Well I've just slain the last Collossus and the credits are rolling as we speak...it's 3:20 am now so I'll have to turn in now but it was an enjoyable affair and will probably be the topic of my next review.

In other news I may well return Perfect Dark this week since there are lots of other 360 games I want without having to give up going out and drinking...plus if im honest perfect dark does my head in.

Hello there its been a week or so of some mixed gaming adventures.

First off it's the most addictive substance ever created...Katamari, such a simple concept heres a ball...roll things up, the ball gets bigger you can roll up bigger things and so on, I can honestly see exactly why this piece of eastern insanity is becomming a more widespread craze, It's a simple joy to play which is complicated to accurately put into words, however I urge those of you that are yet to sample this simpe delight to take a look if you get the chance.

Next up Psychonaughts has had much of my attention over the last few days especially, its a great adventure with the bizarre visual imagery and characterisation that I can't get enough of...obviously in keeping with the style of previous games by Tim Schafer Grim Fandango..in particular but also the likes of Nightmare before christmas and other work from Tim Burton. The gameplay is fairly solid and the humour thus far has really made the game for me. Anyway it's been a thrilling adventure so far and probably the subject of my next review once I complete the game.

Finally having owned the game for a couple of weeks and leaving it untouched I finally got cracking tonight...killed three of the brutes already and think I have a handle on some of the subtle plot elements and potential twists...but I'll keep that to myself for now.

Right I'll actually keep this entry game related for once without tales of my personal shannanigans....later all.

Right for a little while now...at long last i'm the leader of my very own union...

Namely the Community Review Artisans union a union for those who commit themselves to producing top quality reviews and people who have the right style to meet up and discuss all kinds of topics and generally have fun.

I have the finest officers on gamespot and together now we can start building a top notch secret society...membership is by invite or application only so hopefully we can keep our membership to the finest folk around...and who knows maybe in a couple of years we can stage some kind of hostile takeover and rule gamespot with an iron fist of sorts.

Were starting the recruitment process for new members now so some of you reading this may well be hearing from me soon inviting you to come join our ranks.

Real quick entry here to say my internet has been broken for a while...but now it's fixed so im back...HOORAY...

Right thats done back to business

It's no good...It's unavoidable, I've got to have a rant. Now I like to write reviews for my games...I put the effort in and try to make descriptive reviews...the type someone who has never heard of the game can read and gain an accurate description of it's content...furthermore even if I didn't really like a game I try to give an objective review you know outline the games strong and weak points etc.

So it naturally it upsets me when I see community review sections full of reviews that just scrape the minimum word count..that basically say...."This game is the bestest game ever because it's and is really fun to play buy it buy it buy it"  or on the other end of the spectrum "This game is really crappy I didn't like it because it was rubbish so crap crap rubbish junk crapperty crap" notice the reppition of words used to make the word count add up.

Anyway i'm not saying that everyone should agree with my reviews or that I'm better than any one else who takes the time to write I just hope people don't get put off looking at community reviews by some of the lazy subjective junk that show up on there...

All this has given me an idea...thats right I feel a union coming on...I was thinking of starting one any I may have just found my topic.

In other news im up to level 12...it's been a while since I levelled up. Going to see if I can keep the momentum going.

Hey all...

Got a promotion of sorts today bascially im the new development project at work..im still on the same pay but basically they are going to start training me up on the management side of things and it cements my position as the dominant member on non-management staff...Im not too fussed about moving upwards in this company per say but the training looks good on my CV for when I look for another job too...

anyway i'll be off on that note, think i'm within reach of the end of Quake 4 and i've got me a Makron to kill.

Well it's been a while so its time for a bit of an update on some of my latest news

+ I have a 360 and lovely it is too

+ I had a great xmas and new year

+ Im having a lovely time lately partying hard and having lots of fun with cool people

+ How cool is this Im rated as a top 100 reviewer on gamespot thats really cool news it's inspired me to write some more reviews...i've just done one for geometry wars.

- on the down side i had a bit of an accident today and stabbed myself in the hand really deep with a steak knife and bled all over the house while i ran around looking for first aid...stopped bleeding eventually but now my thumb hurts and im not gonna be on top form for a while...plus my house is all covered in my blood.

Just a quick one cus it's been a little while...well the 360 is out here on friday as you can expect stock levels are gonna be tight...my pre-order is number 7...on friday we got our first batch of machines for the build up...and we got 14 so thats me sorted and I can rest easy while I wait for the momentus day when I buy my shiny new toy..

Went on a blowout last night so im currently in the never drinking again phase so i have totally no problems in staying in with my new bundle of joy next weekend.

Right back to business

Hello all

It's been a little while since my last entry...this time im feeling much better and havent touched a drop of the booze either so expect all insanity to come right from my un innebriated brain.

Well in latest news things had to get worse before they got better...but im not stressed ill give you the full details right now...

