What up people? I just managed to get another review for public viewing. This time around it's a somewhat unknown title called Spectrobes: Origins. Yeah it's a sequel to the DS games, and it's actually the best one in the series so far, I do hope there's a sequel in the future. So here's your chance to find out if the game is for you or not.

http://www.gamespot.com/wii/puzzle/spectrobesorigins/player_review.html?id=693550&tag=player-reviews;continue;1

And if you're expecting much else from me, well there's not really too much for me to talk about, College is just going on by like normal and Thanksgiving Day is next week. I've been playing the Wii remake of A Boy and His Blob. I can't compare to the NES game since I've only seen gameplay videos, though I really found the logo ripping off the Indiana Jones logo to be awesome. Unfortunately it's not in the Wii Remake, but the game is another really cool addition to 2D platformers on the Wii. My only real complaint is that the difficulty doesn't seem to be that balanced, there are times when it feels like one of the easiest games I ever played, and then there's time where I end up banging my head trying to think of a solution. That's basically what I heard almost everyone's experience with the NES game is supposed to be like, so with that this remake is pretty faithful to it's predecessor. So far I'm about 8 hours and so far have beaten ¾ of the game, and that's pretty good value for a $40 purchase, I'd definitely recommend it to anyone interested.

And in other news, I recently obtained New Super Mario Bros. Wii as well as Call of Duty Modern Warfare Reflex if anybody wants to play me online there. Silent Hill Shattered Memories has also been reserved and is now waiting, I can't wait to play this game, and I'll also be getting the soundtrack since I reserved it. Also a really cool thing I find about New Super Mario Bros. Wii's boxart is how it stands out from practically every other Wii box I have so far, being that it's red as opposed to white. I have at least 60 Wii games, and the only real differences you can find are that the LucasArts games have a yellow spine while Geometry Wars: Galaxies and Legend of Spyro Eternal Night have black spines (For some reason Dawn of the Dragon is just white though). I hope future boxarts try and imitate this in the future, maybe the next Rabbids game could be blue and Scene It: Twilight could be black. XD Another thing I like is that the discs are actually becoming painted instead of having just two colors, the first game I got that did this was Ghostbusters: The Video Game. I have others like Cursed Mountain and Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Call of Duty Modern Warfare Reflex both have painted discs as well, it's awesome to see this becoming a standard.

Movie wise, I haven't done any My Thoughts On because of laziness and busyness, so I decided to do another 5 My Thoughts On in 1, at least when I see another movie tomorrow. My sister and my mom are going to see Twilight Saga: New Moon or whatever it's called, yeah I'm fortunate enough to have a sister who's a Twilight fan but she's thankfully a sane one, in fact seemed to be losing interest in the series at one point because of the fangirls that make sane fans like her look bad. My dad and me will both see something together instead, maybe Zombieland if it's still in theaters, I'd like to see 2012 but my mom also wants to see it. And yeah, I think 2012 looks like a cool movie, shut up. To me, it looks like a return to form for Roland Emmerich, at least the one I grew up with, and an end of the world movie usually tends to be worth seeing on the big screen. And I say a return to form because The Day After Tomorrow looked like it tried too hard to tackle the issue of Global Warming, and 10,000 B.C. looked lame. Basically, I grew up with Independence Day and that is the kind of movie I like to see folks like Roland Emmerich make. So for better or worse, this is what's happened with 2012, and I can't really complain that much.

Also I have my first top ten list ready to go whenever I get around to uploading it. I was thinking of posting it on Gamefaqs, but unfortunately Gamefaqs doesn't support "negative lists". I was bored one day and I managed to think of another five video game franchises that shouldn't be adapted into a video game and made a top ten list, so I might as well just post it here on Gamespot. I also have a top ten and top twenty special planned for the end of the year, but that's something you'll have to stay tuned in for when I finally finish it up.

Yeah stuff you might not be following along with, that's just normal life in general. If you have anything to say, well you know who you're talking to, comment section exists for a reason.

That's the news from Myviewing as of November 20, 2009.

So here we are folks, I have a second rant after a short while prepared, and today I am touching on an issue that I'm sure many people have bickered and whined about prior. Judging from the title, you would probably know that I'm talking about the Lions Gate film franchise, the Saw series. Please bear this in mind, if you have plans on watching any of the Saw films in the future and don't want to read any possible spoilers I may end up writing about, then hit the back button now.

