@&@#^&@.

[wombat1138]

Have been noodling around Okami for the past two evenings, being procrastinatory about passing the POINT OF NO RETURN-- collecting the remaining Stray Beads (I can't imagine having been an early player of the game who had to find all of them on their own), buffing up Issun's attack via the Thief's Glove (the more you use it, the stronger he gets-- he can now take down a wheel with 3-5 hits), and generally tying up loose ends.

Tonight I finally managed to crack the Blockhead Grande. All of the Blockheads briefly display glowing weak points which can be used to destroy them if you hit all of them in order. Blockhead Grande has eight of them, and I only got them because the randomization happened to lay out an easy-to-remember pattern this once.

And then the game crashed.

I finally had to look up how to perform a hard shutdown (holding down the power button on the Wii console for 5 seconds). I did have a save from a half-hour earlier or so, but now I've got to whack at that stupid Blockhead Grande all over again.

Bleargh.

(...some hours later: had to wait for the randomizer to pick another easy pattern. Now taking a break before the last round of the Kamui Devil Gate, having previously warmed up by repeating the other two Devil Gates. Note that despite (PS-based?) Okami dox online, at least on the Wii you do not get more Golden Peaches for doing a Devil Gate again. (later note: the Peach appears on the ground by itself, but dissolves with the arena walls.))

Comments

[jennifer3dtd.livejournal.com]

Argh, the game crashed? How frustrating! :\