So, I now have an Xbox 360, and I do believe my money was well worth it. It came to well over $400, and then I also bought another controller, a battery pack/charger, and 2 games. I bought Halo 3, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition. Right now its working out pretty good for me. Although the two games that came with it, Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Froza, sort of pissed me off, because MUA, well I already have that for the PS2. I was hoping it was the Special Edition with Venom, but it wasn't. And Froza...I played it once, and couldn't figure out how to drive the car around a corner without the car driving straight into a wall. I guess I need practice, but I'll stick with Gran Turismo, thanks. But Halo 3 has been fun. I haven't played Campaign Single-player, only Co-op, but that proves to be a good time. And Oblivion is working out pretty sweet, since me and my friends decided to create a Bruce Campbell look alike, and everytime we come to making a decision, we ask What Would Bruce Do? Its great fun. But my next purchase on the list is Gears of War, since it has been highly recommended to me, and the reviews i've seen are showing that its a good piece of work. All the bad reviews were either very nitpicky, or were just incoherent children that couldn't spell being angry because they suck. So, that shall be next for me.

Okay, so I've recently played Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for the DS, and its a very very very good game. The game is about Phoenix Wright, a rookie Defense Attorney. You basically go through the game solving cases. You go from gathering evidence to going up against a Prosecutor to try and find your client Not Guilty, while from time to time proving that someone else involved in the case is actually the real murderer.

I must say, when you hear someone talk about this game you want to say "I'd rather taking a f***ing pitchfork, stick it up my ass and eat a bag of dirtya**holes then play this game." But then you start playing the game, and you pull that pitchfork out of your ass, and you put down the bag of a**holes, and you proudly say "This games alright."

BUT as you then get more and more into the game you start to get really into it and your emotions are flailing like a toddler who was denied a box of Cap'n Crunch at the grocery store and you start to FEEL like a lawyer. And then when you hear someone on the bus talking to their friend and you hear something suspicious about the woman they claim to have been banging the night before and you yell out



Then the bus swerves and comes to a stop, the driver turns around and says "Is there a problem?" and then you yell out "Yes! This man was just telling his friend that the woman he was with last night had a rack as big as Pamela Anderson, and then he mentioned again the woman's rack...

BUT THIS TIME HE COMPARED THE RACK TO BASKETBALLS!"

And then everyone on the bus starts to speak amongst themselves.

"WELL!? WHICH IS IT!" you cry out through the noise and confusion of the babbling passengers. The driver starts to bang his fist on the horn and yells out "Order! ORDER! ORDER!!!" and then the passengers go quiet. The driver turns to the man and says "Well, answer the question!"

The young man looks around, obviously you have him. His testimony is shot, and theres no evidence to prove hes telling the truth, because hes clearly lying!

"Okay!" he yells out and then breaks down into tears. "She was as flat as a board!" and then the commotion of the bus passengers starts up again, and you stand there, victorious as this man weeps at the fact that his lay the night before was actually the ugliest woman he's ever seen.


So as you can see, Phoenix Wright will change your life in ways you'd never imagine possible. If you have a DS, and do not pick this game up. Then I only have one thing to say.

When Final Fantasy X came out, I was pretty excited. It was the first Final Fantasy game to come out on the PS2, and it looked so awesome, you could just crap your pants with excitment. And it delivered. Sure, it wasn't a Final Fantasy VII, but it was a solid piece of work. The gameplay was good, the graphics were good, and the storyline was decent enough. (Although the ending pissed me off.)

And then I heard about SquareEnix's Final Fantasy X-2. "What the hell?" is what I said. Not only were they making a sequel to a Final Fantasy game, but they were doing a sequel for a game that, in my oppinion, didn't deserve one. Tidus was gone, and Auron was gone. So thats the Main character, and the best character, which only leaves a few characters that were...midiocre. And then I find out that Yuna was the main character. "What the f---?" I said. I didn't really like Yuna in FFX. I found her irritating, and at times questioned her mental capabilities. And now she was going to be the main character. SquareEnix was already being a big disappointment.

So I went for years ignoring the game, and discrediting it as a Final Fantasy game because of everything it was. But recently I found out that one of my friends had it, and so what did I do? I borrowed it from him, just so I could see if I was right to loathe it so. I found that I was.

My main problem, suprise suprise, is with the story. It makes no f--king sense. Now, I'm going to stop for a second here to inform you that I have not beaten the game, however if I can muster up enough gag reflex, I'll finish it and make a new entry about the game once I do. But for now, I'm going to talk about what I know so far. So the part that makes no sense is Tidus. Yeah, he's in it, known only as him or he, which is annoying, because they could have just said TIDUS! Yeah, you get to name him in the first game, but in FFX-2, you don't, so there is no need to refer to him by gender. Now if they called Tidus she or her then I would be suprised, but this is just annoying. And so the first time you see him, where is he? Locked in a cage screaming like a child and having a temper tantrum refering to Yuna as his girl. Come on Tidus, you're the Star Player for the Zanarkand Abes. I'm sure you could do much better then YUNA. Anyways, so he's screaming away, and they're scepticle as to whether this is actually him or not.

