A Wonderful End To April (#186)

So I got the Playstation 3 yesterday, and when I got home I put it together straight away. I also got 3 PS3 games for me to play as soon as I wanted to, which included Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Generations and Kingdom Hearts: HD 1.5 ReMIX (plus I already got Sonic 06 a couple days ago). I think I've mentioned it before but I do actually have Kingdom Hearts 1 for PS2. However, despite the fact that I've started playing through the game quite a few times, I've never actually fully completed it, so since I have the HD remake now, I definitely want to play through the whole thing. Anyway, so yes, I got home and put the system together, but my fears were confirmed when I found out that there was a big problem: the cable connecting the controller to the console (try saying that five times fast) wasn't working (and also it was extremely short, which would mean that I wouldn't be able to play the PS3 while the controller was charging because the wire wouldn't reach). This made me really depressed and disappointed, especially since I would probably have to return the console or at least get a new wire which I wouldn't be able to until around Tuesday, when I go back to school after this 4-day weekend. However, I remembered my friend, Christmas Guy, who I mentioned in post #151, has a PS3 that he doesn't really use anymore since he got a PS4. So I called him and asked him if I could borrow one of his USB cables, since the one I had bought wasn't working. Christmas Guy's birthday is December 25th, and let me say, in this situation he really was Jesus. He had a few spare cables, and came on over to mine to give me one of his. The console worked fine, and the controller finally connected.

Sadly, there was another problem. As you might know, Sonic 06 is known for its terribly long loading screens, and since that was the first game chronologically out of the three Sonic games I bought, I had decided to play that first. However, I'm not sure if its the copy of the game I bought glitching out or if its something else, but the game wouldn't load past the first loading screen, which meant I couldn't even get to the title screen. I tried a few things like turning the console off and on and cleaning the disc, but it didn't seem to work, even though the disc didn't really have any major smudges or scratches. The game was second hand though, so I dunno. Anyway, I'm probably going to have to return it to CeX or attempt to get a refund since I bought it from them online. After I gave up on this though, I tried Sonic Unleashed, and that works fine. I've been playing it loads since last night and it's awesome. I actually own Unleashed for Wii, but I haven't played it for a few years. I think it's actually broken, plus the Wii/PS2 version is a lot different to the more next-gen (at least when it came out) PS3/Xbox 360 versions, so I decided to get it for PS3. There are more daytime stages and quite a lot of differences between the two versions. I actually think Sonic Unleashed is one of my favourite Sonic games. Not only was it my first 3D Sonic game and the second Wii game I ever played, giving it a special place in my heart, but this PS3 version is just really amazing, and I love both hedgehog and werehog stages.

I can't talk/type for much longer now since I'm about to go and watch Captain America: Civil War. I'm extremely excited and, by the way, I watched The Dark Knight yesterday. I loved it, it was a fantastic film and Heath Ledger as the Joker was an incredible performance. I will watch The Dark Knight Rises soon.

Oh, and my neck feels fine now.

Thomas

Civil War Countdown (#185)

It's incredible to be finally saying this, and it's almost impossible to believe, but Captain America: Civil War releases here in the UK in just a matter of hours. I just really want to say how excited I am, even though I won't be watching the film tomorrow but on the day after. It's been absolutely ages since our last Marvel Cinematic Universe film, which was Ant-Man in July 2015 (I made a review about it!), but after a crap ton of waiting, it's time for phase 3 to start. I'll obviously make a post after I watch it. It probably won't be a proper review, maybe just a short summary of the film and stuff, but we'll see. It's really, really close now!

Anyway, I should be getting the PS3 tomorrow. My neck still aches after yesterday but it's definitely feeling much better. Sonic 06 already arrived, so I'll have that to play straight away when I get home, and then of course there's Civil War the very next day. Also, I won't need the Blu-Ray player in my room much longer, since I'm pretty sure that PS3s play Blu-Ray disks. And also, after watching Batman Begins yesterday, I may watch The Dark Knight, which is the second in the series, later today. Possibly.

