Time flies

Last post was like.. a month ago, right? September? ACK! So what’s been up..

Lots, and lots, and loooots of deals to be had online (Steam, GoG, etc) during the holiday season. XMas also brought 4 new Wii titles on the shelf. So I’ve been busy. For the last couple of weeks it’s been a lot of Morrowind on the PC (2$!). I’m clocking at almost 50 hours so far and having a blast. A lot of grinding to boost my specs up, and I’m starting to complete a lot more quests. I’ll probably get back to blogging about this one.

Last night I’ve completed Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay, on WiiWare. I’m a fan of the series, and I’m having a lot of fun with this recent incarnation. Light, colorful, fun. Thumbs up! I have yet to buy the 3 other chapters which have since become available, maybe I’ll ask for Nintendo point cards for my upcoming birthday in March.

Guybrush Threepwood

Contra vs Duck Hunt

Hooray for mashups!

ColorZ

I will say it again.. I love the quirky stuff on WiiWare.. Even if this one looks like it’d make me swear a lot, looks cute! Maybe after Ikaruga I’m just freaked out more easily about matching colors on the fly.. Take half a point off for the …Z name, tho.

Colorz trailer

Sitting on my shelf

Fearsome beast

The stat card included with the mini is way above anything I’ll probably see in my gamer career (we tend to be stuck forever at level 1-3) but it’s still really badass.

Some BeatMania nuts

Check this guy go:

I do have the BeatMania US release with the controller (was like 20$ at FutureShop) but I must say I really suck at this one. I was at least getting somewhere with Guitar Freaks, and wasn’t half bad at DDR..

I love dual videos with the screen and the hands at the same time:

Why not use both controllers?

Shamelessly stolen from commenters on Kotaku.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Looks quite nice, if you ask me.. Reminds me a tiny bit of Shenmue, somehow.. Hope there’s something like the first games’ freaky radio.

And another, more hi-res video on IGN.

Guild Wars 2 trailer

There’s been a recent flurry of activity on the Guild Wars 2 web page and Facebook page, including a brand new trailer.. Don’t get too excited yet, even the trailer is made mainly of concept art..

But I’m still looking forward to getting more !

Crazy Japan..

Looks like WiiWare is opening doors to crazy ideas, at least in Japan

New Toy

Just felt like testing a really wide pic in here, taken with our new toy at home.. We got ourselves a Fujifilm Finepix S1500 yayyy!

KoL Journal: Not Quite 20

I’m 72 substats away from level 20 ! I’ve switched my setup to focus on stats:

• Hat: Spooky Putty Mitre (+3 substats per fight)
• Weapon: Serpentine Sword (+10 Monster Level)
• Offhand: Snake Shield (+10 Monster Level while used w/ the sword)
• Shirt: Hippo Skin Poncho (+10 Monster Level)
• Pants: Buoybuttoms (+7 Monster Level)
• Accessory: Ring of Conflict (combat rate -5%, get more Louvre)
• Accessory: C.A.R.N.I.V.O.R.E Button (+15 Monster Level)
• Accessory: V for Vivala Mask (+1-3 substats per fight, 4 on critical kills)
• Familiar: Frumious Bandersnatch (38 lbs, act as Volleyball)
• Familiar item: crimsillion jub-jub bird (+5 lbs, focus stat gain to Muscle)
• Ur-Kel’s Aria of Annoyance: +38 Monster Level
• Radio: +10 Monster Level
• Manor Band: +5 Monster Level

So in all I’m fighting at +105 Monster Level with stat gain items in the other slots. I nearly managed to get over level 19 today:

• Advs used: 344 (Woohoo Feast of Boris!!)
• Meat gained (net): 51,907 (better than nothing)
• Substats (muscle): 23,091
• Muscle (base): 364 (Level 19, one away from 20)

Tomorrow… We dive !