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Nintendo 3DS where is your head at?

May 20, 2011 by justjayde

So in a world of far too much “big brother” activity and acceptance of companies demanding rights to own everything we say and do – to do with as they please, another crazy bullshit moment has leapt out of the closet and on to the “what the fuck” radar!

Nintendo 3DS has decided to be all big brother a-la-facebook style. What does this mean? Basically they are saying in their TOS that you agree that they are allowed to spy on your (or more likely your children’s) every move.

Nintendo is saying that they OWN everything on said 3DS including any private/personal chats! Photos! Etc. I know for an ADULT playing it? This may be slightly more acceptable. However Nintendo DS is mainly marketed toward kids and I don’t know about YOUR parenting methods or YOUR child’s maturity level but I do know that MY kid has a hard time understanding what is PRIVATE info, that not everyone who might leap into a chat with him is a kid or even a good person!

Now I would have to worry that anything said (“Hi my name is _____. Where do you live? OH! I am your neighbour I live at _____! I go to _______ School” etc. in innocence (or ignorance) would be property of Nintendo.

Not that I think Nintendo would DO anything with said information but it more the principal of the matter.

Have I mentioned that they may also remotely BRICK the Nintendo DS at any time for any reason they deem worthy of a bricking? What if your kiddo applies a cheat and the 3DS gets bricked? What if in a private chat with a friend your child swears or says something deemed “inappropriate” and gets bricked?

Nintendo needs to realize that their main market is CHILDREN and as such, this policy is NOT an acceptable policy. Not even close to acceptable in this mom’s eyes.

My son has been told he is not allowed to have a Nintendo 3DS while this policy is active… and he understands why and thinks that Nintendo needs to really think about this policy – NOT because he is not allowed to have one and he really wanted one but because he thinks it is unfair that anything he says can be owned by someone else or possibly used to brick his machine – as well as the fact that his chat’s are private chats and it isn’t fair that they can just read all that. I have to say I concur.

Nintendo 3DS – REVISE your TOS. Until you do there are A LOT of parents out here that are going to say HELL NO to the 3DS. Not to mention a lot of adults who will say HELL NO also. I dunno about YOU but I have enough people looking over my shoulder… what I say and do on MY DS is private so unless I invite you into a chat with me? Stay the fuck OUT.

Game on friends, Game on.

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A goofy letter to NinjaBee Games (Please do not take this seriously)

January 24, 2011 by justjayde

Dear NinjaBee,

Upon playing your newest Kefling game (A World for Keflings) I feel it is of utmost importance that I bring some concerns to your attention.

It was with great shock that I realized that the newest generation of Keflings are dealing with bona fide classism!

Princesses, brothers, kings, scholars – all sorts of Keflings that for one reason or another deem it below them to do actual physical work! Poorer Keflings living in shanties – with nothing but their love to keep them going as they whack their way through bush plus work their fingers to the bone mining rocks and crystal. Pushed around by giants – bowing and scarping before them. All the while the spoiled Princess, transsexual and brothers do nothing but trail around behind the giant with their airs and egos.

I feel that this obvious division among Keflings breeds an unhealthy environment… it is with great sadness I watch the “lesser” deemed Keflings toil and work whilst others merely strut around blatantly rubbing their class in the face of anyone who dare touch them or ask them to lift a finger to help.

I also feel that were these snobby Keflings to lower themselves – and actually work! They might then appreciate their Kingdoms more… thereby making them better leaders for their people. How may times do we hear uttered “they have no idea what it is like to live the way we do, or they would change the system!” Sadly – the working Keflings have had enough, and rightly so!

After a long discussion with the working Keflings they have made a list of demands… all of them center around equality. I for one support their demands and find them very reasonable – after all… equality is a tribute society must strive toward every day or it will surely fail.

Their list of demands are as follows…

1. ALL Keflings MUST work in building their kingdom – no matter their class!
2. No Kefling will be “Better” than any other Kefling… we are all equals!
3. Male and Female Keflings will be equal in strength, speed and knowledge!
4. ALL Keflings will work to clear resources, to transport resources, to build buildings as needed!
5. No Keflings will bow before a giant, respect is shown in willingness to work together to build kingdoms!
6. No Kefling will be denied an education or a good job!
7. All laws must be put to a vote – There will be no more royal monopoly!
8. Keflings and sheep will no longer be kicked around, stuffed in cannons or abused in any other fashion for entertainment purposes.
9. Giants will treat Keflings as partners not slaves – and ask rather than DEMAND tasks be done.
10. When Keflings feel that there is an injustice – their voices will be heard… even the tiniest ones.