Well saw the ex out on other occasions and this time things got pretty nasty she got involved in something between my friend and his gf stirred up all sorts of trouble and there were all sorts of arguements...happily nothing to do with me but when theres stuff kicking off..and booze is involved it all looks terrible but hey thats old news now....this week she's been very keen to talk to me...why you ask because it appears things aren't going to well between her and the new bf...accumulating in him dumping her the other day...this is where it gets difficult to keep the language clean...im "angry" at him and think he's a "jerk" (insert stronger terms as appropritate) since he got involved when me and sam had a few problems and was a big reason behind our breakup as she now admits and for what a few weeks with her only to drop her after a while...anyway I went to see her the other day she was all tears saying she knows now how she made me feel and how shes unhappy since everything is ruied...and how she was awful to me and now we cant be together anymore because people will just think she'll do it again and is just using me....well who knows I say. I went round there for my piece of mind since she has no friends as such no reliable ones anyway and despite what she did to me and how much of a jerk she was...I dont want her to be all alone and isolated at a time like this.

Don't worry though guys my birth certificate doesn't read Friday 7th October 2005...hense I wasn't born yesterday im not about to get suckered into taking her back on the rebound or anything...im quite happy getting on with life and am not gonna be taken for a mug any time soon...saying that I wont rule out the possiblility if situations turn out in certain ways over the coming months or years that we could indeed get back together but its not something I'm thinking about right now.

So lifes looking up for me at least im having a good time of it...going out having fun with whoever i choose...

Back to work and PSP's are heading to us thick and fast now so people are surely getting the machines thay are after and less poeple are coming to shout at me...which is great....Not so great however is our official new manager...who is as annoying as he is useless.

right rant time....he does nothing...has zero people skills so just creeps out my customers...and then tries to teach me how to talk to people....apologies indeed but im just not down with that smarmy sales..."hello sir how may I help you today" junk im there to help people...by all means il tell them about special offers and stuff but that sort of approach puts people off and makes me feel like a phony...so it's not gonna happen...also not only is he a waste of space but to put it as nicely as I can he's a waste of a LOT of space...aka he's frikkin huge...not a problem per say but he combines it with having no spatial awareness whatsoever unless of course he just has some sort of fetish for being in the way...leaving me and the rest of the staff to have to pull off all kinds of matrix-esq dodges run obstacle courses pull off our best parrappa the rapper impressions just to get by.

the thing that drives me most insane though is that even though he's intollerably lazy...were talking coffee breaks every half hour...each lasig about 25 mins...were talking can you just pass me that item thats by my foot...and falling asleep leaning against a shelf..is that while i run round the shop he feels the need to constantly check up on me...I could be talking to a customer..holding their hand pointing at the PS2's with a neon sign above my head saying IM SELLING A PS2 TO THESE PEOPLE...but he still feels the need to bellow across the shop floor...WHAT ARE YOU DOING...."what does it look like im doing...im off to join this persons new socialist republic on the uma-gumma islands weve just stopped to look at the ps2's first now leave me alone."....as you can tell Im not too fond of it al but it gets worse since just days after he was trasferred to us...Tony our original manager expressed an interest in coming back...and he RULED...aparantly the big wigs at head office really want this guy out too as he was sent to us kind of as a last chance...just gotta wait for something to happen i guess.

Either way im looking upwards at life at the mo lots of fun things to do...my creative projects are heading into theri next phase where we should be at the recording studio laying down some voices for the first promo soon...sure theres some annoying things going on and its still an age of uncertainty...but in myself im fine having fun and taking life easy

Ok so anyone wondering what I look like or just interested in learning more check out my profile on myspace...since i went to the trouble of writing it dammit you should all be forced to look...heres the link

http://www.myspace.com/superandyt

Right im off for now...thanks for the supportive word after my last post...always much appriciated to see my insane typings are read by someone...see ya

Arrrgh

Well as those of you who look back in my journal a few entries will know im having a bit of a stressful time right now it's been a long affair far too long to explain in any detail at 2am when i have to get up and be at work in the morning...

Either way I went out tonight and saw HER ...the ex in a bar where she was about to meet new boyfriend....FYI judging by the haste after our breakup that they became an item...combined with the rumours I heard and plain old common sense dictates that she blatently had this new awesome boyfriend lined up before she broke up with me.

Shes been emailing me and leaving messages on my phone too claiming she DOES still really care about me as a friend and wants to stay in contact no matter what....she just doesnt want me to hate her os my guess...she must still have a shred of conscience left somewhere.

Ok and besides all that people leaving work and our lack of a manager continues to put preassure on us...we have cover managers all the time....the latest one is this woman who is doing my head in...given the all mighty stressful time im having she still feels it nessasary to continually wind me up thanks to her inability to do any actual work since she considers delegating tasks, chatting on the phone...and trying to turn our 18 year old key holder into a propper full blown by the book USELESS manager type...meanwhile delegating EVERYTHING for me and the only other full time member of staff to do...while continueing to demonstrate how her knowledge of company procedure and policy is balanced by a total lack of people skills...annoying customers and winding me up to the point of insanity......

Also with the lack of staff were short handed...thus I should get my next day off roughly 3 weeks afeter I die.

so theres my rant,,,,im angry...stressed...and generally having a real crappy time of it ....oh well tomorrow is another day...who knows perhaps ill find a sack of free money...meet the girl of me dreams again....and gain some awesome super powers as a bonus.....chances are probably not but heres hoping....well g'night.