My Stomach Has Fury
Not a good night for me. I get on the wrong bus coming home (seriously, two buses with the same number and street at the same station, going in different directions? Could one not be 52, and the other 53 or something?), and after arriving home, my stomach starts to not only disagree with me, but pretty much revolt outright.
I’m not up to a full update tonight, but I’m not leaving you guys empty-handed, either. So he’s sort of a combination TDS/PoI for you.
- From everywhere I turn: This guy needs his Little Goldmen kicked in for this.
Here’s one for you:
Q: What’s the difference between an art thief and their works?
A: It’s usually the wrong one that gets hung before a crowd.
Ok, maybe a bit harsh, but still. Poor form, Toddy.
- I like ThinkGeek.com, probably more than anyone reading this might realize.
From The Allspark, check out these cool animated t-shirts.
- And since I’m at Allspark anyway, some TransFormer tidbits:
New books on Amazon, Phillipines get movie before we do, tiny RC cars based on the movie at Radio Shack, Pepsi cross-promotion (I may have to put my regular Coke-drinking aside this summer), lots of tickets for BotCon movie screening, and pics of Megatron’s toy in the box and Bonecrusher and Swindle.
Whew!
- Newsarama’s “Animated Shorts” remembers ReBoot, a show that should never be forgotten, but seems to have been by the very company which created it.
Plus, a glimpse of the upcoming ReBoot art book that I just know you’ll be adding to your shopping list…
- Newsarama also has a peek at a clash of Avengers vs. Avengers.
And I just got to the point I like having Dr. Strange on board a LOT more.
- Is a new Sonic game already under way? Press The Buttons reports on the registering of the trademark “Sonic Rush Adventure”.
- I don’t mind blowing air into the DS mic or onto the screen now and then. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney was one case I liked.
But for the most part, I can do without. Battle Mode in Mario Kart DS is my #1 offender thus far.
- Namco Museum DS, with Pac-Man Vs? I can dig it.
- This is why you don’t want the government involved in video games.
“Oh, sure, but that’s China,” you might be saying, but knowing some of the nutballs like Clinton and Lieberman in Washington (to say nothing of He Who Shall Not Be Named), does it really seem that farfetched that they’d like to implement something similar?
- This is why I don’t really trust “professional” game reviews very much.
- Wiitar Hero?
- GameTrailers: Good-bye to GameCube, Super Paper Mario review, and a Custom Robo Arena review.
- Next-Gen looks over many Super Paper Mario reviews.
…and that’s all for me. See you all tomorrow night!
–LBD “Nytetrayn”
April 11th, 2007 at 8:40 am
7. I guess it’s one of the features of the DS that has the potential to be implemented the most poorly. Diddy Kong Racing’s use of it sounds horrible. As for Mario Kart, blowing into the mic to inflate your balloons in battle mode? I actually think it was a cool idea, EXCEPT for the fact you had to be at a dead stop to do this. I think they could have made one single change to make it a lot better: make it so you can inflate the balloon while driving, but at a slower rate than if you were stopped. I never wanna stop when playing Mario Kart, and battle mode is no exception.
Or maybe if they had the option to turn off that feature before a battle, that would’ve been nice too. We saw classic stages for Grand Prix, so what about classic battles in battle mode?
Do you remember my story of when I was playing the Japanese version of Pokemon Diamond? And I went to the underground area and triggered a trap, and had leaves floating on my screen? I kept pressing buttons, put the DS into sleep mode, and touched everything, and wondered why I couldn’t move on. Then I remembered, “Oh, the DS can do that,” and I blew into the mic to clear the leaves away… That was actually kind of cool, but I wish I had figured it out sooner so I wouldn’t feel like such a tard.
In that mode of the game, it’s possible to have a “capture the flag” game with other players nearby, and those traps, of course, slow you down. It’s really easy to blow those leaves away, but the more fractions of a second you save, the better chance you have of winning. I think that’s a cool implementation of the mic.
But hey, whatever happened to the voice recognition we saw in Nintendogs? I don’t think I’ve seen a single game use the mic more for “HuffNPuff” since then…