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Dear Wii.

How are you doing? It has been a while since we last spoke and I am writing to you to apologise for the distance I have put between us over the years, I know we haven't always been on the best of terms and I cam't say how sorry I am about that Mario Party 9 thing but I really think we should spend more time together. I look at you now sat beside the PS3 and I know that every time I put a PS3 game in or turn it on your looking at me in disgust. I see your blue lights flashing at night and I know your trying to send me a message and I think I get it.

As of now I promise to spend more time with you, I have put in new batteries in to all of my Wii Motes seeing as the others are all flat (Even though I suspect they went flat with no use) and I dusted off my Golden classic controller and even dug out my red wrist strap. I have organised my Wii games in to two piles, uncompleted games and completed games, this only makes me want to spend time with you more since I see the error of my ways. I have had a Wii since you came out, even though you are an updated and flashier version you still have the same soul. The games seem one sided as I have only completed less than 10 games out of my 50 or so games. Over the course of 5 years this really is not right at all.

What I'm trying to say is I am very sorry and I hope that we can start seeing each other again, please get back to me if your willing to give it another go.

Yours faithfully, Hizang.

I have spoken my mind many times on this site of what I think of the Zelda franchise, I enjoyed Wind Waker but I never enjoyed the rest of them like I did with Wind Waker. Aside from Wind Waker I only have finished Ocarina of Time and I'm not really a huge fan of that game either. So sometime last year I picked up Darksiders not really knowing too much about it, I played a bit of it but it got swept away in my huge backlog. This year Darksiders 2 will grace the world of video games and seeing as not to much else is coming out this year (That I am interested in, fuck Bioshock!) I should probably go and try Darksiders again and then see if I like it enough to get the second one. So over the course of a few weeks I played some Darksiders, my feelings were mixed but after playing it I decided I found it a really nice experience.

I do admit the game starts off rather slow and not as interesting as later on, the game shoves tutorials/challenges down your throat which are mandatory. Darksiders also looks like it will follow the same structure after each dungeon, with you blowing that horn every time and then having to go and do a bunch of those stupid challenges. That soon ends though and it throws in some variety in the way the game goes forward. It becomes more fluid which is something i felt most Zelda games didn't have, especially Ocarina which to me feels like each part of the game was designed separately and out of sequence.

Not to dabble to much on Zelda talk but a lot of mechanics taken from Zelda are not just taken but also improved. Small things like being able to dash when climbing and being able to warp around quite early on and item management is a whole lot better and quicker. I mean no disrespect to the Zelda franchise but i just think Darksiders makes things better and easier, also the tune is better! As is the voice actors which is not really fair but common Zelda get with the times! War sounds really fitting as does The Watcher, as really does the whole of the cast. The story doesn't really take off until 3/4's of the way through but towards the end you end up getting involved in the story and caring about the characters.

The puzzles do get very difficult in a few places, I resorted to a guide on the last dungeon that was just fucking insane but awesome at the same time. The combat was really entertaining, it was very satisfying killing a mess of dudes. Which again in Zelda combat is really not all that interesting, here there are a bunch of cool moves and weapons to use in combat. I found the gun and boomerang to be useless but the scythe helped me out in a few key situations. I found this game very enjoyable and it ends on such a tease, I am now highly anticipating the next game and as should the rest of you.

Another week is over and a new one is just about to begin, time for reflection.

I have told this many times but for any new readers out there I will do a bit of explaining. I work in a Private Day Nursery which covers the ages of three months to about five years, I look after a year and a half till two years. On Thursday we had parents evening, many of your parents at some point would have probably gone to one and been told how great or crap you are. Every six months we have a parents evening, every month I get super nervous and stressed up about it. I spend a couple of weeks writing notes on each of my key children (I currently have four) and jotting down every single piece of information that may provide a good conversation topic. But then when it comes to it I end up not needing it and the conversation just flows naturally. Each parents is allotted ten minutes, now as you may also be aware some people in life just don't get the hint. I ended up going over all of my appointments because I am not very good at telling parents to go away, but hey whatever I'm getting paid so might as well stretch it out. In conclusion it went rather well, a great weight has been lifted of of me knowing that I haven't got to do one for another six months.