Back in 2004, an independent film known as Saw was released. I have only seen this movie fairly recently, but I found it to be one of the freshest and most inventive horror films I've seen in years. The idea of a "serial killer" who doesn't really kill his victims, rather he gives them the option to attempt to save themselves if they managed to save themselves from the trap they were put in, was quite a neat idea for a horror movie setting. The person who does this is known as Jigsaw, and he pretty much tests a humans will to survive depending on what their sins are. He provides quite a few philosophic ideas for his victims to ponder, and he makes them able to appreciate the fact that they are still alive after what they have gone through. Of course that's just the main idea of the first film, the film itself is based on his newest victims who have to determine their will to live.

Luckily for the directors, the movie was a HUGE box office success, raking in $102 million. And that's a lot of money considering the fact that it was made on a budget of $1.2 million. So after that, the folks at Lions Gate decided that they would try and see how much the film was worth to them by releasing the sequel, Saw II. Basically, Saw II is more of the same from the first movie, but unfortunately with an all teenage cast that gets pretty annoying, and a slightly bigger budget, thus resulting in some cooler traps. I'd personally say that Saw II is a decent enough sequel despite its flaws, it worked in what it set out to be at the end of the day.

Of course after making even more money than they did last year with Saw I, Lions Gate could come to this conclusion, "We've got a Cash Cow ladies and Gentlemen. It's time to start milking." Me personally, I think this became evident when they released Saw III. The movie itself was pretty mediocre in my opinion since it's supposed to be based on John Kramer aka. Jigsaw's death, yet for his final moments in life, he focuses his efforts on some random guy who had no relation to him at all. I mean if I were in my last days, I'd do what I could to do the most meaningful things in life possible. At first I thought John was going to confess to this guy that he was the drunk driver that killed his son, but instead it just doesn't add up to much. The movie at least had a good ending though, and it would have been a perfect point to stop the series.

But no, another year, another gallon from the Cash Cow, another farmer in the form of Saw IV comes along to milk it. Jigsaw apparently had been watching a lot of people before he finally keeled over, because he's apparently capable of working his magic after death, and going on to other random characters who he had no relation to prior to make final amends. Instead he's just continuing his work, but the story is even weaker this time around, and barely makes much sense at times. For me, it was up to the point of Saw IV that I just decided to give up on this series, because it was getting so redundant and pointless that I just couldn't see myself being interested in it anymore. So as a result I haven't seen Saw V, but I don't think it could be any better than III or even IV thus I can't say anything about it. And also for a while, there hasn't only been a Saw VI out this year, but there's also a video game that came out.

I'm just amazed as to how Lions Gate is capable of making all these cash ins and still making enough money to fund the Saw movie for next year. Because really, if you think it's ending at Saw VI, then you really need to smell some open trash cans, because for next year, a Saw VII is being made, and of course a Saw VIII for the year after, and a Saw IX after that year. If you can't see a Saw X on the horizon, you probably need to get out a telescope and notice that it's there and who knows how many other sequels are going to be preceding it?

Up to this point, the only way the series is ever going to end is if either A) Tobin Bell dies, at which point they might just start making prequels anyway, or B) People finally realize that they have been seeing the same movie the first 5 or 6 times and stop seeing them. Personally I'm the kind of person who's cool with sequels, if I liked something, then I don't mind seeing the same formula two or three more times. But if those two or three more times are done poorly, then I don't feel like trying to give a crap about the series anymore up to that point. Saw is just a perfect example of this, Saw III wasn't my favorite, but it at least managed to tie everything up and just should have ended there.

I know some might argue, "Well at least they're caring about narrative continuity unlike a lot of other sequels." My answer to this is, "Why should the directors get an A for effort in trying to make a long convoluted series of trap settings by Jigsaw, all of which have no relation to him whatsoever?" By that logic, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin are great movies just because they made an attempt to chronologically follow the Tim Burton Batman movies. (No they aren't great, but not too bad either. Batman Forever can be pretty boring when Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey aren't on camera, but Batman & Robin has camp value in a post Dark Knight world.)

