Iron Man 2: Why The Hate? (#133)

Recently I've been going through a big Marvel Cinematic Universe phase (geddit... 'phase'... haha... it wasn't even intentional) and I've been rewatching the whole thing that's been released as of now. Well, just the movies, not the TV shows or one-shots, though like I said last time I'd like to watch Agents of Shield again from season 1 (still haven't decided what to do about that dilemma, by the way). So far I've watched every film in Phase 1 apart from the Avengers (by the way, fun fact: in the UK the Avengers is called Avengers Assemble so as not to be confused with an old TV series here about spies or something called the Avengers) which means I've watched Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, last night I watched Thor, and this morning/afternoon I watched Captain America: The First Avenger.

When I watched Iron Man 2 a couple days ago, I enjoyed it a lot more than the first time I watched it, not because I thought it was bad the first time, but because when I watch a film for the second, third, etc. time, I seem to understand the film more and the events that are happening in it. I'm not crazy (I think); Blog Buddy agrees. Anyway, I was watching the film and remembered reading a while ago that a lot of MCU fans felt that this was one of the weakest films in the franchise and thought that Iron Man 1 and 3 were tons better. While I will agree that 1 and 3 are probably better than 2, I don't really see why so many people didn't like Iron Man 2. I liked that it introduced War Machine and Black Widow and I don't know why some might think it's a bad movie. I might just be thinking in a biased and optimistic way but still.

Peace out,
Thomas

My AoS: Season 3 Conflict (#132)

It's been four days since I made a post. That's the longest so far that I've gone on this blog without making a post, but like I said the most I'll ever go is five days. So don't worry.

I finished watching the second season of Marvel's Agents of Shield on Sunday and enjoyed it a ton. I'm even considering watching the first season again since when I first watched it in April I didn't completely understand what was going on, but now after watching season 2 and understanding the stuff that was happening more I'm kind of excited to give season 1 another try. But I have a bit of conflict, hence the title. Basically, there are around five or six episodes of season 3 already released and I really got into the show recently. I'm not sure whether to watch episodes of the third season as they come out or to wait until the whole season comes out on Blu Ray. Thing is, if I wait for all twenty-two (I presume) episodes to come out on Blu Ray, I'll be able to watch them all at once and it'll be a really satisfying and enjoyable experience. It'll definitely be worth it to wait for them to come out, but I'm a very impatient person and a year is a long time to wait for the Blu Ray... I guess I'll have to see what I choose to do. Probably the waiting a year solution.

I also watched Iron Man 2 again recently, so expect a possible post on that coming soon. I promise I won't make you wait four days this time.

Thomas

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 Blu Ray (#131)

In the past couple of days I've started watching loads of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episodes. I got season 1 on Blu Ray for my birthday in April and I won't deny it was pretty good, but I got season 2 last Sunday and I am loving it. I watched two episodes the day I got it and they were okay but I've been watching up to  five episodes a night since then (keep in mind they're forty minute episodes) and I think I have risen to the state of binge watching, which I never thought I'd say about this show. Don't get me wrong; I'm not one of those many people who think the show sucks and stuff. I like it, I just don't think it's amazing. Well I didn't before but like I said, I've been watching it tons since like Wednesday. Season 2 is so great! Like Blog Buddy says, they've introduced the Inhumans very early, about four to five years before their film debut. I'm looking forward to that film a lot more now though thanks to this.

I like how the agents' shadows make up the logo.

Thomas

Star Wars VII: Tickets Booked! (#130)

The plot thickens, as my tickets to Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (It seriously bothers me that they're seemingly just calling it Star Wars: The Force Awakens and not Episode VII... I feel like a Star Wars movie isn't complete without that Roman numeral) have been booked! After finding out that tickets would be available at most to all cinemas at 8:30pm EST on Monday, I checked Tuesday afternoon (UK time) and it's lucky I checked early! I told my friend that we'd have to book ASAP to get good seats and he thought I was being paranoid, but when I looked less than 24 hours after booking was made available around a third to nearly a half of all the seats were already booked and unavailable. Anyway, luckily there were three seats left on back row just to the left of the middle where we usually sit (my mum's coming too xD) so I was right to do that early.