As you can see NinjaBee, their demands are quite reasonable. Dignity goes a long way in the world of Keflings. I have advised them to push forward with their demands and sit with them through the long hours as they hope for a better world. As Martin Luther Kefling said “I have a dream”. Today – is the day… to realize that dream, NinjaBee.

EQUALITY FOR ALL.

Sincerely (well OK not really sincerely),
Jayde and the Keflings.

Edited to add – Shortly after I posted this blog – I got an AWESOME response from NinjaBee – you can find it here in their blog Go, check it out – you know you want to!

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Super Scribblenauts (DS)

December 30, 2010 by justjayde

Super Scribblenauts is very much like its predecessor (which I have not reviewed yet but love!) “Scribblenauts” but about a thousand times better.

Like Scribblenauts – Super Scribblenauts still requires you to use your brain to think of ways to solve the puzzles put before you. Some of the puzzles are easy, some of them a bit harder. Regardless of the difficulty you need to use your brain and figure out how to make what needs to happen to solve the puzzle, actually happen. You must write in words to generate tools or events to solve the puzzles.

Also like the first game – you want to try to earn the GOLD stars (this happens when you re-play the same puzzle a handful of times, never once duplicating any of the items you used before!). Earning the gold stars can sometimes be frustrating but if you are patient you can often surprise yourself when you come up with new and awesome ways to get through the challenges laid before you.

Super Scribblenauts lets you use descriptive words now – yup! Adjectives are welcome! Do you need to make a REALLY BIG TENNIS BALL? Well now you can, just toss the word GIANT in front of it and BLAMMO up comes a tennis ball so big it fills the entire DS screen ;) I found the adjectives came into play a lot and were very helpful! Some of the puzzles are even BASED on using adjectives – which is good. Believe it or not the inclusion of adjectives made this game so much better than the first Scribblenauts!

Some other awesome new features? You can now control your character much easier be it via stylus or buttons – Which is nice, especially in water. I found myself much less frustrated with the controls in Super Scribblenauts. The game play is also a bit different in that you don’t have the different sections (puzzles etc). You just have your usual levels. I like that – though it seems like there isn’t as much to do in this game, I hated having the separate areas on Scribblenauts. Some people don’t even REALIZE there are two sections of game styles on Scribblenauts – my son didn’t, until I said “you realize after you play through all of that you need to play through the puzzles area?”… he thought he was nearly finished the game, sorry to burst his bubble ;)

Other than that, Super Scribblenauts is really NOT that different from Scribblenauts – but I prefer it for those reasons listed. I find it is just a better game all around. I loved Scribblenauts but I love Super Scribblenauts even more. I give it a resounding HELL YES, GO BUY IT! It’s great fun and using your imagination and being creative is ALWAYS good.

Game on friends, Game on.

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A World of Keflings (Xbox 360 Live Arcade)

December 30, 2010 by justjayde

As you have probably read and learned – one of my favorite “laid back” games was A Kingdom of Keflings. I loved ALMOST everything about this game with the exception of not being able to prevent losers from breaking up my kingdom if I played it in public and not being able to easily move buildings as I built my kingdom and discovered my layout didn’t work. I heard through the grapevine (Ok, I contacted the makers of the game directly) that they were making a part two. I waited with insane anticipation for it to arrive.

Well my friends, after waiting two long years? IT IS FINALLY HERE! Yes!

World of Keflings was available for download on December 22, 2010 and I have to admit I pounced on it like a fat kid on candy. Having made a pact with my friend in another time zone (who also had been waiting for it in agony) that we would play it together for the first time – meant that I had to sit and wait all day, watching as others in my friends list reported “playing WORLD OF KEFLINGS!” it was crazy torture!

Finally I got to leap into the game and have a good play through and I have to say – it is damn fine!

Basics of the game are the same in that the entire point of the game is to build a land for the Keflings. You are still the giant they adore and worship. You still need to mine the resources, process them and then build structures for the Keflings. Simple, n’est-ce pas?

