Get Fit!

First of all: Wii Fit. That's what the biggest part of my gaming has gone to since I've been back. Wii Fit is pretty cool, and it gives you a pretty decent workout if you commit to it, especially when you start unlocking more reps per exercise (20 REPS for Push-ups and Side Planks??? Are you kidding me!?). I enjoy working out, but it's hard for me to find the motivation, so this is perfect. I've actually got somewhat of a program going and I enjoy it. The only problem is next week...I start working. My shift starts at 6am, and I don't know if I'll be able to keep it up if it isn't in the morning before I start doing anything...oh well, I'm sure I'll get a workout at work, since it'll involve a lot of moving stuff in a warehouse...anyway, we'll see. My Mom's planning on getting Wii Fit Plus so I'll at least be trying that out for sure.

Besides that...not a lot...I played Pikmin 2 a little because once on my mission we poisoned a beehive and they ended up all over the floor, then a bunch of giant ants came in and took all the bodies away, so ever since I've wanted to play it. I got to the third level I think within a couple days...didn't continue though.

Oh, I have actually played Wii Sports Resort quite a bit! That Wii MotionPlus thing is awesome! Especially (of course) for sword fighting!!! I can't wait to see what companies do with it in adventure/rpg/etc. games! This could make for some amazing games...anyways, Wii Sports Resort does a great job showing off what the MotionPlus can do, and does it in a really fun way. Plus there are things is earn everywhere, so it has that appeal to the RPG gamers inside of me. :)

On the DS...well, in prep for the third Golden Sun, I thought it would be a good idea to play through the first two, since I don't remember much from the first and next to nothing from the second, and Dark Dawn (the next Golden Sun) is one of the few games I'm expecting to get. But...I didn't get too far before other stuff got in the way....I do still plan on doing it though, and this time getting *all* the Djinn so I can get those special summons in the second one...who knows when though. Maybe on the way to work or something if I ride the bus.

Speaking of games to get - I'm also hoping to get Super Mario Galaxy 2! Those two are pretty much my only plans so far. I keep hearing amazing things about Galaxy 2, and if it's actually better than the first the way people are saying, it must be incredible because the first one was one of my favorite games. So I'm looking forward to that. :)

Umm........that's all I can think of for now! :D I might be playing Brawl soon since my brother finally got it back from his friend...so maybe there will be updates there. Ingat!

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The New Me

Well, two years of being on a mission does a lot for you.

It helps you understand the gospel better, it helps you be better at talking to people, you learn a new language if you go on a mission like mine, you get to feel the joy of helping others in the best way possible, and it gives you a much better perspective on life...

And that perspective is what this post is about.

Gamers tend to be put into two categories..."hardcore gamers" or "casual gamers". Before my mission I was definitely a hardcore gamer. No doubt about it. And I was proud to be so called.

But now...if you had to put me into one of the two, I would probably still fit in "hardcore gamer" more than "casual gamer", but the distinction isn't so clear anymore. I will still play video games, but in a more casual way. I get that games really aren't that important, and am going to strive to not put too much time and effort into them. But don't worry, faithful readers of my blog (not that reader should be pluralized.....actually, a "faithful reader" to this blog likely doesn't exist......:P....anyway....)! I'm still going to be gaming and updating this! At least until school starts in January. Then I have a goal to not game...but during breaks I will and I'll do my best to update here when I do.

But this post will just be a thinking post...I should be posting what gaming I've done since getting home sometime next week.

I'M BACK!

HEY! I'm back! From the Philippines!!! :D But I won't post much about that here, except maybe to comment on the gaming situation in the Philippines. :P See my other/main blog to learn more, I'll eventually be writing stories from my mission. :) In the meantime...I need to update this blog. On to the next post!

A long, long time ago...

...I made my last post. So obviously I have a lot of catching up to do...I might even have to break the promise I made in my first post...hopefully not tho, we'll see.

Let's see...OK, first of all, I got all 120 stars on Galaxy and unlocked Luigi! I didn't realize that I would have to do the *whole game* with him tho...so even tho that's awesome, I just don't have time to do it again right now, so it's on hold for a little while. I do have 10 stars with him tho.

I beat the Bosses on Brawl on Very Hard!! Now there's just Intense....*shudder* I also got 500 trophies and some other things, so I only have 7 challenges to go! Let's see if I remember them...get all stickers, play 100 hours of Brawls, beat Bosses on Intense, beat Bosses with 20 people, beat Bosses with everyone, endure a 15-min Brawl (ugh), beat 100-man Brawl with everyone. Woot! But ugh...hard stuf...

Hmm...I bought a bunch of cards on Yu-Gi-Oh!, so now I have 90.?% of the cards.

Oh, about that last post...I beat Lego Star Wars II and got a ton of the golden bricks...at least 80% collected, probably closer to 90%. I don't have it anymore tho, nor do I have a lappy to play it on (tho it might work on this comp. Oh well, don't care enough to find out). Anyway, it's going off the sidebar, along with Psychonauts, which I almost definitely will never play again (once again, lappy gone). Also, about King's Quest...I don't think I ever even got my lappy to recognize that I disc was in there. Which was horrible, since I was really looking forward to them...

