CLiX Games

     So with the recent release of Pokemon Platinum, I’ve decided to pick up my Pokemon Diamond and start playing it again.  I was pretty far into in it when I put started up my game so I figured I’d just keep going.  Me playing Diamond is my way of saving myself $35.  I know that Platinum has a “different” story line, but it’s all basically the same wonderfully addictive game.  

     So when I started playing again I had 3 gym badges and my starting Pokemon was Chimchar.  Now I’ve got 6 badges and a kick butt team.  Obviously I have my Infernape, level 40, then there’s Gyarados level 38, Psyduck level 39, Roselia level 34, Staravia level 20, and Geodude level 14.  I only have Geodude and Staravia on my team for HM’s.  I’m heading off to Lake Acuity to save my over zealous rival right now, but I’m making a pit stop to pick up Defog in Pastoria city.  I’ve been playing Pokemon games since 1998.  And they are still awesome. 

     I can still remember unwrapping my Pokemon blue for Christmas in 1998, it was easily the best present I got that year.  I don’t know what it is that makes the Pokemon franchise so addicting, but I certainly don’t mind it that much.  I have some seriously high hopes that Nintendo will have a DSi virtual console where I can download old Gameboy games.  Pokemon Blue and Red being the main reason but also is Super Mario Land 2:  Six Golden Coins, and many others.  There are so many old Nintendo games that I would just love to play over and over again.  

     So on Saturday night my local Gamestop (where I pre-ordered my DSi) threw an opening night party for the DSi.  It was from 10-1:30, and you couldn’t leave until 12 because technically the DSi didn’t come out till April 5th.  I figured it would be kinda boring hanging out with a bunch of other geeks for 2 hours inside a Gamestop. So I sat down with my brother and watched Braveheart until 11:45 and then we made our way over.  

    When we got there there was about 18 people, including a couple 9-12 year olds (personally I think that that was a bit late for them) and to my surprise there weren’t that many creepy geeks/nerds there.  They had some free pizza and soda, so I took part in that while I waited patiently in line.  When I made my way to the front of the line the man behind the cash register (which I really don’t like because a, he’s like 400 pounds and b, he’s the meanest most critical sales clerk I think I’ve ever meet) said that they were going to call out “numbers”.  Mind you I got there like 10 minutes ago and everyone else was waiting there since 10 ish.  Apparently the people that had just paid for the DSi’s got to get them first.  So I was back in the end of the 15 person line waiting to pick up my DSi, which I had pre-ordered and paid in full like 3 weeks earlier.  I was basically the last person in the store to get it!  The people who just showed up to buy it got to get them first, the guy was like, “We got to get the people who have been waiting the longest their DSi’s first.”  I was like, ok so I’ve been waiting for 3 weeks and they get theirs because they’ve been in the store for 2 hours?  

  Anyway, the DSi is pretty sweet yo.  I upgraded from my DS Phat and there are sooo many differences between them.  My favorite is the more vibrant colors, the new volume adjustment, the bigger screens, and the brightness adjustment.  I’m pretty excited about my DSi, I’m playing some Chrono Trigger right now and it is blissful.  

     So in all honesty, I absolutely love Zelda games.  But when Wind Waker came out I was one of those people who said that the cel shading looked childish.  It really put me off from playing it cause I thought (and to a degree sill think) that the art form portrays the way a game plays.  Recently with the announcement of Spirit Tracks I realized that if I don’t play any cel shaded Zelda games, it appears as though I’m missing out of three of my favorite franchises games (of course Phantom Hourglass being the other). 

     So I went out and picked up The Wind Waker, against my own opinions.  I’ve not actually heard bad things about the game from my friends.  So anyway, I picked it up and now I guess I’m like 3/8 of the way in because I’ve collected the 3 pearls.  If you were wondering how I guessed that, it was purely based off of Ocarina of Time.  So far the game has been good, not to childish like I once had thought.  The only complaint I have about it is that sailing takes forever and doesn’t really enhance the gameplay.  The only interesting part of sailing so far for me was when I encountered sharks for the first time, the dramatic music and them knocking me out of the boat had me pretty scared.  Oh, and I personally don’t like the actually Wind Waker, nothing specific I just don’t like it. 

     All in all so far I really enjoy The Wind Waker.  I can’t really wait until I beat it and then start to play Phantom Hourglass.  For some reason I just think that playing a Zelda for the DS should be the coolest thing.