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Friday, 1 December 2006 04:12 pm
Gaming update
1. Shadow the Hedgehog has ten basic possible endings depending on which of the hundreds of paths you take. When you've reached all ten of them, you unlock the final ending.
I had gotten nine endings before receiving a message that the saved file was corrupted and had to be erased completely.
Yet despite all my playing of late and my multiple fruitless retries to avoid deleting the file, I didn't feel so bad about having to start over. I'll just put the game aside for a while.
2. Belated report on Animal Crossing. For those who don't know, this 2002 cult game involves you as a human living in a town full of anthropomorphic animals. Gameplay includes fishing, catching bugs (they and the fish are not anthro), planting and chopping trees, planting flowers, digging for fossils, decorating your home, writing letters, designing cloth patterns, playing a stock market, playing early NES games, making payments on your home, and running errands for your neighbors. Verrry cute, juvenile, nonviolent, and inoffensive stuff (despite some rude neighbors).
It also includes holiday celebrations, which are the main thing to get me to play anymore. (Let's face it: a game like this won't be fun forever.) In general, I leave the GameCube's clock set properly and wait for the appointed time to come around. This year, I decided I'd missed "Harvest Day" -- the politically correct international answer to the U.S. Thanksgiving Day -- enough times already, so I changed the clock.
Before long, I encountered an odd-looking bird named Franklin. I densely thought he was a new neighbor, until he freaked at my approach. He explained that the mayor, Tortimer Tortoise, had invited him and greeted him with a quickly corrected Freudian slip of "delectable" for "delightful." Franklin's suspicion increased at the sight of an empty main course plate at the banquet.
Helping the turkey hide was not an option. Instead, I swiped the knives and forks and gave them to him, whereupon he rewarded me with wallpaper. Despite his relief, he continued to move around, peek from behind trees, and mutter nervously. Perhaps he realized that a lack of silverware wouldn't be enough to stop his foes from pursuing him.
It goes without saying that this episode gave me a whole new perspective of Animal Crossing. None of the other funny little animals, even the ones from conventionally herbivorous species, had any objection to the Harvest Day tradition of eating a fellow sapient. Those who knew of Franklin and his mortification seemed amused to give me hints of where I might find him. I especially regret putting trust in the town's eternal politician, who hands out rare prizes on every holiday.
You know, between this and the likes of A Muppet Family Christmas -- a TV special I watched many times at age six, in which the Swedish Chef tries to tenderize Big Bird -- I think people should give a break to comics like Kevin and Kell.
I had gotten nine endings before receiving a message that the saved file was corrupted and had to be erased completely.
Yet despite all my playing of late and my multiple fruitless retries to avoid deleting the file, I didn't feel so bad about having to start over. I'll just put the game aside for a while.
2. Belated report on Animal Crossing. For those who don't know, this 2002 cult game involves you as a human living in a town full of anthropomorphic animals. Gameplay includes fishing, catching bugs (they and the fish are not anthro), planting and chopping trees, planting flowers, digging for fossils, decorating your home, writing letters, designing cloth patterns, playing a stock market, playing early NES games, making payments on your home, and running errands for your neighbors. Verrry cute, juvenile, nonviolent, and inoffensive stuff (despite some rude neighbors).
It also includes holiday celebrations, which are the main thing to get me to play anymore. (Let's face it: a game like this won't be fun forever.) In general, I leave the GameCube's clock set properly and wait for the appointed time to come around. This year, I decided I'd missed "Harvest Day" -- the politically correct international answer to the U.S. Thanksgiving Day -- enough times already, so I changed the clock.
Before long, I encountered an odd-looking bird named Franklin. I densely thought he was a new neighbor, until he freaked at my approach. He explained that the mayor, Tortimer Tortoise, had invited him and greeted him with a quickly corrected Freudian slip of "delectable" for "delightful." Franklin's suspicion increased at the sight of an empty main course plate at the banquet.
Helping the turkey hide was not an option. Instead, I swiped the knives and forks and gave them to him, whereupon he rewarded me with wallpaper. Despite his relief, he continued to move around, peek from behind trees, and mutter nervously. Perhaps he realized that a lack of silverware wouldn't be enough to stop his foes from pursuing him.
It goes without saying that this episode gave me a whole new perspective of Animal Crossing. None of the other funny little animals, even the ones from conventionally herbivorous species, had any objection to the Harvest Day tradition of eating a fellow sapient. Those who knew of Franklin and his mortification seemed amused to give me hints of where I might find him. I especially regret putting trust in the town's eternal politician, who hands out rare prizes on every holiday.
You know, between this and the likes of A Muppet Family Christmas -- a TV special I watched many times at age six, in which the Swedish Chef tries to tenderize Big Bird -- I think people should give a break to comics like Kevin and Kell.
