finished zelda 2. finally. so damn hard. even with save states. undoubtedly the most merciless, weird and bone-crunchingly hard zelda ever. another childhood nes game put to bed. and i think thats the lot. maybe i should move onto unfinished snes games now...

nath finished silent hill 4 today too. pretty good ending generally considered one of the worse silent hill games, but i liked the story in it. more narrative and events rather than just wandering around going "what the fuck" most of the time like most silent hills

closing in on the end of zelda 2. 5 dungeons in, 2 to go. already further than i got on the original nes cart.

nath got most of the way through silent hill 4 today but went to bed before he finished.

trying to finish off the last few nes games i have on the list. only 2 are zelda 2 and mario and yoshi. and i dont think mario & yoshi really has an ending....so i went with zelda 2.

its still rock hard as ever. emulating it on ds and having to make ample use of save states. seems to be slow, nibbling progress. you have so little life and magic. and limited lives. what the fuck. so everytime you die you have to go all the way back to the start castle. but making slow progress....did 1 temple and am close to the second i think.

nath was gonna do more silent hill 4 but didnt feel up to it. perhaps tomorrow.

just beat totally rad there today. another blast from the past finally conquered. originally called 'magic john' in japan. the surfer lingo and characters were added completely out of nowhere by the american translators. curious.

nath beat silent hill origins last night. it locked up near the end then he went to bed in defeat. then came back 5 minutes later saying it would bug him if he didnt finish it, so he did. pretty good ending. hes starting back at silent hill 4 today.

also, my army of two 2 came today. it didnt get lost in the post after naths da re-sent it using the same postage mark. good stuff