Super Scribblenauts

Super Scribblenauts just barely claims the title as my favourite nintendo DS game. It is a down right impressive game. The concept alone of being able to write in any nouns or adjectives is just plain awesome. It is the kind of game that you can get anybody, even people who hate video games to have fun with. The game has no real storyline, aside from the fact that the character is called Maxwell, but hey thats basically as much as Mario does. Super Scribblenauts focuses much more on the gameplay, this doesn't really make the game any worse it just leaves you to do what ever you want. You can make golden pregnant T-rexs fight telekinetic flying donkeys, well if you want to. What I like so much about it is the way that really the sky is the limit, well the sky and your vocabulary. Having a slightly smaller vocabulary wont make the game worse it just means that you will play it very differently. The game includes a sandbox mode, 121 levels and even the option of creating your own levels. Another thing that is great about this game is that every problem from the first game is fixed, in the first game the controls weren't great and it did glitch a little bit, but everything is better for this game. It has some crazy, and awesome levels and even a final one with a storyline. Another cool thing is the Easter eggs in the game. There are some weird one like ''lol wut'' which gives you a hat that is basically maxwells head but huge, another is the adjective scribblenautical, which im not even going to tell you what it does. You can also type in the names of the devs to get some really weird things, some of the devs just wanted their character to look like them, but some of them have... unusual avatars. One is a light blue slime, and another is a T-rex with a red bandanna, there is event one that is a really short samurai holding a massive sword. There are some things that i found that you could type in that have awesome results, like the 'robosaur' a mechanical T-rex. The 'Shoggoth' a huge blue monster covered in eyes. There is the adjective omnipotent which makes whatever it is applied to immortal, slightly larger and gives them the ability to fly. The adjective 'telekinetic' makes things around the object float. And of coarse the unusual adjective 'pregnant' which makes the object have a baby version of itself after a few seconds. Anyway I thought that this game was great because you could do what ever you wanted, even if you wanted to fight your evil clone with excalibur or ride a flying T-rex into the sunset.
Maxwell's mount of choice, the flying spotty bathtub.

Terfle

Does the Wii need a successor?

The Nintendo Wii has been on the market for about five years now and thar's old! Really old for a console at any rate. But the Wii has done incredibly well in its lifespan, selling gigantic amounts of games. Think about this. One of the best selling Xbox 360 games of all time was Halo 3, selling at roughly 8 million units. Mario Kart Wii is the third best selling Wii game, selling at about 26 million units. Now that's quite a considerable margin. So, the Wii's doing well, but what's on the horizon? Apart from The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword, has there been all that much buzz about upcoming Wii games? I know, I know, the 3DS is about to be released and that means Nintendo might be putting some projects on hold for the time being. But still, there are some problems which the system has which could all be fixed with a new installment.
 
1.) Graphics: Updating the graphics to HD would be nice.
2.) Controller: I have absolutely nothing against the Wii-motes, in fact, I like them much better than the other ones on the market, but it would be nice to see another control stick added to the mix.
3.) Image: What I mean is, in the eyes of PS3 and 360 gamers, they think the Wii is garbage because you waggle your arms about at 1000000 kilometers per hour to play games that aren't COD or Halo. They're wrong. But an image update could make these trash talkers throw their controllers in the recycle and dive into the new system.

But personally, I don't think the Wii needs a successor yet...soon, but not yet. Nintendo tend to release a new console every five years, so I wouldn't be too surprised if one was announced, but nothing official has been confirmed. But I would like to see the Wii on the market for at lest 1 more year. :-)

