Muse – Randomness 2-15-2005

Warioware Touched

A new game I obtained today for the Nintendo DS. It’s a game packed with 180 microgames, each one controlled by either the touch screen or the microphone(mostly the touch screen). After reading a review on it that was somewhat lackluster due to it’s reliance on the touch screen, I decided to get it anyway.

I’ve only played it for about an hour, but overall I found it to be a riot thus far. The reliance on the touch screen isn’t a disadvantage, the repetitive acts being varied by how you apply then. Tapping the touch screen to do a puzzle takes on different meaning depending on the type of puzzle. Anything from, popping bubble wrap, to swatting flies, to poking kittens, to bowling, to tickling, to running out a roll of toilet paper, to waving goodbye, each is somewhat different, requiring a slight shift of gears from one to the other. Made more difficult when the pacing speeds up and initially when you try to figure out just how a game should be best effected.

The game allows(as it should) for you to replay any microgame you unlock and when you do you play that one game turn after turn with the pace and challenge ramping up as you go, along with a steady increase in the frantic music that accompanies the challenges. There’s a good chance it’ll get you as keyed up as it does me.

There are also strange little toys you can find as you play, such as a little fake seamonkey tank, a piano, a movie projector and rainbow light pen. Altogether it’s a lot of little things that add up to an interesting, if strange and freaky game. Is it worth $40? That’s a question you’ll have to answers for yourself. For me, it is.

Valentines Day

I’m not too partial to Valentines Day. It seems destined to be, for many, a day that prompts disorder in otherwise orderly relationships and makes a great deal out of something that should be neither a national focus, nor a yearly thing.

Some make it a day when you must do something for the one you care about. Not that doing something for the one you care about is a bad thing. But to make it the focus of a single day is. One wonders about how many fights are prompted by this day being missed, where as the guy in question could be quite sweet and considerate in general the rest of the year.

I’m one for doing nice by your loved ones periodically though the year, rather than focusing any of it on a day like yesterday, when the only ones who truly win are the card companies who likely reap billions on the run up to that day.

Make every day of the year Valentines day, I think it’ll make a lot of couples a lot happier.