Got my flip-flops on

I’ve been unable to dedicate myself into one greater gaming project lately. Instead I’ve taken on (and completed some) smaller ones:

• One-lifed Ganryu for Neo Geo (video at my site and Youtube)
• Got all Gold medals in XBLA’s free game Doritos Crash Course. It’s pretty fun, kind of like the TV show Sasuke / Ninja Warrior. Videos at my Youtube channel. Yeah, I like making videos…
• Beat Gigantic Army’s full version (the quite awesome doujin mech game) on Normal and Hard. Working on Insane now.
• Trying to 1CC Fast Striker’s Original Mode. Almost had it already, got the last boss down to maybe 15% health before biting the bullet. No doubt I won’t even be able to get to the last boss in several future attempts, there was stupid amounts of luck involved in that run. Gotta learn how to use the shield, most of the time I forget I even have those.

In addition to those I’ve also played a bit of Donkey Kong Country Returns (very nice) and Sonic Colors (also nice, but not quite as much) and I’ve got the other quite awesome doujin mech game, Gunhound, coming in the mail along with some other stuff. Busy times.

As an aside, I was playing Tetris with the missus on some crappy plug ‘n play system and thought I’d get a better version for us to play. Tetris is on every possible system (and even on some well-equipped buildings) so it shouldn’t be a problem to find a decent version for 360, right? Imagine my surprise when I discover I’m in a position where no good alternatives exist. I have a japanese 360. There’s Tetris Evolution – but it’s regionlocked to US/PAL and was never released in Japan to my knowledge. There’s Tetris: The Grandmaster Ace which is Japan-exclusive  – but it’s hard to find and apparently all the really good stuff is available in online multiplayer only. And finally, XBLA has Tetris Splash – but for some utterly unfathomable reason it’s not available in several countries, including Finland, so I’d have to make a US account just to try it and buy US MS points to purchase it.

Inconceivable.