Thomas

PS3: Earlier Than Expected (#184)

This gonna be one of those posts where I just say a few small things, so it'll be mostly random stuff. Firstly, as the title says, I should hopefully be getting a Playstation 3 earlier than expected! I said about two weeks ago that I would hopefully be getting a PS3 around the end of May, but instead, since my birthday was on Monday and I've saved up a lot of money from that, the plan is to get the PS3 this Friday, April 29th! I've already ordered the first Sonic game that I want to play on the system (Sonic 06, stop judging) and that should arrive by the time I have the PS3, which means I'll be able to start playing games on it straight away.

Speaking of April 29th though, that's the day Captain America: Civil War comes out in cinemas here in the UK. Only two days left! I'll be watching it on Saturday at 14:00 (roughly 73 hours after this post goes up), so three days left for me. IMAX, of course.

Next, I got the Dark Knight trilogy on Blu-Ray for my birthday, and I just started watching the first fo three three films, Batman Begins, today. I'm about 40 minutes in, and it's actually really great so far. There are some elements that I recognise from Arrow, which makes a lot of sense since they're both DC and all. I haven't actually started Arrow Season 3/Flash Season 1 yet. I will soon though.

Finally, I was actually off school today. I woke up with intense pain in my neck and I've just had to go to the doctor's and get some medicine and stuff. They said it'll just get better over the next few days, but it hurts so much when I turn my head to the right and oh God it's so horrible. I just hope it's okay by the end of tomorrow because, y'know, PS3 and Civil War. Oh yeah, I'm off on Friday as well because of some thing with my school, and I'm off Monday because of a bank holiday. I get a four day weekend, which means I get lots of time to play Sonic 06 (that would sound like punishment to a lot of other people). If I'm off tomorrow because of this neck/shoulder pain then that would mean I'd be off for 6 days straight, but I'd rather just be at school tomorrow because there are lessons I don't wanna miss and I'd rather just not be in such pain.

Thomas

Birthday Post: Old Video Game Drawings! (#183)

Okay, so I forget which one exactly, but in a post a few weeks ago I think I mentioned something about some old drawings of Sonic that I made a few years ago, when I was like 10 or 11. I actually still have them dotted around my bedroom (in fact, a few of them are still up on my wall) and I also remembered that I have other drawings that aren't just of Sonic, I think I made one or two Pokemon pictures as well when I binge-watched the anime when I was younger for some reason. I know I definitely have the Sonic ones, but I'm gonna have a quick look around, see if I can find any of the others that I know I have somewhere. Since today is my birthday, I think it would be nice to post them here as a little celebration or something. Anyway, let me look around.

Okay, so I found the Pokemon pictures, plus some other Sonic ones I had completely forgotten about. I'll post all the drawings below. Keep in mind that these aren't all very good, and I was like 10, but I want to post them here, not only so you guys can see this but also so that if anything was to ever happen to these drawings I'd still have photos of them on here so they wouldn't be completely lost. Annoyingly, many of the photos are upside down so you might have to tilt your head more than a little.

Sonic

Tails

Knuckles, the first one I drew. I actually took a
picture when I was drawing it, dated 29/08/2011.

Amy Rose

Cream and Cheese

Shadow

Silver

Blaze

The next pictures are some other random Sonic ones I found.

I didn't finish drawing Sonic's shoes apparently
:)

Now for some drawings from my Pokemon obsession. 

Ash and Pikachu

Pikachu, Snivy and Tepig

Charmander looks as if he's about to devour the other two.

Bulbasaur

The three Unova starter Pokemon.

Oh, and then there's this crazy crapfest of video game references. I'm not sure what half of these little doodles mean. 

