It turns out I managed to buy a duplicate game in my huge-pile-o-stuff there! I have two copies of "Lake Masters Ex"! Hmm, what can I do with that? It's not exactly a well sought out game or good quality game that I can give away in good faith...
What else happened? Not much. I started playing "Diner Dash" for Nintendo DS. I've been playing a lot of NDS games recently... it's a good little portable system, I don't have to borrow a TV to play anything, and I don't feel like I'm distracting my brother from studying for his exams. So... how is Diner Dash? Well, it's quite fun. It's based on a game for mobile phones, I gather... I'm stuck on the last level of the "Retro" restaurant, though. It's a relentlessly hard game - the amount of points you need to pass a stage is very high and it means you need to chain everything, but you're also relying on luck so it's not always possible... makes it feel unfair. I might give up with this one. I got a bit bored with Puzzle Quest, btw. My character is level 35 and I'm feeling that the game could do with some variety...
I started Theme Park for NDS, then thought... "I've already done this so many times..." and stopped again.
So I've started playing Etrian Odyssey. Yeah, I'm spoilt for choice with NDS games. It's fun getting back into 1st person RPGing. It's the normal moving forward square-by-square type affair. Takes me back to the days of "The Adventure Game" on TV and "The Bard's Tale" for C64, even though I've played a few 1st person RPGs since (Lands Of Lore, Dungeon Master, etc). It's also quite difficult to start with, not quite as unfair as Diner Dash, but I'm often finding my party is short of money. The amount of money they make on each expedition is not much more than the cost of board for a room to sleep in, and the price goes up as they level up! I'm thinking of creating a load of... whatever the Ranger type is called in this game, and farm with their "chop" skill, use the hotel to forward it to the next day, rinse & repeat, just to make money... which seems like abusing the game, but only as much as it's abusing me...
Um... listened to my new (old) Crystal King CD - "Daitokai" and "Ai Wo Torimodose" are definitely the stand-out songs of their discography, the CD doesn't seem to have "Yuria ~ Towa ni" on it (the 1st ED theme for Hokuto No Ken), otherwise it would seem complete, to me. A lot of their stuff is generic to that time period. They look kind of like gangsters in tuxedos on the cover of the album, too... I so love Daitokai! I'm glad I bought the CD just for that song!
Also listened to my new (old) Kushida Akira CD - "I AM THE ONE!" ^__^ It's a great CD! All the way through! Lots of songs I always wanted on CD, my brother comments that they seem to be slightly different versions of the songs than he's heard before, too. We've got other versions on some super sentai CDs and remix CDs and so forth... I've also got 2 other Kushi CDs on order at the moment; "Soul of Kussy" and his upcoming "Best & Live". ^__^
