I B Scribbling Madness

So I haven't exactly been blogging as normally as I have in the past few months, just because there has been so much going on in my life lately. I wouldn't know where to start and where to finish. Then again, there has been so much going and yet nothing at all really. Does that make sense? I suspect not. Anywho...

Tried to buy Scribblenauts today.

Tried.

Failed.

One thing I hate about a little store called Toys n Joys is they do not keep a very updated website. It surely says nothing about the game being sold out and everything just looks so fine and dandy that I wouldn't even throw a doubt of suspicion their way. I mean why would I? They are a small store and I wouldn't think it'd be that hard to write in "SOLD OUT," could it?

Well damn it all, apparently it is and I wasted a trip up there for nothing. Blah.

So after having to turn down their little offer of placing a "special order" for it (which will come in on either Monday or Tuesday, WOW unhelpful that is), I just bought it for in-store pick up at Best Buy. You think they'd find it funny if I ask them about those $10 TVs?

Probably not...

But back to the scribbles! I am intrigued by this game, I am just agog by the promise of it all. And how could I not be? It practically gives the player the freedom to throw damn near a lot of things to complete the tasks before you. Laser gun? Check. Tank? Most likely. Coffee shop? So I've heard!

And get this: I may actually pass up games like Halo 3 ODST just to get a hold of this one. I can't believe I typed that! Give up a console game for a handheld one?! Madness! Blasphemy!

Speaking of handheld games, I kind of fell off the boat with Dissida Final Fantasy. I bought it, I played it for a little while and...

Why did I buy this game again?

Truthfully, I don't really even like the selection of characters in the game (or at least the folks sided with Cosmos). They are so irritating to me! I wish you could actually choose to play as the forces of Chaos from the start, just to be able to smash those whiney sons of you-know-what into the ground!

I think I would rather see something like this in on a larger scale, just to give a better variety in characters. Hell, it might even help make the game a lot more playable. Overall I just didn't and couldn't really give a care about this all that much. Huh, another PSP game that I lost interest in in under a week...

Jumping to the big consoles, I played the demo for Katamari Forever the other day and I am a little interested. Perhaps a little less then I might have originally been. Don't get me wrong, the game looks pretty nice visually and it plays just like it did in the original game. But to me it feels like it has finally fully lost the charm the original games had. It doesn't seem all that insane, the tone of it just feels... like a game?

Maybe the full game will show the weird and craziness I grew to love about the series. I actually played the game more because of the weird music it had, which was much more enjoyable for me then the game itself sometimes.

Last thing here... I finally finished Mass Effect and I just don't know what to think about it. The ending was okay, certainly not the best one I've ever seen. Kind of lame really. But then they were/are setting up for the sequel, so I suppose it is to be expected. I am hoping that the levels will be better designed. I felt like I was in the twilight zone, running through the same place over and over and over...

I guess the best I can hope for is that playing through this will make the second game more interesting. I am curious to see how the choices made in the first game will actually impact the second. Will it end up being that big of a deal?