The funny thing about this game is that some goals are so difficult that, in order to achieve them, you have to be so good that suddenly anything less becomes very easy.

It's almost hard to imagine now how the Archives ever could have been challenging (to beat). Of course, it was. I never did figure out a "normal" way of beating it on 00 Agent (has anyone else had a similar experience?). But after I beat the stage the first time on 00 Agent, I never died there again. And I suppose it'd be even more unlikely to die on the lower difficulties. I wonder if I decided to take the long way around that stage if it would remind me of my earlier experiences with it.


Anyway, the only thing else I did tonight was mess around with my new cheat. It seems impossible (?) to beat the Control with it active. You're invisible even to Natalyia, so she won't leave the elevator when you return for her, and therefore she won't open the doors. FO, however, thought that the civilains still recognized me in the Streets. I did notice one put his hands up. I'd have to check if that's a repeatable thing. The sentry guns and the cameras still definitely see me. Also, in the Train, Ouromouv (sp?) apparently sense you somehow if you get too close.

For the most part, enemies won't shoot at you no matter what while invisible. Perfect Dark has a cloaking device as part of the normal game, so the AI was designed to take that into consideration. If enemies in that game are shot at by something invisible, they'll just start shooting blinding, or where they think the source of the shots was. I only noticed that in one stage in Goldeneye: Some of the Aztec guards that are armed with lasers will shoot blindly when threatened.

One funny glitch: When I beat the Cradle, and went to the final platform, the stage didn't end. After waiting around for a moment, I started to look up... and I saw a body fall into the abyss. Eventually, a stream of normal enemies starting falling from above.

While exploring the Depot, I for the first time got a good look at the graffiti. There are some words("SAM", "karz", "KH", "Psycho") as well as pictures (one was of a gangster that almost looked like it could have been from Hogan's Alley).

I LOOOOOOVE Flying Omelette!!
Crawl and 1000