Christmas Jeers

I know it's a week late for Christmas tales, but I've been really sick for the past month or so, and for a couple of days last week I wasn't able to talk so now that I'm better I thought I'd talk about what I got and I enjoyed/didn't enjoy for Christmas.

Disliked
I didn't like being sick on Christmas, since it's my favorite holiday of the year. I always get excited for Christmas, the wrapping and opening of presents, the putting up of the trees and lights. It's all so festive and it really does make you feel like a kid again, at least for a brief moment. But since I was sick this year I really didn't get to enjoy it as much as I usually do, and it really hurts me to say that.

I also didn't like the meager amount of sporting events on Christmas. There were five basketball games and one football game, which was terrible. The most anticipated basketball game turned out to be over by the end of the first quarter so it didn't really mean much.

As for my biggest dislike, it's Golden Sun Dark Dawn. I love the original Golden Sun games on Game Boy Advance, but this game is just really hard to get into. The story is really stupid, reiterating the same thing to me multiple times in the opening cinematic and then continues to tell me that same thing another twenty times in the first two hours of gameplay. It's just really off-putting to the consumer when something like that is beaten like a drum into the player's mind for so long. At least Metroid Other M stopped with Samus saying "baby" so much after the first ten minutes.

Liked
I liked getting a new DS, specifically the DSi XL. I know the next-gen DS is coming out in March but I'm weary of what the price will be as well as the product line-up for it. With the DSi XL I've downloaded a couple of pretty good DSiWare games and the screens are MUCH BIGGER than what I had with the DS lite so my eyes aren't straining as much. Now I can play a lot more handheld games than I have been in the past. I bought Shantae's Risky Revenge and Mario vs. DK, and both seem really solid for the half hour or so I played them.

I also liked Assassin's Creed Brotherhood for the most part. I haven't jumped into the multiplayer, and I probably never will, but the story was interesting enough to keep me going until the end. It is a letdown from Assasssin's Creed II however. I also liked Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, and while I didn't get to play as much of it as I wanted I felt satisfied by the little I did play of it.