We booked for Saturday December 19th, at 14:10 (an ideal time of day; not too early, not too late. Like I've said before I'm really picky about going to cinemas since it has to be just perfect) and in
IMAX 3D. So we've got our places already booked and prepared. This is really really great.

Thomas

Back To The Future Day (#129)

In case you didn't already hear, today is officially Back To The Future Day! In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly and Emmett Brown (the doc) travel thirty years in the future from 1989 to October 21st 2015. Which is today! So yes, the date that this blog posts goes up is the exact date that the famous pair travel to in the future. It's really interesting to see what people back in 1989 (the first BTTF was released in 1985, BTTF 2 came out in '89 and I believe BTTF 3 came out in '90) thought 2015 would be like. Unfortunately, we don't have flying cars, hoverboards or 3D holographic Jaws 19 advertisements, but they didn't completely miss the mark. We do have 3D movies and even more immersive experiences such as 4D film, plus even though we don't exactly have that insta-pizza seen in Marty's 2015 home we do have faster food preparation methods that are at least a bit similar. And I'm pretty sure Nike are making those self-lacing shoes (seriously).

Interesting fact: I originally wanted this date to coincide with post #121 so I could have the post number be a reference to the topic at hand. Like with post #101 being about the Wonderful 101, I wanted this to be #121 so I could make the '1.21 JIGGAWATTS?!' joke from the first BTTF movie. But I didn't want to delay posts just to make that happen. Yeah, believe it or not it's not because I forgot...

When this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some
serious NO SWEARING BECAUSE THIS IS A FAMILY
FRIENDLY BLOG. Although I love this line in the film.

By the way, the exact time that Doc and Marty arrive on this date in the movie is 16:29. That time has already passed here in the UK and unfortunately I couldn't see a flying DeLorean in the sky, but it'll be a couple hours until that time hits in various parts of America. I'll probably be asleep by the time 16:29 falls over there, but hopefully they'll get lucky and be paid a visit by a younger Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd?

I also now realise that I should've wrote this post earlier and uploaded it at exactly 16:29. That would've been really special. Damn...

RUN FOR IT, MARTY!

Thomas

Star Wars VII Trailer 3 Released! (#128)

Yo guys, the third and final trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens has been released. It features more looks at Han, Finn and Rey as well as our first proper look at Leia. Tickets are also now available to purchase from almost all if not every cinema. I checked Cineworld and this includes them, so hopefully I'll be able to book IMAX tickets pretty soon. You can catch the new trailer here.

Thomas

Welcome To My YouTube Channel (#127)

Hey guys, just saying I started making some Let's Plays of a sort. It's pretty shaky so far and I make a lot of obnoxious tongue noises in the first episode, but I fix this in the second episode. This will be the only time I'll really make a post about it (apart from special occasions or maybe the start of new let's plays) since I don't want to be plugging my channel all the time, so thanks for reading and possibly taking the time to check it out. My first video, the first episode of a New Super Mario Bros let's play, can be found here.

DON'T WORRY, I WILL STILL BE MAKING BLOG POSTS.

Also, last night I felt really sick and I had a horrible headache. Despite that, I'm still going into school today since if I don't I'll miss loads and probably suffer for it. I'm not doing PE though due to my illness, hopefully. So that's a big bonus to feeling terrible.

Update: Actually, I decided against the whole let's playing thing for now. I just didn't really like the way it was turning out, but I would definitely like to try again in the future. I took the videos down for now.

Thomas

Star Wars VII Trailer 3: Incoming! (#126)

Great news for Star Wars lovers and fans: the third and final trailer (not including any TV spots) for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens will be arriving this upcoming Monday, the 19th October 2015, at around 8PM EST (Eastern Standard Time). There will also be a new poster tomorrow, and apparently, after the trailer is released on Monday tickets for the film be available to buy at most if not all cinemas around 8:30PM EST. I hope this is true for Cineworld, because I want to get the tickets for this film as soon as possible. Thanks to screenrant.com for this information.

