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Ramblings / 24 April 2007 / John / 1
Urm. Well, it’s been a bit busy of late. On the gaming front, I was playing Castlevania – Portrait of Ruin until I met a boss that killed me and set me back an hour. I was also playing Lost Magic, but then I met a boss who killed me and set me back an
The Tube / 22 April 2007 / John / 0
The Killer Shrews, made in 1959, is everything a B-movie should be. Really really bad, really really funny, and awesome entertainment. IMDB give this film 2.5/10 which is probably 2.5 more than it actually deserves in terms of artistic merits, but who cares! Ray Kellog manages to direct this truly dreadful script with flair and
Game Diary / 21 April 2007 / John / 3
This is a bit trickier than one expects from a modern Castlevania game! Anyway, I covered everywhere I could reach in the town painting and did a bit more castle exploring. I also did a couple of quests which have yielded a double jump ability (which is handy) and defeated another boss (or two –
Game Diary / 19 April 2007 / John / 0
ZOMG! Well, firstly can I just say that Portrait of Ruin is easily one of the best looking games on the DS and equally easily the prettiest Castlevania EVAR. Nice parallax effects, a lot of 3D backgrounds and baddies and the usual whippeding action. The whole dual character thing is a bit confusing, but I’m
Completed Games, Game Diary / 19 April 2007 / John / 1
Guhh! Death’s second form is quite breathtakingly hard. Fortunately you’re free to go and find a save point after his first form. Which is just as well, because I’ve spent well over three hours play time being killed by Dracula, going off and getting up a level, coming back, getting killed, levelling again, etc. By
Geekery / 16 April 2007 / John / 0
I get so many requests for my OpenPGP key these days that I thought I may as well post it here to save people asking. You can download the transport armour version here. It’s also available on the main keyserver at http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/ under the key ID jmd at nelefa.org (but replace the at with an
Game Diary / 15 April 2007 / John / 0
Gah! I’m consoling myself with the thought that I’m not incredibly rubbish at this but that the AI does, in fact, cheat like a cheating thing. Not only that, but the hint marker that comes up almost always shows you a move that will leave you wide open to a massive damage-fest by the enemy
Music / 15 April 2007 / John / 0
I don’t, as a rule, blog about music because I listen to so much of it that I’d never get anything else done. This album, though, warrants an entry for its sheer ACENESS. I find that I get so used to bands being unable to match their over-produced studio efforts on the stage that I
Game Diary / 13 April 2007 / John / 0
ZOMG! It’s the best game EVAR! Well, it’s really good anyway. Basically, it’s an RPG in the style of Final Fantasy Tactics or Fire Emblem. Except instead of the usual style of turn based combat you play – well – bejewelled. It shouldn’t work, but it really really does. Except, even early on, it’s as
Ramblings / 12 April 2007 / John / 0
“Polled I/O FTL. You’d think the interrupt had never been designed. Oh. That was really quite geeky, wasn’t it?” “Yes. Yes, it was.”