I've played a lot of stuff in the last few weeks.

First of all, there's Animal Crossing. I got the best house and shop a while ago, and after that you don't really make progress. I'm having trouble making the house look how I like.

The game's alright, it's kinda like Harvest Moon crossed with the more mundane aspects of Shenmue. Considering those are two of my favorite games, I should probably like Animal Crossing more, but it just gets kinda boring. I understand you're not supposed to play it a lot everyday, but there should still be some more fun things to do, and I think you should be able to interact with the townspeople a little more. Why can't you hold parties or play games with them aside from special occasions?

The NES games are a nice touch, though, and the game saves your high scores. Plus I got to play Wario's Woods for the first time, and it's pretty fun. Still, I would've liked Animal Crossing to be a little better as it's own game.

I rented Kingdom Hearts about a week after I got Animal Crossing. I got to the Aladdin part, but the game just wasn't good. The combat is just the Attack button pressed over and over (A common complaint with the PSX FF's. Playing Kingdom Hearts makes me wonder if I'd like them if I replayed them now.), the level designs are just blah, and it has what is literally the worst camera I have ever seen in the game. I pretty much had my thumb on the camera stick the whole time I was playing, so I guess I was wrong about just pressing Attack, because I was constantly fumbling with the camera too. The presentation was good, nice graphics and suprisingly good voice acting, and they captured the Disney feel pretty well (Even though Final Fantasy characters are present, the focus is clearly on Disney.), but overall it wasn't even worth a rental.

It'll probably won't be worth the next rental, either. As much as I dislike the game, I NEED to see the Nightmare Before Christmas level.

I also bought Castlevania: HoD and Yoshi's Island for GBA over the weekend. I thought I wouldn't be able to afford games after I bought Animal Crossing, but that's not a problem anymore.

Yeah, Castlevania: HoD is a for the most part a SOTN rehash, but hey, SOTN is tied as my favorite game of all time, so I had some fun with it. But, there's one big, totally bogus problem: The normal mode is EASY. Normally I don't mind if a game is easy as long as it's fun, but I'm talking Yoshi Story level challenge, here. Luckily, there's a Hard mode after you've beaten the game, which isn't really that hard, but it's an improvement.

As for Yoshi's Island, it's the only game I've played recently that I don't have any complaints about. It was once my favorite Mario game and I can see why. The GBA port seems pretty seamless too. It's nice to not have played it for so long, because it's almost like a new game to me. All I really remembered was the snow levels, for some reason. It should last a while, too, because I only have 100% on like two levels right now.

It's Bobby Budnick! What's up?

Me and Donkey Lips are going to the 8-Bit Toaster to play the ultimate prank on the girls!
Last updated 9/29/02