The Waiting Game
I’m at home today, waiting for my copy of Halo 3. After an unexpected (but very welcome) rebate from the gas and electricity people I decided to splash out and secured the Legendary Edition (aka the one with the cat helmet).
I’m cursing my own stupidity for not having it sent to Sally’s work, and trying to get stuff redelivered or picked up from Parcel Force is a bit of a nightmare. So I had to bite the bullet and lose a days pay, but at least it means I get to eat pizza at ten o’clock in the morning and play videogames.
I’ve just finished Hotel Dusk: Room 215 on the Nintendo DS. I’m not much of a mobile gamer, but every opportunity I’ve had just recently I have grabbed the DS and tried to power on through it. The game has been out for a few months now, and for whatever reason I never picked up a copy until fellow Red Ranter David Darke leant me his copy when we went to Germany.
The game plays like exactly what it is, a detective novel. You turn the DS on its side and hold it like a book, using the touch screen to control your character, solve puzzles and interact with the other guests at the hotel. It’s not to everybody’s taste though, as the game is rather slow paced and you will find yourself going through extremely long conversations with the other characters.
The action takes places in one location, the hotel from the games title and while this may seem restrictive, there is so much going on in the ten chapters you don’t need other locations. As with most games of this ilk, as you begin exploring the hotel certain sections are unavailable to you but will unlock as you progress.
Hotel Dusk is a brave experiment, trying to do something different with the DS, and I commend the team at Cing for doing that. The art style (think A-ha’s Take On Me video) is great and the plot is very engrossing once you get into it. It’s also a pretty long game, I’ve been playing it on and off for the last three weeks so it’ll keep you entertained for a while.
For now, I have to entertain myself with some Active Directory training while I wait for Parcel Force. What fun.
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Ha ha. I don’t know how it is over there, but you can easily find a copy of Halo over here in the states.
As you know, I stupidly pre-ordered the game so I was forced to wait around until it arrived.
Well I told this to some friends at work and they said, “Why don’t you just buy the game today and then go back to the store and return it with the copy you get via mail?”
I said, “GENIUS”, and now I have my copy! I just wish that I didn’t get it this week with work being all crazy otherwise I would have happily taken some day(s) off. *nod*
The Legendary edition seems to be very limited, the place I got mine sold out of their preorders within a couple of hours. Damn courier still isn’t here yet, grrr