http://nintendo5star.blogspot.com/2010/03/super-monkey-ball-step-roll-review.html
Hurray for my first bad game review 8) Actually, I probably wouldn't give it such a low score if I had a Balance Board to try it out on, but then again, I probably would anyway. This just doesn't feel like real Monkey Ball.
I made a guide on the times which the Gym Leaders in Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver would show up and take a picture with you, but I pulled out the info from a Japanese guide on the game. When I wanted to search for their phone numbers I found that guide to be more accurate than Serebii's.
Now the next problem is both guides on Gym Leader photo times also have differences between them. Can someone point out which is true and which is not?
Just 5? I can count about a dozen I never finished, but these 5 definitely weren't because I was too lazy to play. Read on...
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
I came in expecting an RPG. I booted up the game to find an RTS. After about four missions of torture, I was sure I had enough. This is my most hated game genre of the lot.....controlling armies, micromanagement, deploying new units and controlling all existing ones on the fly....I'm not good at those. I'm never playing another RTS game for as long as I live. Simple reason enough to burn the game in the toaster(okay, I didn't really do that).
Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast
The game is fine enough, I didn't have an issue with the tiring control scheme. In fact, I found this waggle control wuite fun, in the same way I loved the swimming event in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. Then Nintendo got lazy. After about the 6th race or so, old tracks were rehashed with different routes, different scenery. They even had the gall to make one track, same route and all, backwards, and call it a new one. After about the 60th rehashed track, I put away the game for good.
The Conduit
Infamous for being derivative, mediocre and boring in the face of things like Bioshock and Halo 3. Also the same reason why I tired of it after the 3rd stage. Most of the non-real world guns look like they were fished out from Metroid Prime's garbage box, and sport the same sound effects to boot(including the 'charging shot' noise, ever heard that one from Prime?). I decided to give this another chance, one more playthrough, and went into online mode. Hell, the online doesn't even work! As soon as I set up a match, I'm greeted with nothing but my blank HUD and a black screen. Abysmal.
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure
Hatsworth is all fine and good and well, pretty cool and innovative way of merging the platform and puzzle genres into one game and making good use of the DS's two screens. But for me, all the action became a tad repetitive after a few hours, since the good man Hatsworth himself only sports the same moves with a few new ones added each time, but the basic structure of his moves never change. It's always run, jump, attack with sword, summon robot. The novelty of the puzzle and platform world influencing one another and the tea time robot only lasts so long, you know, and the unforgiving law of diminishing return puts an end to me playing this game. Shame, it was pretty good.
Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll
What a weird game for me to be starting to play the Monkey Ball series, and what a bad impression it gave me. I don't own a Balance Board, so the only option I had was to use the Wii Remote to tilt around the courses. The game makes the courses extra wide and include guardrails and pits to guide your ball to the goal, but all this was only included because of the imprecise nature of Balance Board control. With the Wii Remote it feels way too easy. I finished the second world to the horror of unskippable credit rolls every time you clear a world, and unlocked the final one right away. I played the first stage of the last world and cleared it easily. Then I swore I would find the GameCube Super Monkey Ball and dump this piece of crap.
Don't be surprised, his name is really that simple. Don't like it you can think of a better name for me, but I'm pretty content with just V. After all it isn't just a meaningless letter in this case. I promise you you'll like him :)
He looks pretty similar to my own character, Pikaby. Both are round yellow blobs with cute faces on them. :P I think it's just the simple way I draw things, I don't usually design cute characters that are more than just basic shapes like stars or blobs. I didn't clean up the vector shapes on this one yet so there might be a few jagged edges and unusual looking curves but this is definitely the final design. If you want to know more about V you can check out the details below, or you can just ask me.
http://nintendo5star.blogspot.com/2010/03/introducing-v.html
http://nintendo5star.blogspot.com/2010/03/work-on-pikmin-3-underway-says-miyamoto.html
It's all Miyamoto's words, but you know, anything he says has a creepily accurate effect on the outcome. Pikmin 3 here we come~.
http://nintendo5star.blogspot.com/2010/03/pokemon-ranger-tracks-of-light-new.html
I'm zeroing in to the climax of the game, that means I can get my review done very soon :) Until then, I have one more update and two new videos for everyone to enjoy! One is of your Pichu partner and the other is about Latios.
http://nintendo5star.blogspot.com/2010/03/pokemon-heartgold-and-soulsilver-review.html
Courtesy of Pokefreak113. 9.5 is a bit....high, though.
http://nintendo5star.blogspot.com/2010/03/top-5-flipnotes.html
I've only recently begun to use Flipnote Hatena (neve bothered with the service before), and wow, is it full of garbage. So many people begging for stars for sloppy flipnotes. Lot of meme-related ones, lot of stick man fights. Here I've listed the five that made the site special for me.
I made one flipnote myself, for practice. It's my site mascot :). Up right up B A B L left Y L.
Let's see, how many times have I been to Kuala Lumpur this year? Counting the family trips and the contests from August last year onwards, this is actually the fifth time in a year I've been to the city, and I keep finding new things there. I swore I would cut costs this time and not buy so many things, but here I go again. My wallet now officially has a hole in it.
This time the reason for going was for an education fair(I am going to university after all, and everyone's got to consider their options). The bus ride this time was shaky and the driver was speeding like hell. Probably around 40 over the limit. I was going to listen to music on my DSi, but the headphones wouldn't go into the slot. What the mutha.....I checked the inside of the headphone jack, and there was something lodged INSIDE it. Probably a small screw or the remains of a snapped headphone plug. ******.
81,376 profanities later...
I reach KL, again. First night was spent at the inn, I went to the education fair on the 2nd. Then...two full free days! It's Taiko time again! I returned to clearing psychotic songs no one else dare touch, and actually played more on this 3-day trip than the 4-day trip last month.
Here are some of the songs I just can't get enough of.(not my videos, but these were what I attempted!)
Hello! Halloween
Punishment
X-DAY 2000
Yawaraka Sensha (Ura)
Ryougen no Mai
And one song which I just. Can't. Pass.
I vow a revenge match against this song. Until I clear it I shall practice!
And now for the results of my shopping. Okay, so I didn't buy all that many things, most are random cute things which now adorn my room, but the main swag I got was from the same Japanese bookstore I went to a month ago. Here they are.
A 700-page guidebook to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky(thank you, Prima Games)! I could use this...it's not sold where I live in.
Three volumes of Kirby manga, in original Japanese, untranslated! Number 20 and 21 are from the older manga, Dedede de Pupupu no Monogatari, and the one on the right(with the slightly creepier, crazier looking Kirby) is volume 1 of Hoshi no Kirby: Morettsu Pupupu Hour!
Best one of the three is the last one. Crazy Kirby works wonders here :) Also the first ever mangas I bought. Screw Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Prince of Tennis, Detective Conan and all those other popular mangas.
And so I come back with sore arms again and tons of application forms to fill out. Deadlines are coming, so I'd better hurry~.
I've been gone for a 4-day trip and just came back today...It's been a great rush so I didn't have time to tell anyone. I'll blog about the trip shortly.
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