2013-12-15 - More TMNT

After completing Lego Indiana Jones earlier today, decided to do a level or 2 in TMNT.

Nothing too special. Completed 2 levels, and gained one extra achievement.

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2013-12-15 - Lego Indiana Jones - 100%

Whoop, there it is... Lego Indiana Jones completed... after 4.5 years of being shelved...

We go for a ride was easy, all I needed to do is find a location where you can swing back and forward and then keep pressing B for a while ... at the same time I was watching some TV.

Disarming achievement was bit more tricky, as you can only disarm enemies from specific distance. Do it from too far, and you don't reach enemy, when too close, it will not disarm them. The last one was THE BIG headache. It was "glitched" for me as for many other people according to forums. I managed to kill multiple times 6 troopers at same time in "Motorcycle Escape" but the achievement did not appear. Same problem in "Escape the mines" - blowing up 5+ enemies did not pop the achievement. Luckily when trying it in the level with bunch of spiders - "Pankot secrets" - there I eventually got it.

 

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2013-12-14 - TMNT and Indiana Jones

Today I played two games.

In TMNT I got 4 achievements by playing through 2 levels and using 2 turtles special moves the first time. Extremely easy 120G!

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After time spent with the Mutant Turtles decided to fire up another Lego game that was shelved for almost 4 and half years. Last achievement from Summer 2009:

 

The game in question is Lego Indiana Jones. And the achievements left undone were mostly the "secret" / grinding ones.

After consulting well informed sites in internet and after some dedicated grinding I unlocked 4 out of the missing 7 achievements:

If I can do the last 3 achievements tomorrow, then this game is completed 100% :)

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2013-12-13 - 13th Friday

Nothing bad happened to me on this 13th Friday. Played a little and studied a lot.

Managed to get two easy achievements in TMNT just by completing another level.

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2013-12-12 - Mutant Turtles are here

Started playing "new" game today, the 2007 released TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). New in a sense, that I have not played that game before. :)

First 70G came very easily. First one came just for finishing the first level (more like a tutorial level) and second one as I did not take any damage during the tutorial. Easy-peasy. I suspect the later chapters will be more challenging, although this kind of platform jump games are relatively easy and are often made more for children than adult gamers.

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2013-12-11 - Wheelman managed to piss me off again

I just "love" those achievements when you have to use a map and search for X amount of things in the open map. Those achievements would be pain in the ass if you have to do them on your own, luckily there are usually tutorials and maps available for the secret locations in the internet.

Wheelman is quite old game and some of the online tutorials have unfortunately vanished - the game is 4 and half years old by now. I found some forum posts with some map images (and some images missing from the imageshack host. I found some other images with no descriptions. Putting 2+2 together gives more or less complete picture of the locations. Unfortunately at the end of getting near 100 locations discovered I see that I seem to have 2 missing. Now I am not sure if to start game again and search for the damn cat statues again to be 100% sure I have got all ... or revisit every location where the cat is supposed to be, but as the instructions are not very exact, no way of telling is the missing few cats supposed to be there or are they collected already.

When I was bored with cat hunting, I did some hot potato side-missions and got 1 achievement.

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