::A Geek in Korea::

With all the work, social gatherings, and other things I’ve been up to recently, my chances to sit down and play a new video game for a few days straight have been rather limited. I will have the entire Lunar New Year holiday to do nothing but laze around and play games, so I ordered something in anticipation.

Wii Sports has still got an appeal, as I am flirting with Pro on several games. Keeping my ranking for Bowling is tough, as I have a high score of 210+ now. My tennis skills are in the 700 range. I can kick someone’s ass in Boxing and get a knock out, but STILL have my points decline. Grrr. I can’t win a game of Baseball anymore that the pitchers throw inside at 700 level.

Zack and Wiki has offically been put on the back burner. I’ll echo what the guys over at “Totally Rad Show” said that vocalized my exact opinion of the game in their review. “This game punishes you for experimentation too much. If you make a mistake, it kills you, and that means you don’t want to experiment. That’s bad for this kind of game.”  They also have the same “explanation” menu when you use a tool 20 times, which breaks the immersion. I KNOW how to use the tool, give me an option to TURN THAT OFF PLEASE.

Nags against my current games aside, Mario Galaxy is in transit to remove any drought in something new until Brawl. Several people have left comments saying, “Hey, wait, why haven’t you played this yet?”

To be honest, I didn’t order it because I suck BADLY at 3d platformers. I beat Mario 64 on the DS with the minimum number of stars required, and a lot of cursing. I like traditional 2D gameplay mechanics, and I’m a little worried that adding “Relative Gravity” as a gameplay mechanic might make my mind explode. I know it’ll be a good game, despite being burned on Super Mario Sunshine, a Mario game I couldn’t find enough interest in to beat (which is rare). Also, No More Heroes wasn’t available to order with a promise of being here on time.

It took some arm twisting with the wife, but I’ve got it in the mail. It should be here in time for the holiday before the mail stops being delivered. I’ll have five days or so to play it to my heart’s content. Yay! Traditional Korean holidays!