Thomas

Paper Jam UK Release Date! (#125)

Some pleasing news today. Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam, the upcoming 3DS game that will feature a crossover between the two awesome Mario and Luigi and Paper Mario RPG series, will be releasing in Europe on December 4th 2015! Originally, the game was slated for a 2016 release date, and even though the USA will still not be receiving the game until some time next year (probably around January or February) here we're getting it just before Christmas. The game has also been named Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam Bros in Europe, just like how Mario and Luigi: Dream Team was renamed to Mario and Luigi: Dream Team Bros. I don't really get this at all; is adding the word 'Bros' to the title going to make Europeans such as myself attracted to the game? I really don't understand. But whatever.

December 4th is also the same day that Xenoblade Chronicles X releases here and in the USA. I'll probably start playing Paper Jam as an early Christmas present on the day it comes out and complete it by Christmas Day, on which I'll get Xenoblade X and start that then, since that's probably going to take over 300 hours for me to complete. I'm not exaggerating, I forget exactly who but I'm pretty sure one of the designers of X has said that the game is around 300+ hours long. The world is about 5 times the size of that in Xenoblade Chronicles, which is already pretty enormous.

If you didn't already catch this year's E3 trailer for Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam, click right here.

Thomas

Rumour: Fantastic Four To Join MCU? (#124)

Rumours have been flying round today that after the terrible failure of the recent Fantastic Four reboot film, Fox have traded the rights to Fantastic Four films with Marvel Studios in exchange for the rights to make two X-Men TV series, Hellfire and Legion. If this is true, it could mean that one of the three 2020 MCU films could possibly be a Fantastic Four film. I would have no issues with this being the case; having the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four together in one film franchise would be amazing and the only thing missing that would keep it from being the ultimate Marvel experience (although, let's be honest, it pretty much already is) would be the X-Men, though I don't think Marvel Studios don't need to interfere with that since Fox are doing fine with those. This FF deal would also include the Silver Surfer, Galactus and Doctor Doom, which would all do great as MCU villains. Maybe they could have an actual Galactus, instead of a stupid freakin' cloud this time... Anyway, again these are only rumours from a source that hasn't really been named so take this with a grain of salt.

It just bewilders me how they could
have looked at this and thought: "Okay, what should
we make this guy look like in the movie? We
need to make it awesome. Hmm... ah, of course!
An ominous cloud!"

Update: Fox have denied these rumours and said that they're 'completely untrue', and Marvel have also denied them. I guess that means that the FF rights are still owned by Fox, at least for now. I wouldn't be surprised if a deal lie this does happen in the near future, though; it happened with Spider-Man when Sony and Marvel made a deal, and The Amazing Spider-Man series was doing much, much better than the new FF. Seriously, Fox. You need this.

Thomas

Gaspen Payne: Chief Prosecutor!? (#123)

Let me just clarify something quickly: like I said when I introduced the concept of Turnabout Talk, this won't be a TT post. This is news about Ace Attorney that's been released recently, and I'll only be using the Turnabout Talk subtitle when I'm talking about stuff in the series that isn't news and is just about something in the games that have already been released. Okay, if you've played AA5 and you haven't heard the news then I'm sure that that title's seriously bewildering you, so let's begin.

It has been reported that in Ace Attorney 6, Gaspen Payne is the chief prosecutor in the Kingdom of Kurain. After the events of Ace Attorney 5, he was fired from the legal system in Los Angeles (since he did run out of the court due to that bomb hoax in Turnabout Countdown) and decided to become an undefeated prosecutor in Kurain since there are no defense attorneys there. Weak move, Payne, weak move. I assume he'll be the first guy you face in this new country, where you'll decrown him as Kurain's chief prosecutor. That should be fun, heh.

Just look at this elegant man.

