Well would you look at that! I finally got a new theme on the Conduit. I'll admit that it's been ages since I've designed so I feel like this wasn't top notch work, but I'm satisfied with it. So if you will tell me how my new look is.

Next I have to say that E3 is a mere week around the corner. You know what that means? Niether do I! Hopefully this year will be good and surpass last year. Not to sound pessimistic or anything.

Anyways to countdown to E3 I'll be posting a review blog of the best of every Nintendo Series. Now the review in my blog will have pictures while the review will also be posted in my reviews. So you might want to catch the blog review because it'll be a lot better. So I decided to start off the week with Metroid. Here I go:

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Review: Metroid Zero Mission: 8.5

The best Metroid game experience but is it a little short lived?

I'm going to give it to you straight this is probably the best Metroid game made, atleast in my opinion. I'll start off with the story. This game is basically a re-cap of Samus's very first adventure. While it does follow some of the key points of the original Metroid it is not entirely the same. The game has more to offer and some spit shined levels. They've taken the original game a buffed it up with new features, graphics, and more.

The first and most easily noticed change between the two is graphics. The graphics in this game have been signifigantly changed. The game has come a long way since the 1980's and now has beautful 2-d side scrolling graphics. The graphics are definately detailed and clearly had effort put into them. Enemies look more menacing, enviroments tend to look more impressive and bosses are massive and threatening all with the new graphics.

Metroid has come a long way in graphics since it first came in the 1980's.

The sound will accompany the graphics and also has changed a lot. Although the sound isn't your surround sound movie type of sound it does do alright. The music isn't impressive hollywood music but it is pretty good.

However more important than sound or graphics is the gameplay. After years of building side scrolling shooter games, the metroid series has finally delivered it's prime experience. From the minute you start you are blasting with your arm cannon. You can get enemies from all angles with the ability to aim up, side, diagnol or even down. You'll never miss an enemy and you're ensured the maximum 2-d experience. Switching weapons proves to be easy as ever, you can press a button and your ready to fire a barrage of missiles. The game is so easy to get a hang of that the metroid nooby could pick it up and enjoy this fine adventure.

Besides the enemies the exploring is also well done. Traveling to any point on any part of the planet can be easy with the right tools. There are endless amounts of items to hunt down as you explore and they all give you a reason to explore the planet even further. As you get more tools, more of the planet will become accessible and you can explore more to gather more items. Although backtracking is frequently required and can get annoying at some times it still isn't near as upsetting as other games. With a map provided you can find that area that you haven't explored and get to it without too much hassel.

The game provides an endless amount of items tofind while exploring.

Fighting is also a great experience. Most enemies you can wipe out just by shooting them a number of times but others will require a strategy. Enemies despite this, are still very unique. Some will hang off theroof while other hop from place to place. Some can move across any surface no matter it's angle. Then the bosses, while there a few of them, theyare large and menacing. Most of the bosses require a strategy to defeat them. The bossesprovide a good difficulty and are by no means dissapointing. My only complaint would be that some of them still only require shootingmaking them too simple. But never-the-less they are still fun.

Bosses are often large and menacing.

One of the big downsides of the game is the length. Your first play through you will most likely be to simply beat the game. You can accomplish that in a very short amount of time. Unless you aim to get all items it is unlikely that the game will last you very long. The replay value is also very small, especially it you'll gotten to the Space Pirate ship. At some point you won't be able to go back and get items. Your best bet is to restart the game and that can be annoying if your trying to get all items.

Overall this game is a great experience. It may be short but it is still the best that Metroid can offer and that's pretty good. If your a Metroid fan or your just searching for a good game, this is a must buy.

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More is to come! Well that's it for this blog, see you tommarow!

Has a new theme, frogloe

Wow it's been a while since I posted a blog. Don't worry I didn't dissapear, I'm just not a huge blogger. I've still been coming on GS though.

Well as you know E3 start on June 1st and I'm pretty excited. I'm not gonna put my hopes sky high or else I'll end up dissapointed like last year but this should be interesting. There are a few rumors floating around that Nintendo is going back to hardcore and that High Voltage is going to announce two new hardcore shooters or something of the sort and whatnot. Now last year a week before E3 I posted anticipation blogs. This year I will write a review every day on the best of the best at Nintendo. That means I'll write a review for the best of each series, so the mario games, zelda and so forth. In addition to making the reviews, I'll put them in my blog with some extra stuff such as pictures and videos that you wouldn't normally find in a user made review. So if your interested in my opinion or in what Nintendo used to offer, that's something to look into.

Over the weekend I went and saw Star Trek and I'll say that it was a very good movie. Good plot, good characters, good special effects, and good action sequences. I would highly reccomend watching this. I would also reccomend seeing it in theaters, because seeing it on the big screen is something this movie really deserves. So go see it n' stuff otherwise.... I'll make you eat a pie with a spoon.

And lastly a while ago I got sonic and the Black Knight. Kind of a sucky game and I'm dissapointed because the story book series looked like a fresh new start for sonic. Unfortunately he does not bode well with a sword. If you heard stuff about unleashed being bad, then forget that because this makes Unleashed look like a 10.0.

Anyways I made a video to show you multiplayer if after all of that you still expressed interest so here it is:

Once again, I do not reccomend. If your a die hard sonic fan than you can if you must but for the rest of you, please don't waste $50.

Well that's it for this blog. See you later!

E3 hyped but not too hyped, frogloe

New new new new new new Zelda game! I just pee'd myself and boy do I regret the large glass of Orange Juice I had this moring. Anyways I'm so happy right now! It seems as if all of us Nintendo believers were right, Nintendo is finally getting back to it's roots!

Anyways it appears as if this new Zelda game is to be based around trains. This concept may sound wierd at first and even for me it seems a little on the odd side, but when was the last time Zelda dissapointed? NEVAH! So I believe that this will be a great game and won't fail to impress me. The other slightly wierd part is the fact that the game kept it's domain to the DS. So yes, this is a cell shaded game. So if you want to see more, this game is called Zelda the Spirit Tracks. Just look around on GS and you should be able to pick out a little info aswell as a spiffy new trailer for the game!

Lastly for my blog I still need help deciding which new game to get. Last blog I eliminated it down to two games:

Prince of Persia

Empire Total War

For more info check out my last blog. So please vote and hope me make a decision.

Zelda fan who needs to control his bladder, frogloe