Yes, I'm finally writing something again. Over the past few weeks I've either been too busy to blog or to bored to find anything to blog about. Nothing all that exciting has been happening so I decided to rent a game for the Wii this weekend. I had hoped to rent Excite Truck, and I'd been looking forward to playing it all week. Turns out so had a lot of other people, I can't seem to find a copy to rent at any place. Well, EB Games might, but they don't answer their phones. Like, ever. I ended up deciding to rent Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam over Elebits and I think I may have made the wrong choice. It's not that bad, but looking at the numerous games in the series this isn't one that stands out. Well, not for good qualities, anyways. Maybe it's not getting Excite Truck or that Tony Hawk accepted for Project 8 at those damn Spike TV awards, but I'm not too happy with this game right now. Consider that if you plan on reading the following review.

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While my Wii experience was not nearly as exciting as zhx's, I do have enough blog-worthy content. It was too cold for me to even consider staying over night at any store, Alberta winters are freezing. My EB Games pre-order plan had failed early on, it was too hard to get there on a school day, and Microplay managed to pre-order off the six consoles they got without me even hearing about it. That left my very local Wal-Mart, the not-so-near Best Buy and the even further Future Shop. My chances looked slim at either of the latter, and I'm glad I didn't decide to even bother with either of them. I heard from a couple of people that Best Buy had about a hundred consoles and three times as many customers. That wasn't nearly as big as in some places, but I'm still glad I didn't bother.Wal-Mart got a shocking sixty-nine consoles, that's quite a large number for the size of city I live in. With EB and Microplay getting less than twenty between them, Zellers apparently getting none, Wal-Mart received almost the entire shipment to my area. I was aiming to be at Wal-Mart by 6:00 and ended up in line by 5:45. Only a few minutes made a huge difference at this launch, the head guy was handing out tickets and apparently went through about twenty tickets from 5:30 to when I got there. A lady and her daughter told us that they had ticket number sixty-five and thought it was the last Wii available, but said that earlier they thought it was sixty-three so they may "find" more. Almost immediately after we were told, the organizer stepped out with tickets sixty-six and sixty-seven, and told us those were the last ones. Relieved, I stood shivering and prepared for the hours wait until Wal-Mart opened at 7:00. Over the hour a good number of people came and left thinking that sixty-seven, and, later, sixty-nine were the last tickets, but the smart ones stuck around and eventually the slots were filled by some eager friends (or brothers, I couldn't tell) who were quite a bit older than me and a father. The friends were pretty cool guys, we talked about some stuff and they asked me a lot about the Wii as they didn't seem to know some of the more specific details like the removal of the DVD player or the SD card slot. After the hour was finally up, they let all sixty-nine of us with tickets (plus about another forty without) inside, at which time we piled in against the electronics "department" while two ladies called up the next ten numbers to the single cash desk. Needless to say, this took a long time, but an announcement came on saying all ticket holders were guaranteed a Wii and there would be another shipment of 'em in about three days. At this point, almost all of the non-ticket holders left, three days isn't that long to have to wait. The rest of us warmed up and watched in dismay as copy after copy of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was scooped up. Not only that, but there seemed to be no limit on the number of Wiimotes and Nunchuks that could be bought, so many people were buying three of each, some even bought the Virtual Console controller as well. I guess it was fair that they could buy what they wanted since they were there long before me, so I didn't really mind. I quickly forgot about that as I was informed that there was a copy of Twilight Princess per console, all of us would be getting one! This was looking great until number sixty bought what appeared to be the last copy of Twilight Princess. The last of us were pretty disappointed and one lady who I had talked to earlier in the morning asked them to look through all their boxes and, lo and behold, found around twelve more copies of the game! The Nunchuks were gone which left me no reason to buy Red Steel, I really wanted to try multiplayer. It may have been for the best, anyways, with all the bad review it is getting. I decided not to get anything besides the copy of Twilight Princess and the console itself and left very, very happy.

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First off, happy Halloween, because there is nothing more happy than a holiday that was believed to be one of the few days of the year the spirit world could contact ours but is now just an event for rotting kids teeth, giving people a reason for wearing less clothes than is normally socially acceptable and allow cosplayers to blend in with the rest of society. Yep, gotta love Halloween. At school I was surprised to see the number of students wearing costumes. We normally get a couple of cosplayers wearing something from day to day (Yes, I'm serious.) but I didn't expect the holiday to be this popular in High School. Barney won single costume. Some guys with awesome Ghost Busters costumes won group costume. Then there was a milk-chugging contest and people threw up all over the stage. Pretty disappointing blog for my sixth month blogging anniversary. I was planning ...

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