Ninjabee decided one land in the game just was not enough and instead gave us three lands to build in! The lands are not huge but they are definitely cute! One of the first things I noticed in the lands was “islands” where you could see random goodies such as tools or love – and no way to reach them! “We need a bridge, how do we build one?!”. Naturally to build a bridge you need blueprints! Which means you need to be patient… you must build your way through much of the lands before you are given the blue prints you need to build the bridges to reach the lovely island rewards.

World of Keflings also decided to put more of a story line which was nice – it was funny to hear the little voices and the funny things the Keflings say but at the same time all the cut scenes were annoying as hell! I found myself just skipping through them near the end because to be honest – WOK is not really HARD to figure out without hints from the cut scenes ;) I guess I am a bit impatient but I was not the only one to find the cut scenes tedious.

I will give Ninjabee props however! They fixed some issues that had many players seething in A Kingdom for Keflings. One of which was players coming into lands and destroying the shit you worked so long to build. A huge fix also saw buildings as movable. Most of us in the KFK *first game* hated the fact that as your land required more buildings – you had to move old buildings to make room, rearrange shit to fit better or be more productive – However to MOVE buildings you had to break them down, pull up the blue print, carry the pieces one at a time to the new location, re build yada, yada, yada. It was a huge production that was annoying as hell! NOW you can simply get your avatar in place and PUSH the entire building to where you want it! Sometimes the landscape blocks your building in which case you either need to find another route or break it down anyway but I found you could move the majority of buildings with the new slide function and it saved loads of time with rebuilds!

Several new things were added to WOK that were cute. You can still abuse the sheep and Keflings which if we are being honest is a lot of giggles, it just never gets old but they have better sounds when you punt them ;) Cannons were added – you can make intricate arrangements of cannons (( as well as set them to play notes when they shoot )) and then when you stuff a Kefling in, they shoot through a sequence of cannons that you set up – if you set the notes to the cannons they can even play a song. Several new characters were introduced in WOK – in the separate lands which was nice. You can share collectibles with friends, which is great! AND you can unlock little emoticons! In the first game (kfk) there were a few set emoticons in the game and that was it! In the new game (WOK) you earn them and then just use your D-pad to pop it open and pick an unlocked one to use. WOK has way more emoticons to use and some of them were HILARIOUS! We particularly loved the “Dead” one, the “break dancing” one and the “back flip” one! You will see why if you buy WOK and try them ;)

One downside to WOK is – before release they bragged that not only would you be in the game as your own avatar but any “pets” or “props” you had would be in the game with you! I thought that was pretty rad because they were really the first major game to allow avatars into the game! I Thought for sure they were cutting edge again – with allowing pets/props in! I was pretty stoked to see that only to load the game and see my kitty pet never made it in with me. BOO! As per usual no one wants to take the blame for this issue – Ninjabee is blaming Xbox live and naturally Xbox live is blaming Ninjabee. Somehow I suspect they may never get this function working which sucks as it would have been snazzy… but I guess if you can’t admit your fault you can’t fix your fault. The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem ;) ADMIT IT AND FIX IT YOU FUCKERS!

All in all like its predecessor it is a good, well rounded, laid back game. Ok so for you heavy duty gamers who are into nothing but shooting it may seem lame – but for those of you who like to just chill out with buddies and putz around, or who like several different styles of game to play so no matter what mood you are in you have something suited to it? This game is for you. It has addictive qualities and you find yourself getting lost in the game for hours at a time. You will also find yourself wishing (Like me) that the game was much longer (( a good 5 or 6x longer )) but that is the downside to a lot of great games, some just end way too soon.

Thumbs up from me, get ye some points and get WOK!

Game on friends, Game on!

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XboxLive LEAPS into 2010!

March 5, 2010 by justjayde

Since the day XboxLive began – they had a rule in their code of conduct that you could not list your sexuality in any way either in your gamer tag, your profile, or on the forums. Yes, there were ways around the issues like typing g@y etc and so forth but why should we HAVE to find ways around it? You don’t see straight gamers having to type str8t! Using a sexual term such as gay or lesbian was grounds for immediate account cancellation! You must then create a new user name/profile that does NOT list said information.

