The Clan of the Cave Bague

Aaaargh! It never lets up for a second! I seem to be constantly worrying about ammo, even though there’s tons of it around – I’m moving from one frantic firefight to the next and getting to the point where I daren’t miss a shot. I’m currently at a point (which I’m not going to mention cos I don’t want to spoil it for anyone) where I’m doing a lot of sniping from above and I can’t afford to miss.

My nerves are shattered. And I’m not even half way through yet!

Had a good hour sesh on this today – Ribbit King is one of those games that serve as a reminder that Playstations and Xboxes can come and go, but Nintendo typically have the best wierdo games

Ribbit King is about Frolf – a game which involves whacking a frog with a mallet to get it into a hole, scoring as many points and performing as many combos as possible along the way. It never ceases to amaze me how deeply disturbing the bloke who hands out the points is, but that’s a minor point

Anyhoo, today’s couple of rounds resulted in me winning both times, with über points – just for a change.

No, really! Resident Evil 4 – it’s huge. Well, I’m ten or so hours in, so far (although with my inherent crapness this equates to about 25 hours play time) and I’m still on disk one. My beloved is out for the evening visiting some friends, so I’ve had a good couple of hours at it. Managed to get out of the sewers only to find myself in the most nerve wracking and nasty maze I’ve ever encountered in a video game. Not nice. Still, what can you do, eh?

No, really! Resident Evil 4 – it’s huge. Well, I’m ten or so hours in, so far (although with my inherent crapness this equates to about 25 hours play time) and I’m still on disk one. My beloved is out for the evening visiting some friends, so I’ve had a good couple of hours at it. Managed to get out of the sewers only to find myself in the most nerve wracking and nasty maze I’ve ever encountered in a video game. Not nice. Still, what can you do, eh?

Gah – Resident Evil 4 again, folks. Ok, so after some amazing winchy madness (and a really nice snipey bit) I’m finding myself acting like a girl in a bad horror movie and going into the SEWERS where NO ONE SANE would go. To make matters worse, I have much less ammunition than I’d like to have.

So, I’m in the sewers. Trouble is, there are OTHER things in the sewers as well. BIG other things with a habit of vanishing chameleon stylee as they come at you. Needless to say, after padding carefully along, climbing down a ladder and then being POUNCED on, I let out a most ungentlemanly shriek and fled. As you do.

Opinion two weeks on: BEST. GAME. EVER.

I’m making a lot of RE4 entries and not making much progress because I really only get half an hour at a time to spend on gaming these days. I just seem to be very busy all the time. Anyway, last night was fun – charging into a room full of scary monk types (with shields!) and very limited ammunition. Unfortunately, I miscalculated and had me head bitten off by a big bloke in a red frock.

There’s a strange winchy thing in the middle of the room as well – I think I may investigate that after clearing the area of its nasty inhabitants. First, though, I need to find some more ammunition.

It was bizarre. It took 45 minutes to do a 5 minute drive, because the wheels kept on spinning and the car was skiting all over the road. People had given up on our hill and just abandoned their cars at the road end, the schools were closed, and the kids were having a great time.

Not me, though. Oh no. I was (a) working and (b) suffering from lurgi. So, I sat in front of my little mac and never set a foot out the door.

Bah.

The castle prison sequence is sheer brilliance. I ended up being killed because I was giggling maniacally like a silly person.

Best. Game. Ever.

Gaaaaaaah! Now I’m the first to admit that my wee lad (Matthew) is a bit of a sharpshooter when it comes to gunning down Imperial Scum, but why does he always have to choose ME? Honestly – there’s no escaping the wee beggar.

– Now Playing –

God Save the Queen from the album “Never Mind the Bollocks – Here’s the Sex Pistols” by Sex Pistols

Gah, episode 3 is creepy. Particularly in the sound department. It’s quite reminiscent of the Cradle in Thief 2, but with a lot more spooky blokes lurching around the place. It’s still staying firmly lodged in my “Best Game Ever” category, though.

I thought the ballistas chucking Big Fiery Balls Of Death, were particularly well done – the hunting rifle works particularly well at that point. The trouble is staying still long enough to draw a bead on them without a dirty great bloke of doom landing on your head.

A note on rocket Launchers. They’re expensive one-shot-wonders – 30,000 Gold for a single shot. Why bother? Well, it certainly helped with the village idiot – I mean village leader, and it’s also very entertaining in the situation hinted at in the screenshot below