Lately

Played more pinball, as usual.

Got a few more stars with Luigi on Super Mario Galaxy–I’m up to 41, I think. I hope to finish the game with Luigi before Super Mario Galaxy 2 comes out, which gives me about a week. I’ve got to say, Super Mario Galaxy is a really high quality game. The levels are very well designed, and there’s enough new and different stuff throughout the game to keep it interesting. It’s great.

I got Portal, since it’s free on Steam. It’s really great. I’ve played partway through it before this (and I played Narbacular Drop before Portal was released), though I haven’t yet finished it. I think that Portal mostly does a good job of being challenging in places without also being frustrating. It’s not too difficult, and the earliest parts are especially too easy to require much thinking, but it’s fun just playing with the portal gun.

I played some Codename Gordon, which was also a free game on Steam, but it’s much less fun. It’s a sort of run ‘n’ gun platform thing which seems like it might be implemented in Flash. Not terrible, but I doubt I’ll finish it or even play it again.

I beat the demo-thing Peggle Extreme which is available on Steam. It’s a fairly fun little casual game.