It has also been confirmed that Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice will both be the main characters in AA6, with the latest issue of Famitsu calling them 'Double Protagonists'. Guess Athena's been dumped, then. Though I guess her character was fully explored in AA5 plus it'll be nice to just have the two main attorneys again, so I'm okay with this. Apparently, the game will take place in both Kurain and Los Angeles (the main setting for all the other games), with Apollo having a case in LA before heading off to meet up with Wright in Kurain. There will be some official artwork on the game's Japanese site soon, featuring Apollo, Gaspen and the new spirit medium character who will control the water mirror device in court, Leifa Padma Kurain.

Thanks to Famitsu for this info.

Thomas

Marvel Battlegrounds: Just Like Smash Bros. (#122)

I am finding it very hard to post since school is taking up a lot of my time and energy. But I just thought to myself, "DO SOME WORK, GOSHDARNIT." And here we are.

At New York Comic Con recently, it was announced that there is going to be a new playset for Disney Infinity 3.0. This playset is called Marvel Battlegrounds, and will be like a Marvel version of Super Smash Bros. It will support four local players, and allow friends to fight each other using their favourite Marvel heroes and villains. Hopefully I'll get to play it since Blog Buddy is a massive Disney infinity fan, and I see him a lot. Like, almost every Saturday. As I've probably said before, I think Disney Infinity is a good game series and I'd buy it for sure but with all the figures it's just too expensive; I could get around 8 or 9 Wii U games for the same price it would take me to buy all characters in Disney Infinity. No kidding, I did the math. Partially.

Catch the trailer for Marvel Battlegrounds here.

Ahhhh, it's refreshing to have a short, sharp and succinct (thanks to my English teacher for teaching me that word) post. Reminds me of the good ol' days...

Thomas

Kart Attack (#121)

First of all, sorry for not posting much this month. Don't mean to neglect the blog but this is a thing that will happen since I don't want to just make posts about boring things, and since there's sometmes not much to talk about there won't be many updates sometimes. The most I would ever go without posting is 5 days, which sounds a lot but that's more worst case scenario.

Okay, so this is that letter that I sent to Official Nintendo Magazine a couple years ago that I was talking about very recently. It was issue 80, and it was an email I sent a couple months before that issue about ideas for Mario Kart 8 (Mario Kart 8 hadn't been confirmed at the time and I think barely anything was known about the Wii U, but we of course assumed there would be an MK8 since Mario Kart 7 had come out not too long before). I kind of forgot about the email until I was reading through the 'Inbox' section of that issue when it came out a few months later and saw my name. It was pretty surprising and I was really happy and excited at the time. A picture (well, two, since it crossed over to the right of the page) of the published email can be seen below, and I'll say what I wrote in it underneath the photos. You'll have to tilt your head sideways a little. :3 (Or just read underneath them, I don't know.)

The email reads: 'My friend and I recently decided what should go in the next Mario Kart. There should be new characters like Goomba, Luma and Petey Piranha. There could be new cars (and maybe bikes) that we'd call the Speed Stomper, Red Plunger and Growler (a car with giant wheels and a wide seat. As for new items, the Ice Flower would freeze all other racers for about five or six seconds, and you would get it when you were in about 7th or 8th place. The Super Guide block (from New Super Mario Bros Wii) would give a random racer a random item, depending on what place they are in. You could get the item while you were in first or second place, and it would encourage you to work harder to stay in front. We haven't thought a lot about courses yet. Anyway, just though you ought to know.' -- Thomas Mullen, via email.

So yeah, there it is. They edited it a little, probably corrected grammar mistakes since I was 10ish at the time and put the words 'New Super Mario Bros Wii' in italics since it's the name of a game. If you're wondering who the friend I talk about in the email is, he's somebody I used to see every weekend but haven't seen for like four years called Jaden. Not to be confused with my current close friend Jaden. I also love how ONM chose to use the name Kart Attack as the title. I didn't even include that in my email; they made that pun up themselves. Genius.