With parents evening out of the way I could start to relax a little bit, being so frantic about parents evening left me little time to play any games or read any books or watch anything. I played some Minecraft during the week but I think I am yet again bored of Minecraft, I'm sure I will come back in a month or two and play it a bunch for a week or so and then come to the same ending. I watched the final episode of the second generation of Skins, I am overall very moved by the way it ended, having Freddie revealed to have been killed it was rather shocking. I will start the 3rd generation next week and will soon be caught up to where the show is currently. I then decided I should probably start a game, I haven't really touched anything since Mass Effect 3 (Apart from Minecraft and a little bit of Darksiders.) and it's kind of bugging me. I have a huge backlog and I haven't even touched any of the 19 games I got from the GAME sale yet. But i thought it would probably be best to pick something I already own and haven't finished yet, so I looked through my collection and decided on Driver: San Fransico.

I got it at launch and really liked it, It did however get lost in the other games that came out around that time and I didn't have a chance to get back to it. So over the course of the weekend I finished the game, it's been out a while so I will talk about the ending, so spoilers! So I really like the game, I liked the story and the fact that it got mad weird especially towards the end. I liked how there was a boss battle at the end that involved you throwing cars at Jerchcio in your mind while he was doing the same. I liked how a lot of the side stories panned out, those two racing students were pretty great. The driving controls did get frustrating at times and I even started shouting at the TV in a few spots. That game gets brutal towards the end and I mean brutal, but overall a good game that I would recommend to any fan of driving or puzzle games. 4 Stars.

And here we are at Sunday, The Hunger Games came out a few days ago and today is the day that I was going to go see it. It is such a coincidence because I started reading the series only a few weeks ago, not even knowing that a movie was being made. After I read it I posted it on Facebook about how much of a good book it was, a friend then asked me whether I was going to go and see it. This caused me to look on the interweb and there it was, The Hunger Games out in a few weeks. So it was good timing if nothing else, the book was still fresh in my mind and I think that helped me enjoy the movie better. Which by the way was fucking amazing!

I don't usually cry at movies, in fact I have never cried at the movies, but The Hunger Games changed that. For those that have not seen it I will not spoil anything, but if you are planning to go brace yourself for some emotional entertainment. The premise of the movie should tell you that anyway, I mean it's a movie about a group of children forced into a large arena and only one child may leave. It has a disturbing premise and had my sister in tears also, I even read the book and I was still in tears. The way the film was shot and its score or lack of score just built it up so much, when a character died you as a person really felt what the main character was going through. The Hunger Games is the best film this year, it is one of the best films I have seen in a while too. Considering i saw Breaking Dawn Part 1 for the first time last week and then this, The Hunger Games make it look like a bore, I mean I sort of enjoyed the Twilight books but that movie was pretty crap.

So there we are, a week in a blog, how was your week?

I think ultimatly I was spoiled in 2011, there were so many fantastic games in 2011 and I mean some truely amazing games.

• Skyrim.
• Saints Row the Third.
• Mass Effect 2 (PS3).
• Dead Space 2.
• L.A. Noire.
• Batman.
• Portal 2.
• Uncharted 3.
• Mortal Kombat.
• Super Mario 3D Land.

Thats a pretty big list, there not all of them either I mean Shadows of the Damned, Resistance 3, Mario Kart 7 it just keeps going. 2012 really though is not looking great for me. So ok so far I really enjoyed and am enjoying Mass Effect 3, The Darkness 2 (Kinda), Journey and The MGS HD Collection, so time to look towards the future right. So here is what I am looking forward to this year.

