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Last weekend I decided I wanted to beat Wind Waker no matter what. I just barely managed to do it on Sunday night, even though I decided to ignore the rest of the sidequests. By now I’m rather convinced it must be some sort of bug. Those times when I could get treasures, it seems that I could hit it even if I was off-target, but sometimes it would be impossible to hit the treasure no matter how close I was to it.

Enough about treasures. The ending was all right, and actually I almost felt bad for Ganondorf for the pitiful face he was making while explaining why he wanted to destroy the world. And he got stabbed in the face with a longsword! That’s gotta hurt. I can’t believe this is a game for kids.

 
Stupid treasures.                      This wallpaper is pretty cool.

Three weeks since I updated my blog huh. Well I’ll try and summarize some of the stuff I’ve been doing.

For Stella’s birthday I made an attempt on layered cheesecake. Just followed the standard recipe, but mixed half of the filling with chocolate (powder). I tried to wait untill each layer stiffened before adding the next layer, but that was too tedious and probably unnecessary. I also forgot to use less water in the jelly, which is the reason why it’s so thick. But it was not necessarily a bad thing, it didn’t fall apart when cutting the cake as I feared it might.

We also went out to eat on her birthday, went to a tapas restaurant, I think it was San Leandro. The place was interestingly different, with tall tables and chairs giving a bar-like feeling. The food however didn’t really feel that special. At least it didn’t feel like it was worth the rather stiff price. (I think we paid 250 NOK per person.) I prefer heartier meals for that price, like a steak or so. At least we got a big plate of fried (or baked?) potatoes though.

4th – 7th November I went to Stockholm to visit Yann again and to go to Gamex. Only went there one day, it was fun but too small to be worth going more days, unless you actually want to spend lots of time playing the demo games. I tried out Kirby: Epic Yarn, which was more difficult than I thought (read: I sucked). But it looked quite nice, I liked the various effects that made the clotheslike background really look like it’s made of cloth! I will probably buy this game even if it might be short. Other than that, there weren’t really that many games there that I truly looked forward to. Oh, I did buy a wallet. It looked cool and seemed to be quite good quality, so I bought it even though it wasn’t exactly cheap (200 SEK).

I also had a dinner with my relatives in Stockholm, since I helped them buy an unlocked iPhone 4 from Norway. They made "bibimbap", a Korean dish/meal. Never heard that name or tried Korean food besides Korean barbeque before. It’s basically a bunch of mostly cold prepared vegetables and sliced meat, but they added some other cooked meat to make a fuller meal. It was good in any case, I got quite full!

Last weekend most of the youth went to Gothenburg to participate in a missions/evangelization training "camp". I decided not to go, honestly because I didn’t really want to talk to people much. I don’t mind talking with people once in a while, but since the whole focus of this camp was on talking with people and sharing the gospel, I didn’t feel like going. It’s too bad, I would’ve liked going to Gothenburg to visit friends again…

Instead I stayed at home and spent almost all the weekend playing and eventually finishing Wind Waker. Which I wrote about at the beginning of this blogpost. Next up is probably Dead Rising! But I will need to take some time to clean my house and plan the food for my birthday party this Saturday.

I remember thinking that there are too few sidequests in the newest DS versions of Zelda. But now I’ve found that there are too many sidequests in Wind Waker. It never ends! Also I managed to grab a lot of sunken treasures before, but now I’m suddenly unable get any sunken treasures, even after going back and forth and dropping the chain rope thing a dozen times! Stupid sunken treasures. Phantom Hourglass treasure hunting was so much easier.

I was trying to look up some treasure hunting screenshot, but I found this pretty nice photo instead. I don’t know who the cosplayer is though. Couldn’t find the origin for this photo, just a bunch of blogs who had used it.

Went to church yesterday for the “dugnad”. I mainly changed some lightbulbs and helped putting rubber strips on the windows to make it not leak so much cold air in. I think it helped a bit, because even though we hadn’t turned on the heaters today, it still wasn’t as cold as it was a few days ago. Or maybe it’s wishful thinking, I want it to work because I don’t want to think that we wasted all that work. *shrugs* I’m glad quite a few youth came and helped, in any case!

I’m planning to go to Gamex in Stockholm November 4-7. Though Yann said that her friends mentioned that since the games showed on Gamex will come out in a month or so anyways, it might not be worth it to pay to go to that game show just to try those games out. I guess that’s true… *shrugs* Well I’m still thinking about going. What I really wish is that they would show the 3DS there, but it hasn’t been mentioned on their website so I guess it’s not a certainty. Still, at least they’ll celebrate Mario’s 25th Anniversary. That might be fun!

Oh, also I’ve bought a few more games for the iPad:

• Cut The Rope HD – A physics puzzle game based around cutting of ropes and feeding a cute little green creature. It’s quite cute and decent fun.
• Game Dev Story – An RPG/simulation game where you try to make a successful game development company, by hiring people and deciding what kind of games you want to make. The most successful game I made on my first full playthrough (20 virtual years inside that game) was actually an Audiobook Dating game, with 3 sequels. Which just means that I did pretty badly on all the other games I tried making, but much of the reason is because I kept trying strange combinations “just for fun”. Ah well, got quite hooked while playing it, even though a lot of the game feels quite random. Might take a break now that I finished my first playthrough.
• Predators – Bought it because it was cheap, but it’s a pretty generic action game. Kind of regret buying it. But I guess cutting people in half might work as some kind of stress relief.
• Scott Pilgrim – Not really a game, but a comic book reader. I actually bought all 6 volumes of the Scott Pilgrim comic. It’s all right, but not really as geeky (video game geeky) as I originally thought. It’s a love story with a references to indie music and video games, but since I’m not into music at all I didn’t get many of the music references. Also there are a bunch of gay people. Though the comic doesn’t really make a lot out of it. But anyways. The story really has more focus on the relationship between people than on action, as one might think from the trailer of the movie. So it’s a good read. I think I can kind of relate with the main character, in how much he’s oftentimes oblivious to what other people are thinking or feeling.
• Marble Mixer, Achtung and MultiPong – A marble flicking game, snake game and a pong game for up to 4 players. Bought these because they seemed pretty fun when Enoch was showing those games. They’re quite well-polished games.

Haven’t seen the Scott Pilgrim movie (or Predators) yet, not sure if I want to see Scott Pilgrim since I already know the story. Ah well.

Although I said that there aren’t as many game references in the comic as I thought, it is actually quite a bit and they’re fun! I guess what I really mean is that the comic is a bit more serious than I thought at first. The above image is one of the wallpapers from the Scott Pilgrim website.