Expect actual news (OMG WHAT?) coming on this blog in the next couple posts at least. I really need to actually stay true to the name 'Awesome Fantasy News' for once... xD

Thomas

Ant-Man 2 + Three 2020 Marvel Films! (#120)

Wow, I seriously did not see this coming at all! I only just found out even though I think it was announced a couple hours ago, but Marvel have announced that there will be a sequel to this year's Ant-Man film called 'Ant-Man and the Wasp', as well as three completely new Marvel films coming out in 2020!

These three films haven't been given titles yet, so it's unknown whether they'll be sequels or completely new entries to the MCU. I'm both surprised and glad to hear that there's going to be an Ant-Man 2; I liked the first one but wasn't expecting a sequel since it performed pretty negatively in cinemas. Guess it just goes to show that Marvel don't put sales and money before their fans, since they're going to make another one for the people that enjoyed it! Moi, basically.

I'm not sure if it's been completely specified if these three films will be part of Phase 3 yet (Ant-Man and the Wasp has been confirmed to come out on July 6th, 2018 so it's definitely Phase 3) meaning that they could possibly be the sign of a Phase 4! However, that's not been said for sure yet so for now we can't really say much. If these are Phase 3 though, that means there are going to be FOURTEEN films in Phase 3, compared to just six in Phase 1 and 2. Wow, we have so much to look forward to!

The announcement of Ant-Man 2 means that Captain Marvel will now be releasing on March 8th 2019, while Black Panther will now be releasing on February 16th 2018. Honestly, I have no problem at all with this since we're getting all these great film announcements.

Finally, the three 2020 films will release May 1st, July 10th and November 6th. This is really, really nice. Fans speculate that these films could be Spider-Man MCU's sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy 3, and/or Dr Strange 2. We'll just have to wait and see.

Thomas

Fear Of A Loose Nunchuck (#119)

Okay, I wanna talk a little more about nunchucks. No, I can't believe that I'm making two whole posts about a Wii nunchuck either. But I'm a little worried about the new one I bought the other day.

So you know how I had to get a new nunchuck because my last one had a really, really loose joystick? Well, although my new has worked pretty much perfectly so far and I haven't had any problems with it yet, it feels like the more I use it (which has been very often considering I've been playing a lot of Pikmin 1, 2 and especially 3) it gets slightly looser. Thing is, I'm pretty this nunchuck is from the same person as the really loose one, and after comparing them to my old nunchuck that doesn't work properly I have figured that they are so cheap because they are made of a material that is different to the ones found in stores. I'm gonna buy an official nunchuck in a few weeks since they fell soooooo much better in my hands when I'm playing a game, and I don't even care how not normal that sounds.

Anyway, I finished Pikmin 3 last night! Yes, after owning it for like ten to eleven months, I picked it up again about a week ago (you know the drill.... don't. even. make. the. joke.) and made it past the third area (Tropical Wilds), completed the fourth area (Twilight River) in one day, revisited the first area (the Garden of Hope) and defeated that giant spider boss, Quaggled Mireclops (which I lost eighty Pikmin on! EIGHTY! I entered the level with 45 blues and left with 6!) and discovered both Blue Pikmin and Winged Pikmin, both of which look beautiful in HD. By the way, it definitely wasn't a 100% run or anything. In fact, I got what I assume to be the normal/fairly disappointing ending as I didn't get that much fruit. But I did get to see the story ending and credits which is what I wanted to see, since I'm just going to continue watching Chuggaaconroy's LP to see a 100% playthrough.

This game rocks! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Oh, a little fact (kind of I guess maybe). I don't like to refer to Rock Pikmin and Winged Pikmin by their names too much. I prefer Pink Pikmin and Black/Grey Pikmin since since it suits the theme more and goes with Red, Yellow, Blue, Purple and White Pikmin.

One more thing: In Pikmin 4 (which I'm almost certain has been confirmed to be in development by Shigeru Miyamoto), I'd like to see Green and Orange Pikmin. They're like the only two main colours that haven't been introduced yet. and Orange Pikmin could have some kind of sand related abilities. I'm not sure about green's abilities though, maybe something to do with grass? That doesn't too sound amazing. :)

This is just fan-made... but not for long! ...Maybe.

