I've had it since I got my Wii over a year ago, but I never played it until this week. I just grabbed it when I got the system so that I could have an extra game to look into whenever I needed one. Of course it took me a while to get into WHOOPS CONTROLLER DISCONNECTED playing it because there was other stuff for the Wii (and other systems) and I just generally didn't have time for it. But I decided over the Winter that I'd play though it this Summer, since stuff doesn't normally WHOOPS CONTROLLER DISCONNECTED come out during the Summer at a very fast rate and I'd need a lot of time to focus on it and not get drawn to something else halfway through. Yeah, so here we are.

Well color me pleasantly surprised. Yeah, it looks like a GameCube game, alright? I don't really care that much because it still looks better than it probably should have. You could describe the way it looks as "like OOT/MM but darker." Or perhaps just more detailed. You don't get to do as much wandering though, at least in the first few hours of the game. That kinda disappoints me, because wandering around exploring stuff was my favorite part of the N64 games. I guess it probably opens up eventually, but WHOOPS CONTROLLER DISCONNECTED so far it's been sort of like being shuttled down a single, linear path.

Now, the controls are fine and dandy with me. Occasionally I do wish that I was using the GameCube controller to do some stuff WHOOPS CONTROLLER DISCONNECTED, but normally aiming with the remote and swatting things with it are pretty neat. Twisting the nunchuck to perform the spin attack feels needlessly difficult for some reason, I don't like doing that. WHOOPS CONTROLLER DISCONNECTED It's probably the most major complaint I have with the control system. I do hate this "context sensitive" crap too, but that's been aggravating me ever since they took the series 3-D anyway.

So I like this game. Hopefully I'll finish it. I've only finished OOT and MM once each, I usually end up losing interest riiiiiight at the end of these games. Maybe it's because the final dungeons always come off as a bit weak or something.

Hey there, IT'S ME. Okay, so what I didn't like about it basically was: the missions are all kinda dull and repetitive. Now, I'll give Rockstar credit for finally making replaying a mission without a ton of backtracking a possibility, but to be quite honest "drive somewhere, run someone over and/or blow something up" gets surprisingly boring if you aren't doing it on a whim. Which is still incredibly fun, mind you. I still spent much of my time with this game randomly driving in the wrong lane and mowing people down on the sidewalks. I'd just like to be able to do something other than what I normally spend 80% of my game time doing only with a specific set of rules about who I run over/shoot.

Does it get more varied when you open up more places and get to the more... advanced missions? Perhaps I should find out, but I just rediscovered my love of Smash Bros. Also, I've been trying to actually, you know.... do things this Summer (for once), and finding the time to sit down for a proper GTA session has been rather difficult. You know what else I don't like about this game? That you basically have to sit down for at least two hours to make any progress in it, either due to all the distractions or just because some missions take forever to finish if you can't get it right the first time. All fine and dandy if you've got a long weekend or are comfortable in your unemployment, but right now neither of those describe me.

Oh, and I don't like the music on any of the radio stations. For whatever reason.

Where would we be without the RAW Review, right? Right. So here it is. Not much of a show this week, the ending was kind of cool though.

The show starts with King Regal insisting that Lillian Garcia sing "God Save the Queen." He then decides that the audience doesn't respect him, so he decides to start randomly throwing people out. The first of those two people happen to be Mickie James' "brother and his girlfriend," so she storms out to protest. So Regal threatens to take her world Title away. John Cena enters, WOMEN AND CHILDREN UNITE. John wants to read emails from people who hate William Regal. He gets a "fire Regal" chant started. So King Regal puts him in a match with Randy Orton tonight.

Roddy Piper is out to commentate on a tag match between the teams of Santino/Carlito and Baldcore Holly/Cody Rhodes. Of course Piper interferes because he and Santino don't like each other and costs Santino the match.

Ken Kennedy defeats Snitsky.

Mickie James finds Cena backstage and asks him if he wants to go out for drinks with "her brother and his girlfriend." Cena attempts comedy and then says "yes." Oh Mickie, I'm afraid I'll never be able to look at you the same way.....

Beth Phoenix and Melina face Mickie James and Maria in a tag match. Beth up and leaves on Melina, who quickly gets her ass kicked.

Chris Jericho confronts Shawn Michaels in the ring. Skipping past a lot of talk, Michaels superkicks Jericho and is completely alright apparently. But he's still the good guy, because he's Shawn Michaels! Shawn Michaels!

Jeff Hardy is back from doing drugs, getting suspended, and burning down his house and his dog! Welcome back Jeff! William Regal throws him in a match with Umaga just to be a jerk or something, but Jeff quickly wins. See what drugs do for you kids?

Cade and Murdoch defeat Cryme Tyme. Then Murdoch (?) starts singing again. So Cade punches him right square in the mouth and then starts kicking him while he's down. So I guess they're finally through or something.

Beth confronts Melina backstage while she's busy putting ice on her neck last week and tells her that she knows the real reason that Melina hit her with her boot last week was because she knows that she can beat Mickie for the Women's Title more easily than she could beat Beth. Melina disagrees with this assertion, so Beth picks her up and flings her into a wall a few times. Totally awesome.

John Cena faces Randy Orton. To make things short, King Regal comes out with JBL in a referee's uniform. Referee JBL gives a very fast count when Orton pins Cena, so Randy wins. Then he and JBL start beating up Cena until HHH comes out. Cena and JBL fight into the crowd while HHH and Orton fight in the ring. Then the cage hanging above the ring to remind us all about the HHH/Orton cage match at Judgement Day starts coming down on the ring. HHH flings Orton through the apparently poorly-constructed cage wall and then climbs on top of the structure. End program.

