The Damned

Because the B button is a trigger. You use a trigger to make things happen, not unhappen. Unless you want to unhappen a person, then it's all fine and good.

Sort of like Google Earth, but with real-time clouds? Dude, that's awesome.

The official pokemon page, www.pokemon.com, has a new section announcing Diamond and Pearl. Until yesterday, it also had a date of April 22nd, 2007 as the release date. However, the page has been edited to remove the date for some reason. Various sites like serebii.net and bulbapedia.net made note of this date before the omission, so it can be verified. Only a week before my birthday. Nice. Too bad I'll have to hold off getting the game, since I have a course I need to pass in May. You know how it is; you get a new game, you play it all the time, you forget to study...

Jesus Christ! It's in Japanese! Clearly the storyline and dialogue are the best aspects in this game, we can't possibly appreciate the visuals or music now! Shit! And I did go there JoeFu. Actually, I meant that without being able to accurately follow the layout of the page, it would be difficult to find everything on that page. I'm not one to haphazardly stumble around a flash driven site in a language I have no comprehension of. Therefore, finding the artwork and music you speak of would be, at best, a random chance.

Yeah... too bad it's in MOON LANGUAGE.

Fanboy? Hardly. I call shit on all three sides when I see it. But since one company does it a lot more than the other, you call it being biased. Fuck you.

That was me. I loved the GBA, so it was a little sad to hear that sort of thing. Maybe the next portable? Nintendo has proven with the entire Gameboy and GBA and DS lines that having superior hardware doesn't mean anything. Sega, Sony, the Wonderswan, the Lynx... all of them were better in terms of technology, but they all failed against whatever Nintendo put out at the time. Of course, I would like to get a little more use out of my DS before the next one comes out. I only got the thing in July 2005.

They pretty much have. An article from a few weeks ago stated that Nintendo sees one more "season" for the GBA. Now, if they meant the holiday season (Christmas) that's doable. There are still games coming out for it, and the existing library is pretty solid. But let's face it, the GBA has pretty much been replaced by the DS. The only reason why the DS isn't called the "Gameboy DS" is because the uncertainty Nintendo had when they announced the DS. If the DS failed, then the Gameboy name would still be untarnished. But the DS was an amazing success, and they have no reason to rename it to include the Gameboy name. I suspect that in the future, maybe after the successor to the DS, they will bring the Gameboy name back once more. Maybe the Gameboy Ultra?

Oh joyous joys! Someone is saying that Nintendo is going to make yet another DS model! Who? Why, the French of course! Every time I see a rumor of something from this site, I never hear of it happening afterwards. I swear, they only exist by being one of the few game sites in France, and by occasionally spitting out stuff they make up. Why do they bother? But for the sake of argument, Nintendo does like to make newer versions of the same hardware, as anyone familiar with the Gameboy line can attest. Does this mean another, newer DS? I can't see why. The Lite is doing very well all around, and it's not even a year old yet. And some of the comments coming out of sites like Kotaku and Joystiq... "why are they doing this? Nintendo is just greedy!" and the like... No one is making anyone buy the new version, and nothing is making the previous versions obsolete. The DS didn't magically stop working once the Lite was released. Meanwhile, Apple releases ten new iPod models in a year, and no one complains about that. Man, gamers like to make themselves look bad...

Gahwhat? Praise of the Wii from... Evilhead? I'm scared. Someone hold me.

Yeah, so a few days at it, and here's what I got: If you like Kirby, you'll like Squeak Squad. It straight forward Kirby side scrolling stuff, with a few new powers (favorite so far is Magician, where you shoot doves and playing cards out of your hat). There really isn't anything that could be considered groundbreaking or completely new. Item management is sort of limited (in terms of use and actual numbers; you can only have five items at once). If you take two powers and combine them, you don't get a new, hybrid power. Instead, you get a randomly selected power. So if you think mixing that Fire power and the Sword power is going to get you some sort of firey Sword of Gabriel deal, think again. You'll end up with the Umbrella or Wheel power. But you can combine food and Bottles to make better food and items. For instance, if you take a berry and a bottle, you get a piece of meat. If you combine that with another berry or bottle, you get one of those "M" tomatoes. Combine three tiny Kirby icons, and you get a 1-Up. But that's the extent of it. There are lots of items to collect, which is why the limit of five items is so annoying. There are treasure chests that contain things like scrolls (they add extra abilities to your powers and are permanent), as well as pieces of a picture, medals, and lots of stuff that you get to look at in your collection. All of it is outside of the normal game, so it's completely extra. There are also large chests that the Squeak Squad are after, and you have to fight one of them for it every time you see one. These hold more important items. Again, you have to use up a slot in your "stomach" screen to keep these, so toss that power-up or item if you want to keep that treasure. I think if they let you have more slots for items, it would have been better. But as it stands, it's a decent Kirby game. Kirby fans should be happy, as it gives you more of the same while adding some new stuff here and there.

According to various sites (and their diagrams) the Gamecube controller works with all VC games. Maybe you can use one until such time a classic controller become available.

My friend Matt bought me Kirby's Squeakers for a christmas present. I'll have to try it out later tomorrow, but I plan to give a mini-review on it once I can put some time into it.

Joystiq and Kotaku seem to be the most up-to-date sites, I find. If anyone knows a site that gets news faster than them, I'd like to hear about them.

Insert "happy Kirby artwork" motivational poster with "JAPAN. Superior" here.

Kids these days... no patience. Just wait a few more months. By then, someone should have figured out a good way to extract the music, or there will be an official soundtrack release or something.

Uhm... you know what? Never mind. I'm a silly Zangoose.

Well, it even looks like the European launch might be pushed from March to September. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=151602?cid=otc-rss&attr=cvg-general-rss&skip=yes Oh wow... why do the console companies hate Europe so much?

Anyone want to tell GAG that the boards are down again? I'll see you all in the back-up board, I suppose.

Yeah, and in five years, you'll feel the same about TP. Nostalgia works like that. Thanks. I was so pre-occupied with the ropes there that I didn't even notice the ledge or track there.

No compression.

A minor puzzle. There's this chest at Castle Town's south gate, where you eventually meet the bug girl, that is out of reach. I've tried the various items, and even found that you can climb up other areas nearby, but I still can't get to it. I can see a lower section of ground behind it through the rail, but I can't see enough of it to determine what I can do there. Help? I'm just trying to tie up the loose ends before I complete the game.

Maybe there are lots of people buying it? Nah.

Gamecube, Wii... either way, you're getting one hell of a game.