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More-like-mortars this time

Bullets might not suffice for this week, 'cause I want to comment a bit more in depth, so think of these as mortars, ok?

  • Finished GTA: Chinatown Wars during the weekend. What a great, fun game, loved it. It totally took me by surprise, since I barely followed it after the announcement - something I've been noticing has improved how much I appreciate a game when I don't follow it religiously and just play the darn thing when it's out. I liked it so much, I went out of my way and discovered all of the drug dealers, got all but one of the safehouses and found both of the bonus items for the Rockstar Social Club bonus missions. I have yet to play those, since I just activated them early this morning. The touch screen support seemed a bit too much at the beginning, and it is at some points, but the implementation is mostly very creative and does not feel tacked on at all. One of my favorite DS games, by far.
  • Also closed the lid on Fable 2's See the Future DLC, or how I like to call it: See-the-future-for-about-two-minutes. Doesn't last long at all, and... well, you might want to read my review once it goes live. I got all of the achievements for it on the way, including the ones that are related to Fable 2's main story mode. So now once Knothole Isle drops price, I'll be able to nail that 100% completion. Fable 2's achievements are fun to go after, just like Fallout 3's, otherwise I wouldn't bother, but it's a good measure in order to finally feel like the "book is closed" for some games. It is certainly for me in terms of this DLC.
  • Started playing Space Invaders Extreme for XBLA as well, even though I own the DS version, and you know what, it's still Space Invaders, and very Extreme at that. It's cool to get to play it on a bigger screen. Should be finishing my review of it today.
  • Played UNO online with some On the Spot folks after the show. It definitely brought back a lot of fun memories playing cards with Donkeljohn, Dave_Petrucci, Caddy and Kevin. That game is still fun to play with friends!
  • Finally beat Gruntilda (yet again, ten years later) in Banjo Tooie - I am, in no way, ever going to go after all of the jiggies in that game. I did it in 1999/2000, thank you very much. Still, a very good platformer, specially if you never played it back in the Nintendo 64. Review of that forthcoming (it's taking a bit longer than usual but it is on the way). The lid for this is closed, bolted, stapled and duct-taped. Agh.
  • Tried to get the final achievement in Banjo Kazooie, the puzzle one. No one in heck I was able to do it this week, since I only picked the game up before going to bed after spent the day hunting pixels on my computer, texturing models. I don't think I'll go back to that, too much...
  • Got the rest of the treasures in Lego Indy. Young Indy's level was pretty fun, albeit short, and the warehouse bonus stage was thankfully easy - and quick - to beat. For some reason I don't like the Lego town type of level in these games. So random... Anyway, that's closed as far as I'm concerned, I have no desire to activate thugee statues 50 times or disarm 250 enemies with Indy's whip, thank you very much...
  • Might start Pokémon Platinum this week - haven't played a single one since Pokémon Blue in 1997 (98?), should be funny to go back to it. I heard Pete (Ryvvn, from R.I.P Gameslaves and now TriGames.net podcast) and Al (the_antipode, also from TriGames.net) talk soon much about this I decided to take a plunge buying this at discount price. Hope it's good.