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Well, that's all I could salvage from the deep depths of my cluttered belongings. However, while searching for these, I did actually find some other cool stuff that I'd like to post on here in the future. One of them's a little thing I wrote about the Legend of Zelda, the other is a little comic thing, and there's something to do with Super Smash Bros. But that's for later. For now, hope you enjoyed these pics. Happy birthday to moi.

Thomas

Iron Man in Homecoming! (#182)

It has been confirmed that Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man will be making an appearance in Spider-Man: Homecoming, releasing in 2017. This will most likely be a follow up to the events in Captain America: Civil War (releasing in less than a week by way! ...At least in the UK whereas in America there are still like two weeks left. Sorry, US citizens...), where Spider-Man will be siding with Tony Stark's team (at least initially). In the comic books, Tony designs an 'Iron Spider' suit for Peter Parker/Spidey, so perhaps something like that could come into play in Homecoming. I'm sure there'll at least be a nod to it though. In similar news, Michael Keaton, who was rumoured to be playing a villain in Homecoming, will apparently not be in the film. We'll just have to see who the villain will be, though personally I'm hoping for somebody we haven't seen before. The Green Goblin's been done in both the original Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, so I'd love to see somebody like the Vulture, the Hobgoblin, or even a more obscure one like the Shocker, I like that guy. I would be fine with seeing a villain we've had before in a Spider-Man movie though, like Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus or Electro, as I'm sure Marvel Studios would nail the performance as usual.

Speaking of which though, aren't Sony still making a Venom spin-off movie even though The Amazing Spider-Man series kinda flopped? And I even heard that they're making a separate animated film of Spidey that will be in cinema, but that sounds really weird. Speaking of which though, there are supposed to be plans for a live action Sonic movie in two or three years, I hear! Honestly, it'll probably be a bit sucky, but who knows, it could be great. I'll definitely be watching it either way :)

Thomas

List of 3D Sonic Games (#181)

Not much needs to be explained here, but because I talk too much, I will do some explaining anyway. This is a list of all the mainstream 3D console Sonic games (not including Sonic 3D Blast, and if there are any others that aren't this list, it's because I chose to leave them out). Nothing much more to say, so here we go. Gotta go fast!

1) Sonic Adventure (1999)

2) Sonic Adventure 2 (2001)

3) Sonic Heroes (2003)

4) Shadow the Hedgehog (2005)

5) Sonic the Hedgehog (2006, usually called Sonic 06)

6) Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007)

7) Sonic Unleashed (2008)

8) Sonic and the Black Knight (2009)

9) Sonic Colours (2010)

10) Sonic Generations (2011)

11) Sonic Lost World (2013)

12) Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

So yeah, those are all the main 3D Sonic games, not including any handheld or spin-off games (well, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric is technically a spin-off game, but it's still a major 3D Sonic game). I've played and own most of these in different versions, but will definitely be completing my collection soon. My birthday is on Monday so I'm gonna be uploading a special post to celebrate, to do with something I mentioned a while ago.

Thomas

Wreck-It-Ralph Review (#180)

So a really great cartoon Disney movie that I haven't really mentioned before on AFN is a little gem called Wreck-It-Ralph. The film came out in late 2012 (or early 2013 for us living in the UK) and back when I first watched it (in fact I'm pretty sure it was on the exact same day that I watched it) I actually made a review. Now, this review was not on my second blog, Hedgehog Reviews, which I talked about in post... wait, let me check it... #104. Yeah, so this review wasn't on that blog, but my first blog I made about three to four years ago when I was like 11, which I will never be linking here because the things I wrote on there make me cringe to the moon and back. But the Wreck-It-Ralph review was actually alright, so I am actually going to copy and paste it here, completely unchanged. Now, let me go find that old blog... Ah, I remember now, I took it down. But I do still have the few posts I made on it somewhere, so let me just locate the Wreck-It-Ralph one. Okay, here we go. I originally published this on March 2nd 2013, which, as I said, was the day I watched the film, I think.

