{"id":2435,"date":"2012-06-10T10:15:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T15:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2012-06-08T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T19:22:06","slug":"seeing-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"Seeing green"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently knocked off two more to-dos from my 2011 video game backlog\/wishlist<\/a>. At the expense of playing new games, I’ve managed to complete the solo guitar career in Guitar Hero: Van Halen<\/strong>. I was going to go back in to dig out a few more achievements and up my cheevo\/gamerscore ratios, but someone at Activision decided that you don’t deserve achievements unless you’re playing in a full band of people who are\u00a0experts at the game. So maybe I’ll just let this one go.<\/p>\n

I also hunkered down and played through the entirety of MegaMan Legends<\/strong> again. Well, the entire story<\/em> anyway. I wrote off the objective of collecting and upgrading all the special weapons before I started because who has the time to grind that much money? I was shooting for the Shining Laser, at least, but the stupid race game that you need to win to get a part for it is too dumb and hard so I gave up and just beat the game with the buster. Whatever. The charm of MegaMan Legends is in its characters and world design, not collecting everything.<\/p>\n

I’ve decided that now I’m going to clean up the rest of the green stars in Super Mario Galaxy 2 <\/strong>– a task I thought would be much less annoying than it is. The green stars are just tedious filler to begin with, but some of them are placed in incredibly frustrating locations. I wrestled with the Whomp King for almost ten minutes, trying to get on top of him so that I could collect the star floating above the fortress in Throwback Galaxy. Once I decided it was impossible, it took me another few minutes to get a good enough wall jump off of his face to grab the star. I know they won’t get any easier from this point on, but if they get any harder<\/em>, I may just give up on this fool’s errand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently knocked off two more to-dos from my 2011 video game backlog\/wishlist. At the expense of playing new games, I’ve managed to complete the solo guitar career in Guitar Hero: Van Halen. I was going to go back in to dig out a few more achievements and up my cheevo\/gamerscore ratios, but someone at … Continue reading Seeing green<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mario","category-mega-man","category-plastic-guitars","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}