenge in the game that I’ve been able to
see, apart from a couple of lever puzzles that are easy enough to work out. I
guess later on there’d be an element of resource management in there, where you
dig just far enough to achieve your objective and come back and clear the level
later (the game rewards you for clearing the entire level.) There’s nothing
wrong with Diggy’s quest, but like with most mobile games, I’m not sure how
long it will keep me engaged.
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| Damn that robber! |
I went in to Warlords and Wizards again and had another game
of Settlers of Catan, where it got very competitive! We had to call the game
early due to time allowance, but it was a pleasure to play again and I’m
looking forward to the UK Championship at the UK Games Expo! I’m not expecting
to do very well, but it will be interesting to play some different games with
some different people. I also continued painting some Chaos Space Marines, I’ve
nearly finished them now which will bring me up to 20.
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| Brutal but fun! |
Finally, I had a few games of Hey! That’s My Fish with my
Mom and my girlfriend Kirsty. It’s a really nice game to play because it
doesn’t take itself too seriously, the rules take about a moment to work out
(apart from working out what order to place the penguins in, I didn’t need to
refer to the rules even once,) it’s really good fun and surprisingly tactical.
I won the first two games and my Mom won the third. We helped her out with a
move at one point near the end which turned out to be the deciding point, but
as long as everybody is having a good time, it doesn’t really matter who wins
or loses. I know that sounds like a very wishy-washy thing to say but it is
absolutely true!
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