Thursday 7 June 2012

Zelda (The GAME)

Zelda is an old adventure game where you play as a character named Link who travels around Hyrule with Navi, his magical fairy that basically warns him when he's in danger or shows him helpful stuff. A lot of older guys and girls probably grew up playing this if they had an N64, and then there's the people, like me, who still have an N64 and play it. These days you can just go on a recent Nintendo system like a Wii and buy the old games so you can play them on the system without actually having the game. Basically you start off as a little kid in a town that he was placed in for that certain game, for example, Clocktown or Kokiriko Village. You always end up meeting up with a girl named "Zelda" who's always somehow involved with a villain named "Ganondorf" and your goal is to save her in whatever way you can, which involves destroying many challenging bosses with whatever equipment you have. Or in the game "Majora's Mask" your goal is to find and defeat "Skull Kid" , take the mask before the moon falls down and destroys THE WORLD. Link ends up being a HERO at the end of the games, and is a lot stronger than he was at the beginning of the game. After you beat the games you get a nice little song with some credits and you can run around doing whatever you want. Zelda games forged the path for all other adventure games because it's best adventure game still.

Pokemon :D

Pokemon, the things from EVERYONE'S childhoods, that's still in fact holding strong  for well over 12 years. They even attract the attention of teens that grew up with it too, there's no such thing as outgrowing pokemon, especially when at this current time there's a pokemon that literally looks like everything you'd see in daily life, like deer, dogs, cats, mice, and even giant garbage bags and ice cream cones. If you ask anybody that grew up with pokemon in their childhood what fire's weakness is they'll without a doubt say water, rock and ground. There isn't a person on Earth today that hasn't heard of pokemon, played a pokemon game, or watched it on T.V and guaranteed, every person has a favorite pokemon over all the other 450 + pokemon, mine is Arcanine, because nobody messes with Arcanine.

Pokemon has been going strong now for over 12 years, with people that used to like it, and young kids growing up today playing it either with the new games or had the older games given to them by their parents who also used to play it. Honestly I think pokemon will stay strong and still be used for years and years to come, until all the makers die off, or they completely run out of ideas for new pokemon. There was no greater joy than waking up every morning and seeing Ash and Pikachu on the T.V screen, or when playing the old games on your old Gameboy and seeing your favorite pokemon evolve into something a lot bigger, stronger, and more importantly... cool looking! But with all the greatness of pokemon, there was still some downfalls, like how some looked REALLY terribly stupid, or when you were at a gym and couln't beat it at all and had many frustrating and embarrassing defeats. Sending out your favorite pokemon was one of the greatest feelings in the game but seeing it get crushed after a single hit usually led to the Gameboy being thrown across the room.

So there it is, my take on pokemon, the single greatest show and game series ever, none will ever beat it and that's guaranteed. Many great memories were made with those games, now let me bring some of them back with this.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYeHPFR3f0  ;)

Tuesday 5 June 2012

Being Bored

Being bored is a curse that plagues every living person without fail at least once or twice a day. No matter what the weather is, you will still get really bored because boringness doesn't care about the weather, it just wants you to have nothing to do. As many times as your parents say "get off your lazy butt and do something!" you'll come back with the always original "THERE'S NOTHING TO DO!" and then go about your day, sitting there while your brain melts watching random youtube video's... We've all been there. Then there's the "bored eaters" that just pig out because there's nothing else to do, and after Summer's over and you have that glorious double keg that's barely held in by your extra stretchy XL size torn muscle shirt that obviously attracts all the ladies; your parents tell you to get in shape and you reply with "i will later, when it cools down", when in reality it would take more than 2 million dollars to move you off that couch. The worst part is knowing there's nothing you can do about it and you have to sit there forever while your brain and energy and will to live slowly melt away.