did you know that if you book a cruise on norwegian cruise lines you get your own email address? i didn’t, either. if i need to get ahold of my father while he’s sailing around the hawaiian islands this week, i can email him! how cool is that? hm… i could even email him from my Wii!
speaking of the Wii: WHEE!
lots and lots of fun! so much fun. even just using the controller (from here on out referred to as the wiimote) to navigate all the menus to initially set up it up was exciting and caused me to exclaim “this is the best thing *ever*!” which inspired my boyfriend to prove me wrong later that evening — rawr.
i’ve only had it two nights and now it’s all i want to do. i have dinner plans with col, ritchie & nelson tonight, but i’m sorely tempted to cancel them so i can go home and practice my wii tennis. yes, i’d pass up yummy sushi with them to play pretend sports. that’s how much fun it is!
even though, by the end of a session of tennis or boxing, my arms are burning, i’ve yet to be beset by Wii-elbow the next day, which is kind of surprising considering how much aching there is after three rounds of boxing. i’m sure i’ll injure myself eventually, though. it’s inevitable with my superior level of clumsiness. christopher very nearly dislocated a couple of somethings with his spectacular follow-through during a bowling frame on tuesday evening. luckily the comfy chair was there to catch his fall or it might have been quite tragic.
i’ve rented three games to try out over the next couple of weeks: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Trauma Center: Second Opinion and Warioware: Smooth Moves. at $10 a week per game (actually, it’s more like $5/week because you have a week’s grace period after your initial rental is due to take it back without penalty – yay), i figure it’s a smart thing to rent these games before i shell out $60 a pop and then find out i hate them (like i did with some Playstation games – grr). jamie and i played some of Smooth Moves last night and, although it was kind of confusing for me, it kept me interested. after he left, i went through and played some more. it turns out i really like the fast-paced mini-games. not knowing what you’re supposed to do in each of them might be the best part.
don’t worry, there is little chance this is going to turn out to be a Wii gaming blog any time soon, but for the interim (aka while i’m obsessed) there may be a lot of Wii-talk hereabouts. sorry.
in other news: i hate snow. the gunk the doctor told me to put in my eye might be helping. there’s too much food in my fridge for me to eat before it goes bad. working for a living sucks. i could use a nap.
Thanks for having me over to play last night…it was loads of fun!
I think the Warioware: Smooth Moves was initially kind of annoying because it looked very low end, kind of confusing and it took forever to get to the games. Then it became quite fun as those wacky controller holding descriptions were very funny and it was cool to follow along and change the way you held the Wiimote to play the very quick (and often crude, in both graphics and humour) games. A lot of fun and I think it would be fun to play with a bunch of people; however, I wonder how much replay value it would have as after you’ve gone through the sections the first time, they’re not quite as amusing or challenging (in that there’s a slight challenge in the first few seconds as you try to figure out exactly what they want you to do!) the second time around.
Of course the Wii Sports game was where it’s at. I totally kicked your ass at Bowling, Boxing, Tennis (eventually) and Baseball…wait, not at Baseball. Damn your little Wii people and their ability to catch everything that I hit :(