Many people tried to use “Variations” of the words without actually using the words… but all it took was ONE asshole who hated “fags and dykes” to report them and the result was the same.

Frustrated, the GLBT community spoke up! We spoke loud and clear about how UNFAIR it was to suspend accounts that listed “Happily married lesbian” or “Lesbian family” or “I LOVE MY WIFE!” etc. Yet the straight ladies could put “I LOVE MY HUSBAND!”. Hypocrisy was alive and well all in the name of “keeping the site free of slurs”.

We have all encountered websites that have such precautions in place, where you can not type gay slurs. Usually however – said sites DO allow you to put your sexuality in your user name or profile so long as it isn’t “slang” such as “FAG!” etc. (( While many of us DO use the terms fag and dyke in non derogatory ways, most of the straight world use them as INSULTS – so I am ok with the disallowing of these terms in general areas. ))

Today I woke to hear that the CODE OF CONDUCT for XBOX LIVE has CHANGED! Here is what it says now in regards to being GLBT :

-You may use the following terms to express your relationship orientation in your profile or Gamertag:

Lesbian
Gay
Bi
Transgender
Straight

Other terms regarding relationship orientation are not allowed. In addition you may not use these terms or any other terms regarding relationship orientation to insult, harass, or any other pejorative use against other users.-

I will be logging in today (after I post this) to put PROUD LESBIAN on my profile! I encourage everyone who is GLBT to do the same. Lets enjoy the freedom recently given to us by XboxLive! Remember though, Keep it clean! No slang :)

Good move Microsoft! Good move indeed!

Game on GLBT friends, Game on ;)

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Vivid dreams

February 23, 2010 by justjayde

No, that isn’t a game! It is what I have after PLAYING a lot of games. I know many of you do also. Many mornings after a heavy gaming session I log onto my pc to tell my best friend all about the crazy gamer dream I had the night before. My dreams can be anything from “playing the game” to being PART of the game. Almost always I wake up laughing and then I log in here and post things like “You know you game too much when… (( back in my July archive )).

Well this morning was much the same.

Lately I have been putting in most of my game time on Call of Duty – World at War. Today I woke with from a dream that I won’t give all the details but basically some hot blonde girl in a dress kept coming up to me and drawing a line or mark on my body somewhere with a blue marker. The first time the girl did this, I went into a building and didn’t think any more of it, I just continued on with my dream. However the SECOND time she did it we had a bit of a struggle. Hot girl managed to get her ink on me and as we struggled a truck came driving past us at a high speed and before I knew what was happening bullets were flying at me! I held hot girl in front of me like a shield as I dropped onto my belly. I lived, she did not have such luck (( that will teach her to mark ME! )).

I woke laughing and shaking my head as I realized that I just had a “war dream” so to speak! Ok so I wasn’t in fatigues and there were no good guys backing me and helping me out but I was marked to be easily found and “taken out”. In my mind that screams war game and instantly I realized it was due to my many logged hours on COD-W@W!

No worries though! My game dreams have a funny aspect to them that is a pleasant change from the seriously scary dreams my mind often conjures up all on it’s own! At least I recognize my goofy game dreams for what they are. I will continue on! This week it is the Nazi Zombie maps! I have never dreamed of zombies before let alone Nazi zombies! This could be fun.

Game on friends, game on!

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A world of Keflings – coming in 2010! (Xbox 360 Live Arcade)

February 22, 2010 by justjayde

Not many games blow my skirt up – I could say it’s because I am not wearing a skirt but that is only half the reason. I find when I game I have moods… my game must match my mood and not too many games have the ability to fully do that.

One of my more common gaming moods is CHILL. I like to kick back, relax and play a nice, no rush, no stress game! Unfortunately for me there are not that many chill games because to be honest most people prefer fast paced, action filled, breath taking games. ( I have those moods too ).

One of my most favorite chill games is A Kingdom for Keflings (( you can read it’s review in my SEPTEMBER archives )). Most of you know that they announced a rather disappointing round of DLC around Christmas 2009 that had zero new achievements just new maps. Ho hum! We all felt let down! So you can imagine my surprise and delight when Ninjabee announced there will be a NEW Keflings game!

