It took three years, but like I said a long time ago, one day I would have ALL three next-gen consoles. Today at 1:37 AM, my loving parents achieved that goal for me. They picked up the PS3 bundle that came out last night, so now I have a PS3, a Wii, and a 360, and I have Metal Gear Solid IV: Guns of the Patriots, Super Mario Galaxy, and Grand Theft Auto IV. Now all I need is a PSP to complete the set. Life is good. Anywho, MGS4 is shaping up to be a pretty awesome game. I've only clocked in 30 minutes (maybe less) of gameplay into the game, but I was sitting in front of the TV for at least an hour before my brother came down to make me play Halo 3 with him. The cutscenes are excellent and crystal clear, and the action and mechanics are awesome. And I haven't even tried Metal Gear Online yet. Maybe I should go do that now...

Actually I beat it last Thursday at around this time, but never posted about it. Anyway, the ending killed me inside. Broke my heart in a big way. I'm not one to obsess over stories, but this one REALLY got me. That didn't have to happen. I cared for that person. Rockstar made me love them, then made them die. Then again, it just made the last mission ALL the more satisfying. I gave that punk a dosage exactly what the doctor ordered: a bullet to the knee, thigh, stomach, arm, and face, and then to the face again. However, even though I beat the last mission, as expected, I still have like 35% left in the game. Little Jacob's jobs, Brucie's cars, 200 (or was it 250?) pigeons, blah blah blah blah blah. So yeah. It's beaten and now I'm waiting for MGS4.

I didn't even come close to qualifying for districts! Ok, this is how the match panned out. I'm talking about the Gamestop tourney by the way. For more on that, check the previous blog. Anyways, this is what happened. I picked Link, he picked Zelda, but really for Sheik. We played on the Ice Climber level, Summit. Now it was Wiimote and Nunchaku, so even though I KNOW there are no motion controls in this game, I kept shaking the Wiimote thinking Link would do his spin attack! XD So I lose two lives, and then I come back on him. I kill him twice, and I'm at 67% and he's at 75%, if memory serves. He knocked me into the water. While I was trying to swim back up, a fish came out of NOWHERE and ate me, and then I lost the match. So yeah, I got roflpwned by a fish. But if you wanna see the glass half-full, I have Brawl, and last time I checked, which was last night, I had 89% on Subspace Emissary, 251 trophies, and 366 stickers, and so far this game is the best I've played since my first playthrough of Ocarina of Time (but still not better). Perhaps I'll have a chance to redeem myself in BaseballSGFkid's tourney...

Or tommorow, depending on how you look at it... I'm going to the Gamestop tourny at 10:00 to see if I can win a Wii for my grandma, a plasma screen TV for our movie room and $5,000 dollars for college/more Wii games (but mostly more Wii games ). So truly I'll play it around 10:00, but I won't have it until around 12:00. Oh well. Anyways, I have a feeling that today will be the longest day EVER.

I finally got out of level 20, after nearly 3 months of being confined within it! I also got Metroid Prime 3: Corruption today, and I'm 1 hour and 49 minutes into it. So far it is AWESOME! So yeah... that's all. XD

So here I am, playing Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Reverse/Rebirth by the way), and while I'm fighting Ursula, preparing my Dark Aura sleight, my L shoulder button stops working. So now what am I supposed to do? Well, I finished her off, and figured, what the heck, I can beat this game with only the R shoulder button. I normally only use sleights for bosses anyways, ao I was doing ok, and even when I got to the next boss, I did fine. But then all of a sudden, my R sholder buttons stops working as well. So, that pretty much told me that the forces above dont want me playing this game anymore, or any other DS game for that matter. No Mario Kart, since I'm a proud snaker/drifter, no Star Fox because any other way to play just screws me up, and worst of all, no Reverse/Rebirth, after I was so close to finally beating Chain of Memories completely. However, I'm thinking that maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Now that this DS doesn't work, I'll have to get a new one, preferably a lite. Anyways, now I guess all I can do is just go back to my normal gaming list and knock those games off until I get enough money to get my hands on a lite. Later.