Well, I've had this last week to do all the major gaming I won't have time to do next month with training and stuff for my new job. Here's a few updates to let the one guy who reads my blog know what's up.

I bought Madden 08 and tried it out on my Wii. Sadly, I suck at sports games in virtuality as well as IRL. My dudes can tackle real gewd when I don't direct them, but I get Rothlesberger sacked almost as often as he does for reals.

Pokemon Battle Revolution: I beat every gym once and got my pikachu. Unfortunately there are a couple gyms that are a serious pain in the butt, the select battles being the ones I hate most of all. These are the battles where they make you select 3 from a random draw. The fortune battles are also a pain because if the computer gets my trained pokemon, I can't beat em. I suppose that says something about my training skills. In wi-fi battles, you know I'm proud to have a 0-5 record. You have to be real good to not win a single frickin online battl evar.

I haven't pulled out any of my game cube games because I don't have the wireless controllers and the wii is too close to my 52 inch screen. BTW, very awesome screen.

I love Naruto. It's always fun to see how the writers get that stupid kid out of each situation. I hate that my folks have a dish and it will not dvr stuff unless it's actually tuned to it, so my dad keeps shutting off my shows when he's watching the news upstairs. Argh. The real annoyance is that the uncut boxed sets are out up to the FinalChunin exams, but I left off just after that. I wonder if I should give up and just go get the manga and screw the show.

I bought Sonic on the Virtual Shopping Channel. It's fun, but just like when I was a kid, I can't even beat the first zone's boss. It's sad.

For variety I pulled out Puzzle quest for the DS. Warior, lvl 42. I am at the eye of Sartek and I keep getting stopped by the elves. Let me say this... Headbutt, deathbringer, berzerk frenzy. I have been carving dudes up left and right, but the elves don't like the red mana. Sigh. I beat my wife at Puzzle quest twice last night at the circus, so she's trying to catch her level 30 character up to me in order to resolve my level advantage. Her knight does a wicked stun and divine right attack that just tears the heck outta you, but she doesn't use the red mana, so on my turn I can wail on her in like 3 moves.

I have lost all three of my Yu-Gi-Oh card games for DS. I have the spare Nightmare trubador I bought, but it's got a different layout for game play that is less intuitive than Spirit caller or WC2007 and I just feel like I'm playing in mud. My card collection IRL is pretty friggin huge but my wife refused to learn to play and the nieces are into pokemon too much.

As for Diamond and Pearl... Nada. Haven't been playing them, because I've been trying to finish Emerald for a latios and LG for an Entei. No one will share data with me for the friggin 5 I need so I may never finish. However all is not lost...

I got a copy of Digimon World: Dusk, and I am having a blast. Despite having 0 knowledge of the story, the monsters or their forms, I've managed to get further than all the stupid walkthroughs and have "befiended" (lol) 79 species of digimon. I've also become a silver rank tamer. It'd be nice if there was a wiki with the storyline and evolution progressions out there but I'm enjoying the game qite a bit. It's got a quirky interface. You must use the d-pad and buttons even though most everything is touch activated. The menues sometimes don't recognise the touch input, so it's easier that way, really.

I want the Bleach Wii game. If anyone has it, let me know what you think of it. Is it worth 50 bucks?

Peace...