Ammunition > Heroics

Firstly, this is my fortieth post. Woohoo!


Moving on; why haven't I posted in a while? Well, bottom line is, I'm lazy.
A big reason should be that I'm working on my writing thing for TFC, I guess. But I haven't been completely busy with that; I probably should be working on it more, but now that I think about it it really isn't a whole lot of work.

Anyway, huge reason for the last couple days: Smash Bros.
Obviously.

Yeah, I know, I said last couple days; we only got it yesterday. I didn't really want to go to all the hassle of buying it on launch day, and having to wait in lines at midnight or something, so I suggested we get it on the eleventh, since that was the release date for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (for DS), and I could get that too.
Unfortunately, it didn't work that way.


So we go to Target to buy SSBB, and hopefully FFCC:RoF too. We discover that the store does not have a large selection of games, and actually has several of the same game on different racks, to sort of make it look like they have more or something. I dunno. They had pretty much no new DS games, and even some of the instant classics (Tetris? NSMB?) that every store should still carry weren't there. So obviously they had no Ring of Fates. They did, however, have three rows of Smash Bros. Seth, Molly, John, Nate, and I all pitched in money to get the game (so naturally it hardly cost anyone anything). I asked about RoF, and the lady there claimed they already had it (most stores do get games early, especially big ones) but weren't allowed to sell it until next week. What?! Who lied to them? Cruel. Maybe they just misunderstood. I don't know. I then went into Wal-Mart (which was right by Target; this often happens and I have to wonder whether they have a lot of competition going on) to check if they didn't have it either. A much more ignorant (or "uninformed," if that sounds too insulting to you) employee said something along the lines of: "... What game now? ... If it's not on the shelf... we don't have it. Yeah, we don't have it; it's not there."
That was not helpful, did not answer my question, and was also an untrue generalization (specifically, the "if-it's-not-on-the-shelf-we-don't-have-it" part).
Hopefully I'll be able to pick up the game sometime this week.

Anyway, that was pretty disappointing, since at that point I was looking forward to that game even more than I was to Brawl. Pretty much the only reason for this was that I don't have to wait my turn to play the game... =D

So moving on. I'm sure one question is plaguing your mind: "Is the game really that cool?"
NO DUH!
I was surprised in that it plays just like its predecessor, Melee (you can even play with Gamecube controllers, which is the only thing I've tried so far). This is really a good thing, since it didn't require getting used to many new things.
That said, if you want to massively simplify the entire thing into one sentence: It's SSBM with tons of extra stuff.
Again, though, this is not a bad thing. It is a very, very good thing. Because when I say tons, I mean TONS. We don't have many characters, stages, or music "CDs", but we do have a decent (though smallish) chunk unlocked, and have been enjoying it a lot.
As for what we actually have, well.... We've unlocked maybe five to ten CDs (which give you new background music, all of which is spectacular), out of a hundred or so, I believe. We've unlocked only one stage that I can think of, Luigi's Mansion. So there are quite a few more to do; I'm not sure of the exact number. The characters we've unlocked so far are Ness, Marth, Luigi, Falco Lombardi, Captain Falcon, Lucario, and Ganondorf. That leaves seven more (Solid Snake, ROB, Mr. Game and Watch, Sonic, Jigglypuff, Toon Link, and Wolf O'Donnell), so we're halfway there. Some of the characters are pretty hard to unlock, though.
I want to play online, but don't have any friends to play with yet, so those of you with the game, be sure to comment with your friend codes (which, remember, are separate from your actual Wii number)

Anyhow, enough with that subject. Cool news.
Are you ready for this?

I found an MMO...

That I like...

A lot.


Whoah?
The reason I like it is because it's so different. It's called Mabinogi: Fantasy Life (link), and it's made by Nexon (which also has made other games, like Maple Story for example).
It's quite different, and, like PlaneShift (a game I've mentioned a few times before), does not pressure you into being the best or strongest player. You don't even have to focus on combat if you don't want to; you can basically do whatever you want.
There are a lot of neat features in it, like a system that allows you to compose your own music and play it on instruments (The only ones I've encountered are the lute, ukulele, and mandolin, but I know there are many more). Another interesting thing is that you actually have to take care of your character. If you fall in battle, you don't actually die, but your character can die (permanently) of old age. If you eat a lot, you become fat, and if you don't eat enough, you become thin. I'm not sure yet, but I think poor health can shorten your lifespan. Of course, there are actually some advantages to being weighty, like the fact that you won't get knocked back as far when you take damage. One would think there are many disadvantages, but I'm not sure what they are yet (my character is pretty fit right now).
I've been playing since last Thursday (so almost a week), and I'm doing quite well. I've already earned a nifty title for my character (Makli "the bear slayer with bare hands"), and have some nice equipment and good skills too.

I'll probably say more about it later, but for now I'm going to cut this short to play some Brawl. XD

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