Overall, this is just what I have to say to the folks at Lions Gate, yes I know up to this point it's pointless to act like I'm actually writing a letter of complaint to the company itself, but it's a good way to close off a rant and it makes me feel a little less agitated. What I have to say is this, "STOP! JUST STOP ALREADY! It's not cool anymore, its originality is soon to hit rock bottom, and every sequel that's been coming out has had about as much point as your typical Land Before Time sequel (Yes, I went there.) Personally I thought only the first two movies were particularly good, but if I was supposed to recognize the Saw series as a film series, I'd only follow it up to Saw III. Or better yet, just stick to the first one and act like the sequels don't exist." Of course considering the title of my blog, I doubt that anyone at Lions Gate is going to be reading anything I write.

The real case scenario is, of course, that Saw movies generate a lot of money, and in a capitalist economic system, if it generates money, more of it is made. There's no question of quality or anything like that, just a "generate and take" scenario. Though I can say that one thing is true about every Cash Cow, the utter eventually goes dry. People just have to start realizing that it's pointless for adding any more sequels to the Saw series and stop seeing these movies in theaters. Although if you are going to see Saw VI in theaters just because you actually managed to enjoy Saw I-V, then I can't really stop you from doing that unfortunately. Me however, if I ever do end up watching any of the future sequels, I'll just use the same "method" I used to watch Dragonball Devolution so that no money goes to the directors.

That's my rambling on the Saw series. If you want my recommendation, then just watch the first one only. If you want to watch any of the sequels though, I'd say just watch up to Saw III, believe me, you'll be thankful that you did. Have a happy Halloween, and I hope to do something productive another time.

That's the news from Myviewing as of October 31, 2009. Happy Halloween yet again.

Hey folks, it's been a while yet again. It's amazing how fast time goes when college is riding you for all its worth. But a little while ago, I just got a new topic to rant on, and obviously as you can tell, it's about charge stations. Mind you, this rant may be a bit ill-informed since it's only based on what I've experienced over the last week. If the charge station you own works perfectly for you, then congratulations you have more luck with rechargeable batteries than I do. Anyway, on topic.

About two years ago, in the Winter of 2007, I got Christmas money, and I decided to buy a charging station for my Wii. There's one thing Wii remotes have a disadvantage with, and that's the fact that the batteries, at least for me, don't tend to last as long as I'd like them to. So in order to keep playing my Wii, I'd have to buy batteries on a regular basis, and I already put my parents through that strain when I was in my Gameboy days playing Pokemon to death. Of course now that I'm older, I'd have to buy those batteries myself, and buying them myself would be pinching me constantly and I wouldn't be able to buy the games I wanted for my Wii.

So I found out about the charge station from one of my friends, and since it seemed to work for him, I decided to check one out. Basically charging stations are devices that come with compatible Wii remote batteries that when you leave them in the station, they charge up more power so you don't have to buy new batteries. That would be cool, if they actually managed to keep working and not break on you.

I've had my charging station for over a year, and it worked fine, but then one day it started to not work as well as it should have. There were cases when I'd load the Wii remotes into my station, and the station is supposed to glow blue when it says it's charging, but when I took them out to play the game I wanted to play, it would stop functioning properly after about six minutes. That's when I started to notice that there was something wrong with the Wii remote batteries. So after much testing, the batteries seemed to be on their final days, and I thought it was simply time for some new batteries. Unfortunatley, life just can't be that simple.

I bought another station and two new batteries, but when I used these batteries after charging them, they didn't work any better than my old batteries. So I eventually decided to go back to playing with traditional batteries and, surprise surprise, they worked perfectly. No matter how many times I put the batteries into their stations and charged them until their lights faded out, they just would not fully charge at all.

Overall, I think this is what demonstrates the tremendous amount of "help" that charging stations give. Buying new batteries doesn't help, putting them in two different stations doesn't help, and not even leaving the battery in the station for two days seems to help (In fact I probably killed the battery by doing that&hellip. So there's the Wii Remote Charge Station in a nutshell, works for a year, and then decides to keel over. My dad recently got a charge unit for rechargeable batteries that I could use, and they work just as good as regular batteries do. So I'd say if you really want to be able to buy batteries so you don't have to buy too many more, than just go with this method.

That's my unfortunate life's story on this failed hardware, and I hope I at least managed to warn a few people about the overall risk of buying these stations. I don't know if I bought from the wrong brand or whatever, but I'm pretty displeased with this. For more productive contributions to the internet, please stay tuned for my Dune book mini-reviews and my Halloween special rant, you'll find out the subject when we cross that bridge. So until then, I'll try not to be a stranger. For that long at the very least.

That's the news from Myviewing as of October 26, 2009.