Guitar Hero Van Halen

Van Halen is a brilliant band (gotta love Jump, Panama, Hot for Teacher, Little Guitars, etc.) and as such I thought I'd get their GH game. It's pretty good, uses the same engine (my favourite) as World Tour, Metallica and Smash Hits. Feels nice, handles well, and thank God for the tapping notes! I just completed career on Expert Guitar, not too hard except for the tapping section at the beginning of Hot for Teacher, the awkward rhythm throughout I'm the One and Eruption and Spanish Fly: in those two, it all either goes well or terribly badly if you're not band on with the tapping notes. If you're slightly off, it's really hard to get back with it and you usually end up failing, but if you're doing well, there's no reason your Rock Meter should ever go into orange, never mind red.
Quite happy with my purchase :)

Avatar:TLA:TBE Completed / 8000G reached

This really was a walk in the park - Avatar: TLA: TBE is almost universally deemed to be the easiest 1000G out there, and not without good cause! Took me less than 5 minutes. Have a look yourselves: (Not my video) 

So yeah, game completed, 8000G reached. :)

Enter Sandman: New Record

After a couple of days' practice, I finally made it, got 330,000 on Enter Sandman Expert Guitar in Guitar Hero Metallica. Never has 30G felt so good before :)

Final Score: 334,170

Lucky shopping!

Got really lucky when I went game shopping today. Found Tales of Hearts (So now Tales of Innocence is the only Tales of I'm missing) and F-Zero GP Legend, an incredible game which I'd completed in 2003 but then traded it in due to a lack of cash back then. Oh well. I wanted to buy it, and I found it going cheap. Sadly it's not in very good condition (you can probably tell from the picture) but the game and the booklet are in pristine condition, and that's all that matters :)

7000G on Xbox Live :)

About time I actually got there. I swear I've slowed down! So this thousand was made up of ~450G on Sega MegaDrive UC, ~250G on various Guitar Heros, ~100G on Hydro Thunder Hurricane and 170G on Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom. It's been good. :)

Joined TrueAchievements

I joined TrueAchievements today - you can find my profile here. It's an incredible website with an active community and endless possibilities, such as creating ToDo lists, Gamer Goals, Gaming Sessions, have specific leaderboards (for instance, today, I'm #115 in France in the "Music and Rhythm" category. And I love the idea of TrueAchievement points rather than GamerScore, it's so much fairer! If you're serious about your achievements, I seriously recommend you go check out that website. :)

Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock: Quest completely completed!

It wasn't exactly hard, as it can be done on any difficulty mode, but I thought it was worth mentioning. I've 100%ed Quest mode in Guitar Hero WoR, that is to say, gotten 40 stars in every song. Plus I hit a cumulative total of 150000 gems - I had to grind the last few out playing Dragonforce's Fury of the Storm on Expert Bass, ~2700 notes in 6 minutes - I had to play it six times for that 30G achievement to pop. All that's left for me to do in this game is to get 2000 stars in Quickplay+ and to do some of the online / band challenges. Great game :)

PilotWings Resort for the 3DS

The 3DS has tons of potential, but I felt Ridge Racer 3D didn't quite do it justice. I bought PilotWings Resort, where the 3D is simply incredible. The game looks like the Nintendo games like Wii Sport, Wii Play and Wii Fit, cute and colorful. The 3D is amazing! I'm not scared of heights, so it's fine, but when you land or go down - for instance -  you can really see the plane going down, which is an odd but realistic feeling.

Very much like Wii Sport & co., the game itself isn't brilliant and can be completed in about 2 hours, but is technically very good and shows what the 3DS really is capable of. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who has a 3DS and wants to have a bit of fun! [Let's be honest, the game is way overpriced though.]

iPhone game: Tiny Wings

Tiny Wings was the iTunes Game of the Week 2 weeks ago, so I figured I should give it a go. Not disappointed at all! It's really, really fun. Like most iPhone games, it has a really simple concept behind it - get as far as you can before dusk. Really fun and really addictive! :) At the moment I'm on x20, hoping to get to x22 today, and up and up!

3DS; First impressions

After a long wait, which had become pretty much unbearable since it came out in Japan last month and even more so in the past week, I've finally got my 3DS. 

It feels nice, heavy and sturdy. It's really shiny too! The joystick is brilliant, miles better than the PSP one. The buttons (A B X Y) and the D-Pad feel really nice, very much like the original DS's ones. The L and R triggers are very small but fall under your fingers really nicely so nothing to worry about. 

The dock you get with the console can serve as a charger. It looks quite nice, but feels a bit tacky - it's really light and the plastic does feel a little cheap. I'm generally quite a cautious person, so I'm not too bothered. 

The main menu feels good, easy to handle and has quite a few nice touches. The screens are really good - the bottom one is the same as the DS Lite one (320x240), and the top one is an all-new 800x240, so effectively 400x240 for each eye when the 3D is on. Speaking of 3D, I wasn't at all convinced at first - it kinda looked like those cards you get in cereal packets - move them and the footballer on them moves. After about half an hour and finding the setting that's right for you, you do get used to it and things really do start to seem further away inside the screen. 

So far I've only tried Ridge Racer 3D, the Shooting Faces thingy and the AR Cards game. 

Ridge Racer is the same as ever. The handling hasn't changed at all, and the graphics are pretty good. The music is pretty hardcore, not a huge fan. Overall, an ok game so far - I've only played half an hour. 

The AR cards game is utterly pointless but great. It's really very cool how things start popping out of your desk - and it works! I especially enjoyed seeing Mario and Kirby in my room :)

The Shooting faces game is really good - and kinda gives us an idea of what Zelda OoT will be like as far as shooting is concerned - the cursor never moves, you move the 3DS all over the place to shoot whatever needs to be shot. :p

So far, a great investment. Can't wait to get PilotWings: Resort... and for Zelda OoT and Mario Kart 3DS to come out!