Super Smash Bros Brawl dissection: Ike

Ike is a character in Super Smash Bros Brawl that comes from the Fire Emblem game series that possesses great strength and some great moves which make him super powerful and an effective character to use. I tend to use him quite a bit actually. Pretty much every move he performs is extremely powerful, even his standard "A" attacks send other fighters flying. Of course, with a fighting game like this there has to be a fair amount of balance, so Ike even though Ike has great power, he is very slow. He also can't jump that high and doesn't dodge roll very far. Even so, he is still effective because his sword has a fair amount of reach to it and, even if he can't catch those speedy fighters like Fox or Sonic, he can still hit them. In the air, he doesn't jump all that high or far, but his attacks are just as good if not better than on the ground. His special moves also pack a punch. His standard "B" attack sees him holding his sword above his head and charging it with fire. When he slams it back down, it has a high damage small radius blast around him. But beware, charge it for too long and you damage yourself. His side "B" is another charge attack, only this time he dashes forward and slices his opponent. The longer you charge it, the further he goes. This can also make do as a horizontal recovery attack if you are too far away from the platform to do his up "B" attack. Ike performs his signature attack: the Aether, a move where Ike throws his sword upwards then jumps up to catch it and then plummets back down, slamming his sword into the earth. If anyone is caught in the move, they follow the same movement as the sword. This is his vertical recovery move, but has very little horizontal movement. His down "B" is a counter attack. Similar to that of Lucario and Marth's, this move needs to be time right otherwise you'll be a sitting duck. Basically, if Ike counters just at the right time, he takes the blow on his sword and swings it back at his opponent, dealing roughly the same damage as the move he blocked. The counter doesn't block Final Smashes. Speaking of which, Ike's final smash is a move powerful version of the Aether. He swings his sword and if it connects with someone, he throws them up into the air and hammers on them over and over with his fiery sword. Eventually, he slams it down with a huge explosion. Of course, if he misses the swing at the start of the move, then you've just wasted a smash ball. In conclusion, Ike is a great fighter to SSBB and a great addition to the series that everybody loves.

Ohh Terfle...

I may have found something that you... may enjoy. Namely: PIKMIN 3! ZOMG!!!! 

The original Pikmin games were released on the gamecube, but were remade for the Wii with better graphics and new play controls. They worked as far as games with new play controls went, but they were still old games remade for a generation which may have missed out on the originals. But now... a completely new installment of the series has been announced by Shegeru Miyamoto himself! Epic!

nooooooooooooooooo!

nooooooooooooooooooo! Why? Why? I just found out that the fifth and supposedly final installment of one of my favourite game series ever, Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracles will be coming out on 3ds not ds, 3ds. Damn. This means that Im going to need to get a 3ds, which will be no small task. At least the fourth one will still be coming out on regular ds, but still. Why did they have to make it on 3ds, I was fine with the way that it was on regular Ds. Sad face.

Terfle

Dilemma!

In every gamer's life there comes a choice. A choice between games. You know you can't have both but you want them oh, so much. My time has come to make that choice. The choice is between two of the best FPS' to hit the Wii ever. Goldeneye 007 Wii and the Metroid Prime Trilogy. Both look fantastic, but there can only be one!

Metroid Other M

I recently played the game metroid other m, a game that and I've heard quite a lot of hate for. I thought that it was great game, and one of the things that annoys me a lot about the haters for this game is that they all said either 1. Samus was too blaby, well apart from the intro and end there is barely any cutscenes of dialog. 2. Samus's voice acting was bad, well this is more of a matter of opinion but I think tha her voice suited her fine, as she was raised by aliens, was trained to be a soldier and is going through post traumatic stress. And 3. you never get to roam, its way too linear. After the credits there is not only an extra bit of the storyline for you to do, but you also get to roam to your hearts content. Anyway I thought that this game was great because it had amazing graphics, an interesting storyline and really fun gameplay.

What I found fun about it was that you had completely no idea what was going to happen next, you could just be walking around, then a giant lava monster jumps out and tries to kill you. You then of course start fighting it and begin to think, "im gonna beat it!". Then reality kicks in and you end up in this position with you falling to your doom and the monster with its jaws wide open. The boss battles arent too short or too easy, which I found nice. A feature of it that I found really useful was the last second dodge. This was really useful, but not that easy to use. You need perfect timing for it to work but if it does you can dodge all sorts of things.

This can be useful for when giant purple lizard fall from the sky. I thought this game was very good, but of course that is my opinion and it isnt the same as everybody elses. So if you do hate this game then I dont really need to know.

Terfle