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Friday, 12 June 2009
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Fat Princess: Poor Taste?
Soon to be available for the PS3 is Fat Princess (not to be confused with Fat Actress), in which you and up to 15 your friends team up and try to bring your royal bounty back home. The only catch is that your princess is at your opponent's base, and while you're trying to reach her highness, your opponents are not only trying to kill you, they're bringing food to your princess in order to make her fatter. This makes her heavier, in turn requiring more manpower to carry her back to your base. But don't worry, you're doing the same for your opponent's princess who is captured in your base.
Game design is cartoony-cutesy, with a lot of blood - an unholy amount of blood (to me, reminiscent of N64's Conker's Bad Fur Day). The character you control literally wears a number of hats - five hats in total that represent five classes, each with its own unique abilities that make it harder for the other team to get to their Betty.
The game sounds like it will be a lot of fun to play. It has a simple concept and a great multiplayer capacity. However, I don't know if I quite agree with the premise to the game. I'm sure that not every princess in history was slender and beautiful, but the issue really is about making light about a big problem in our generation: Obesity.
Friday, 05 June 2009
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Gaming Together
My boyfriend is devoting this summer to losing some weight and getting in shape, and has already taken the plunge by joining a gym and cooking better, healthier meals. He by no means is a gamer, and doesn't understand my infatuation with video games at all. However, when I suggested that we spice up his new health kick with Personal Trainer Walking for the DS, he was immediately on board, and didn't mind me shelling out the money for the game (the price tag is $50 - at least I had a $25 gift card to GameStop!).
And so far, we've really been enjoying competing with each other to see who meets their step goal for the day, and seeing who can be the bigger man and go for more steps the next day. And it's not a fierce competition; we go out for walks together and then pull out the DS every now and then to see how our results are panning out. It's actually quite fun, and I love how for once he's more excited for a game than I am...even though this isn't really an active video game. It's a start, though.
Sometimes gaming is better together. Are there certain video games that are surefire wins for couples?
Sunday, 19 April 2009
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The DSi rocks!
So right now I'm blogging using my Nintendo DSi via the DSi Browser, which you can download from the online shop for free.
Can I say how neat this little gadget is? The day I bought it (which was the day it came out, no doubt) I spent a good chunk of battery life toying with the things you can do without even inserting a game cartridge, namely taking photos with the different lenses/effects (colorpad is my personal favorite) and then editing them even further, and also playing with the sound recorder and having fun adjusting playback, sound effects, and all that jazz. Right now I'm "training myself" to speak backwards and see if it comes out coherent with reverse playback. I still haven't mastered being able to say my own name yet - too many syllables. :)
When I get some more free time I'm definitely going to get an SD card so I can put some of my music up ons, and maybe I'll even upload some of my photos up here - I've taken some really good ones so far.
I'm really looking forward to upcoming DSiWare releases for download, because unfortunately right now pickings are slim. The only other title I downloaded besides the browser was WarioWare Snapped, which gets a little old fast, but still really shows off what the DSi camera is capable of. Good times for sure.
Anyone else out there with a DSi? What do you think are the best features? Any games or DSiWare titles you're looking forward to?
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