Dec 01, 2003 15:47
I had Gamefly, but now I don't. This means that I am forced to hold on to my copy from the video store for long after its return date.
As a result, I will soon never be able to return to Dave's movies and more.
That's not a problem, but it is a bit upsetting to consider that knowing that, I still made the bewildering decision to restart the game in the tenth (out of fourteen) chapter. I just plain and simple like the beginning part of games a lot better. I like it when there are things to be unlocked. When I get to the end of a game, it is a struggle to complete it. I daresay I've at most beaten three or four out of the over a hundred games I own.
This, I suspect, may have something to do with early childhood trauma associated with Super Mario Brothers and the unsavable princess.
The first time I beat that game, I was late for school. When I received that much-hated "our princess is in another castle" message I very nearly cried. My mom had to drag me away from the thing to get me to school. At that point I had decided that it was indeed unbeatable, but then a "friend" of mine at school told me that he had indeed saved the princess once himself, and that it was three or four more times through.
Being the trusting soul that I am, I believed him, and spent the next week playing it over and over again.
I don't remember when it ended, but I do know that now whenever I near the end of a game I begin to tear up and eventually fall to the floor and curl into the fetal position.