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I was up until perk near 1 am last night, and am definitely paying the price. It's going to be a long Monday Friday (why did I type Monday? It feels like it, I guess). Oh, coffee, revive me. Please?
Lego Indiana Jones would greatly benefit from a character who can fly. All the jumping (and dying) is really annoying. I understand the story mode being more of a pain, but you don't even have a good character to use in free play. Also, there are a lot of catty-whompus angles, combined with long series of jumps (and if you fall off you have to go allllllll the way back to the start!), which make it very frustrating.
We are now 100% done with story mode. Still need parcels and artifacts, and to do the things like 'Ancient City' (like Lego Town in LSW) and whatever other exrtas there are. I give it a 75% as good as LSW. Which, considering how much I love LSW, is still high praise. But now I find myself looking forward to Lego Batman (though I'm not a Batman fan) and really, really, really wishing they'd make a Lego Harry Potter.
My path to less yarn has taken a detour... to the yarn store. This week alone I bought eight (EIGHT!) skeins. I'll post the pictures of them later, and I need to update my count (I think I'm up 13), but there were really good reasons for each purchase! See, I bought the yellow, green, and white boucle to finish off the scarf I have started (the peach and white one I posted a pic of awhile back). Then they had this lace weight yarn on clearance! I've been looking for some lace weight yarn, because there's a shawl in the Hogwarts Knits book I want to try. It's a very... gossamer-like shawl, hence the need for lace weight yarn. And these were only $2 each! ...so I bought eight - four white and four light blue. But I have a plan for them! And that makes it all right, right?
In other craft news, I saw a tetris blanket on the internet I want to try. There are a few versions, neither what I would think of as exactly right. The crochet version, where you stitch squares together, looks sloppy and I know I couldn't keep mine consistent enough for it to look good. The knit version looks much better and cleaner, but is missing the outlines of the blocks. So I think I'd do a knit version incorporating a dark gray/black border around each block.
So many crafts, so little time. And I still need to do some work on the yard out front (need to buy some plants and more dirt, as well as mulch!). Happy, happy, joy, joy!
Lego Indiana Jones would greatly benefit from a character who can fly. All the jumping (and dying) is really annoying. I understand the story mode being more of a pain, but you don't even have a good character to use in free play. Also, there are a lot of catty-whompus angles, combined with long series of jumps (and if you fall off you have to go allllllll the way back to the start!), which make it very frustrating.
We are now 100% done with story mode. Still need parcels and artifacts, and to do the things like 'Ancient City' (like Lego Town in LSW) and whatever other exrtas there are. I give it a 75% as good as LSW. Which, considering how much I love LSW, is still high praise. But now I find myself looking forward to Lego Batman (though I'm not a Batman fan) and really, really, really wishing they'd make a Lego Harry Potter.
My path to less yarn has taken a detour... to the yarn store. This week alone I bought eight (EIGHT!) skeins. I'll post the pictures of them later, and I need to update my count (I think I'm up 13), but there were really good reasons for each purchase! See, I bought the yellow, green, and white boucle to finish off the scarf I have started (the peach and white one I posted a pic of awhile back). Then they had this lace weight yarn on clearance! I've been looking for some lace weight yarn, because there's a shawl in the Hogwarts Knits book I want to try. It's a very... gossamer-like shawl, hence the need for lace weight yarn. And these were only $2 each! ...so I bought eight - four white and four light blue. But I have a plan for them! And that makes it all right, right?
In other craft news, I saw a tetris blanket on the internet I want to try. There are a few versions, neither what I would think of as exactly right. The crochet version, where you stitch squares together, looks sloppy and I know I couldn't keep mine consistent enough for it to look good. The knit version looks much better and cleaner, but is missing the outlines of the blocks. So I think I'd do a knit version incorporating a dark gray/black border around each block.
So many crafts, so little time. And I still need to do some work on the yard out front (need to buy some plants and more dirt, as well as mulch!). Happy, happy, joy, joy!