'Hey again! So my first post got a couple views, and I’m making another. This time the post is going to be a review of a recent Disney movie, called Wreck-It-Ralph.

 First of all, it’s rare for me to be talking about a Disney movie, because I never really liked Disney to tell the truth. Most of it seemed to be love stories, which was kind of boring (my opinion, its fine to disagree). In fact, the only Disney movies I ever really liked were Finding Nemo, Up and The Jungle Book.

But I gotta say, Wreck-It-Ralph could well be my favourite animated movie of all time, although that probably is because I love videogames. =L But yeah. Basically, the movie is based off a videogame villain, who wrecks things (which you probably guessed =P). He and the hero of the game, known as Fix-it-Felix, live in an arcade game called (Yep) Fix-it-Felix, Jr. Ralph doesn’t want to be a villain anymore, and the cast end up travelling through three games: Fix-it-Felix, a pixelated, 2D game. Hero’s Duty, a tense, first person shooter. And Sugar Rush, a Mario-Kart-like racing game in a sweet, candy world.

The film is very clever. There’s a place in the movie called Game Central Station, a large, rectangular room where all the videogame characters hang out while the arcade’s closed. The room, in reality, is just an extension plug socket, and the outlets are the portals to each game. Genius. There are also a few emotional moments as well =’)

And oh my goodness. If you aren’t already convinced that the film’s made especially for gamers, I’d like to say that there a heck load of references, from Sonic the hedgehog to Pacman =V, from Lara Croft to Nintendo, from Super Mario to zombie shooters. And great music.

And even though Fix-it-Felix Jr, Hero’s Duty and Sugar Rush aren’t real games, you can actually play them on the Wreck-it-Ralph Website! http://www.disney.co.uk/wreck-it-ralph/games/

Anywayz, got to go. You really should check this film out though.

-- Tom Tom =)'

Yes, well, as you can see, my, ahem, attitude was slightly different. But not bad for an 11 year old, eh? And most of the stuff I said is still true. I love me some Wreck-It-Ralph. Here's hoping for a sequel.

Thomas

The Importance of Reconciliation (#179)

So today's post will be different than usual. I couldn't think of much to say about video games or movies, and besides, what's wrong with a more personal and deep-thinking post every once in a while? If you're an inhumane monster who doesn't possess the ability to feel love, don't continue reading. No, I'm joking. But seriously, if you don't really care about stuff that's not exciting or, you know, news-like, then you don't need to read this at all. I just want to release some feelings.

So one or two days ago, somebody messaged me that I hadn't talked to for a very long time. This person goes to my school, and I used to be very good friends with them, but a lot of awkward things went down last year and after doing a lot of stupid things and getting annoyed at each other, we just completely gave up with our friendship and stopped talking for a while. I see them almost everyday during the week, but we just tried to avoid any interaction with each other at all except for awkward moments when in a group of friends or forced into situations when we had to say something. In fact, we hadn't properly spoken to each other in over a year, around the time I started this blog. But as I said, this person sent me a message about how they were sorry about how things turned out and it didn't take me long to say that I was sorry too. In fact, I had thought about this person constantly since we stopped talking, and no matter how I tried to act like I didn't care about them anymore, I won't deny that there were times when I felt a deep longing to chat with them again, just joke around with them or have fun, but no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't pluck up the courage to say anything, and if they hadn't said anything to me first, it's almost certain that we may have never spoken again. They said that they had wanted to repair things for a long time, that the main reason they were trying to avoid me was because they were afraid that I hated them. And the thing is, that's the same reason why I didn't say anything to them. I had basically accepted the fact that we would never be able to be friends again like we once were. But here I am now, and after a long conversation, we seem to be getting back into a proper friendship. There's definitely going to be a lot of awkwardness and shyness in the process of possibly getting back to how we were. But I'm willing to try it.