Ah, GHIII! I am...about 75% done with Hard Career, but...I am stuck...really badly...I do think I'll be able to pass Before I Forget with enough practice, but a couple of the others.....blugh, scary.

Oh, and though I won't be playing Star Trek Pinball any time soon, I'm going to keep the score up there just so that if I ever have a chance to, I'll remember my score.

Alrighty, new stuff...well, the biggest one is FINAL FANTASY VI!!! I love this game...I'm nearing what appears to be either the end or very close to the end of the game...I'm about to fight Kefka (main enemy, I believe) in this big tower, but I keep dying before finding a save spot and having to start over...the first few times it was *extremely* frustrating because I hadn't saved all the equips and relics and espers and everything that I had to do to prepare to enter the tower, so I went through those preparations at least 4 or 5 times...finally I got smart enough to back track a little and *save* after I'd done all that prep...so hopefully I'll be done with that soon, because my friend said he would let me borrow Kingdom Hearts whenever I wanted, and I wanted to beat FFVI first.

I believe there may be others I wanted to add, but that's all I can think of for now, and all I want to think of for now for that matter. Until next time!

Two Quests (Or Eight)

Quest 1: Lego Star Wars II

I loved the first one (Played it on GCN), but when my brother rented this I didn't really care about it...I guess I just played it out with the first and that was good enough for a while...anyway, I got this from the library and am playing it. I've completed all the story of Eps. IV, and either 3 or 4 chapters in the other two. I also got the first one from the library, but I'm going to wait to play that until I beat the second. As far as the actual percentage...I think it's 34 or 36 or so. I've bought quite a few of the characters, mostly the "named" people, plus all the ships. I've only found...four, I believe, red bricks. I haven't done any free plays yet (tho I was doing one but it froze on me), and I haven't gotten more than 6 pieces of any minikit.

Quest(s) 2(-8): King's Quest Collection

For Christmas two years ago, I got a game called King's Quest V. I was worried I would have to have played the others first, but luckily I was fine. It was a great game, but unfortunately it only came with the CD (and the case), but there was a part that asked you to translate something using the instruction booklet. Also, there were two parts where the game would freeze or glitch out. I was able to track which file was messed up, but there wasn't anything I could do about it. So I never finished it. I looked up everything about it, and found out that these games are very popular, and chances of getting any of them at a worthwhile price are next to impossible. So I resigned that I just wouldn't be able to play them...but then I was scanning the Library's games the other day, and saw "King's Quest Collection"! I was happily surprised and quickly put it on hold, and I just barely got it. I haven't played it yet, but I already know at least one of the will be good (there are 7).

Interesting...I just looked in the manual, and it uses DOSBox...I guess these will be exactly in their old format and everything, not even made to work with 2000/XP. Wow.

Also, Rock Band rocks. Not that that's news or anything. Awesome game.

Galaxia

[I intended to post this yesterday...which means that when I say "I was going to post this yesterday" I actually mean the day before yesterday.....ehe....]

Hmm...I was going to post this yesterday[5/19], but my lappy decided to go to sleep before I could finish it...anyway, last night I played Galaxy for a while, and I now know for sure I have 90 stars (I think it was....79 before). I rediscovered how awesome this game is, especially some of the later levels. It's pretty easy to beat off the story mode, but once you start past that it does a really good job of balancing the difficulty, meaning even when it's hard, it's fun. If you have a Wii, you should definitely check it out!

And that's what I was going to write yesterday[5/20]. Today I'm writing about yesterday. I played it some more, and I now have 97 stars and have unlocked all of the galaxies. Only 23 more!

Also, I played Brawl some too, and I made a point to count how many challenges I have left. I've got 12 to go. Also, after playing today, the only Final Smash Trophies I don't have are Diddy's, King Dedede's, Bowser's, and Falco's.

Some sad news as well. The Pinball machine is broken. :( It's not an electronic problem or anything, it just can't sense that all the balls are in there, so it won't start...oh well, at least it means that other guy can't practice either....I should find a machine somewhere to practice on....:P Only problem is the "not free" part...heh, ah well...

TAKE THAT!!!

I finally beat it! Minesweeper on expert! The curse has been lifted!!! :D

My current times:
Beginner - 13s
Intermediate - 91s
Expert - 398s

I've started up Metroid Prime again. I beat the first boss and got the Varia Suit. Not sure on the percentage right now, but I've scanned everything so far as far as I know.

I also completed one more challenge on Brawl. Still didn't get the actual number left tho...

There were a bunch of new demos last time I got on the Nintendo Channel, but they expired yesterday and I didn't get to play any of them (I downloaded one, but on my brother's DS and he took it back before I could). I need to see if there's anything good this time...

I also played an RTS on GameTap, but I'm not in the mood for RTSs right now...I may come back some other time, but while it's awesome, it's not the "SUPERAMAZING" type of game that an RTS has to be to get my attention...ah well. Also am playing Mr. Robot on GameTap, but don't know my progress and I'm not actively playing it.

EDIT: My Beginner and Intermediate times are now 9 and 81 seconds, respectively.