This isn't what I'd imagine Orange Pikmin
to look like, but this picture is kind of
stupidly hilarious.

Thomas

Introducing Turnabout Talk (#118)

I guess it's finally time to tell you about that thing I mentioned a little a couple weeks ago. This is another one of those ideas I've had for a while (over a month actually) but I wanted to wait at least a short while until talking about this because, as you can probably tell from the word 'Turnabout' in the title, it is associated with Phoenix Wright. Well, Ace Attorney, technically, since not all AA games are Phoenix Wright games specifically. But you know what I mean. Yes, I prolonged this because I had been talking about AA a lot and I didn't want to make it so this blog was just about that. I swear this blog was very to close to actually becoming Ace Attorney News since that was literally all my posts were about. xD

Anyway, Turnabout Talk is basically a new series of posts that I'll use to talk about AA. I probably won't be doing any for a while, and it's not going to have any kind of schedule or anything. Heck, it could be well over fifty posts until I make a Turnabout Talk post, it just depends if I have anything to say about the series. But basically, whenever I want to make a post about the Ace Attorney series or anything related to it (except when I'm posting news updates about upcoming games or other stuff in the series) I'll write 'Turnabout Talk' after the title. For example:

Some Cool Thing About Ace Attorney - Turnabout Talk (#???)

Aight man. Peace out.

Thomas

Tribute To Official Nintendo Magazine (#117)

So, along with Chuggaaconroy and Blog Buddy, one of my other 'inspirations' is a magazine that ran here in the UK for about ten or so years (I think) called Official Nintendo Magazine. I'm unsure because I only started collecting Official Nintendo Magazine (or ONM, as it's nicknamed) at issue 68. Well, actually I did get issue 58 or 59 about a year before, but I didn't really start getting every issue until I got 68 (except for two that I missed, which was #113 (the second to last), and around #103 or so). This is why I wish I could have subscribed). I remember when I started getting it. It was around May 2011, just after the release of the 3DS (I had gotten one for my birthday, April 25th) and my grandmother was in hospital at the time before she passed away in October. There was a WHSmith shop in the hospital, which was selling the magazine, and after getting that I had a ton of Nintendo-related enjoyment to look forward to each month. I believe that before ONM there was Nintendo Official Magazine and a couple others like that but ONM is the most recent and probably well known one. It was basically the UK's version of the US's Nintendo Power.

The first issue, long before I knew of the mag.

I say 'was' because, unfortunately, just like Nintendo Power, ONM stopped being published because of the fact that everybody uses the internet for news and monthly magazines are kind of extinct when it comes to being the first to deliver news. That includes me; every time a new issue came out, I already knew about pretty much all the new stuff that had been announced, like consoles, games and E3/Nintendo Direct news. But I still loved the magazine. There was more to it than just news; there were previews, reviews, features, fan mail (I even got featured in an issue once! It was a letter about ideas for Mario Kart 8 and I'll probably make a post about it sometime), and a ton of other stuff. I really enjoyed the relatable British humour that the magazine staff wrote (I forget all the team members but I remember Chandra Nair, Matthew Castle and a girl called Kate whose second name I forget, along with many more) and I really miss getting a new issue each month. There were even loads of awesome free gifts, such as badges, cutout dioramas (yes, really. I still have three on my wall, of New Super Mario Bros 2, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask and Nintendo Land) and especially the posters. I still have probably over twenty five posters of different Nintendo games that I love and I still reorganise them on my wall every so often, like this morning. ONM ended last October with issue 114, and the website and forums were taken down too. I wish they weren't.

But thanks, ONM, for making three and a half years of my life so enjoyable and even introducing me to over 20 internet friends that I made through your Facebook page and still talk to often. ONM was the main reason I decided to do my second blog, Hedgehog Reviews, even though I stopped, and if you're wondering where I learned to write reviews in that way then look no further than the reviews in that magazine.

