apparently some university is trying to ban cliches. seems kind of wierd to me because we have a law preventing them from doing that ...

if they ever do get to do that i'm wondering how their going to police it, you can't exactly have half the population following around the other half and preventing them from saying cliches. more importantly what would we call these people, the cliche police? perhaps the internet shall give us a little help and we can call them the cliche nazis, for which they will of course fine us.

of course i don't think this is ever going to get off the ground due to the law and also because of the reason cliches are cliches. of course according to them slurred speach like people saying 'stralia instead of Australia is a cliche too. not entirely certain what they mean with that. maybe they intend to ban all italian pizza chefs? gay people with lisps? of course those last two are more stereotypes than cliches but the intent is the same. if something is overused then it shouldn't be used. i don't agree with it but hey apparently there's an entire community that does so who knows.

personally i think they're ging the entirely wrong way about this, you don't banish old cliches never to return, you make up newer, better, stronger cliches or maybe i'm thinking of something else i don't know.

anyway, i've gotten around to playing most of the games i got for christmas, and despite already getting so many games i've already bought two more, the new(est) prince of persia and the new animal crossing.

first off the games i've played on the wii, or more to the point just the game i've played on the wii. so far i've only played de blob, and if you're in either the fable union or the nintendo league then you already know that i love it but i just thought i'd reiterate that. after a while though the same area does get a bit repetetive and it doesn't really help that i'm trying to 100% it (i'll probably have to go back and get all the time medals but other than that i should be able to do it in one run). i'd say the best part about it is the music effects, whenever you paint a building the music starts to pick up or if it's already picked up then it does different sound effects depending on what colour you are, couple this with the fact that to jump you have to shake the wii remote then you have some awesome sound.

i've played three games on the 360 so far, eternal sonata, sonic unleashed and prince of persia. out of all of them i have to say that eternal sonata is the best. i haven't played much of the other two (barely any of sonic unleashed so i can't say anything about that) but prince of persia is definitely too much of the same over and over again due to being an open ended adventure type game but it's still pretty fun to run around. eternal sonata is a pretty old game so it's surprising that i've only just got it. for those that don't know it's an rpg with combat slightly like the tales series but different. you still have the turns system of a traditional rpg but in these turns you can run around and attack monsters until your turn runs out. the shadow and light effects are nice, and the special attacks are very nice looking if a bit repetetive till you get the next one. the worst part about this game i would say would have to be that combat can get a bit repetitive because the same strategy for every enemy and only a slightly changed formula for bosses can basically win you the game. however the rest of the game is extremely fun and for me the repetetiveness doesn't really seem all that repetetive for some reason. although the way the story is done is a bit bad, a lot of small plotholes, lots of pointless exposition, what i'm guessing is extremely obvious time travel and flashbacks within flashback. the core story has been done a lot but is still pretty good, evil corrup king attempts to take over the world with enhanced super soldiers against their will, bunch of people attempt to stop him. of course this is wrapped in the dream world of implied super rich man frederic francois chopin (pronounced Sho-pan), couldn't have it any other way. though of course any game that has a guy who wears a top hat and fights with a cane as well as a man with a monacle who fights with a katana is awesome no matter what you do to it in my opinion.

for the ds i got about 5 new games of which i have played 2 (enough to actually warrant talking about them anyway). megaman ZX and FFXII: Revenant Wings. megaman ZX is pretty fun,albeit fairly easy in comparison to earlier megaman games. My favourite out of the two though is definitely RW, i never really thought it would be all that good because i don't like the RTS series very much without heavily cheating (thank you age of empires ^_^) so far i've only played up to the second sky-island and it's very fun. I never really thought the RTS style would work for final fantasy but then i thought that about regular strategy too. although there are still a few issues with me taking a bit too long to think about what i'm going to do (resulting in wave after wave of lightning dogs coming to murder me) altogether it's fairly easy although still challenging.

... long blog is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong.