I sat here trying to think of a catchy title for about an hour, but I finally gave up and just wrote the article. My idea for this is to summarize what I played all week in a week-in-review type article every Saturday. Does anyone care? Probably not. Does it create some easy filler content? Oh heck yes.
Animal Crossing: Wild World. Turn it on, check the mail, check Nook’s, go fishing, get bored, turn it off. Amazingly enough, that’s all you really need to enjoy this game.
Starfox Command. Five minutes into this game I almost put it back up on eBay for ten bucks and walked away. Ten minutes later, I was having a little bit of fun with it. The biggest downside is the awkward controls (hold the stylus in the left hand and scratch around the touch screen control the Arwing, use any of the other buttons to shoot). If they had forgot about trying to make use of the touch screen and stylus and just make a good port of the 64 game I would have been happier. Darn those game developers and their fanciful ideas of game innovation.
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. I love this game. I finished it on normal difficulty (took me 28 hours…and I think about a third of that time was spent doing missions), and now I’m playing through on hard. I thought I had a pretty good handle on the combat after playing through the first time, but the missions are kicking my butt this time around.
World of Warcraft. My interest is winding down again. I can make it about two months before I have to stop playing for a while, and it’s been about a month and a half since I fired up my subscription again. I got my 70 geared up to the point that I could without raiding the 25 man instances with my guild. I just don’t have the time to commit to do that anymore. The most fun I’m having is playing it with my girlfriend every once in a while. That experience has reminded me that I take a lot for granted when it comes to understanding basic mechanics of the game.
