Well, April was kind of an up and down month for me. It was a decent acquisitions month and I knocked out three games (putting me ahead of my pace for the year). But I also learned earlier this week that my job will be eliminated due to budgetary concerns at the end of June. It's not all bad...I'll be getting out from under the world champion of incompetence and ineptitude that is my boss and I'm not going to have to keep an eye out for porn in our computer lab anymore. I'm sure I'll find something...it just may take awhile. With that in mind, my April completions:
7. WWE Legends of Wrestlemania (X360)
8. Soul Blazer (SNES)
9. Fight Night Round 3 (X360)
After my whole blog about Legends, you probably don't need a recap of that one. I did wind up renting Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 just to appease my achievement whore-ness (and took it back literally fifteen minutes later...otherwise I'd still have it). It's an awesome game overall once you get used to the controls. It's a great nostalgia trip that I wouldn't mind seeing expanding to other major WWF/E pay-per-views or events.
Soul Blazer seems like it might be a very underrated game. When people mention the great games of the SNES, it very rarely comes up in conversation. If you take The Legeng of Zelda: A Link to the Past and stuff it in a blender with ActRaiser, you get Soul Blazer. If I'm not mistaken, it's part of a very loosely related trilogy with The Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma. If you still mess with the SNES at all, track Soul Blazer down...it's well worth it.
Fight Night Round 3 is alright, but boxing games really aren't my thing. I spent a lot of this month in a fairly pugilistic mood (I saw my job loss coming, so I went home from work wanting to hit people a lot), so Fight Night filled a need. I absolutely hate the right thumbstick fighting though, so I switched it to the face button control mode. It's pretty enough for an early 360 game and has a pretty thick roster of fighters. I rated it an 8.0 based on it's merits, but for me it was merely ok.
April was another medium-big month for new stuff. This is a pattern that will not hold unless I come up with a job in the next two months. I've been trying to cut back for awhile now, but I'm so tantalizingly close to 900 games that I keep picking up interesting things. At any rate, April's damage:
April acquisitions
-WWE Legends of Wrestlemania (X360)
-Bankshot Billiards 2 (XBLA)
-Coffeetime Crosswords (XBLA)
-Fight Night 2004 (Xbox)
-Fight Night Round 2 (Xbox)
-Fight Night Round 3 (X360)
-Tekken (PS)
-Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (PS2)
-Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (Xbox)
-Manhunt 2 (PS2)
-Swashbucklers: Blue vs. Grey (PS2)
-Tekken 4 (PS2)
-Metroid Zero Mission (GBA)
-Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust (X360)
-Dead Space (X360)
I'll be finishing Leisure Suit Larry soon. I have one stupid trophy to find before I go to finish the game. Then I have to do a speed run for the last achievement. I can say this though...STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME! Don't make the same mistake I did. It's terrible. It should never have been released. After that, I'm thinking I'll fiddle around with Dead Space. It's supposed to be pretty good and, if you follow 360voice.com at all, you know that a survival-horror badge is pretty easy to get.
That's all for this month, folks. Summer's a-comin! I'm trying to figure out how to get my tv and 360 on the roof of my house so I can play up there at night...