This was an okay show, things like psycho Beth and Murdoch being punched in the face were cool, but there was a lot of boring crap mixed in with it. So you really didn't miss that much.

King Regal sure is awesome, yes sir. And we're going to be getting plenty more of him, especially tonight.

So the show begins with Vince McMahon coming out to tell the audience that he got plenty of complaints about William Regal cutting off the RAW broadcast last week. It was "reprehensible" and so forth, but it also made Vince think of Regal as a "visionary," and therefore that Regal reminded him of him. So therefore Regal had his full support, good day to you all.

Regal wants the fans to respect him. Do they respect him? No? Alright then, let's turn the lights off. When he turns the lights back on, Kennedy comes out. Kennedy doesn't respect him either, so Regal throws him in a match against the entire ECW roster. Then HHH comes out and doesn't respect him, so Regal throws him into the match as Kennedy's tag partner.

Mickie James faces Beth Phoenix in a lumberjack match for the Women's title. Victoria accidentally hits Beth in the face with her boot, allowing Mickie to win.

Trevor Murdoch sings to someone backstage. Then Trish Stratus appears from nowhere but doesn't say anything. Finally Ron Simmons walks in to say "DAMN!" which is still funny.

Paul Burchill and Katie Lea face some jobber who's supposed to be from Toronto (where tonight's show took place). But, during the match King Regal has Jim Ross replaced by Mike Adamle, ECW's play-by-play guy (I guess) whose gimmick is supposed to be that he's a terrible announcer. Anyway.... Burchill and Katie win. Then Adamle leaves.

Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels face The Miz (ew) and John Morrison. See, the catch here is that if Michaels really is hurt as Y2J has been claiming, then Chris is pretty much in a handicap match. But if he's not, well then Jericho may well find out tonight. As it happens though, Michaels doesn't get involved until he suprises Morrison with a superkick and then falls over in pain like it might've been a bad idea to use his leg as such. Then Jericho pins Morrison to win the match and watches Michaels limp off.

C.M. Punk and Randy Orton attempt a match (Orton sucks, woo), but Regal runs out and has the lights shut off. This angers Randy.

Roddy Piper confronts Carlito on Carlito's Cabana. They trade insults for a few minutes and then Santino comes out. He insults Roddy a few times, so Cody Rhodes comes out with Cryme Tyme. I just generally lose interest when I see either Cody or Cryme Tyme, so I changed the channel.

JBL takes us for a ride in his limo. We get an eagle-eye view of his crotch. Lovely. He promises to beat up a Canadian on Canadian ground. That means that D.H. Smith is about to job to him of course. JBL says something about how God can't help Smith now. That's mighty impolite. Then he beats him senseless.

Kennedy and HHH face the entire ECW Roster. Surprisingly, Hunter's.... side loses. When Kennedy gets pinned of course. Then the ECW guys all turn on each other. Then Hunter beats them all up with a folding chair. Then the lights go out again. When they come on again Randy Orton appears and gives Hunter an RKO. End program.

Really, that was a pretty good show. King Regal has been absolutely awesome so far. There was some pretty good storyline-type stuff and seeing Trish reminded me of those glorious days when I was sixteen. Wow, that just sent me back. Okay, anyway, I liked this show. So you might too, if you share my opinions. And if you don't, get lost.

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Grand Theft Auto IV came out this week! I'm sure that you needed me here to tell you that. Well, to be quite honest, I wound up not planning for that. Instead I bought Mario Kart Wii this week, primarily because I've been playing my Wii pretty much exclusively since about three months ago because it's easier to set up than my 360, which I consider to be useless without XBOX Live. The difficulty of setting up XBOX Live for me being something I don't believe I've explained before, but it is sort of a hassle to perform every time I want to use the system.

I'm going to get GTA IV soon, you can be sure of that. But right now I don't have much of a problem with waiting. I'm not really gifted with the time to be playing it anyway, going nowhere at school actually requires quite a bit of time apparently. So I figure I'll get it in a few weeks or something. Probably when the semester ends and I'm going through another summer vacation with nothing whatsoever going on. I was planning to play Twilight Princess though, these two things may clash with each other....

Anyway, I'm enjoying Mario Kart a great deal. I can't play it online because I still haven't replaced my Wi-Fi thing, but so far I'm having a fine time with all the offline stuff. The new tracks in this game all go overboard with the obstacles and junk. At first it's incredibly annoying, but eventually you get used to it and it actually becomes a great deal of fun to race through these new tracks. You still have to deal with the same crap that's come along ever since Nintendo decided it was a good idea to give computer characters blue shells though, and that never gets any less aggravating.

The Wii Wheel is really something else though. I really like the, er.... "fluid" feeling you get from controlling stuff with motion-sensing technology instead of regular old controllers. When I use the Wii Wheel at first, it was a massive pain in the ass. And also, it gave me a pain in my right arm the first day. Eventually I got tired of the thing and just went back to using the GameCube controller. But I figured that this game was meant to be played with the wheel, or at least that I'd never find another use for it, so I went back to it. I actually managed to develop a feel for the thing after a day or so, even though I usually find myself out of position with the thing at some point during a race because I'm moving it around instead of rotating it again. Also, occasionally it does just seem to do the complete opposite of what I want it to. But usually it's cool. Also, those arm pains have gone away.