"No, I'm not sorry! I haven't done anything wrong! I know you're listening. If she was your girl, what would you do? How can you blame me for trying to use your weapon? It was the only way I could save the summoner! What would you do if you were me? Let me out! ... I want to see her... "

Hm, maybe there was another guy who saved Yuna from being killed by the Final Summoning. Dumbasses. Anyways, so you're running around trying to find these spheres so that you can, you know, save Tidus. What about Auron? He was awesome, save him instead! Jerks.

So do you remember the opening to FFX? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHuN9B7lnLc (That lnik should work, but Firefox isn't letting me copy or paste, so if not the send me a message, or just search it on YouTube.)

Badass right? Yeah, its awesome in everyway. Great graphics, great music, great everything. Awesome in ever single way.

Now here's the opening for FFX-2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyqX1SNuwzc

What the s--t!? Yeah the graphics are good, but everything else BLOWS! I mean, Y.R.P? I wonder how that meeting went. "Hey, what should we call ourselves?" "Oh, I know, how about we just use the initials from our names!" "Hey, you're a genious Rikku!" "I know Yuna!" "...I hate you both..."

And why does Rikku look like a whore? As if the short-shorts wern't enough, they had to put her in a bikkini as well. And then the singing, oh GOD the singing! And the NAMES! Why can't we just intorduce them normally, like in every other game? Why do we need to zoom in on them, and write their names on the screen with glittery letters? Its like they want us to vomit in rage. And the whole "Girl Power" theme thats going on, just makes me sick. Ugh, its total ass.

So once you get past that bullf--k, you find a half decent game, I guess. The combat system is fun, and the class changing is fun too, and its easy enough to level up and learn abilities. So playing the game is fun, but only when no one is talking. Although the terrible story and overall Cheese Factor drowns out the good gameplay, because it sucks so hard. Like, it probably sucks more then the worlds most profitable prostitute. I'm not even kidding. The story is terrible.

Oh, I almost forgot. Lulu is a big whore too, and here is why. Remember Chapuu, Wakka's brother? Now remember how Chapuu and Lulu were dating, but then Chapuu died when he left to fight Sin? Well, after that, Tidus shows up and Lulu has the hots for him (In theory.) because he looks like Wakka's brother. But what happens once Tidus takes off? Lulu marries Wakka. Yeah. And she's having a baby. So let's recap.

1. Lulu dates Wakka's brother.

2. Wakka's brother dies.

3. Tidus shows up, and Lulu kinda has the hots for him due to his resemblence to Chapuu.

4. Tidus pisses off.

5. Lulu marries her dead ex-boyfriend's brother.

6. Lulu gets impregnated by her dead ex-boyfriend's brother. What a f--king whore!

I'm done. I think you get the point here.

This game is a masterpiece. Why? I couldn't really tell you. Playing it I'm nothing but frustrated, because around every corner there is something that will probably kill you, or bring you close to death. Bottom line: This game is DAMN hard! Like, most games pace it so you can get through the game with general ease and comfort, like most of the Final Fantasy games, however this game throws you into it, and the first battles you do will rape you in the ear and eye holes. The only way you will ever finish this game, is to be patient with it. You will die, and you will scream in disgust, but you will keep playing anyways, because you are damned determined to beat this game so you can feel like you've just won at life. Its the only reason I'm still going. Its also pretty addictive as well, but sometimes it gets rediculous. Leveling up takes a very long time, because by the time you're strong enough to kill the enemies around you, they don't give you enough experience to be worth killing anymore, so the only way to get stronger is to either risk dying on the next level, or to train for hours to get up a few levels.

And then you have the FOE monsters. Even when I was defeating everything else on the floor easily, these things still nearly killed me. I survived by luck and luck alone. And the worst part is I only had 2/5 characters left, and it was only a single monster! I wasn't even under trained! Its just HARD! Like, you don't know difficulty till you try to beat this game. Its discouraging you from playing it with its difficulty, sort of like saying to you "Hey, if you can't hang with us in this dungeon, then just give up and kill yourself, because you're worthless." That's right, it feels like the game is mocking you and trying to tell you to kill yourself. But instead of just turning it off, something in the back of my head says "No! We have to beat this **** and prove that we can do this!" and so I keep playing! It's a trap! There is no escape, and for that, this game deserves to be played.