Hello, my name is siara79, and I have a problem.

The stereotype is that most women, when they go shopping to cheer themselves up, tend to go shopping for clothes/shoes/shiny things. Now.. while I like shiny things as much as the next female-type person, when I get depressed I shop for something else entirely. Video games!

If you can't guess, I'm having a rough week due to a nasty combination of work related stress and family (parental) related stress. So when I went to the mall tonight to get a classic controller for my new VC games, I ended up coming home with two other games.

Super Paper Mario and Link's Crossbow Training. Both solid investments, I think. I enjoyed the target shooting sections on Wii Play and I'm a fan of Zelda, so yeah, I'm enjoying it. I didn't expect anything brainiac out of it and I'm getting exactly what I expected. I haven't actually messed with the Zapper yet, but the standard nunchuck/remote combo works. Managed to score two bronzes and a silver before my pain meds kicked in and my reflexes went, so I think it's going to be fun to try to top that.

Super Paper Mario is making me squee with delight and be all girly. I loved the SMRPG-ish style of Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door but sadly I missed out on the N64 original (although it will be remedied when I have a bit more money.. *points at the VC*) so I had originally thought this was more of the same. Upon further research I found out that it's some sort of weird platformer/RPG hybrid, but hey, it's gotten pretty good reviews and I want to flesh out my Wii collection...

And I'm hooked. Dammit. :P Seriously, I'm utterly charmed by its hybrid gameplay and some of its dialogue, even in the first two chapters, made me giggle. Especially when the game broke the fourth wall, sort of. "You don't know what this A is of which I speak? Well, if we're being observed from another dimension, those folks will understand. You don't have enough mustache to understand it!" (or something)

So yeah. I actually went in looking for WarioWare but they had ONE used copy and I have the discount card.. so it was essentially $10 off and the disc is in perfect condition, so I wasn't passing it up.

Now I've got to be good for a little bit, except for a charger station (that's all I need yet to have most of the peripherals I wanted for my Wii, except for a memory card, perhaps).

Oh, and I've not lost my touch on Legend of Kage. I made it nearly to the end of the game in 14 minutes. :D Got killed two floors down from "freeing" the princess on the last level, then I would've had the final boss, but meh. People said that it sucks and it's not worth the $5 but you know what? Even if I beat it in 15 minutes it's still worth it to me because I'll keep playing and trying to rack up a decent score, because I love that game. :)