“A WORLD of KEFLINGS” is set to release some time in 2010 and I for one am hoping it is sooner rather than later! Ninjabee only announced the new game on February 2nd and here we are 20 days later and I am already impatient as hell! I want this game NOW!~

Pop over to their site and read this little tidbit – then come back… I will wait.

Back? Great! Now tell me that doesn’t sound FANTASTIC! For those of you who have played and loved the first “Kingdom for Keflings” game, I am sure you are now as impatient as I to see the new game released asap! For those of you who have NEVER played “A kingdom for keflings” GET ON IT! Go to the xbox live arcade, download it… play it. Love it. Then and only then will you truly understand the impatience I am feeling.

Keflings – You must experience them first hand to truly love them – and love them you will. The Keflings are beloved by every age group. How many games can claim that?

Hurry up Ninjabee… I am waiting with baited breath.

Game on friends, Game on!

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Guitar Hero 5 (Xbox 360)

January 3, 2010 by justjayde

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Guitar Hero 5 – Yup I have a serious addiction to the Guitar Hero series… I make no apologies for it either! When a game is this good, ya just have to love it!

I will start by saying that while Guitar Hero 5 is very similar to all the other GH’s it is also very different.

Similarities between GH5 and past GH series come into play with the general feel and look of the game. You still have your music highway, you still have your funky singers, you still have your fun stages and gigs and you still have awesome music!

Differences between GH5 and past GH series?

1. The highway is so clean, smooth, crisp and clear… I love the fact that they have finally cleaned this up! SO much so in fact that the other day I played through GH2 and back then they had pictures all over the highway which annoyed me to no end because it made me have to work harder to see what notes were coming and it even seemed to mess with my timing! So the clean highway? Yea it is beautiful.

2. GH5 also has a new (and I feel better) system though many people dislike it. You still have your songs and gigs you must play through as well as your challenges but now you earn STARS – career stars to be exact, instead of cash! That means the stupid achievements for earning 100 bazillion dollars is gone, which I am glad to see because come on! that was INSANE… Me and a friend calculated how many times you would have to play through the game and there is just no way – especially on some of them with songs I am not too fond of! I know some of you are dedicated and do have that cheevo but I can not be assed and I hate not being able to 100% finish the game. So I am glad to see that go!

While I am discussing stars let me give a short little explanation as to how they work. When you play a song you earn stars (the same way you did in all of the previous GH versions) you can earn up to 6 for how you play the song…. 5 being almost a perfect play though. You earn 6 if you PERFECT the song – 0 mistakes baby! ON TOP of those 6 stars that you can earn for PLAYING the song you also get 3 additional stars for completing “challenges”. Every song has a challenge be it for vocals, bass, guitar or drums! It can be anything from “Whammy all sustained notes” to “Strum up for the entire song!” You must use the instrument indicated in the challenge write up in order to earn the challenge points.

Once you enter a song with the correct instrument to do the challenge you will notice a disk beside your highway! If you are doing what the challenge requested you do you will see it has little ticks around the disk that light up – once the disk is fully circled with gold it will make a chime sound indicating you have earned the first level of the challenge which is gold! As you continue to do what it has requested you will see it fill again with a silver color, once again when you fill it – you will hear the chime! You have completed 2 levels of the challenge! Last but not least is the third, white! This is the DIAMOND level of the challenge… it too will chime signaling you have completed the last level! For many of these challenges you will NOT get through all 3 levels in one try and in fact will have to come back and replay them. Each level you complete will earn you a star – with 3 levels total giving you 3 stars total. Gold, Platinum and finally Diamond.

If you have done your math as you read this – that means you earn 6 for a perfect song play-through and another 3 for challenges giving you a complete possible 9 stars earned per song! Your stars will add up through your career and give you several achievements as you play through your gigs :)

3. Another thing that is very different is the “band moments”. I think this is a fun new addition to the game! You will notice as you play that some notes are on fire, if everyone in your band hits those notes your highway will turn golden! If you play every note that comes up when the highway is golden you will have successfully completed a “band moment”… which trust me, you want to do mainly cuz it is cool as hell ;) Nothing sucks more than when a note pops up to say “BAND MOMENT FAILED!” lol

4. Another awesome change is that it is no longer all about the guitar and or base! Nope you also have drums and vocals! I urge you to buy the band kit – which raises the playing of GH to a whole new level (as I previously discussed when I bought [out of order oops] band hero [before gh5 my bad]) ******** You can read that review here********** and be all caught up on how cool it is to play with the drums and vocals! These other instruments do come into play with the star system – so you definitely want to get your grubby hands on the band kit!

