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04 Apr

Sonic and the Secret Rings

I rented Sonic and the Secret Rings and it is definitely the nicest looking Wii game I’ve played so far. I like how the story is told with lightly animated storyboards. The voice acting doesn’t make me cringe in pain like with older 3D Sonic games.
This was supposed to be the 3D Sonic that [...]

29 Mar

My first Wii injury

My boss, who is about to leave, used to develop video games and he wanted to see the Wii, so I brought it in this morning so he could try it out.
He was having fun with tennis and then he wanted me to demonstrate bowling. I was careful to avoid the conference room table, but [...]

27 Mar

Tuesday Media Roundup #18

Premonition was…. not so good. After awhile you’re wishing for some progress and when you get some progress you’re like “uh huh, sure.” I’m going to go into a few spoilers here….
The moment where it completely lost it for me is when, seeing that she needed to consult someone about premonitions, goes to the local [...]

26 Jul

Sudoku completed

Yay! I’ve now completed all 120 (including 12 training puzzles) in Brain Age for the Nintendo DS. I thought they were all pretty easy until the last seven. Those all took around 30 minutes each.

19 Apr

My brain is old!

(I’m posting more today because I have nothing to do except wait for QA to find bugs for me to fix.)
Last night I bought Brain Age for the Nintendo DS. It was made based on the research of Japanese neuroscientist. He found certain types of exercises stimulated blood flow to various areas of the brain [...]

17 Sep

True Crime: Streets of LA

I bought this game because it was in the bargain bin and the novelty of driving around a real model of LA sounded fun. You play a copy who doesn’t play by the rules so you can drive over anything and take other people’s cars when yours gets too beat up. This game has a [...]

05 Jul

WarioWare Twisted

I decided I needed a new GameBoy Advance game and having liked the original WarioWare I decided this was going to be it. It uses a gyroscope in it so most of the game action is performed through turning the GameBoy Advance and occasional use of the A button. For those of you who never [...]

29 Jun

The new game is P.N.03

I opened it yesterday which leaves Metroid Prime, True Crime: Streets of LA, and Gladius unopened. I think this game is shorter than Wario World. If this were on arcade controls you would probably finish this game in 1.5 hours. It will fire as fast as you can press the fire button. Normal holding of [...]

27 Jun

Done with Wario World

Well by tomorrow anyway. Last week I decided I didn’t really care if I finished the game so I put it up for sale on half.com. I picked it up for rediculously cheap clearance so I’m making a small profit, but mostly it’s just not too thriilling. So if I get to finish it by [...]

18 Jun

I started Wario World

After finishing Sphinx I decided I needed to open another still sealed game that I picked up at extreme bargain prices and Wario World was it.
I’ve never played Wario game before so I don’t know what it’s about but in this case it’s like a 2D side scroller where you beat things up and collect [...]

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