I had a lot of fun writing this. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think!

Professor Layton and the Curious Village - 9.5

Hey everyone! I hope all of you are doing well! For those of you who have recently started school again, I hope the transition has been alright! Summer 2009, you were a good one! I just started back, and I have a feeling this is going to be a busy, busy semester. If you see me around less, that's why. It's going to be good, though... I'm really excited to be back at my uni in the states... it's been nine months because of my time in England, so it's good to see all these people again!

I know I teased this awhile ago, but I just finished my Beautiful Katamari review. I gave it a 7.0. I liked the game a lot, but it was undoubtedly missing some of the greatness of its predecessors. We Love Katamari is easily the better game, which is disappointing... no one likes it when a sequel is worse than the games that went before it! It's still fun, though, and worth the $20 it goes for now. You can read the review here. Next up will be my review of Professor Layton and the Curious Village. Should go up soon, maybe even this weekend! My BK review was very traditional, but I want to do something fun for the Layton review. We'll see how it goes.

Something else fun happened this month - I was Gamespot's moderator of the month for August! You can check out my cool little red badge in my profile, but not for much longer! I was selected due to a writing contest we had... the objective was to write an article that we thought would benefit the Gamespot community. I wrote about tips for acting respectfully on the forums. You can check out the article the Moderator Collective! I'd love to link it to you properly, but Gamespot's HTML error hates me and never lets me do what I want. Here's the link: http://www.gamespot.com/pages/unions/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26997413&union_id=15969 (Note to the power's that be: PLEASE FIX THIS IT MAKES ME SAD!). While you're there, consider becoming a member of the Moderator Collective! It's a way for users of the site to get to know us mods better. Also, here's the mention of me being MotM in Gamespot's Community Report. For being MotM, GS sends us a game. My choice was... Bioshock? I know, I know... it's old as dirt! Still, I've never gotten around to playing it and have really wanted to. Since I chose an old, cheap game, Jody let me pick two old, cheap games! Fun times! I also got Mass Effect. Looking forward to playing both of them now that my Xbox is finally back from getting its RROD repaired!

That's all for today loves. I hope you all have amazing weekends!

Hey kids. We've all played Shadow of the Colossus. If not, get out of my blog. No seriously. Bye. Go play it. Then come back and we'll talk.

All done?

Alright so Wander from the game is currently duking it out with several other characters to be one of the ten reader-selected heroes picked for the final bracket in the All Time Greatest Hero challenge. I'm not so sure about this one. While I like Wander and all, you have to admit there is something a little dubious about him and his situation. You can't help but feel sorry for the colossi he wakes and kills... they seem innocent, and that makes Wander a little less than heroic.

There is one character in the game that never wavers from heroism: Agro! Agro, Wander's horse, is self-sacrificing until the end and a much better hero than Wander will ever be. Get Agro the recognition he deserves - join the movement!

Grassroots people, grassroots.

I'd absolutely love to hear all your thoughts on why or why not Wander is actually a hero. Let's talk about it! Feel free to comment in my blog or in the ATG forum thread.