Today was my birthday. This was by far the best present I got:

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/punchout

Sorry Mad World, you were just dethroned for game of the year so far. If you have a Wii, for the love of all that is holy go buy this game now. If not, find someone who does and try the masterpiece yourself. It's even better than the NES cla$$ic from over 20 years ago. Obviously better graphics, but the characters are better than ever (almost all the same, but the added personailities make them more memorable), more replayable, as challenging, as addictive, more engaging, and the controls are great. Ignore any critics saying to play it NES $tyle and pass up the motion controls, the motion controls are just as effective and easy to pick up on and execute, if not better. If you think I'm overhyping something again I really don't give a sh!t just know you have to play this at some point if you were ever a fan of the cla$$ic Punch Out!!, or if you just want a great challenge. The original Punch Out!! was the hardest game I ever played, and nothing has changed since then.

Oh and about it dethroning Mad World, so far I think it has (since Mad Worldwasn't quite as replayable as I thought it would be, still a great game though, maybe down to a 9.5 at worst), but it'll take some time to make a truly accurate judgment.

I want some good sleep now, I'll blog more later. Just thought I'd update you on how games on my top 5 anticipated list were turning out. So far, one of the lower ranked ones has taken #1, and The Conduit, which I expect to be #1 now, is coming out next month. Little King's Story (God could they make the name any gayer?) comes out too and that looks great. Woulda ha dit on my list if I had known.

By the way, if anyone has ANY music suggestions at all, I'm wide open. I havenm't been to the store in a few months and have a ton of money on my hands waiting to be spent.

Sorry every blog has been about video games lately (not that there have been many blogs), it's just the Wii is actually having a great year so far, redeeming itself from last year's almost complete sh!tfest minus a few gems so I'm excited about it. Blogs will be back to normal soon. More frequent too as school comes to a close.