• 26Nov 09

  It's over...

  Yesterday I completed the very last puzzle within Professor Layton and Pandora's Box. All 153, completed. Nothing left to find. No stone left unturned. I should probably be happy but I'm really going to miss it. Except those &*(&(%$*) ones where you have to shift the blocks around to move something through to the other side. Those, I hope I never see again.

  • Posted Nov 26, 2009 6:37 am PT
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• 13Nov 09

  Why demos can be torture

  I recently had a look at (ok, ok, I played all of it) the demo for the new Miles Edgeworth game in the Ace Attorney series. Do I want to play it even more now? YES. Was I doing ok waiting until February before I played the demo? YES. Am I ok waiting until February now? NO.

  Sometimes it's best not to find out how good something looks like it's going to be!

  • Posted Nov 13, 2009 6:38 am PT
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• 29Oct 09

  Tea and dedication

  It had to end...I finished Prof Layton and Pandora's Box last week. The ending of the storyline actually brought a little tear to the eye - considering it's 'just' a puzzle game, the background story was quite moving. For just about the first time though, I'm determined to finish everything in the game (well, the first time since Worms on 360, anyway). I'm going back and finding all the puzzles, I'm playing the camera minigame, I've created all the blends of tea (with some help from a brilliant walkthrough on blogspot as I was going tea-bonkers), and my hamster is fit and ready (I'm guessing this all sounds a bit odd if you haven't played the game).

  It's unusual, for me, to be this determined to finish up a game. There's definitely something about Layton that really hooks you in. An industry analyst told me recently that if a puzzle game captures people, they are the most dedicated fans of all. No idea of that's true, but it seems about right at the moment.

  Henry Hatsworth is up next. I'm hoping that takes me through to the release of the new Zelda game!

  (How am I still only level 30 on GameSpot?!)

  • Posted Oct 29, 2009 8:33 am PT
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