It's been over 4 years since Depeche Mode released "Playing the Angel" while I may personally liked the album, it didn't fair too well to other fans due to the high compressed sounds and loudness that can cause your ears to go deaf. Fast foward to today, Depeche Mode releases Sounds of the Universe. They dropped with the dark mood they've been using since Violator and switched the "Mode" of their songs to more spiritual and minimal sounds.
Martin Gore, Depeche Modes guitarist and writer, ended up on a ebay frenzy shopping for old-school synthesizers thus the band returning to their roots of electronic beats but with a mix of today's sounds. David Gahan, Depeche Mode's front man, has become more involved with the song writing. He has wrote 3 songs for the album (Hole to Feed, Come back, Miles Away/Truth is) while Gore has writtin the rest.
In this albums developement, Depeche Mode actually composed at least 18 songs (a new Depeche Mode record), but not all of them could have fit into on CD pack so they had a hard decision sacrificing 5 other songs. Although the bright side is the extra 5 songs will be released as bonus songs, but the downside is they're only avaliable on there Deluxe Album set which is at least $100. Is it worth the $100, especially in today's economy? To me, I couldn't resist 
Now here is my review from 1 to 5:
Lyrics- 4 out of 5
Sound- 5 out of 5
Length- 5 out of 5
Creativity- 4 out of 5
Quality of production: 4 out of 5
Total- 4 out of 5
A lot of fans from the early 80's will indeed be happy with this album. The sounds are very retro, but with today's technology helped the sounds feel more modern to today's standard. The lyrics of the songs are fantastic, especially with Gahan's own song "come back" and one of my personal favorites "In Sympathy." The length of the album is 1hr and 3 minutes. The Quality of the album is a lot better than Playing the Angel, you can definitly hear the layers of the sounds and is friendly to the ears even when you crank up the volume to 11
Recommened Songs
In Chains
Wrong
In Sympathy
Corrupt
Ghost (It is only avaliable on the deluxe boxset)
Well, it's been a while since I posted a blog and a long time ago I promised you guys a Zelda Time-line. Well, I guess I'm not very good at keeping my word, because I sound like I say a lot of things. Well school has been holding me back and my Aunt isn't feeling very well and so I went to Vegas for my Spring break just to visit her not to mention tons of homework from my classes.
Anyway, lets get to the time-line which you guys have been waiting for ages
Zelda Time-Line
Just to let you guys know that the blue lines is Time-line A and the red lines is Time-line B
What do you guys think the order of the games maybe?
DSi
Anyway, on Sunday April 5, nintendo finally releases the DSi and guess who has one? ME! 
I'm sure some of you are feeling bitter that Nintendo should have at least released a DS2 instead, but for me, I am happy with it. I really like the two Cameras and the software it comes with it. I also like the Matte finish cover, it makes the DSi feel very **** although I'll admit that I didn't like the DSlite Glossy cover because fingerprints annoy me. I also like how the Screen looks, it's much bigger and its brighter than my DSphat.
Some of you are also bummed about that there is no GBA slots, I'll admit I'm also bummed out about it too, but then again I have too many GBA's that still work, not to mention that my DSphat is still functioning (but is badly wearing out). Having the SD card slot brings a lot of promise of a Gamboy Virtual Console. I know that there are a lot of GBA games that are great, but all of those good games are now very hard to find and I don't own many other than Minish Cap, Final Fantasy I and II, both Fire Emblem games, Pokemon, and both Metroid games. Besides, Nintendo of America has never released Fire Emblem 6, the sequel to the 7th game we've played and Roy was in Melee, Come on Nintendo at least translate the title for the GB VC if you planned to have a GB VC 
So far everything is great, but the DSiware games are very lackluster. Nintendo gave every new DSi owner free 1,000 Nintendo Points to buy DSiware titles, how generous, but what they're offering isn't worth for those points so I'll be saving those points for better DSiware titles in the future
Overall, if you haven't bought the DSlite and you want the GBA slot, I don't recommend the DSi to you. However, if you need a massive upgrade and don't care about your backcatalog of GBA games since you own many GBA's then I would recommend the DSi.
And Everything Else....
I just heard Video_Game_King will no longer be in Gamespot anymore 
This makes me very said, he was really a great poster and I enjoyed his blogs very much. Now I also heard he will be spending his time at Giantbomb for now on.
Well this was surely a long blog
-FireEmblem_Man-
It's a strange video no doubt about it
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=52704787
Too bad its not avaliable on youtube yet, so this myspace version will have to do
Do you guys think this video may not be in US tv's?
