I've bought Xbox 360 on the 4th of March, and I hope it's going to last. I've been reading many articles about its failure rate, which was rather surprising (as I've never been too interested in Microsoft's products and the original Xbox in particular). Let's just wait and see. I keep on wondering how does the customer support work where I live (Moscow, Russia) in comparison.

Basically, I've decided to purchase 360 solely because of the game library it provides, as I was rather dissatisfied with Wii's library up to date, and I only found a couple games to be worthy of my attention. Currently having fun with Dead or Alive 4 and thinking about renewing Xbox Live subscription after my free one-month Gold expires. So to speak, - is it really worth it? Considering we're pretty much overpaying for it in Europe.

In other news, I've purchased The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Super Paper Mario on the 17th. I haven't been playing much lately, but certainly a lot more than I used to in the past year. Yesterday, I finally unpacked TP and started playing. I haven't been too positive about Zelda series in the past and so far only liked The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap for GBA and thus I wasn't expecting much from TP, despite all the hype it had back in the time of it's release (and to some point - even now).

And so, what are my first impressions about the game? The game looks wonderful (in terms of design), despite the graphical look being rather dated, but it's not a problem for me, as I usually don't care about the graphical look and go for the gameplay instead. So far, it's been great. I'm still in the beginning of the game, but all the simplistic training, fishing and horse-riding felt really awesome. I kind of forgot what it is to enjoy something so simple as a basic in-game training (due to a major lack of time spent playing games as mentioned above). The music is pretty nice, too. What is rather surprising, is that there's no voice work at all. Seriously. All dialogue in the game is text-based. Going to continue later tonight as soon as I recharge the batteries for Wii Remote. That thing eats batteries incredibly fast.

I've been missing out on some Super Mario Galaxy action since January, when I got stuck somewhere in the earlier part of the game. Time to resume.