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Gah! I spent nearly two hours trying to work out how to do the puzzle with the large turny wheel thingy within the giant elephant, determined not to cheat and Google the answer. I was trying everything, thinking that I had to turn the giant wheel by re-directing water, or by thwacking the giant ball into the middle and holding it there with the time-stopper. In the end I had to Google the answer, and it turns out you have to pull up the map and you can just turn the wheel from there?! WTF?

Kirby's Dream Course (SNES)

Is it actually a fact that he works himself to exhaustion, or is it just assumed? Maybe he clocks off at 3.30pm and goes home to game?

Anyone else keep seeing Jimmy Saville whenever they look at @Sméagol 's avatar?

Dunno, sounds shopping related to me. What were you buying at the time?

Look, its obvious he doesn't want to be friends with you. Just let it go. It's getting really awkward for the rest of us.

So now@RedShell is way in the lead?

Yeah it really wasn't my intention to get this far, but there isn't really any indication of what point you are supposed to start the divine beasts...

No, its a hyphen. I'm winning.

I had the day off work on Wednesday to wait for the washing machine repair man, and so got a good few hours of play on this. I was wandering around the Lanayru section of the map when I ran into some Zora chap who told me to go up to the Zora domain to help him. From then on, the next section felt much more Zelda-y. A pretty linear charge up a mountain, followed by some terrible cut-scenes and further exposition of the plot. I was then told to go and kill some Lion-centaur to get enough shock arrows to help stop the giant mecha-elephant from making it rain. However, when i found the Lion-centaur, I found that I was woefully under prepared in fighting him (i've still only got 5 hearts, and a single mean look from Lion-o seemed to take off more than that). So I just snuck around the outside of his plateau and gathered up the required arrows without bothering him (he seemed like a busy Lion-centaur), and went to meet the fish prince. Together, fish prince and I defeated the mecha elephant, and I'm now wandering around inside it. Overall, I'm really enjoying the exploration and puzzle solving elements of the game, but not really enjoying the combat... Which is why i really liked that you could bypass fighting the lion man and still continue with the game. My least favourite parts of previous Zelda games is when they used to lock you in a room with an enemy and your weren't allowed out until you'd defeated them.

That might be intentional? They might have decided to have all of the fighters pass characters come from 3rd parties, which would suggest that this last one will too.

Ah, but I'd have a 100% success rate in predicting characters, which is the highest you can be.

There's also a real chance it'll be Waluigi and I'll surge into the lead (I still don't understand how the scoring works)

Klonoa sounds like a STD, so they obviously can't go for that one. They'll clearly have to stop disrespecting my boy Waluigi instead.

I was told i was a Psyduck, and who am i to argue with that. Partnered with a Pikachu to form Team Yellowhammer.

I also played 4 games.

Wow, I've never seen one of those before. Do you sit down and pedal or balance on top?

That's what I'm going to start calling my bike.

So I think i'm up to 12 or 13 shrines now; three towers and around four or five of those korok turds. The last shrine I did was pretty hard. Rather than being a puzzle, I had to fight a robot spider with a sword and shield. I do not like the combat in this game. It is complicated, and fiddly, and I am shit at it. Luckily, I had some haute cuisine packed away that gave me a shit-ton of yellow hearts, so I had enough life to fail my way into beating the spider-knight. It did end up destroying most of my shields, and all of my swords. By the end, I was wafting it with a leaf and chucking bombs. Not sure where the best place to get new swords is? They don't seem to appear with the same frequency that i break them. Most of the time I seem to be using skeleton arms since they are the only thing that ever drops from enemies.

MEIN KAMPFTEAM?

Might try this demo out later if i have time. Always wondered what the fuss was about these games.

Just handing over power without a democratic vote? What sort of tinpot despotic place is this? I'm staging a coup.

Wow, GT7 is going to be the most realistic yet!

Did you actually have a black and red toilet before? I've never seen that before.