not gonna waste my holiday on gaming, yeah right

(tags game, holiday, Japan, Dual Screen, PSP)

This week is a whole week off holiday from work. I should be out enjoying the sunshine. And I will as soon as am done with this catch-up post.

Last Friday, while out in Nipponbashi, I started off the holiday by buying two new games, Metroid Pinball for the DS and The Warriors (US version) for the PSP. I bought Metroid Pinball on recommendation from somari on the #insertcredit channel. I only had a chance to open it but it reminds me of Super Mario Ball. You can infinitely nudge the table using the touch panel, but unfortunately the natural grip position with thumbs on the buttons makes this a bad control config. Also it is as frustrating as Super Mario Ball. The visuals are very good. The rumble pak doesn't do anything for me. I've already put it out of my mind, so maybe I won't get back to it.

I am almost done with Doki Doki Majo Shinpan (どきどき魔女神判) for the DS. There's just one more chapter to finish. The in-game clock says 13 hours. I figured out a technique during the fight scene that makes the game totally easy. And shinpan as always is "great".

Sudoku Deluxe for the DS is almost complete. 94.1%. Maybe just another couple of hours, because there are 13 Difficult and 7 Extreme boards left. I am dreading the data input for this game since there about 400 boards and Microsoft Excel doesn't make it easy to input. We'll do some pre-processing or something with Emacs.

Other than that I did try a little of that Dead or Alive Extreme Volleyball for the Xbox 1. Very nice to look at, but its not fun. I suppose I should work on mastery of the volleyball game, but if I'm stuck in front of the "TV" I might as well look at the Internet.