The Ramblings of Guise Dugal

Because I love the concept so much, I’m going to steal an opening in the style of Dio’s Random Lunacy blog. Those who have known me a while will be familiar with most of the names and personalities of these ‘aspects’ of mine. Those who don’t, too bad.

Guise Dugal: Hey, welcome ! Today, we’re coming to you from…
Dugal Dugal: Dammit! >.<
Guise: Hey, you mind…I’m in the middle of something here!
Dugal: Don’t really care. What I want to know is why the hell there’s a guy sat on the middle of the floor flailing about madly, who he is and why do I end up being the one who gets tripped up?!
Guise: Hm, which guy?
Dugal: Him! The one in white, swinging his arms around like a conspiracy-mad, schizophrenic, epileptic hobo on ecstasy. The…guy…right…there!
Guise: Ah, so…you met Wii-kun, huh?
Dugal: Who?!
Guise: Eh. He turned up at the start of the month, just sat in front of the tv staring longingly, even when it was turned off. Never moved, never said a word.
Dugal: Well, he’s moving now! He almost smacked me in the nuts! That isn’t cool, I was planning on using them some day!
Guise: Yeah, but that’s just because he’s playing with the Wii.
Dugal: Ok, but that’s no excuse to swing around like a electrocuted orangu…Wait?! Since when do we have a Wii?!
Guise: Um, last weekend? ^^;;
Dugal: Sunnova…why’d no-one tell me? I’d so own all your asses, pound you to blancmange! Strawberry blancmange, with real pieces of strawberry, which would in fact mean I’d have to get strawberries from the store before pounding commenced, and I’d have already got them if I’d been told…but no! I’d take your bodies and arrange them in poses, worshipping me like the god I am. You’d all wear dresses too, symbolic of…of being made to wear dresses! I’d win, I’d be victorious. The crowd would cheer my name!
Guise: Yeeeeah, I have no idea why no-one mentioned it. But, this guy, he kind of came with the deal.
Dugal: He some kind of freak?
Guise: No…well, maybe. He’s more an anthromorphic representation of the Wii, remember Dio’s Wii-tan?
Dugal, Guise: mmm ^///^
Dugal: So, why does he have a knobby tail?
Guise: It’s the nunchuk…
Dugal: It looks like a pin-cushion attached to curtain rope. You know, all he’s done is got the wii-mote buttons on his hoodie and the power button on his cap, and slipped a tail on. This guy sucks!
Guise: Well, he’s one of us now…
Dugal: But, he’s hogging it, and for a guy dressed as a damn wii-mote, he seriously has no skills whatsoever.
Guise: Why not tell *him* that, stop bitching at me?
Dugal: Fine!
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Dugal: >.<;;;
Guise: That’s why they tell you to make sure no-one is stood near you. Ice pack?
Dugal: I hate you. I hate you all.

So, yeah. Last weekend, while out in town, Tim took me in to GAME and picked me up a Wii console as a present. I managed to snag it with Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, Sonic and the Secret Rings, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams. I’ve also picked up Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

I’m still learning my way around it and learning the sensitivity of the controller, which was quite a steep learning curve. I haven’t really used a console much since the Playstation and N64, so it took some getting used to – I did learn that NiGHTS, although pretty, is probably not the best choice to try to come to terms with controls.

As far as the games go, I’ve yet to try Sonic and Rayman, but I’ve been enjoying the others so far.

NiGHTS

The first game I played on the Wii and I loved the cutscene animation from the start, everything looked so polished and fluid. Unfortunately, I’m not really that good at controlling NiGHTS and easily lose as soon as it hits the first Chase Mission.

Zelda

I love the animation and graphics and the gameplay so far has been very compelling. I loved playing as Wolf Link, not so much having to fish. The fighting actions aren’t bad, though as a button masher I just tend to shake wildly and hope it does something.

Currently, I’m at Forest Temple and frustrated because I’m not quick enough to use bombs before they explode on me.

Brawl

Mmmm.

Ok, I got Brawl on pre-order, which meant exclusive GAME sleeve and two game art postcards (Zelda and Peach), as soon as it was in my grubby little hands I whisked it home and loaded it up.

It’s a complete blast to play, even if most of the time I’m completely lost on what I’m doing or what is being done to me. As I said, I’m a button masher, though I try not to spam attacks. If anything, my approach to the whole game is similar to Dio’s approach to Smash Balls. I’m not very good at recovery, I haven’t quite got the hang of saving myself when being booted from the edge of a platform.

So far, I’ve had the most fun playing as Lucas, Pit, Diddy and Kirby. I know I’m nowhere near decent, but they are such fun characters. Pokemon Trainer/Zelda/Sheik all tend to have me cursing because I keep forgetting the Down & B move is the change command.

Subspace Emissary is very cool, especially the cutscenes. I love Pit’s opening, he’s so freaking pretty and as he drops from the sky, it’s just a beautiful scene. The only problem is remembering that you’ve changed character, even if you see it. The amount of times I’ve wondered why I couldn’t fire Pit’s arrow attack as Mario is embarrassing.

Brawl does have such amazingly hot characters too. I’m not ashamed to admit that Samus, Sheik, Pit and Pokemon Trainer (PT/Red) are totally hot, and that Ness and Lucas are super-adorable.