5. I need to mention that GH5 now has a “party” and “quick play” mode! Both are a great addition to the game! Party mode is basically where anyone can join in to play at any time with any instrument even MID SONG! It is great if you have company over and someone is jamming and another wants to leap in and show off their rocker skills… also? being kicked off stage is impossible in party mode, how could it get any better? Party mode is about partying and having fun without worrying how well you are doing! QUICK PLAY is simply if you want to jam – pop in, create a set list and play your hearts content! No scoring, no stars and best of all? you do NOT have to unlock all the songs first they are already unlocked for quick play and party modes!

6. One of the best new changes is NOW after long last (and much bitching and whining about not being able to do so!) you can now CO-OP career ONLINE! YES! It used to be you had to play LOCAL if you wanted a co-op career but finally GH5 takes you where you always wanted to go, ONLINE! This feature has impressed the hell out of me and my friends who have waited through the GH series to be able to co-op career online! This change alone makes this game a must have!

7. Last but definitely not least – of the new things I want to touch on is how fucking AWESOME it is that you can play as your xbox live AVATAR! YOU can ROCK OUT as a silly goofy cartoon! I have had fun with this far more than I should admit as a 34 year old woman ;) I love to pop into my avatar settings and change my clothes and then go in and rock with them on! Just like being my own little rock star complete with costume changes! LOL Ok so most people wont care and will want to rock out as some awesome in game rocker (which you can design your own still – which is rad) but the avatar rocker is pretty a cute novelty so check it out! You will unlock an achievement by doing so :)

The graphics in GH5 are fucking amazing – it was sure noticeable this weekend when I started by popping in GH2 and then popping in GH5… the difference really is breath taking. GH is one of those games that seem to get better with age. Good bye to tacky picture laden highways, hello more laid back fun!

I have nothing negative to say about GH5 as a game it holds it’s own very well and true to the GH series it offers hours of entertainment!

I just wish GH (all series) and xbox live would make it FREE to import songs from one GH to another! I already PAID for the songs on each disk PLUS my live gold, I should be able to port them over for free! Boo on you XBOX LIVE!

So go get your hands on GH5 you will love it… and if you don’t? You can always give it to someone who will ;)

Game on friends, Game on!

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Games Suck! (not really)

December 26, 2009 by justjayde

You would think that getting a game for Christmas would bring nothing but joy yes? Well hell I would think that too because c’mon what could the downside to this possibly be?! I swear to you there really ARE downsides to getting a game for Christmas! Several in fact! I know you do not believe me so here they are listed below.

Reason number 1 – You itch to play the game from the second you feel the tell tale shape of the game case under that pretty wrapping paper… and then once you unwrap and behold the lovely new game? The itch intensifies to that which would (I imagine) be comparable to a flaming case of chickenpox! (I state I imagine as I had my pox when I was far too young to remember – oh lucky day ;))

Reason number 2 – You have to actually wait for all your guests to LEAVE! AND if you are not at home? You have to wait until you can actually find a reason to BAIL and rush home to play. Of course this often means you look like a rude ass as you make lame excuses as to why you only stayed long enough to tear the paper off, get that glassy look in your eye and fake a violent, turkey induced headache!

Reason numbers 3 and 4 – I don’t feel I put enough emphasis on reason numbers one and two so please re read them and be sure you have those firmly in mind. Do you not agree both deserve a double billing on the list? I do too! WAITING SUCKS!

Reason 5 – Other people want to try your new game immediately! Ok ok.. sharing is grand and my mama always taught me to share but when the game is brand new? Let me play with it solo for a bit before buggin me to share the joy! If you got condoms for Christmas I wouldn’t ask you to let me partake the first time you…. oh ok bad example! Uhm *blush*

Reason 6 – You find by the time you get home ( or punt your guests to the curb like yesterdays trash ) it is late in the evening… you toss on your new game and before you know it? yea – it is 4 am and you are wide awake from the adrenalin rush, eyes burning, knowing you will pay for the late night big time at about 6 am when your kids, wife, hubby, family, neighbors, commitments, sales raise their ugly heads and say “GET OUT OF BED YOU LAZY BASTARD!”