• Resident Evil 6.
• Borderlands 2.

So thats kinda it, out of the whole of the year thats it, if they get delayed then I'm pretty much screwed. So you may be at your monitor thinking hey this guy forgot Bioshock Infinite or Darksiders 2. Well nope, here are the games that everybody else is looking forward to and I will probably not get.

• Bioshock Infinite - Really didn't like the first Bioshock, the gameplay reminded me of Half Life (A game I also didn't like) and the story didn't grab me.
• Darksiders 2 - So I'm playing through Darksiders at the moment, I told myself I should play this so I am ready for the second one. However I'm finding it a slog to get through, people say it's just like Zelda but I am the guy who doesn't really like Ocarina of Time here. I dislike the art style and the puzzles/combat are not that interesting. (So far keep in mind only just done the first dungeon.)
• Ninja Gaiden 3 - Didn't like the first Ninja Gaiden, really don't care for hack and slashers anyway.
• Assassins Creed 3 - To be honest I would get this, but at this point I have Assassins Creed 1,2,BrotherHood on my shelf uncompleted and hardly touched so I may as well play these first. I liked the first one but the games came out to fast for me to keep up with and ended up being left behind. If I do finish the 4 Assassin Creed games I may get this one, but i doubt I will.
• Far Cry 3 - I hated Far Cry Vengeance and I wasn't to in to Far Cry 2.
• Prototype 2 - I may get this, but I never played the first one so I need to play that first.
• Twisted Metal - Hated the way it controlled in the demo, fun to watch somebody else play through.
• Future Professor Layton games - So I think I have reached a point where I don't want to play any more of these games, I have the 4th one sitting here and have not touched it.
• GTAIV - I didn't like te direction they took with the GTA franchise, assuming its the same I will not be getting it.
• The Last Guardian - As if thats ever coming out!

So there you go, if you could remind me of some games I missed or try to convince me on these games then please try. If not I suppose I have time to catch up on a large amount of games this year.

In the past I used to avoid doing these things because nobody is going to send questions to a stranger, but I think I am now in a much better position. So yes send me questions and I will answer them in a video at the end of the week (Sunday), questions can be about anything and not just games.

Send them to me on here or via YouTube.

Also I'm 20 tomorrow.

It's pretty exciting.

So GAME is going through some tough times right now, here is what I think about GAME. As I mentioned in the video I would love to hear back from people and see if they feel the same way or not.

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I have been known on here to be a bit of an Apple fanboy, I am always praising there work and I love all of there products. I am not alone and most people do to, but it seems that people who enjoy video games are not so keen to jump and buy an iMac. Most developers don't see an audience for video games Macs so they tend to ignore that system all together, but there are some great game on the Mac. So I have put together this brand new series I called "iGame" (Crap name pending) in which I show off some games that you can get for the iMac. I will show off both the games you need to get and the games you really need to avoid, I hope you enjoy this series and please if you enjoy a particular game on your iMac send me a recommendation and if I can afford it I will go and shoot a video. Please enjoy my first video for iGame showing off VVVVVV, if you like what you see please subscribe as there is more to come.

Oh and I got an iPhone 4S today, it's pretty great. I uploaded a small test video which you can find here With me now being able to record off of my Mac, that Club Penguin challenge...

It has been a while since I did one of these, I hope you enjoy it. I'm also looking to do another game collection video next weekend, so I would love to know what console you want me to do.

Enjoy Duders!

Just a small blog to say that my 50 games of all time blog series thing is no longer being done, I'm sorry to those who were enjoying them but I do have a reason. So I uploaded about 4 of them I think, every time I went to write the next one I would change the order of a few games around and then take some games off the list and add some games. You see I could never make up my mind where I wanted to place games, I knew what games were in the top two but other than that it was a nightmare.

So there you go, its weird how I always set out to do things (Runescape 30 day challenge, Club Penguin year challenge,) and I never finish it...