Still wondering how long it’s going to take me to beat Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. I just bought my copy a few days ago, and I’m already on Mission 12. I haven’t yet hit that difficulty ramp where everything starts getting harder all of a sudden, but I’m sure it’s coming up, as I haven’t yet tapped into my CO Powers.
I wonder what it is that attracts me to music games? Or maybe, music games are attracted to me? I think it started with PaRappa the Rapper back in the PlayStation era, and since then, I’ve made it part of my duty to become “just that good” at a bunch of rhythm-based games. DDR, Frequency, Amplitude, Guitar Hero (ye gods, Guitar Hero), Elite Beat Agents…my hands (and feet) have touched them all. Ontamarama, cute as it is, is kicking my butt on the Hard difficulty level.
Damn. Can’t believe I missed this series last year. Maybe it’s because I didn’t have a DVD player to call my own, or enough free time and disposable income to purchase DVDs (and yet my video game collection keeps expanding – Fridge Logic much?). In hindsight, I guess I missed a lot of anime/cartoon DVD sets since I focused so much on video games last year, so in 2008, I figured I’d try something new.
“They shoulda never gave you niggas money!” – Dave Chappelle as Rick James
Man, I don’t know what the heck Hollywood is thinking. First, they let guys like Uwe Boll make a mockery of video games by turning them into things like this and this. Then they have guys like Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (a.k.a. “two of the six writers of Scary Movie”), and let them make a mockery of parody films by turning them into things like this and this.
I added two new sections to the ol’ blog here. One’s going to be for works of fiction that I’ve written, and another will be reserved for recaps of whatever it is I’m watching at the time. I have my stories posted on FanFiction.net and my old LiveJournal, but I figured I’d put everything here, as well, in the unlikely event that one of those sites should be made unavailable for any reason.
