Your Latest Game Purchase and How it Fares

I got a GameCube along with Metroid Prime.

All I can say really, is; wow. I had my doubts (as almost everyone did, right?), but damn, this IS a Metroid game, heart and soul. With an added D. Retro Studios seems to have done everything right, I got no complaints. Bravo.

Status : 30% throught the game already... lots to do here, yum

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Clocktower 3 - Almost finished, but I keep putting it off. Rather boring game really.

Xenosaga  - Too many damn cinemas, but I do really want to finish it..someday.

Auto Modeslita - Uhm...controls like shit..Avoid....terrible..

Zelda: The Wind Waker  - Currently playing this and lovin\' it.

It\'s been ages since I\'ve last been to Helsinki, and now I went on a real spending spree once there...

This weekend I got :

Sonic Advance : I sacrificed my chances of getting A Link to the Past by getting this. Then again, I secured enough money to remain to get me 2 GC games. I\'ve only played a couple of levels with a couple of characters, and I\'m loving it very much. A great Sonic game again (after the horrible "Adventures"). The SP is a dream when travelling by train.

Super Mario Sunshine : It was cheap, that\'s all I have to say for myself. This isn\'t the next mario, this is Mario64 reheated with a twist, blah. At times I almost enjoy myself, but I can\'t shake the feeling that there\'s something almost fundamentally wrong here. And the graphics are so blah.

Resident Evil 0 : Some people probably know of my undying hatred for the RE style of gameplay (fights, mostly), but I never turn down a good story (!?), or bad acting. I didn\'t get much into this one, but was disappointed by (among other things); loading times, same choppy storytelling sequences, graphics (well, err, I was expecting more from the "much" touted light-shadow routines)... but it\'s RE, and I loved the first 2, and heard this is more like them than the later atrocities of the series. Here\'s to hoping.

Overall, then, I\'m a bit disappointed with these investments. Maybe I\'m just too tired after a long weekend to enjoy games to their fullest... me sleeeep now...

Yesterday I ordered:

1 st - GC - RGB Kabel med Ljudutgång - Brooklyn  - 129 kr/st
1 st - GC - Gamecube Basenhet Svart med Metroid Prime  - 2195 kr/st
1 st - GC - Minneskort 4MB -  59 Blocks - Thrustmaster  - 99 kr/st
1 st - PC - Diablo 2 - BestSeller  - 129 kr/st
1 st - PC - Diablo 2 Expansion - Lord of Destruction - BestSeller  - 129 kr/st

PC games = for my brother (Diablo 2 freak!).
Cost me 2831 kr with shipping, thats $327.

Should arrive tomorrow.

Metroid better be worth it

Well I got the package today, took one day longer than I had expected (damn snow! :evil: )

I\'ve only played Metroid for about 1 hour sofar.. Seems like a really good game though. Very nice graphics, stable framerate ect (60fps?) . Haven’t really snapped up with the story yet.

I play too many damn games.  Here\'s a list of everything I picked up so far since my last post.  I did not pay for all of these.  Plenty of them were free so no one gets the wrong idea I have some bottomless pit of cash hidden underneat my desk or something and hunts me down to eat my intestines.  Right.

New stuff:
Mega Man Battle Network (GBA)
Splinter Cell (GBA)
Ikaruga (GCN)
MLB Slugfest 20-04 (GCN)
Strider 2 (PS2)
The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (GBA)
Street Fighter III Double Impact [domestic](DC)
GT Advance 3: Pro Concept Racing (GBA)
Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc (GBA)


And here are the reviews...

Ikaruga
Minority Report: Everybody Runs
Megaman and Bass
GT Advance 3: Pro Concept Racing
Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc
Mega Man Battle Network 2
Super Puzzle Fighter II
Sonic Advance 2
Vexx

That\'s all until next time.  So tired......

Def Jam Vendetta and Dancing Stage Megamix.

Really enjoying both,especially Vendetta.
Completed Def Jam but it\'s just too good to trade in and Megamix is just SO fun to play!

Might as well...

Since my last posting, I\'ve gotten, EyeToy, Silpheed : The Lost Planet and Haven : Call of the King. Silpheed and Haven were cheap secondhand purchases. Thank god.

Eyetoy is a superbly fun little toy. So simple I really can\'t say anything more about it. 8/10

Silpheed : The Lost Planet is... well, let\'s just say that "Treasure", doesn\'t always go with "high quality". OK\'ish graphics, annoying music (exceptionally so), and very unbalanced gameplay. Most of the time it feels too easy (even on "Hard"), and then it just literally blows you away and spits in your general direction with a really smug grin on it\'s jagged face. Disappointed. I need the new R-Type now more than ever. 6/10 so far.

Haven : Call of the King, yay! A good game has you going though different phases during the course of it\'s life in your console; you get annoyed, you get thrilled, you feel challenged, you feel overwhelmed, underwhelmed, surprise, empathy, it\'s a rollercoaster at best. Haven is like the biggest, flattest airport ever compared to those kind of games. Initially, I thought it\'d be a treat, many planets to explore and that, but it\'s all been masterfully funcked up, damn. Nothing feels like anything in Haven\'s worlds, everything is so... lifeless, bland, plain, simple, unchallenging. The only part that actually receives any notable mention from me is the Egypt-syle cavern, with one half-decent puzzle and hordes of bugs. 5/10 so far.