An interesting week this week. Six games to talk about!
I progressed with Kingdom Hearts, beating the Deep Jungle
and making it as far as Agrabah before I stopped. At this point you have to do
some back-tracking to allow the Gummi Ship to fly to other worlds, but I’ll
take this opportunity to talk about an element of Kingdom Hearts 1.5 that
wasn’t in the original – The Gummi Missions. This takes the form of certain objectives
when flying the ship between worlds; like scoring a certain number of points,
or taking out a certain number of enemies with a particular kind of gun equipped.
I consider this an improvement, as previously there was no real reason to do
the Gummi flights other than to get to the next world. It gives something extra
for the completionists, and I would love to unlock them all.
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| This took me a few goes! |
I also continued with Regicide, finally beating the end of
Act 2 that I had been stuck on for ages! I progressed several missions in to
Act 3 as well, the game being good at promoting the “just one more go”
mentality, and it was quite late into the night before I realised I should
stop! The screenshot was one I did myself (normally I pull them off Google
Image Search,) because of something going on with Facebook over the weekend.
I’m in a group called Gaming Dads, which given the levels of nastiness that can
plague the internet is a really nice group to be in. Sadly, one of the members
recently lost his partner after an illness, and her funeral was on Saturday. To
show our support, we were supposed to upload a screenshot of what we were all
playing over the weekend, with the tags: #tucker #wegotyoubrother. I chose this
game because it was most convenient to do it on my laptop; I’m glad I finally
found a use for Dxtory in the end!
I was ill on Thursday and had some time off work, and I
played a bit of XCOM: Enemy Unknown. I continued a game I’d started in
November, and it didn’t go very well. In the space of a few missions I’d lost
some of my best soldiers. It might warrant yet another restart but I’d been
doing pretty well up until then, and I’d had to deal with a massive setback
during the one time I beat the game so you never know.
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| An old picture but does the job! |
But I was very interested in the games I’d been playing on
mobile devices! I’ve been playing 8-Ball Pool a lot this week, and I think of
all the games I downloaded onto my Kindle Fire 7, this is the one I’ve enjoyed
the most, simply because there’s a measure of skill involved rather than just
clicking on things until you can’t click on things any more.
I downloaded onto my phone a couple of other games:
Crossword, which is as it sounds – crossword puzzles. I’ve never been much good
at this but I’m sticking to the easy puzzles for now, and the game does help
you: The clues you solve correctly lock and have a beige colour on them so you
know, and you can ask for a hint. You have a limited number of these but you
get three every time you beat a puzzle so that’s not a major issue. Sometimes I
use a website to solve the clues, which might be considered cheating, but I
don’t think it’s a bad thing to find different ways of saying things. It might
help next time I play Scrabble!
Also I’ve been playing Sniper 3D Assassin: Gun Shooter. This
is a game where you’re given a target to shoot at, and you have to kill them
with a sniper rifle or suitable weapon. I’ve been having fun with it but I’ve
reached the point in the game where I have to start paying for things in order
to carry on, as I need to buy a new weapon which I can only do with diamonds.
I’m not sure how long I’m going to put up with being forced to watch ad after
ad in order to keep enjoying it!
So, a busy week!
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