"You Want to Touch Me?" - Bayonetta First Impressions

All right, so I picked Bayonetta up as soon as I got off of work...

Yes, I work now. Gotta feed the habits somehow.

Anyway, picked her up right after work and tossed the game in after I finished the food I picked up too. Wasn't completely new to the game as I played the demo, and enjoyed that quite a bit, so I noticed the bits that they changed for the demo and it was cool. As for the first impressions...

This game is smooth, smooth like buttah.

The game so totally drips style it's unbelievable and I'm loving every minute of it. The voices are, so far, pretty great and the controls are nice and responsive, such good things. I really wish this would have been in the fall season but, you know what, it's still good right now.

So far, Bayonetta is one hell of a Bit... I mean Witch.

A Bit of Weakness...

So, I've been bad. Got a bit of money today that I was expecting, helps make things go when you're hunting employment, and it was of decent size, enough that I was willing to let myself spend a little on myself since I haven't been doing much of that lately.

Yeah, 2000 ms points... I get "Don't Stop Believing" for Rock Band, since I'm a sucker for Journey, and then I use the rest for Operation Anchorage and The Pitt for Fallout 3. Should have just gotten 500 for "Don't Stop Believing" and called it good... used what little was left for another Beautiful Katamari stage (getting them slowly so I can get 1250/1250 eventually.)

I'll probably voice my opinions on Operation Anchorage and The Pitt soon.

So, it seems to be all the rage lately to show off TrueAcheivement stats and such, I think I'll hop on the bandwagon.

Best Games:	TA		GS
Universe at War	1,779		550
The Simpsons™ Game	1,604		870
Fallout 3	1,559		1000
Spidey: Web of Shadows	1,557		1000
Condemned	1,462		970
Call of Duty 2	1,449		1000
Halo 3	1,429		1130
The Force Unleashed	1,409		980
BioShock	1,381		(1000)
Mercenaries 2	1,301		(845)

Highest TA Ratios:	Ratio:
The Sacred Cow	5.69
Opposites Attract	4.28
My Wish is your Command	4.12
Dark Matter FTW	4.07
Forged Alliance	4.03
Masari Global Influence	3.98
Under Novus Control	3.98
Technological Terror	3.94
Mutation Madness	3.94
Blinded by the Light	3.94

It's no wonder that most of my high ratio achievements come from Universe At War, the game really isn't played all that much and TA has few tracked gamers for any of the achievements. I ended up getting some of the achievements with help from some good folks from x360a. Even after the release of the 360 version of the game, I got the PC version cheap, the online was pretty much dead. A couple of weeks ago I rented the 360 version so I could boost the online achievements just to get them done with. I had planned on doing My Virtual Life but Live kept dropping one of them whenever I'd leave the systems alone. Ah well, that one's for another day. Anyway, I think I may do this once a month to every couple of weeks or so. Any major shake ups in the top ten and I'll post on that too.

Gaming.

I was a little bad and spent some money I shouldn't have. I downloaded Scrabble for Hasbro Family Game Night, intending to stop there, then snagged Peggle, it's addicting, and then snagged Dig Dug for the awesome price of 200 ms points. Wish there were some more games at that price.

Anyway, I love Scrabble. I was playing the demo like crazy despite the fact it timed out. I can just pick it up, play, and score a few hundred points a game easily. What's nice is that I now have 120/200 for just Scrabble and 120/1400 for Hasbro Family Game Night, a little under 10% for that one.

Peggle, honestly, is just addictive. I'm on the second to last master in the adventure mode and enjoying it. The strategy in it is great despite the randomness. I'm working on being able to clear each board completely, only have two or three mastered right now. I've got 50/200 in Peggle right now, definately not as hard to get points in as some of the other Pop Cap titles.

As for Dig Dug, just like with Anime I know my roots when it comes to gaming and appreciate many of the older games. Pac-Man took many a quarter from me when I was younger and Dig Dug got a few of them too. It's fun working through the levels and getting the various pickup achievements, simple but fun, and I even got the 2 Enemies achievement without trying. Dig, where I have to dig through the entire level, is going to be much harder. Currently standing at 70/200.

Giant Bugs, Oh Noes!

Finally got around to finishing Earth Defense Force 2017 on Normal, I've had it beaten on Easy for a while now. Since I finished Fallout 3 I'm going to go through the games I have and start playing thought them more. I don't really have the funds to get anything new right now, being between jobs kinda sucks, so I figure my back catalog is the best.

I am, however, thinking about treating myself to Scrabble as soon as I can. I've been playing the trial version for a while now and, despite the time limit, have enjoyed it quite a bit. Ironicly, Board games as video games are a ton of fun. I have a buddy who has both Scene It! games, Box Office Smash is the one we play, and recently got Trivial Pursuit, which is a hell of a lot of fun especially in Facts and Friends mode. No set up or clean up for the games, and the fact you can't lose any pieces, makes the video games versions great.

While going through my collection I got to thinking about picking up DOAX2 again. I got the game cheap with the intent of doing what few people have, I want to legitimately get 1000/1000 in the game. I already have an okay start, I have collections for Kasumi, Lisa, and Lei Fang with Kasumi having a larger number of Lisa and Lei Fang's suits. I'm thinking I should get back into it and at least get the collections for each individual girl, that would make for more than 60/1000 for this title and bring my ratio up at least.

And that's another thing I'm looking to get done, I want to get my ratio to at least 50%, already have a good start at 43% but I think 50% would be much better. I could also go crazy and try for 75% but I think that the number of XBLA games I have on my card, and the fact some of them are the more difficult ones to get achivements in, will keep me from getting that for a bit. As I found out tonight, I kinda suck at Astropop and Zuma. I still like the games I'm just a bit bad at them, makes getting 200/200 on those games a bit harder. Just gotta work harder and get better, I guess.

Four Arcade Games 100%

Completed The Maw yesterday with "Six Meals a Day" for 20 gs.

That's four XBLA games at 100% now.

- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Portal: Still Alive
- Dash of Destruction
- The Maw

Now to just figure out what I want to play today.

5 Retail Completes, woo.

Of note is the fact that with one more achievement in Fallout 3, Doesn't Play Well With Others fo 20 GS, I will have 5 retail completes.

- Bioshock
- Call of Duty 2
- Spiderman: Web of Shadows
- Condemned: Criminal Origins
- Fallout 3

I'm going on an in-game murder spree in Fallout 3 to get the last 25 human kills I need for the achievement sometime tomorrow, after some sleep.

I should really get off my ass, borrow Bioshock from my bro again, and get Brass Balls to DLC complete that game.