Time Travelling Kumatanchi

(tags game, Dual Screen, Kumatanchi, Animal Crossing)

In Animal Crossing, I can Time Travel for fun and profit, like skipping forward to a certain event, and then letting real time catch up. Time Travel is just resetting the DS's real-time clock to a desired time before starting a game. It resembles a hurry up and wait cycle.

I just realized I can do the same thing in Kumatanchi. In the early part of the game, I would be missing a lot, but now that almost all the stuff is unlocked, Time Travel lets me play this game in batch without having to play it real-time like a Tamaggochi. Now I keep track of my next batch gaming using a calendar and email reminders. Sorry Kumatan, but there are other games I should be concentrating on (Chrono Trigger never ends...)

Re-exploring the DS: Nintendo first party titles

(tags game, Dual Screen, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Super Mario)

So I bought Chrono Trigger recently and I've only been through a couple of time slips.

This DS gaming has gotten me interested in the other software I have so I pulled out Super Mario 64 DS, a week or two ago. I keep thinking about making a seperate blog post titled "Crackdown before Super Mario 64", but then again, I've already played Super Mario Sunshine (still not cleared though), and I suppose that's similar. I can't believe how basic it feels. I rather be playing Spyro from the PlayStation 1.

And then, the whole advertisement wave going on with the Wii version of Animal Crossing (どうぶつの森) made me pull out my old copy of Animal Crossing: Wild World DS. I thought there would be the granddaddy of weeds, but I just have lots of the easy weeds. Anyway I spent some time cleaning up the place, picking fruit and generally checking out the game again. It crashed on me twice while I was trying to get online (I was hoping Nintendo would send me some status messages or something). All in all it's just as fun as I remembered it. Well, fun as making up some boring tasks like "pick all the fruit" and doing them. I checked out the Wii version's and it seems as if you can import your DS stuff into your Wii. It's only one way, though, and it's really limited. You gain your name, face, and catalog, but that's it. Of course you don't lose anything on your DS though. Also, you can't push anything from your Wii to your DS. 

Finally, I started unlocking Mario Kart DS courses. I've had this game for ages but I still haven't unlocked them, even the easiest 50cc ones. I hate Mario Kart's game system, though. Get ahead too much, feel the power of the blue Koopa shell, over and over again. Ugh. Sometimes I just look at overhead map instead of the pursuit view because its easier to see.

Anyways, I'll keep these games along side my daily dose of Kumatanchi (yes I'm still caring and feeding this littl' Tamagochi twice a day) and Chrono Trigger.