Basement Couch

I’ve had at least two energy drinks ever day this week! At this point, I feel like my veins are pumping corn syrup. Mmmh, corn syrup.

Aw no… is this what does it? Is this how it finally happens? I never thought I’d become a self-vampire because I drank too much Monster.

I always thought it would be because of snake bites.

What I played this week:

I’m more than half way through Final Fantasy XIII. Once that game opens up at the 25th hour, it loses some steam for me. The plot is still solid enough, but the characters are the only ones who know what their goal is. I’m totally out of the loop. I’m just taking them to the point on the map marked with an X. Any who, originally I was excited about the tiny bonus quests scattered throughout the world and I had honorable dreams of completing ALL of them. That attitude quickly devolved into completing none of them. Forward and onward!

The World Ends With You has started to click with me! I just had to find the leveling aspect of this RPG to enjoy it. Now that I feel my characters getting strong the game feels less like a minigame with a story. Speaking of the story, you’ve got to be willing to happily groan at some troupes of anime to enjoy much of this game. I am willing to do that. You may not be. It’s not all happy groans and roses though. The World Ends With You has some issues for me on the game play side but I’ll talk about them more later.

I started playing Bully on the Wii again. I did this in hopes of finishing the last fourth of the game this week. Though that may make it sound like Bully is a chore to play, I really dig this game. It’s got all the fun of Grand Theft Auto’s open world with a heavy dose of levity and atmosphere. I was playing it tonight with the window open while my character sneaked around campus during curfew and felt totally immersed.

Things of Note:

WonderCon was this weekend! Apparently, the only thing video game related that came out of it was a bunch of videos of people playing Just Dance on the Wii. So, you know, not a big convention on the digital entertainment side.

Oh! Wait! The iPad came out! Plus the iPad store already has some games, most of which are iPhone games at higher resolutions.

Hey! I review iPhone games! Will I be getting an iPad for reviews? Nah, don’t count on it. But, looking at some of the games that came out for the iPad, I can imagine playing Real Racing or Plants Versus Zombies on that bigger screen to be crazy fun.

That’s the closest thing I can do to a review right now.