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Steve Meet Mario. Mario, Steve.


On 05/26/2015 at 12:56 AM by KnightDriver

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Welcome to my day in game world. 

I took my Wii over to my friend's place and played Super Mario Galaxy all afternoon. This is a really great game. I loved the space theme. Most of the levels were really fun. Exceptions were as follows: There was one level called Sweet Sweet Galaxy that drove me crazy. You run across surfaces with different shaped holes in them and have to swipe stars with the wiimote at the same time. I got to the first save point, but used up all my lives after that. Then there was Flipswitch Galaxy, which really got to me. You have to run across plates that switch colors as you pass them. You don't want to hit a plate more than once, or you'll switch it back. This means you have to find the correct path by trial and error. I got killed a bunch and jumped out before I used up all my lives. Aside from those two Galaxies though, I didn't have much problem with the rest and was able to keep moving forward in the game. I needed a break after Bowser Jr.'s Airship Armada though. Platformers are tiring.

Then it was Minecraft on Xbox 360 the rest of the night. I jumping in Mark's world and started doing my usual digging and looking for lava. I eventually was questing for diamons and found some but then fell in the lava again. It was a lot of time lost, and a lot of resources burned to nothing. I figured, either I'm going to be much more careful, or do something completely different. I did something completely different. 

I looked at the achievement list and started knocking off easy ones like killing a creeper with arrows and filling a box with 1,723 cobblestone. That number is exactly the size of your inventory and also the size of a small chest. You just collect 64 cobblestone in each of the 27 spots in your inventory and dorp them all in an empty box. Bing! Chievo. Then I went after what I thought was an easy one: place a flower pot. The flower pot is made of brick and I didn't know how to make brick. I could've just put every type of stone in the furnace, but I looked it up to save time. I discovered I needed clay, which is found at the bottom of large bodies of water. Luckily, that stuff is right off the shore in the shallows, so it wasn't difficult.

Along the way I tamed some dogs with bones and had them follow me whereever I went. At night they were pretty useful as I had to do things like shoot a Creeper with arrows and try and hit a skeleton from 50 yards away. I marked it out, and that is a long distance. I didn't get that one.

Then I mated two cows with wheat. They made an adorable little calf. I saw the poor thing get hurt on a cactus later on. 

Finally, I went for the achievement to dye wool every color possible, which is 16. I got about 8 of them before we had to stop for the night. There's one ingredient that'll be tough to get. It's Ink and it comes from a squid in the ocean. Mark says it's not hard to find them and kill them. He spent his time making a  diamond sword and enchanting it to level 7. There's an achievement for doing 9 hearts of damage with one swipe. He was going for that. 

So that was Minecraft. I left Mark's place thinking of how to build a tower to shoot arrows from, marking out the 50 yard distance, and enchanting a bow. Darn how this game gets in your head and won't let you stop thinking about it.


 

Comments

Matt Snee Staff Writer

05/26/2015 at 09:02 AM

yeah man Mario Galaxy is awesome, and the second one is even better!  FLipswitch is rough though, I do admit.  

That's sad about that calf.  Minecraft is strange. It's weird how we can feel sorry for artificial creatures.  That being said, I've swiped my sword at chickens in Zelda....

KnightDriver

05/29/2015 at 01:13 AM

I had two dogs I just adored that I took out with me every time I went outdoors. Then one night, I was out hunting creepers and my friend Mark came around armored to the teeth and weilding a diamond plus 7 sword. We started killing creepers, and skeletons, and zombies, and then I heard a yelp in the dark. One of my dogs met his end on my friend's sword by accident. Oh well, stuff gonna happen in survival mode. Time before that, I lost a dog to a creeper. I was sad.

Just read that part about "Pup" in Crumbling Sky. I know those feelings. I had a dog in my youth as well who is now gone.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

05/29/2015 at 12:04 PM

oh really?  I guess you're about a third to halfway through the book now.  Wow!

KnightDriver

06/01/2015 at 01:51 AM

I just finished the Mars section. 

Jamie Alston Staff Writer

05/26/2015 at 09:49 AM

I bought Super Mario Galaxy probably over a year ago now, and still have yet to open the game.  I will one of these days though.

KnightDriver

05/29/2015 at 01:16 AM

Oh man, it is so good. The game uses motion controls so well. It usually irratates me, but it's totally comfortable in this game.

transmet2033

05/26/2015 at 11:10 AM

One of my favourite bits of Galaxy is that god-forsaken world of the Sweet Sweet Galaxy. I just love that they used one of the classic Mario 3 songs.

KnightDriver

05/29/2015 at 01:23 AM

Yea, but that jumping stuff is super tricky. I kinda wished it was in 3D like on 3DS because maybe I could judge distance a little bit better. 

Alex-C25

05/26/2015 at 04:20 PM

A plataformer that you haven't given up? What a miracle!

Okay, just joking, but glad you decided to give Super Mario Galaxy a chance.

KnightDriver

05/29/2015 at 01:38 AM

Well, there's still time to give up on this one; however, I will do my best to complete it. I don't think I'll be going for some kind of perfect score in the game though. 

VisuaLIES

05/26/2015 at 10:57 PM

I'm slowly buying all the Wii games that I skipped the first time around.  There were some pretty good games on there if you can find them amongst all the shovelware.

KnightDriver

05/29/2015 at 01:46 AM

Yea, I'm thinking about Wii gems too right about now. Gamestop'll probably put them all in a dumpster soon. 

goaztecs

05/28/2015 at 11:18 AM

I had to skip over the SMB Galaxy part because I just added it to the library. I figured I'd start with that game before continuing with Galaxy 2. 

That's the thing with Minecraft, the folks who play it will watch video/read tutorials on how to get better at it. My cousins do it and I'm trying my best to stay away from it. 

KnightDriver

05/29/2015 at 01:54 AM

I don't care to read anything, I just bug my friend Mark with, "how do you make this?". For some reason, I'm just not into building huge palaces full of windows and all that stuff. Not unless there's a reason to. Like you have one game month before a mob of skeletons attack. Go build defenses. That would be awesome!

NSonic79

07/21/2015 at 02:27 PM

I still need to play that mario title. for some reason I can't really get into 3D mario titles. I can play them but i'm not as good with them unlike the usual 2D mario titles. Perhaps one day I'll try it out but I'm not sure if I can control it well enough for it to be fun for me. =(

KnightDriver

07/22/2015 at 03:51 AM

I had a control issues with 3D Sonic, Sonic Adventure, but Super Mario Galaxy has excellent controls. I had no problem with that part of the game at all. 

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