Stabbity
It's true. Earlier I had my observation, and on Monday the principal wants to discuss it. Bleh.
It's probably not good to feel stabbity on my sister's birthday, but eh. I was on present duty (free cards, away!), and then we had veggie lasagna and cake, followed up with a game of Disney Scene-It. In the entire game, every question, there was only one that I myself couldn't answer correctly. The others, they say only "You watch way too much TV, Julie."
Post-get-together, Lil Bro and I applied Soft Claws to GZ. Amidst cries of 'you'll never catch her' and 'she will eat you alive' and 'those will never work' and 'just get her declawed'. I say to you BAH! Double BAH! For we soft-ed her with little effort, and now she walks about with, granted, "streetwalker hot pink" front claw tips. Next time, I order dove gray! They work so far, however, with less cost and less fuss (human-wise) than an operation.
I now own a functioning Nintendo DS, pink as it is an early b-day present to myself. Lucky me I had lots of time to waste, because boy now do I have the chance to waste it! I believe only World Of Warcraft could as effectively suck up as much of my day.
Having a lot of games, it will take time to get to them all.
Cooking Mama
The driving reason I bought the thing, and probably one of the driving reasons I will one day own a Wii. It's a cooking simulator, like I'm not going to be all over it? You use the stylus as a knife, spoon, mallet, tongs, peeler, masher, strainer, frying pan, in addition to pushing buttons and turning dials. Oh, and occasionally you have to blow on hot food to cool it. Cooking foods well unlocks more recipes! The hardest? Instant ramen. So not kidding. I cannot prepare that properly to save my life. The only reason I ever stopped playing this game was the screen kept freezing up. Soon as it is fixed, I is gonna cook some more. And there's a sequel due out soon. JOY.
Catz
I am in severe danger of neglecting my REAL feline while I try to feed and groom and pamper the virtual one. But it purrs far more readily than GZ, bless her little black heart. Makes me wish I had the instruction manual! God forbid I get the version of this with horses.
Super Princess Peach
I'm lucky in that my gaming era has included the throwing out of "But our princess is in another castle" all the way up to female supporting and finally lead characters. Granted, a cutsey Mario Bros spinoff where Peach has special powers based on what mood she's in (her angry one makes things catch fire, PMS anyone?) to save the now-captured boys from a pastel landscape isn't exactly a leap in female empowerment. It's just interesting to play, and the colors match my DSu.
Touch the Dead
This game looks really out of place amongst all the cuteness. But again, it wins out for sheer fun. I enjoy causing zombie chunkage chaos on my adorable pink DS, muttering "stay down you rotting piece of shit" as I blast things. You get a brief story about your convict character being transferred to solitary, only to find the doors shunting open after a few days. Go down hallway, get a gun, blah blah blah. It does explain why the main zombie type all looks the same (fellow inmates, anyone?) and the others resemble prison guards. Well, prison guards with their heads mostly gone. I thought I would get annoyed at the continual backgrounds and same enemies over and over... but I wasn't. I was freaking out wondering where the next one was going to pop up from, whether I got that one in the back of that room, because these things pop out of NOWHERE and no not the normal nowhere in shooter games plus they also continue to hang around in rooms you have to double-back through. You tap the stylus to shoot, drag ammo from lower right to lower left corners to reload, and still get spooked even though the entire system is held in your damn hand. One hand, even. I haven't even found a second weapon yet, I'm wondering if it's possible to get out of the prison at all.
Brain Age 2
They should have titled this "Game that will have you feeling stupid in no time flat" just so there were no surprises. I don't know why I have a quoted as seventy-year-old brain that shuts down when faced with a tiny electronically-based math problem, but then again I never liked nor was much good at math. I just want to try and bring down that supposed cranial chronologicality. The rest of me is almost younger than my age, I should like my brain to match!
Inu-Yasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel
The entire first cutscene is gone from the perspective of a blonde-haired blue-eyed gorgeous gaijin that is transferred to Japan (speaking Japanese having lived there years ago, too) and makes friends with Kagome Higurashi in under a week. Inuyasha himself even pops up to inform you that you smell weird, which by all the backstories ensures that you too are the unknowing reincarnation of a powerful feudal era potentate. All the characters you'd actually want to play as or play with vanish, and when Miss Important goes by Kagome's house, she goes right to the well and a monster pops up and a mysterious guy kills it and is all "hello there mysterious yet familiar person, come get in teh well" and BAM you're up to your armpits in random encounters. I love sprite RPGs and also the anime/manga, but if someone had told me in advance this was actually "Inu-Yasha and the American F'ING MARY SUE Adventure", I might not have gotten so attached to it.
