Well I've been having fun with the Nintendo DS that I bought last weekend. Somehow I've already managed to amass six games for it. I've played four of them. I've committed to three of them, grown a fondness for one of them and I've become addicted to another one of them.
I went to The Pawn Store on Greencastle's town square on thursday and I bought "The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass" simply because of the fact that it was $15.00.
"But Eldon," I hear you say, "I thought you'd buy it simply because of the fact that it was a Zelda game."
The answer is in fact, close.
But you're way off.
I'm truly in love with the whole Zelda franchise. The first title debuted on the 8-bit NES was the first game I'd ever beaten as a child. I was around five or six I think. The second game I'd ever beaten was Pokemon Red. But that is neither here nor there.
I opted not to buy The Phantom Hourglass at first because a used copy had the same $30.00 price tag as any other brand new DS title in any game store. But when I went to The Pawn Store and saw it for half of what all game stores were asking I couldn't pass it up.
Likewise I could not pass up the same offer when I saw that they had a used copy of Pokemon: Pearl for $12.99.
So instead of getting home and tearing into Phantom Hourglass I tried Pokemon.. . .
That game card hasn't left the DS since I started playing it on Friday. Its a great game in the sense that all Pokemon games are. Well I haven't played the mystery dungeon spinoffs or the other games like that. I don't even know what they were about. Likewise I havne't played that one Pokemon game for the Gamecube.
But all the other games, you know, you're a kid, starting in this little town and some dude throws a Pokemon at you, and says, "Hit the road." For me it was always the water starter, simply for the fact that whoever is your rival in the game always picks whichever one your pokemon is weakest too. Which is why I never get to pick fire, or grass type. But if you pick the water type, he'll pick the grass type, And there really isn't a weakness there so much as a stalemate.
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Wait a minute! Why the hell am I giving some sort of indepth pokemon strategy talk on my blog. . . .
Moving on. I really enjoy this game so far, hopefully when I finish it I'll move on to The Phantom Hourglass. But aside from Pokemon: Pearl, I have Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, and Contact that all use the Nintendo WFC.
So if there is anyone out there who has those games and feels like showing me how big of a noob I am, I'll give you that friend code thing as soon as I can figure out how to make my DS play nice with my fucking wireless router.
In other news a friend of mine recently got me into Magic: The Gathering. We went to a game shop in Carmel and he bought me a Lorwyn Elemental Path Theme Deck, and a Shadowmore Tournament Deck.
So if anyone wants to school me at a game of MTG you know where I am.
And in case anyone cares, I fucking want this game.
