My Birthday
Well, I vaguely remember my birthday. And by vaguely, I know that there was this unholy size of a mountain of chicking wing bones on Devon's plate. It was so ridiculous, it was amazing.
We watched two Monty Python movies. The Meaning of Life and The Life of Brian. The house nearly imploded at the spaceship scene from hordes of laughter. It was poetic. Fantastic night.
Cue huge memory gap. And I mean HUGE. I got a couple of games along the way. I'll talk later.
Lil B's Birthday
It was a sleepover. And OH GOD THERE WAS NO ROOM WHATSOEVER. No. I can't even speak of it.
As of Now
Yea, I'm just that bad.
It's the Victoria Day weekend, so we got Monday off. Long weekends=win. Woo. AND KEVIN'S BACK IN!!! Yes. This weekend radiates in awesomeness.
Yesterday was spent at Mel's. I wasn't paying much attention to anything but Zach brought over Mario Kart Wii so much fun was had. AND I HAVE FINALLY FOUND A WORTHY OPPONENT FOR BRAWL. Mitch, you're now my sworn Brawl rival. It's a battle 'till all teh stock runs out. And I will win. Because I am exploding with awesomeness. Yeah, that's right. Exploding.
Tonight was fun, too. I went over to Lacey's, about halfway through Advent Children. Hmm, who was there? Oh, yeah; Myself, Lacey, Jordan, Kenny, Windsor, Mel, Tyler, Raylene, BrandstorZ, Devon, Shannon Matt, and the other Raylene and her friend showed up after, but they didn't do anything so they don't count. I think that's everyone. Everyone kept getting mad at Tyler and Jordan because they wouldn't shut up during the movie. Fun times.
Then we walked up to the store, and had a minor parade. Kenny was playing "Should I stay or Should I go?" on Shannon's guitar, and Shannon, Jordan and BrandstorZ sung along. Albeit retardedly. At least Jordan was.
Had the first slushie of the season today!! Much win. Raylene called them slurpees. I just stared at her because she was nuts. Prairie people are weird... D'aw well. We chilled out behind the Marie's for a while, sitting on some milk crates, feeling like a bunch of skeets. We up and left, though, as soon as Lacey and Mel got they're sorry butts in gear.
Lacey had a fire pit in her backyard!! Now I smell like smoke. Wonder why. The fire would keep going out so Lacey's Dad (named Fred. Yeah, odd coincidence) would keep spraying lighter fluid on it. Then he ended up putting gasoline on it. Yeah, it was great. There's also a reason I didn't roast any marshmallows or wieners over that fire. Speaking of wieners, do you know how many wiener jokes were made around that campfire?? It was ridiculous. So ridiculous, it was HILARIOUS. Then the smoke kept getting in my eyes causing an immediate INABILITY TO SEE. Not to mention Tracey (Lacey's Mom) and Lacey would not stop taking pictures, when, in the near-pitch dark, makes you even BLINDER. It's a damned miracle I can see anything now.
Kevin kept on picking on Fred because he looks like Chuck Norris. In the past three days, I have heard so many Chuck Norris jokes, I could write volumes upon volumes of them.
"Hey, guys! One time, Chuck Norris walked into a bar with Mr. T, and the bar then was instantly destroyed because that much awesome cannot be contained in that little space!"
"Hey, there's no such thing as evolution, just a list of animals that Chuck Norris let live."
So on, so forth. So then Fred gave me five bucks to drop Kevin. I just barely got him on the rebound. and by barely I mean that when he tried to get up I leaned back on him. My take-down of BranstorZ went much more smoothly. I just got him in a headlock, spun him around and threw him. Lots of fun right there. Now I have mud all over my jeans...
The gang left early, so me, Jordan, and Windsor stuck around and chilled in Lacey's room waiting for Ma to come pick us up. we basically messed with her cat and hamstor. Causes for much lawl. Oh, and Lacey, if your hamstor dies from some form of lead poising anytime soon, it's Jordan's fault. But you didn't hear that from me.
Art
I've got a couple of projects lined up as of right now, but let's see what I got.
Well, first, I'm doing individual pics of everyone in the group. So far I have Matt and Raylene done. And Dad also wants me to draw a picture of Him, Myself, Marina, Sheena, and Mike in anime for his birthday. That's in November. I'll just do it over the summer, or something.
Recently, we had to do a video for Language Class. It counts as art because its video, and animation. Yeah, animation. It turned out fantastic. I was amazed. Feel free to ignore Evan's rambling. Yea, I have no idea what the hell he's saying either. His acting = Fail. but it's still kinda funny. And Devon's just kind of...there. Ish.
Anime...?
Oh yeah.
First of all, I'm getting annoyed. Why? Because there are supposed to be more Tales of Symphonia OVA episodes. It's been, what, five, no, maybe even six months since the last one? At least some announcment or something to say that it's not DEAD. It's just not cool.
Mel totally bombed Ufotable or something and that's why there's not going to be anymore.
ANYHOW!! Been on a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann trip lately. It's one of the best anime I've seen in a long time, and it's great to get away from all that gloony-plotty-serial killer stuff in Death Note. And Kamina is awesome. But they kill him off in episode eight. EIGHT!! FRIKKIN WEAK, DUDE! Then Simon's all ghey and emo 'till Nia comes along. It recollects awesome after the timeskip, though. Still, it's not nearly as badass without Kamina. He makes a re-appearance in the second-last episode, still radianting super-Jesus-awesomeness.
