This weeks game of choice was an old classic called super mario galaxy. I beat this game for the first time about a year ago. I'm still playing God of War with my wife and a few other things but this last week i got really swamped with homework and needed to play something to wind down on a few occasions. My first two games that i went to (which were Little Big Planet and Warhawk) had mysteriously disappeared, which was very disappointing. So I decided on mario galaxy because I had been wanting to beat it again for a while.

Mario galaxy is a really great game. I am constantly blown away by the guys at Nintendo that can still come up with ideas like these. It is very much like mario 64 and mario sunshine in that you go to different areas in the game and collect stars and as you collect more and more stars new areas open up that get more difficult as the game goes on. But somehow they manage to do something great and different in each game. In this game the princess gets kidnapped by bowser on his starship and taken to the center of the universe. Now its marios job yet again to find a way to get her back. This time mario is hopping around on different planets ranging from the size of a house to the size of a golf course.

Currently my favorite thing about the game is the gravity. It is really amazing how they have done it. Each planet has its own gravity and mario can walk all the way around it. He can also jump really high and if he gets close enough to another planet he will get caught in its gravity and be pulled toward it. It is really cool and really hard to explain, but very fun to experience. I say good job Nintendo on this game. It's very amazing. I am looking forward to the sequel Super Mario Galaxy 2 that is coming out next year.

handheld

This week was a little different then normal. I had a trip planned to go to yellowstone with my in-laws so I wasn't able to spend a lot of time playing video games. None actually, due to the amount of time i spent working on homework so that I would be caught up when i got home. So in the car on the way to yellowstone i pulled out my DS and instead of playing Zelda phantom hourglass like i was planning i put in professor layton and the curious village which i started over a year ago and had yet to finish. And 7 and a half hours later I finished it. Professor Layton is a fabulous game. Layton is hired by lady Dahlia who is the late wife of Baron Reinhold. He is hired to solve the mystery of the golden apple because the baron said that whoever solves the mystery would inherit his fortune. Its a great game with plenty of twists for those seeking a great story. The part of the game which i enjoyed most is the gameplay. Its set up as a point and click game and how you progress is solving puzzles for the citizens of the town. Its a wonderful idea that I feel is executed very well. Hopefully I'll be able to finish phantom hourglass now though..

So this past week i spent a lot of time (a lot being relative to the time i wasn't doing homework) playing the game God of War. I've already beat this game once before but I'm currently playing it again because it is my wife's favorite game ever probably. Last time i was beating it she came in at the final boss and watched me beat that and immediately made me tell her the full story of this game while driving to the video game store to purchase the sequel. Needless to say its a great game which after beating almost the whole game for the second time I think it has great replay value.

In the game you play as a fictional character named Kratos in ancient Athens. Though out the game you learn about Kratos past as a leader of the Spartan army and how he asked Ares, the God of War, to save them in their time of need. In Return Kratos would owe his soul to Ares.

After a while Kratos decides that he is done owing his soul to Ares because of all the Evil things that Ares is doing so he sets off on a quest to bring him down and kill him. The game starts out on a ship to athens. When Kratos arrives he learns of a weapon that can kill even the gods but it is hidden in the temple of pandora. So he sets out on his adventure to the desert to find the temple of pandora which rides upon the back of one of the titans.

It's a great game. I'm hoping to finish it sometime this week. The third game is going to be released in early 2010 and so we want to beat this one and the second again before it comes out. I'll keep you updated as i play these two wonderful games.

Week 1

For this weeks blog i am going to be talking mostly about the game Bioshock. It's a game about a guy who was in a plane crash and ended up on this tiny man-made island that is only just like a statue in the middle of the ocean. On the island he gets in an elevator that takes him down to this huge under water city called Rapture city. It is a beautiful game. I played it on the ps3.

In the last part of the game there was a series of twists that totally blew my mind. The people that you thought were good ended up being bad and the ones that you thought were bad ended up even worse (or sometimes not so bad). It was pretty crazy though. I don't want to say too much because I don't want to spoil the ending for people who are going to play the game. There is also part of the game where you can make a choice that kind of continues with you throughout the game. I am very excited to play this game again because the choice that I made was really cool, so I want to see what happens if you choose to go the other way.

All in all Bioshock was an amazing game! The team that made it also made another game called Fallout that I am going to start playing soon. I am looking forward to that. Right now I started playing God of War again which is also an amazing game. Ill try to write about that next week, or Metroid Prime 3 for the Wii.