12 Days after New Years, Happy!

Happy New Years! Oh crap that was 12 days ago!! Nothing like to continue bad habits into the new year, right? Anyway, I really do hope everyone had a great New Years, it's kind of refreshing to sit down and actually think about improving yourself for the upcoming year, then again, doing so is a whole other story.

Gaming News:
I finally finished off Zelda: Twilight Princess last week. When I started that game I was set to finish it within two or three days. After investing over 20 hours into the game, I realized that I couldn't realistically do that, so I kinda just set it aside and completely forgot about it. After a long hiatus, I popped it back in and finished the last 3 or 4 dungeons and stabbed that sucka Ganondorf in his chest. The game was a solid Zelda title, but I can't help but feel that Ocarina of Time was just a bigger and better game. Now that I think about it, I might just pick that up off of the Wii Store...

I also picked up Final Fantasy: The Crystal Bearers. Im not a big fan of the Crystal Chronicles series of the FF line, but the trailers for this game sucked me into getting this one to help tide me over until Firthteem drops later this year. I had to re-check the cover of this game after only the first few minutes of the title screen. I was shooting birds down and using mind powers to toss enemies and objects around. This is a Final Fantasy game? WTF!? The story is out there, the characters are out there, this game is way the freak out there. And that's why I'm compelled to see this story end. The game does feel a little weird without actual experience points, level grinding, or even a real combat menu/sequence. My biggest gripe with the game is the absence of a minimap and an actual helpful real map screen. It's nice that it shows a huge hand showing where I need to go on the map, but it doesn't tell you HOW TO GET THERE! What is this? 199X? I can't waste 30 minutes trying to figure out how to get from point A to point B anymore, I have limited time Squeenix! And oh yeah, there's a beach minigame with 50 half naked girls. In a Nintendo Wii game.