When Kamina and Leeron meet in episode two I can't help but giggle because they're like Lloyd and Zelos. Actually, they have the same voice actors...XD
GAH BECKERS STOP PLAYING SO MUCH TALES *shot shot dead dead*
While I'm at it, even though it's not anime...THEY OFFED WARRICK IN CSI. WEAAAAAAAAAK. He was bad-ass, dude.
No More Heroes
Alright, game time.
No More Heroes is alot of fun. The story follows an Otaku living in Santa Destroy, named Travis Touchdown. After some retarded series of events, he gets a beam katana and wants to become the number-one ranked assassin in the world. Conveniently, all of these assassins live in or around Santa Destroy for some disturbing reason. Go figure. The basic plot boils down to beating all of the assassins ranked above yo to reach number one.
The gameplay is fairly linear. It goes, for the most part, Do small job for $-->Do assassination job for even more $-->Go through immense beat down session-->boss-->repeat. Between each rankings battle, you can buy power ups and new clothes, but there's really isn't much else to do. It's when fighting that this game really shines.
The basics are pretty simple. Tap the A button to swing your sword. After a certain amount of hits on the enemy, a directional arrow pops up and you slash the Wiimote in that direction, and you perform a finishing move. I like this, because there isn't an overuse of the Wiimote, but there's still a bit of swinging to keep things interesting. From here on in, it can get a little intricate. You can stun an enemy, and while they're stunned, you can run up and hit B to perform wrestling moves. This proves useful when fighting bosses, but if you're hacking away, transferring between the two an be a pain.
Even so, the fights can get less interesting, or so you would think. There's also certain moves that can be preformed that pwn everything. Whenever you perform a finishing move, a slot machine runs at the bottom. If you line up slots (you have no control over this), you can enter one of several modes an be awesome.
The story is this game isn't that great, but the sets of bosses are interesting. The characters are very well written, as well. Great game.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
I got this the day it came out. What a fantastic game.
If you've played Melee, then the gameplay is basically the exact same. If you have a Gamecube controller handy, use it. It works so much better.
The graphic in this game are fantastic, along with the massive soundtrack and glorious framerate. The controls, especially in the adventure mode, can seem a little slippery at first, but you get used to them. My only real beef with this game is that they dropped Roy. They brought back Marth, but no Roy. Instead they gave us Ike, who sucks. The only person good with Ike is Zack, and he still sucks. What a slow, clunky piece of junk that guy is.
Toon Link makes me giggle because he looks so out of place. Tee hee,
The super-hyped Adventure mode, The Subspace Emissary, was fun. It can be fustrating at times, espcially during boss fights, but it's a good way to get a feeling for all the characters.
Oh, and BTW, Sonic sucks. Seriously. His Final Smash is great and all, but otherwise he just sucks proverbial balls.
Tales of The Abyss
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THATS RIGHT. I GOT A PS2. A NON-NINTENDO SYSTEM.
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YES THE WORLD IS GOING TO END. I DONT CARE. THIS GAME IS AWESOME.
Alright. The battle system for this game is God. No really. Free-Run? No random Over Limit? MYSTIC ARTES?!?
I don't like the story as much as I like Symphonia's, but there's alot more homour in this. I'm assuming to make up for the pretty dark storyline. There are alot of memorable characters in it, too. Jade, Guy, and Anise are all total win. Especially Jade. Jade is God. No. Really. He is. No argument. He just is.
For battles, I always use Guy instead of Luke. He's faster and has many of the traditional Tales attacks (Demon Fang, Sword Rain: Alpha, Tiger Blade, etc.). Jade just pwns everything, Anise's Mytic Artes are amazing, and Tear is just an obligatory healer. I don't like Luke. For the first part of the game, he's a stupid, annoying brat whose only purpose is to make me giggle by beating up Mieu. For the second part, he's an emo, right down to the wanting to kill himself. I'm surprised he didn't start wearing eyeliner. He BUGS me.
I'm glad they fixed the multiplayer in this. Devon was over last Wednesday and we played it for SIX. HOURS. STRAIGHT. Fantastic fun. We got a 69-hit combo. That's now my highest. Yes, much lawling was done.
The bosses are great fun. the battles last a nice while, but sometimes you can be dealing next to no damage to them which can be a pain, but also can be considered a challenge as well. Depletes Life Bottles like hell, though.
The plot was great, but I liked Symphonia's better. The graphics are better in this though. Everyone doesn't look like little retarded children running around. And there was actually more than one anime scene with characters in it!! And not just at the end!! Piles of awesome. The battle system is what has me latched on the most. I'm loving free-run. But it's kind of hard switching between FR-LMBS(Abyss) and ML-LMBS(Symphonia). You can dodge spells in Abyss!! If only the AI would do so, as well! *eyetwitch*
The amount of sidequests is insane, and the customization is unreal. I'm loving it. There's so many variables to the battle system. AD Skills and FSC are total win. Definitely tops the EX Gems. Now I gotta wait for Devon to finish up with Legendia so I can do...stuff in it.
Gah, I need sleep. Kevin leaves tomorrow. Faces will implode.
