"Suche gut gebauten 18-30 jährigen zum schlachten...“ - Der Metzgermeister

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Although there's been no factor to alter my mood into feeling better or worse, I woke up feeling rather shit - and currently still do.
Today's been boring, to an extent.

I've alternated between around five games:

I started off with Super Mario Galaxy, now playing through Luigi's scenario. I've gotten to around 40 stars, so I'm around 1/4 of the way through completing it.
One thing is certain though, it's a lot easier the second time through. I've done the Rolling Gizmo trial galaxy without even losing a single life - with Mario, I'd fallen off the edges a few times.
And of course there was the matter of Bouldergeist's Dardevil Run - I did that in about four attempts, when it took me countless hours the first time. How odd.

I then grew bored of it and switched to playing on my Playstation.
I finished off Asterix - which took me longer than I'd expected. Some of the levels are even more of a cunt than the hardest platformer games. Asterix is a strategy/platformer crossover - it's reasonable, but very frustrating.
I'd also like to shamelessly admit that I completed it on EASY. I shall never be able to complete it on anything higher - the Roman invaders re-claiming all of my captured territories was too aggravating to bear on easy, and that's only when they do about 2 attacks a turn, with shitty AI.

Following this, I finished off Army Men: Sarge's Heroes.
All I can say is that the final mission looks like a pile of piss, but one wrong move and you either get kaned by the soldiers with bazookas, blown to bits by an airstrike, eaten by the poodle or burned by the robots.
Fucking ridiculous. Video games have taken a serious decline in difficulty since the 90s with the N64 and the PS1. Some of the games are beyond a joke.

Which leads me nicely to game number four.
ODDWORLD: ABE'S ODDYSEE.

Really, what the hell.
No difficulty setting - so there's no room for adventure/platformer beginners here.
Infinite lives yes - but I think if there wasn't, there would have been a 350% increase in smashed consoles and TV screens. Limited lives would render this game impossible, almost.

I know I'm going to get the bad ending - I don't know where all the secret Mudokons are - and even then, I couldn't save some of the ones I did find. Ridiculous puzzles - one wrong move and you or they end up burned, electrocuted, blown into bloody chunks, eaten, blown up, smashed by falling meat, shot, crushed or generally mutilated.

For a PS1 game, it's surprisingly gory. The graphics are pretty good too. I was impressed when I started playing it again - forgetting how good they were.
I honestly don't think I'll EVER complete this - but we'll just have to see... Not that I'm holding much hope in myself.

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I finished off the night with an hour of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles - collecting another drop of myhrr to bring my save onto the fourth year. Then I re-did one of the earlier dungeons.
I'm trying to see if I can collect all of the artifacts - which means re-doing some of them.

I was thinking as I played it - wow, I haven't played this since I was staying at nana's.
That was like March.

Jamie decided to be a prick on Facebook - writing shit on my wall.
He said I was shit at games - so I replied with I'd like to see him beat me at Brawl.
Then of course he has to be a cocky cunt and then insult the game I challenged him to - saying it's a button basher with no skill involved.
It SO isn't. He clearly doesn't play games before insulting them.

So I said his arguments were biased, ignorant and clearly pulled out of his own arse.
Then he said that I hadn't changed, it's still too easy to annoy me. So I deleted his post and blocked him on MSN - he can fuck off for the moment, he's a total prick.

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I finally succumed to the appeal of playing new games that I've had for months upon end and never even put into a game system. Taken off their wrapping, yes - but never put into a system.

So I played Pokémon Ranger: Shadows Of Almia.
I wasn't sure on what to expect from it - but from what I've played so far, it seems okay.