CE Wills

Aralon: Sword and Shadow     Hey, everyone. I have been playing my new game, which is a role playing game I bought for the humble, on-sale price of 99 cents. The game is certainly worth that price. I played it for 2 hours last night and a little while today. I like it. It is not as fast paced as I normally like my games but the graphics are really nice and they have given you an option of an easy mode so you don't get stuck. I am having a little problem learning how to do certain things, however.     For instance. The on-screen advice keeps telling me that I could travel faster if I had a horse, but I haven't figured out how to get one, nor have I seen any. I even tried running down a large deer in hopes that I could ride him but he proved to be too elusive.     The roadways of this land which I am traveling through are vexed with robbers. I have killed a score of these scurvy knaves. I would have thought that word would have gotten ar...

The Piano Man     I have the music for Billy Joel's classic song called Piano Man . Lately, as I learn to play it, I have marveled at how well written it is. Not only can Bill turn a phrase but he can write a short story and stick it in a song.     The singer is playing piano in a bar and paints an enduring picture of the bar's inhabitants. The regular crowd shuffles in. The old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin. He says, "Son, can you play me a melody? I'm not really sure how it goes. But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete, when I wore a younger man's clothes." Clearly, this is something that the writer had experienced.     We hear about the bartender who is quick with a joke or to light up your smoke, but he thinks, quite humbly, that he should be a movie star. And of course, there is Davy, who is still in the Navy, and probably will be for life.     Everyone who has drank in a bar o...

The "Closet" Bird Rider     Hey everyone. I bet you guys thought I was dead. No, I am very much (?) alive. I have been incommunicado in the land without internet. Major drag. I haven't had time to play games, even. Not reading Google News and Flipboard was bad. I also couldn't check my app shopper app for the latest games. Speaking of that excellent free app, there is a game on sale you might want if you are an RPG person. That's role playing game for those of you new to the I-Pad. Anyway, the game is Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD. It is normally a hefty $6.99 but it is currently on sale for a paltry 99 cents. This game is big, with 310 megabytes of cool graphics. I haven't bought it yet, but I want to because in the screen shots there is a character who is riding a huge bird, like an ostrich. Not that I am a closet bird rider or anything, but it just looks cool.      My problem is this. I have a new internet service and I am now limited on my amoun...

    Hey, everyone. You guys really need to go buy the new I-Pad game called Max Payne Mobile. I have played it for hours this week and I am enjoying it.     In the above picture, I had shot a canister of pressurized gas. I was needing to get through a locked door and this seemed like a fun way to do it. I wouldn't recommend doing this at home or in any real-life scenario, but for games it is okay. Last night I was walking on steam pipes 10 stories off the ground, in order to get from one building to another. You can even stop at soft drink machines, televisions and phones and they work.     I was in a hallway of a building and a bomb went off. The door was still in front of me, but the walls around the door were gone. Very cool. For $2.99, you can't beat this game.    If you don't want to spend any money, try these freebies. 1) Paper Monsters 2) Fly Boy 3) Feed That Dragon      Be advised, I haven't played the...

    Hey, everyone. I had mentioned that I had bought the popular sword-fighting game called Infinity Blade 2. I have played it for a couple of hours. While this genre of game is not my cup of tea, I have enjoyed this game. Of course, you have heard about the incredible graphics. Monsters have never looked so good.      This game is on sale and I bought it for $4.99. It is easily worth that price. You travel around to stone castles and fight various warriors, human and otherwise, female as well as male. At your disposal are a variety of weapons, armor, potions, rings with magic powers and helmets. One interesting note is the holiday helmet which looks like an Easter egg, complete with a rabbit face. I believe it was yellow and purple. Man, did it look out of place in the grim castles you hang out in. Did I buy it and wear it? You'll never know.      The new content pack is out with this version. It has the new "Clashmob" feature w...

   Hey, everyone. Today I break my cardinal rule and blog while drinking.     Tracy Lawrence has a song called Paint Me a Birmingham . This is a story about a guy that is at the beach. He comes upon a man who is painting pictures for the tourists. He says that for $20 he will paint anything. The guy tells the artist to paint a scene of what might have been if he had not messed up a tragic love affair.    How many of us are looking backward at what might have been? How about that girl who would have been the one, if we had pulled our head out of our rear? What is she doing now?    Paint her there on the front porch swing.    Cotton dress, make it early spring,    For a while she'll be mine again,    Could you paint me a Birmingham?     Life is funny. When you find the person you want, it seems as if the forces of evil manipulate folks to hinder love. Don't let anyone control your life. Like Doc Ho...

    Hey, everyone. On the preceding post concerning Max Payne Mobile, I forgot to mention the fact that all game saves must be done manually. Go to the title page, scroll though the list and select 'save'. I hope they change this to an auto function with an update. Hint, hint.     Speaking of hints, I went to You Tube, as I threatened, and watched a walkthrough of the Roscoe Street Station. I found out a way to advance a bit more. In the control room you walk up to a control panel and get the ( !) icon which tells you that there is a possible interaction. You start a power switch for a train. Then you proceed to the station platform and board a yellow train. When you wreck it, climb out the front door of the car onto the wooden barricade which you have just flattened. You may have to jump to get on the wood. After that, just run down the tracks until people start shooting at you.     This is CE Wills and I'm heading back to Roscoe Street!