Love hurts..

I finally finished stage 7, and it was a long one! The stage had 5 levels that got progressively harder. The later levels introduced the "black hole" block which sucks in anything that stands on top of it, killing Vincent instantly. The boss of the level was a giant shadow version of Vincent. It didn't really attack much, but the stage it was in was a really tough climb.

In the story section Vincent finally broke up with Catherine, and she didn't take it too well. She beat the crap out of him in the bathroom then left him alone at the bar. One odd thing she said while beating him was that she was protecting him, which I suspect has some deeper meaning revealed later.

Tomorrow is the last night!

Ants?

Didn't play much today, only got past the first section of Level 7, which was oddly easy.

Story wise things are changing around. Turns out that the guy calming to be Catherine's boyfriend was dating a different Catherine (unless one of them can shape shift). Also little bits of Catherine's personality is showing that she's not just a 1 dimensional character out to get into Vincent's bed, and I'm starting to feel sorry for her.

super giant mecha death baby!

The rest of level 6 was very tricky.
Not only was there 4 stages instead of the normal 3, but each one was mostly walls made up of exploding blocks. The start of 4:3 in particular was difficult since every 10 levels of bricks was like a separate puzzle I had to figure out with next to no time, and if I failed I had to go back and to it all again. Most stages I can run along and make up the solutions as I go, but this area only seemd to have 1 way of solving it and it was only trail and error that got me through it (and about 60 lives).

And I was way off for the end boss, turns out it was a return of the giant baby, but this time it was a robot version with a chainsaw, a shotgun that shoots chainsaws, and a laser! At least it was was enough to dodge and run away from.

Catherine Vs. Irene

Well I managed to progress a little in Catherine before the remains of hurricane Irene knocked out the power for the rest of the evening.

I managed to get to the second stage of level 6, and it's getting ridiculously tricky. luckily I banked 90 continues on the last level so I have a bit of room for trail and error.

On a story note, Vincent finally wakes up without Catherine in the room! The down side is that he's woken up by a call from a man claiming to be Catherine's boyfriend and he's out to kill Vincent. Catherine says that she has no idea who the man is and Vincent starts to wonder if it's really Katherine's boyfriend. This all is messing with his mind so I'm betting the boss of level 6 is a giant psycho boyfriend.

Ya big baby!

Finished floors 4 and 5 today, and the boss battles were thankfully not as disturbing as 3. Level 4's boss was a giant demonic baby, and the 5th boss was a giant undead version of Katherine in a wedding dress. Also the blocks are getting trickery too, there are blocks with spikes in them, frozen blocks you slide on, crumbling blocks, all manner of fun.

Also it seems like both women in the story line are upping their play to higher levels to snare Vincent. Catherine always shows up in Vincent's bed in the morning no matter what happens the night before, and Vincent never has any memory of how she go there. meanwhile Katherine tells Vincent that she's pregnant and that he has no choice but to marry her now. Of course since Vincent has all the backbone of a larva he just sputters and freaks out with his mouth open in either situation.

Which button is to slap Vincent?

In the action segments I got past the 3rd segment, which had one of the weirdest bosses I have ever seen, and the challenges is clearly ramping up.

As for the story line, I'm quickly getting tired of Vincent's indecisive and weak personality. Shinji Ikari was better at facing up to his problems than this guy. He keeps complaining about how screwed he is because he some how keeps unintentionally cheating on Katherine. It's weird, he keeps waking up and some how Catherine is in his bed, but he never remembers how she got there and dosen't just says "I have a girlfriend already!". Also, whenever he's with Katherine he never says "hey, there's this weird girl who keeps breaking into my apartment at night" or very much of anything for that matter. Any time either of the women start making decisions for him he just freaks out bug-eyed with his mouth open. This whole thing would have been solved the first day if he would just spoken up to either of them.

Only time he makes and decisive action is in the action parts where I'm controlling him, I just with I could do the same in the story parts aside for limited e-mail answers...

Etna or Raspberyl?

Started playing Catherine today and it's a very odd game...

The game play is split between story segments where you can talk to people and answer e-mails that affect to flow of the story, and the weird frantic puzzle platforming levels where you have to climb up blocks to survive.

The platforming segments are intense, but the 360's controller is a little too inaccurate for it. The analogue stick is a little too lose, causing me to some times run off the side, and the D-pad is a little to stiff, making quick movements tricky. It may have been better if I got the PS3 version, oh well...

For the story side I'm a little conflicted. The main plot revolves around Vincent dealing with choosing between is long term girlfriend Katherine who wants to settle down into the typical married life, and the easy going impulsive girl Catherine who seduces him. For my first play through I'm making all choices the way that I personally would make them, siding with Katherine and leaning towards good. The problem is that Catherine is voiced by Laura Bailey (in a kinda older version of her Rise voice)! Oh well, I'll hear enough of her in the other playthroughs.

Well that's fifty-two down...

Well after about 2 hours of grinding weapons against the same group of bad guys, I finally got all of them maxed out to level 10, and got the skill point!

Then when I checked the unlock-ables there was another one for getting all 750 skill points, which includes insane things like getting every enemy in the game to dance, and clearing those flying level skill points.

So I figure I did all that I wanted to do in the game and getting 660 skill points is good enough!

Now on to Catherine!

So that's where I put my Shard Reaper

Today I go a lot finished:
-Collected all the parts for the RYNO IV gun.
-Collected all the golden bolts.
-Finished every location based skill point (except 2 from a flying level since I hat those).
-Got a hand full more general skill points.
-Finished the final boss a second time (much easier with the RYNO IV)
-Gridded all the weapons in the 3 quick select menus to level 10

And that's when I discovered that I had several weapons not in my quick select that I haven't touched in ages and piratically forgot about.

So to get to the 600 points to get the last unlock-able I'll be grinding some of the least useful weapons for 4-6 levels tomorrow...

Undying disco!

Got through several more levels for a second time, but I didn't get all the skill points in them since they are easier when done with a gun I haven't unlocked yet.

But I did earn enough crystals to unlock the gold groove-a-tron! Which allows me to stun all enemies into disco dancing as many times as I like!

Also I made it up to 450 skill points, so I now unlocked the weapons concept art!

Ice ice baby

Finished off the ice level again and managed to get all the skill points. Now I'm up to 400 points, which is half way there!

Another round of mayhem

After picking up a couple more kill points I returned to the arena and finished all the challenges with the new powered up weapons. The opponents were strong too, so in the end it was just total madness of explosions, bolts, and poisonous wasps.

There were no skill points for it, it was just for the crazy fun of it! :)

Also I bought the Raspberyl DLC for Disgaea 3 since it was half off. I have no idea what it is and barely even touched Disgaea 3, but it's more Laura Bailey for 6$ so it's worth it!

Because ponies!

Just over a month ago I started watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and I instantly kicked into fandom mode. I was able to keep it in check for a few weeks, but when I started reading Fallout: Equestria my OCD reached critical mass and all my free time has been pony related since then... much to the neglect of my gaming.

In the interim I bought Catherine (because it's Atlus), and L.A. Noire (becaseu it was on sale). I'll be playing Catherine after ToD, even though it's jumping the normal cue, so I can finish before coming across any spoilers. Also it gives Quest for Booty more time to go on sale before I buy it.

On with the gaming!
Not really much to say... Got several more skill points, not all too frustrating, and unlocked more artwork and another trailer. The commentary bots are interesting but so tech orientated I'm not too sure what half they are talking about means...