Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Too Human (& Equally Too Strange a Day)

I thought I was losing my mind today, just completely off my rocker. So I've been having a busy few weeks so far and I seem to lose track of time, date and all. This became absurdly apparent today when I thought the game "Too Human" was being released.

So after floundering about, I head to Best Buy to try and find this game in question. And what do I find?

The game!

Well, more like the game box...

But it says "RESERVE NOW!" on it rather then having the expected price tag.

Um...

To cut a long story short, I spent the next hour and a half just wandering around the store. And without fail, every 5-10 minutes I would find myself walking back to the XBox 360 section and just stare at the box for a mere second or five.

What went wrong here? Maybe the increasing fuel prices forced the game to be delayed? Maybe the donkey that carried the pack which held the games was sidetracked by a shiny stone? Maybe I just got the wrong date? Or maybe... maybe...

Anyway, I finally called it quits and headed home, feeling defeated and outright humiliated. Had I been samurai, I would have probably taken my own life in light of my deepening shame and defeat. I just couldn't comprehend it, I thought I was right and yet I was apparently so very wrong.

Fast forward to the present hour and I log onto GameStop's site, just to browse the lists one more time. Fine, that was a outright lie. This defeat was bugging me and I needed to know! I needed to know the truth and I needed to know right then and there!

And to my surprise, what are the two words I see as the page loads up?

Wait for it...

...

NOW SHIPPING!!

Ha! The feeling of righteous vindication was bliss! Defeat was but a mere cloud, blocking sight of victory! I knew then that I had defied my own insanity, breaking free from it's deceiving, deceitful grasp, if even for just another day!

And to think, I just played the demo for the game just the other day and so I don't really know all that much about this one. Now that thought makes me wonder what will happen when the time finally comes and Final Fantasy XIII is released?

Yes, yes... I know... I even dork myself out some days...

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