Need to try more gaaaaaaaames....
It's probably not good to feel stabbity on my sister's birthday, but eh. I was on present duty (free cards, away!), and then we had veggie lasagna and cake, followed up with a game of Disney Scene-It. In the entire game, every question, there was only one that I myself couldn't answer correctly. The others, they say only "You watch way too much TV, Julie."
Post-get-together, Lil Bro and I applied Soft Claws to GZ. Amidst cries of 'you'll never catch her' and 'she will eat you alive' and 'those will never work' and 'just get her declawed'. I say to you BAH! Double BAH! For we soft-ed her with little effort, and now she walks about with, granted, "streetwalker hot pink" front claw tips. Next time, I order dove gray! They work so far, however, with less cost and less fuss (human-wise) than an operation.
I now own a functioning Nintendo DS, pink as it is an early b-day present to myself. Lucky me I had lots of time to waste, because boy now do I have the chance to waste it! I believe only World Of Warcraft could as effectively suck up as much of my day.
Having a lot of games, it will take time to get to them all.
Cooking Mama
The driving reason I bought the thing, and probably one of the driving reasons I will one day own a Wii. It's a cooking simulator, like I'm not going to be all over it? You use the stylus as a knife, spoon, mallet, tongs, peeler, masher, strainer, frying pan, in addition to pushing buttons and turning dials. Oh, and occasionally you have to blow on hot food to cool it. Cooking foods well unlocks more recipes! The hardest? Instant ramen. So not kidding. I cannot prepare that properly to save my life. The only reason I ever stopped playing this game was the screen kept freezing up. Soon as it is fixed, I is gonna cook some more. And there's a sequel due out soon. JOY.
Catz
I am in severe danger of neglecting my REAL feline while I try to feed and groom and pamper the virtual one. But it purrs far more readily than GZ, bless her little black heart. Makes me wish I had the instruction manual! God forbid I get the version of this with horses.
Super Princess Peach
I'm lucky in that my gaming era has included the throwing out of "But our princess is in another castle" all the way up to female supporting and finally lead characters. Granted, a cutsey Mario Bros spinoff where Peach has special powers based on what mood she's in (her angry one makes things catch fire, PMS anyone?) to save the now-captured boys from a pastel landscape isn't exactly a leap in female empowerment. It's just interesting to play, and the colors match my DSu.
Touch the Dead
This game looks really out of place amongst all the cuteness. But again, it wins out for sheer fun. I enjoy causing zombie chunkage chaos on my adorable pink DS, muttering "stay down you rotting piece of shit" as I blast things. You get a brief story about your convict character being transferred to solitary, only to find the doors shunting open after a few days. Go down hallway, get a gun, blah blah blah. It does explain why the main zombie type all looks the same (fellow inmates, anyone?) and the others resemble prison guards. Well, prison guards with their heads mostly gone. I thought I would get annoyed at the continual backgrounds and same enemies over and over... but I wasn't. I was freaking out wondering where the next one was going to pop up from, whether I got that one in the back of that room, because these things pop out of NOWHERE and no not the normal nowhere in shooter games plus they also continue to hang around in rooms you have to double-back through. You tap the stylus to shoot, drag ammo from lower right to lower left corners to reload, and still get spooked even though the entire system is held in your damn hand. One hand, even. I haven't even found a second weapon yet, I'm wondering if it's possible to get out of the prison at all.
Brain Age 2
They should have titled this "Game that will have you feeling stupid in no time flat" just so there were no surprises. I don't know why I have a quoted as seventy-year-old brain that shuts down when faced with a tiny electronically-based math problem, but then again I never liked nor was much good at math. I just want to try and bring down that supposed cranial chronologicality. The rest of me is almost younger than my age, I should like my brain to match!
Inu-Yasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel
The entire first cutscene is gone from the perspective of a blonde-haired blue-eyed gorgeous gaijin that is transferred to Japan (speaking Japanese having lived there years ago, too) and makes friends with Kagome Higurashi in under a week. Inuyasha himself even pops up to inform you that you smell weird, which by all the backstories ensures that you too are the unknowing reincarnation of a powerful feudal era potentate. All the characters you'd actually want to play as or play with vanish, and when Miss Important goes by Kagome's house, she goes right to the well and a monster pops up and a mysterious guy kills it and is all "hello there mysterious yet familiar person, come get in teh well" and BAM you're up to your armpits in random encounters. I love sprite RPGs and also the anime/manga, but if someone had told me in advance this was actually "Inu-Yasha and the American F'ING MARY SUE Adventure", I might not have gotten so attached to it.
Need to try more gaaaaaaaames....