This was the first issue I got, #58.

I didn't properly start collecting ONM until
this issue, #68.

Below I'll just post pictures of some of the issues I got, with the issue number in the caption.

Issue #94.

Issue #91.

Issue #70.

Issue #75. This issue featured a review of Zelda:
Skyward Sword, which scored 98%. This, along with
Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, was the highest score
given to a game in the magazine ever.

The last issue, #114.

Also, this is the second post like this that I've done in a row. I guess I'm just in the mood to talk about the people I'm grateful to for introducing me to the video game community and improving my tween years. Yes, tween. And teen years actually. I orginally wanted to do this for post #114 since ONM ended on issue 114 but I forgot because YOU KNOW HOW GREAT MY MEMORY IS GUYS.

In (semi) unrelated news, Super Smash Bros for 3DS came out one year and one day ago. Wow. Time seriously flies.

Sorry for extremely long post again. I can't help it. :(

Thomas

Thank You, Chuggaaconroy (#116)

Two posts ago I talked about a let's player on YouTube who's currently doing a let's play of Pikmin 3, which is why I was inspired to try playing the game again. His name is Chuggaaconroy, and his channel can be found here. I'm not going to say a ton about Emile (that's his real name), but I'd just like to use this post to thank him. He's the first let's player (somebody who makes video walkthroughs of games while commentating) I ever watched on YouTube, and I even remember the first video of his I ever watched: the first episode of his Super Mario Sunshine LP. It was about four to five years ago, and at the time I'd never heard of it and was amazed to see a Mario game with voice acting, even though I know now that it's nothing big or special.

Funny story, back then, when I clicked on that video, I had never watched video game footage with commentary, and I actually found it really annoying and wished that nobody was talking when I was trying to pay attention to the game. Ironic thing is, nowadays it's the opposite. I find it pretty boring to watch any walkthroughs of video games on the internet without commentary, and just don't watch any of those unless it's to help me find something in a game or whatever. Emile has also introduced me to an absolute crud load of games through his let's plays. There's Paper Mario, which I bought when I was about 10 after seeing his LP. I had never heard of Paper Mario before (well, I had, but since I was so dumb when I was young I thought it would be a black and white game set like an actual piece of paper from a notebook...), and I thought it looked really cool. That also led to me buying Sticker Star when it came out (even though it was pretty disappointing), getting Super Paper Mario for my birthday (he did an LP of that too) after finally finding it in a store in April 2013 and, last September (2014), getting The Thousand Year Door (again, he LPed that) due to wanting it for years. I also have an online friend called Megan who completely ADORES that game so much, and for good reason.

He changes his logo for each LP to match that game's style. As
I mentioned, right now he's playing Pikmin 3.
Edit 11/08/2016: I actually just realised that this logo actually changes
along with his channel picture! So the logo in this picture is the one on
his channel right now. As I make this edit, it's Luigi's Mansion 2.

Some other games I got because of Emile are Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Earthbound, Mother 3 (I know that's not a game I can 'get' here but you know what I mean, he's the reason I played it),  Kid Icarus: Uprising, and, most recently, Okami. It's likely that I'll get Okamiden in the future too.

I've even adopted a lot of Chuggaa's personality traits and the way he sees life. This one kid in my school who's one or two years younger than me (I don't really know him but he's the younger brother of a girl in my year) calls me Chuggaaconroy Jr, haha. I just tend to share the same humor and think of things, especially video games, in the same way as him after watching so many of his videos. So yes. Thanks, Emile.

He's known for his bad puns and high optimism. Remind
you of anyone? ;)

Anyway, the nunchuck came yesterday. And it works! Thank god, now I can play Okami. Speaking of which, I'm about three and a half hours into it, and it's really nice so far. I don't have much to say about it now since I hear it's a fairly long game so I've barely started it, but I'll likely talk about it a little in the future.

We're entering October, the fifth month of this blog. Nice nice.

Thomas