What I got this week and what is to come

This will be my report of the things I got this week and what you can expect in the week to come. I'm not sure if I'll do this too often, though I would like to.

This week I picked up Alien Homind for the GCN. I found it for $5 used and had to get it since I loved Castle Crashers so much. I was planning on grabbing it when it was discounted on the XBL marketplace but I'm not sure anymore as I have played this one about 2/3 the way through. We shall see.

I also got some comics which I talked about in a previous post. I enjoyed all three and will now begin to follow Superman. I will probably get more into comics in future posts.

I also received Pokemon Platinum today along with the pre-order bonus figure. This should be cool as I loved Diamond. It also came in good time as I am leaving for my vacation tomorrow so I will have the plane ride time for this. Though it is a Nintendo game so I will have to send it back in a couple weeks. However, I do plan to get all the special new forms and legendaries and transfer them to my Diamond version before it leaves.

In the next week, if I can get a hold of a computer long enough, these are some things to expect to see here:

I will write up a First Impressions on both Henry Hatsworth and Pokemon Platinum. Also, if I play enough of these two I will try and write a review next weekend for them.

I would also like to share some photos I take of anything weird I find down in New York. I plan to go to the Nintendo Store of America so I'll probably post a picture of that.

If I can't get a computer, obviously there won't be any posts till I return. Hopefully I can though.

The midst of Spring Break

So as my Spring Break has now begun and going by faster than I thought, I plan to get quite a bit done in it. This will be various comics I still need to read/finish, some books I need to start and finish and some games I wish to start and wrap up.

The games I wish to get done are Tales of Vesperia. This won't be happening though as I predict another 75 hours is required and I just don't have that time. Though I have gotten around 10 in since the beginning of the week and a whopping 25 points because of it.

I will also be playing a bunch of Gears of War 2 in the next couple days as the third title update is now out. I plan to get the three new achievements that I don't have to pay for. Hopefully I can rank up quickly.

I want to finish up Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon before I head to New York so that I don't have to be memorizing a ton of chapter info. I don't want to miss out on anything after all.

I also picked up Henry Hatsworth last week and still haven't started it. This will be used for the plane trip and any long car rides I encounter out east. I hear it's pretty great and am quite excited to start it.

Last in the games is Uno Rush which will be out tomorrow night. As I stated in my previous blog post, I will be staying up for it. With this, I really need some more microsoft points now.

A couple games I'm not sure if I'll grab are LIT and Bit.Trip:Beat off of WiiWare. If I can justify spending $20 on the points card, I'll get these two. However, I am not sure yet.

Comics-wise will be the latest Umbrella Academy and possibly the new Superman and Battle for the Cowl. The only definite is Umbrella Academy.

Last of all are the novels that I have been neglecting. I want to finish up the recent Artemis Fowl and I'd like to start and finish the last .Hack novel to come out since I've had that for a few weeks now.

Hopefully I'll have enough free time over the next two weeks and my vacation to get this all done. Probably not.

Update: Pokemon Platinum should be sent to me soon, hopefully I will get it before I leave and can then play it on my trip. Knowing my luck, it will arrive just in time for no one to be able to receive it.

What happens when you sip your Earl Grey tea indeed.

So after reading an article from Brad Shoemaker over at Giant Bomb about the latest game to be announced by EA Casual for the DS - Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure. Now before you think, no it isn't a Professor Layton rip off, I know the name can be misleading. It's actually a platformer mixed with a puzzle game.

On the top screen is the platformer in which you need to attack enemies and jump on them to destroy them. You play as Henry Hatsworth, an english man who wears a bowler hate, monicle, and a can that has a sword in it. I think I've said enough. By killing enemies they move to the bottom screen which are then turned into a colored block, this is where the puzzle game comes into play. As time goes on, the lower blocks move close to the top screen and once they reach it, they turn back into enemies for you to attack. So you must spend time looking at both screens and knowing when to press X to pause the game and take care of some puzzle action.

To finish off I'd like to quote a couple sentences by Brad Shoemaker from his article.

One of the special moves you can invoke with a full special meter is called Tea Time! When you hit that button, Henry sips tea in front of a frantically animating Union Jack background, and then turns into a giant steampowered robot that can flatten enemies and fly around the level. I mean, what happens when you sip on some Earl Grey?

I'm really looking forward to this game and since it's been around half a month to a month since I got way excited/into a DS game, I can't wait to hear more of this.