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I'm Sailing The Seas Of Artistry And Another Zelda Game Completed

I'm not sure if "artistry" is a word but I'll use it anyway because taht's what Gamespot use in the emblem bio. I have started by long and difficult boat journey to the infamous "Seas of Artistry". I'm just adding to drama by the way. That last sentence didn't even make sense. Anyway, I just got a new emblem that was for submitting avatars to Gamespot and getting them accepted. The emblem is:


Sailing the seas of artistry.
This person helped others spice up their forum posts by designing avatars for GameSpot's community. No matter which bottle ye open, there's a treasure in every one!

Well, like the gamespace banner emblem, this is another emblem to really be proud of because you had to make something yourself and then Gamespot would decide if it good enough. Although it wasn't as hard to to get the gamespace banner emblem, I still feel the same. I'm not sure what avatars that I made got accepted because some look similiar to others and I'm not able to access all the avatars pages. These are the avatars I think were accepted:



There could be more that look like mine but aren't but I don't want to show them because I'm not sure. I also submitted a few Prince of Persia avatars but I'm not able to see that section in the avatar section so if you wouldn't mind, anyone who can see the Prince of Persia avatars, could you show them to me to see if they are the ones I submitted. I submitted loads of other avatars but I don't think they were accepted. Atleast 2 of them were though.:D

It was pretty cool when I saw someone with my Dark Link avatar today. It made me feel proud to see someone using it. I made them using GIMP which is what I always use. Just in other news, I have been experimenting with GIMP more and using a lot more features of it. I used to just paste in a background, cut out an image and then write text around it. Sometimes I would make the picture less blurry or put a transparent colour layer over it but I wasn't really using many features. I used to not know how to actually make a background but I learnt how to and made one for my latest signature which you can see in the blog header section with the Link picture on it. I just noticed that that signature is out of date because I finished another Zelda game recently on top of another Zelda game in the signature that I never talked about finishing.

A while ago, I finished Twilight Princess on the Wii (which is in the signature by the way).

It was a very good game and I don't know why some people were disappointed in it. I enjoyed it to the end. Not only was it one of the longest games I ever played and finished, it had great gameplay and a good storyline. I was trying to make it last longer and I tried to do everything I could do. The only thing that I can think of not doing is collecting 60 poes and collecting the bugs. I was around the halfway mark for both of the quests. Trying as hard as I could to make the game longer I got it done in 48 hours. You probably think this is very slow but after waiting for this game for around 2 years, I didn't want to ruch through it and make the next Zelda a very long wait till. I stretched out my playing time of Zelda for over 2 months which I am also very happy with. I don't think I have ever kept a game I am interested in going for that long. The dungeons were a lot easier this time around which I don't mind because they still required thinking about and I didn't rip my hair out attempting them. I didn't use a walkthrough to complete but I looked at the Gamespot walkthrough a few times to see how much more I had to do and also see how many sidequests there was.

I said there was another Zelda game I completed recently. It was Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link on the Gameboy Advance.

It was surprisingly fun. It is defintely an underrated Zelda game and I would recommend anyone who hasn't played it to buy it. You will get it very cheap. I got it for around 7 Euro. Although it is fun, I found it very hard. I had to use a walkthrough for it but even with a walkthrough it is still hard to get through a dungeon. The boss in the second dungeon, was the hardest boss ever. It took me ages to get past him. I finally understand the "I am Error" jokes I here. That was pretty random and funny. I didn't mind the graphics because I was too busy trying not to die and having fun. It was interesting that there was a level up system which I believe isn't in any other Zelda. This must have been revolutionary back when it came out. It had one of the coolest Zelda enemies in it too which I won't ruin for people but he was easy to beat.

That makes 7 Zeldas completed for me. That's OK considering that I played my first Zelda at the end of 2003. That was Wind Waker by the way. I'm still not sure which Zelda games I prefer over at the moment because I'd have to play them all after to eachother to remmeber how much I loved each one but thinking now, it stands like this (I don't know if I prefer Twilight Princess or Ocarina of Time so I put them both in 3rd and 4th place):

1.The Wind Waker
2.Majora's Mask
3.Ocarina of Time/Twilight Princess
4.Ocarina of Time/Twilight Princess
5.Minish Cap
6.The Adventure of Link
7.The Legend of Zelda

Even though I have them in a list like this, the games are very close together in how much I like them. I don't really like putting Minish Cap so far down the list because that is a truly amazing game but I just prefer the other a slightly but more. I'll have to replay Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time again to figure out which one I think is better. I know my list is different than a lot of people's so please don't flame the blog post for having a different opinion. I just have to say, Zelda games rule so much. A Link to the Past is next on my list. Should I get it on the Gameboy or Virtual Console?

To finish of the blog post, I just want to keep you up on what I'm playing now. I got Hitman: Codename 47 recently. Great and hard game but my least favourite Hitman. I played Hitman 2: Silent Assassin recently, finished it and now I'mreplaying Hitman: Contracts. In my last blog, I said I got my 200th game which was Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 but my brother and I got 5 new games since then. Codename 47 was a shared game, my brother got Tomb Raider: Legend (Xbox 360) and Rainbow Six: Vegas (Xbox 360). I got Chili Con Carnage (PSP) which I have completed and it is a great PSP game; my 2nd or 3rd favourite PSP game and I got SSX Blur (Wii) which is a decent game but I haven't really got into it yet. I have no money now so I can't get God of War 2 or any other games that will come out soon. I probabaly won't be allowed to get God of War 2 anyway.

That's it for now. I'll see you on the forums and your profiles.

P.S. I went to my first soccer match yesterday. Ireland vs. Wales. Ireland won. Yes! It was also the first match played in Croke Park which if you were Irish, you would know that it is a big deal.