Month: March 2006

Call of Cthulhu – Dark Corners of the Earth (PC)

Chapter Two complet0red. The beginning of Chapter Three gives me the heebie jeebies and, as there’s a lot going on, the framerate is giving me some problems. I shouldn’t really complain – I’m running it on a Celeron 1.3 laptop with ATI X300 Mobility graphics card, so 1280x800x32 16:9 aspect is probably expecting a bit

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Call of Cthulhu – Dark Corners of the Earth (PC)

I’ve been a fan of H.P. Lovecraft’s eerie tales since I was fourteen years old. His particular brand of creepiness appeals to me, for some reason. His fiction generally centers on the concept that man is just a very small part of the universe and there are things out there which are simply to hideous/vast/old/evil

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Well, it’s not so bad.

Had some further clarification from our agent and the delay isn’t as bad as it first looked. Rather than being an additional 4-5 months processing, all that’s changed is the initial queue before a case officer is allocated. So rather than waiting 1-4 months after lodgement for a case officer to be allocated, it’s 4-5

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Zelda – Link to the Bloody Annoying Boss

Ok, on the top of the tower lives a worm. The worm lives on a platform floating in the air with a hole in the middle. This worm has one weakness – the four pixel dot at the end of its tail. If you’re fortunate enough to hit it, it runs about even faster. Six

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Generations

Well, there’s no doubt about it – a ‘New Generation’ of consoles is being forced upon us, the gaming public, whether we think there’s life left in the current generation or not. Out of the current generation, despite having owned all consoles, the only ones I currently own are the GameCube, Nintendo DS, and numerous

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Final Fantasy I & II

No way! I discovered a cool thing that I never noticed before! On the title page, if you press R you get a music player so you can listen to all the music that’s been unlocked during gameplay (like it does in Fire Emblem). Given that the music is magnificent, this is a Good Thing(tm).

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Final Fantasy I & II

No way! I discovered a cool thing that I never noticed before! On the title page, if you press R you get a music player so you can listen to all the music that’s been unlocked during gameplay (like it does in Fire Emblem). Given that the music is magnificent, this is a Good Thing(tm).

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Zelda – Link to the Past (GBA)

Gah – can’t remember. Let’s see – Flippers GET! Butterfly net GET! Magic Mirror GET! Magic Boomerang GET! I also managed to teleport to dark Hyrule, but unfortunately I didn’t have a moonstone of some kind so I turned into a giant bunny. Which was fun in a giant bunny kind of way. And it

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Zelda – Link to the Past (GBA)

Update: Power Gloves GET! Power Pendant GET! Desert Temple and Desert Palace THWARTED! Or something. I like these little mini-dungeons – it’s a good way to get your started in what’s essentially a gargantuan game. It’s still fiendishly difficult, though, and I seem to die a little too frequently.

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Zelda – Link to the Past (GBA)

Pendant of Courage GET! Ice Staff GET! Bow GET! Book of Whatsisface GET! So, I’m off to the dungeon in the desert (Southwest of the map, if you know the game) next. Had a few detours along the way, but nothing awful. Link to the Past is by far the hardest Zelda game I’ve played,

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