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Game Diary / 6 April 2007 / John / 0
Except the fiery lava place isn’t the next area to be explored! While on my upgrade collecting payback trip around the castle (ok, so I was leathering hell out of anything that moved in the machine tower) I spotted a tiny little one-pixel unexplored doorway on the map. Rather than leading to the expected health/heart/mana
Ramblings / 6 April 2007 / John / 0
It’s a public holiday and I’m the only one in the department, so I’m taking the opportunity to indulge myself a little. It is Good Friday, after all, so only right that I should be listening to my favourite bit of music ever – Parsifal by Richard Wagner (Knap, natch). As an added bonus, Wagner’s
Game Diary / 6 April 2007 / John / 0
Well, with the infamous big zombie dragons gubbed, I reckoned it’s time to do some levelling, card, upgrade and potion collecting. So, equipped with all luck gear I’ve gone on a murderous rampage throughout the areas explored thus far, wreaking a horrible vengeance on all the things that gave me trouble in the past. I’ve
Game Diary / 4 April 2007 / John / 0
Zombie Dragons Zombiefied! In the end, they’re pretty easy if you use your noodle and have a bit of patience. Basically, if you stand on the platform above the left hand dragon, none of the attacks except the rock shower from above can hit you. If you then set up your DSS to be Diana
Game Diary / 4 April 2007 / John / 0
Hardest Castlevania ever. So, I’ve got the fourth boss in the game – a nasty two headed Zombie dragon. Except there’s two of them :-/ They’re also very big and busy. So, I puttered in there at level 27 with no potions and died. So I tried again, and died. Then I decided that what
Game Diary / 1 April 2007 / John / 0
Nyeargh! I never realised how much I must have depended on potions and mind-ups from the shop in later Castlevania games. With the absence of a shop, Circle of the Moon is rock hard. Added to that, there’s no renewal of health after defeating a boss, so the limp back to the nearest save point
Game Diary / 29 March 2007 / John / 0
Where was I? Oh yeah, I was stuck in the fiendishly annoying Machine Tower. Or I was until I remembered I could whirl the whip around by holding the attack button. I also discovered an incredibly handy save point right at the top, too – one would almost think Castlevania games were designed by real
Completed Games, Game Diary / 29 March 2007 / John / 0
Oh yes indeedy – it is c0mpl3t0rat0red! I can’t really say much about the ending without giving spoilers, but I will say that this is one of the best and more entertaining RPGs I’ve played. Sure, it’s a little (lot) on the easy side, but it’s funny and clever and never gets dull. The closing
Game Diary / 28 March 2007 / John / 0
There’s no doubt at all in my mind that deKay is going to love this game. I have just, while crossing a bridge, been accosted by a dancing fruit which ran up to me, yelled “A-splode!” and ran off while a huge explosion rocked the screen. Moments later, a gang of around thirty dancing fruits
Game Diary / 28 March 2007 / John / 1
At last! I’m on the fabled Nova, planet of Light, in the heart of the sun where, any day now, a giant worm is going to eat the sun and give birth to a new one. Or something. That’s if the rampaging hordes of carnivorous robots don’t destroy the universe first. Or the pirates. Or