Sunday Night

I'm trying to force myself to write daily, and since I missed yesterday it's important that I at least post once this weekend. Overall it was a pretty good weekend, Joe and Erik came down and we played a lot of video games from the days of yore, like E.V.O. - The Search for Eden. Which so happens to be a great SNES game that I'm ashamed of never playing as a kid. Although I missed it when I was young, I still got that feeling of playing a game for the first time on the SNES like I did after coming home from Blockbuster in the mid nineties. You basically start out as some sort of "low on the food chain" fish that isn't very threatening, eating the easy monsters you find which give you "Evo P's" (Evolution Points / XP). Once you've accumulated enough Evo P's you can spend it on upgrades on yourself. So your little fish can eventually get stronger jaws, speed efficient tail, various horns, bigger/smaller body, better body armor, etc. Basically every time you play you create a new "monster" as you travel through the levels (of Evolution), Fish, Amphibian, Dinosaur, Primate/Animal, Human Being. Each level follows the same basic formula of evolving the weak features of your "new body", until you are strong enough to beat the boss (which happens to be the top-dog of the current era's food chain). If you were not here this weekend, I encourage you to go download the emulator, or even pick it up from a pawn shop if you happen to come across it. It's an excellent game, I just hope someone else thinks so and remakes it on XBLA/PSN.

It's been a pretty lax Sunday, not a whole lot going on tonight. I tried playing Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater tonight, but failed miserably. Which is really frustrating, because I really want to play it, I'm just really bad at it. Part of the problem is the game itself, it has frustrating controls, and a frustrating camera (which was changed in the re-release Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence). Although most of the problem was me, if you can't keep your cool during a bad situation (like me) you'll probably just get killed. Also I've never really played the other Metal Gears much, and I'm not terribly familiar with the tactics that are necessary to survive in the game longer than a few minutes... I think I'll try it again because I'm really interested in the game, the espionage stuff, sneaking around, etc very cool stuff (I'm just bad at the game). Oh well practice makes perfect, I've just never been so bad at a game before. It was pretty pathetic.

Anyways, Adam is looking over my shoulder so I've got to get back to my Full Metal Alchemist, an awesome show that needs my attention. Shit, Adam just took over the TV "because I'm blogging not watching", so I guess I'll watch him play Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. What a DICK.