I have now gone through reasons 1 through 6 personally – it is 4:00 am and I have to be up at 7:00 am… shit! It was so worth it though!

( You can expect a game review or 4 in the next few weeks as time permits me to game and write!)

P.S Don’t even get me started on what happens if you receive more than ONE game per holiday season because then a whole “system” comes into play! I haven’t got enough time to blog all the problems that arise in that scenario!

Game on friends, game on!

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Animal Crossing: Wild world review (ds)

December 15, 2009 by justjayde

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First I want to preface this by saying this quickly has risen to one of my most favorite games for the DS! So much so that I would buy it for my xbox if given the chance, to play it on a big TV.

If you like Simulation style games – you will love Animal Crossing: Wild world. This game is about a bunch of animals that live in a town (which you get to name).

You move to the town, name it and begin making friends. Friendships are very important in this game because the more the critters like you the more they are willing to give you and help you with.. you need them to like you in order to play this game. It is not hard to make friendships in your new town – in fact it is easier than one might think.

Friends are most quickly made by interacting with the critters… they all have hobbies or passions that they will tell you about whether it is fossils (One of them wants a fossil in their home so badly! and will keep telling you over and over again until you find one and gift it – which will then make the critter forever grateful, immensely happy and your BFF ;) Some of the hobbies/passions are easier to gift than others but they are all quite easily done!

Another way to make strong friendships quickly is to send them letters with gifts in them. Gift letters are actually one of the most used functions in the game! The letter can say damn near anything then you attach a gift (it can be free things you find in the game like a seashell on the beach, a piece of fruit, etc.) Critters LOVE LOVE LOVE getting mail and they will repay the letter in kind! Before you know it your mailbox will be full of letters containing gifts!

You will want to use both of these methods as often as possible to form friendships! Once the critters like you they will give you random gifts, ask you random questions, tell you jokes, what have you.

Animal crossing did a good job with this game because the critters are all rather unique. While each critter has his or her own catch phrase (which you will get to change or add to in some way once you are friends) their personalities are very different. Some of the Animals are REALLY GROUCHY! (I won’t name names, but they are pretty hard to miss when they snark at you) while others are hyper, goofy, endearing or down right annoying – there are even a muscle head and an empty headed Animal ;)

As you continue to play through this game more animals will move to your town – or just drop in… this keeps the game fresh and moving along nicely. Due to the constant influx of new residents and visitors there is always something to do. Have no fear though, with Animal Crossing:Wild World there is no rush! You can take your time, wander around, explore, chit chat with the residents all at what ever speed you like.

I will say this now that I mentioned speed and game play – that this game DOES use REAL time rather than “in game time”. Some shops are only open from 8 am to 11 pm your local time which is not REALLY a big deal unless of course you work night shifts and sleep from 8 am to 11 pm ;) Some people change their DS clock so the time is technically wrong in real life but makes the game better for in game time playability.

ACWW Also celebrates holidays and events! Yup, swanky deal! Some are real (New Years) and some are… not so real. All of them however are quite cute and entertaining as they bring in special and new features even if only for a day.

Some things also will only happen at certain times of the day, week or month! Such as “turnip lady”… A woman comes around selling her turnips which you purchase and in turn sell for a profit. She comes every SUNDAY MORNING – and you can NOT sell turnips on Sunday! Be careful to sell your turnips between Monday and Wednesday (Thursday at the latest) because they DO rot and then they are a worthless waste of money!

Speaking of money – you will need a LOT of money because you WILL need to buy things and upgrade items. Imagine that? a sims game that is life like ;) There are several ways to earn cash in ACWW though most do take some time and repetition (such as fishing) but it does add up quickly and you will learn little tricks as you play! You will ALSO want to donate money to another town (Boondox) which you can do at the town hall. No worries – the game will explain this to you when you first move to town! :)

As per usual when I love a game I could go on and on about it. There are really no negatives to this game, which coming from me is surprising! It is well thought out and well executed.

I 100% recommend this game to everyone. Rated for ages 7+ but trust me even the adults get hooked on this fun, cute, relaxed paced game. Give it a try, you will thank me! Don’t forget to be generous with your ACWW friends!

Game on friends, game on!

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