Turned my Wii on for the second time this year. That’s right, twice, all year. I play my 360 almost every single day, most days more than once. But today the Wii came out and I thought to myself, when was the last time this thing was on? Luckily, it keeps track of when it was played and for how long so I ran through the calender and saw that on January 1st I played Mario Party 8 (for New Years) and some Super Mario Galaxy (because it was a Christmas gift). Well, today it came back out and I re-entered the Galaxy.
Super Mario Galaxy was definitely not my favorite Mario game of all time, in fact I was quite furious most of the time I was playing it. I thought the concept was good, but waggling the controller around is always annoying and the circular worlds made for an inconsistent control scheme that left me guessing which way Mario was going to go in comparison to where I wanted him to go.
These things haven’t changed much at all, but I did 59 stars back in Decemeber/January so I suppose I got it in me to do some more. In fact I did over 20 today alone. I had fun with about the first 18 and the rest were quite upsetting which is why I’m done now for today. I’m not mad enough that I’ll leave it go for another 8 months because I’m so close to the end (120 stars, not just the story ending). But I’ve definitely had enough for now.
The game is really quite good, it just suffers from wii-itis like so many Wii games do. (wii-itis: the disease of having to much waggling of the controller to be fun anymore). For me, the Wii was a fad, even though I didn’t want to believe it when I bought it. The 360 has real games and the PS3 does to, it’s library is just significantly smaller in worthwhile material.
Speaking of which, Braid released today on the arcade. The demo was very interesting, I haven’t brought myself to spend $15 on it yet, but maybe I will just so I can write about it. This is quite the wallet breaking month for XBLA; finally ending the wait for Castle Crashers. But, 1800 points ($22.50), ugh…
