Random Thoughts Recap

we need more oil for the machines to burn
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I finally beat Shining Force 2, or in this case Resurrection of the Dark Dragon. Doing nothing but taking it easy since my heart acted up gave me a lot of time and motivation for finishing all the shit I never completed. Shining Force took me almost 11 years to beat since I've played it multiple times on emulators for PC, Dreamcast, and finally completed a game on my GBA copy. Feels good man. Ending was good, but nothing terribly amazing or over the top. Either way, it was a blast to play with all the fun characters and battles.

So now I've started playing Professor Layton and the Curious Village which I messed around with last year but never started a file on. This game fucking rocks. The animations are well done, the characters are well designed, the fact that there is an adventure type game on the DS is awesome, and the hundreds of puzzles are all really entertaining and occasionally frustrating. I can't begin to describe how annoyed I get when I try to figure a puzzle out for 15 minutes only to finally realize the question itself features some sort of wordplay or oh-so-subtle hint that instantly gives the solution away.

E3 is only a week away and I am pretty excited to see what everybody is going to be showing off. I'm most pumped about the 3DS since I love Nintendo handhelds and since its an actual successor to the DS which I think is one of the most quality systems I've ever used. I'm curious to see what the new Zelda will look like and feature as well as if there will actually be a new Kirby game(hopefully for Wii since there's very little console love for Kirby). Outside of Nintendo, I want to see what Natal has in store, and especially how much it will actually cost. For some insane reason I doubt that a majority of xbox users will want this thing -they want SHOOTAN GAEMS. Sony is the most questionable for me since the PSP essentially sucks, PS3 has no appeal to me outside of it being a blu-ray player, and their motion controller looks pretty ridiculous.

I've got a lot more to say, but that will be tomorrow...