So, I suppose the point of this post was to say; if there's anybody in your life that you've been avoiding or not talking to because of things that happened in the past, then maybe just say 'what the hell' and do it. If you would find that impossibly hard to do in real life, just send them a message and who knows? Maybe they'll reply. Don't get me wrong; if there is somebody that you've just not talked to for ages because of awkwardness or past mistakes, but you've fully moved on and don't want to get involved with them at all ever again, then forget it. It's your choice and if you've chosen to forget bad memories then so be it. But if you sometimes find yourself wishing things had gone differently between the two of you, if you feel jealous when you see people talking to somebody in your life that you were once close friends with and you feel you'll never have that opportunity again, go for it, just tell them how you feel. If they'd rather not talk to you, that's okay. It's just something you'll have to learn to live with. But maybe they feel the exact same way as you, but they're just too afraid of saying anything in fear of being rejected or looking stupid or desperate.

Thanks for reading.
Thomas

Star Wars 7: Blu Ray! (#178)

Or should I say... Blu Rey. Heheheheheheheheheh.

Yes, on Monday, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released on Blu Ray here in the UK, and I got it. Duh. I haven't watched it yet since I've been in much more of a video game mood recently (as you might have noticed from my posts) and I just don't feel like watching any movies right now. Well, except for Civil War next Saturday. Very excited for that, heehee. But yes, I'll probably watch the Star Wars Blu Ray in a few weeks. In fact, what I might do is watch it with a friend or somebody who hasn't seen it yet; when I've watched/played a video game or movie a lot of times, I find a lot of fun and enjoyment in watching it or playing it with a friend who hasn't seen/played it before, especially one with a good plot, mainly because I like to see their reactions to cool twists and stuff in the story.

Thomas

Sonic Heroes: Completed (#177)

So if I hadn't mentioned it yet, I got Sonic Heroes for Gamecube last Wednesday, and after playing it almost nonstop for the last week, I finally completed it a little under an hour ago. And I have to say; it's probably the hardest 3D Sonic game I've ever played. The game has four different stories to play through (Team Sonic, Team Dark, Team Rose and Team Chaotix), and each story has its own difficulty level and unique quirks. Team Rose is by far the easiest, and is more designed for younger players, but I think the hardest is definitely Team Dark. Team Dark consists of Shadow, Rouge and E-123 Omega (which makes me very excited to play Shadow the Hedgehog, which I'm starting tomorrow) and the levels have a lot more enemies to fight in them than the other stories. in fact, yesterday, I was stuck on a boss for like three hours. It was so horrible, but I completed it eventually. It's the first time in ages that a video game has made me feel so angry. xD

#squadgoals

But apart from the sometimes frustratingly hard levels and boss fights, I actually really enjoyed playing Sonic Heroes. It's just a bit long. See, there are fourteen levels and seven boss fights, which doesn't sound like a lot, but you have to play through all of them four times because there are four teams. So technically, you have to play through 56 levels and 28 bosses before you can fight the final two bosses... yeah... so I am glad to be done with the game, but I did like it. The music's great (as with all Sonic games) and the levels were definitely fun. The gameplay was different than other Sonic games and it was pretty cool to try something different.

Thomas

Attorney in the Jungle (#176)

Just a quick update post about some stuff I watched over the weekend. On Saturday, I went to watch the new Jungle Book live action remake-type film in IMAX 3D. I haven't watched the original cartoon Jungle Book movie for years since I was young, so it was quite nostalgic for me in some parts. My friend actually watched the cartoon version on the morning before we went to watch the film, but I decided not to, mainly because I wanted some of the parts of the plot to be forgotten to me since I don't remember the story details, just some of the main characters and events. I think some of the best parts of the original were the songs. Anyway, maybe I'll watch the cartoon one in the next few weeks for the memories, but yeah, it was good. Go watch it if you like films with lots of nature and beautiful scenery/animals, or if you've seen the original cartoon version and want some childhood joy.

Secondly, I watched episode 3 of the Ace Attorney anime at about 10pm on Saturday. I'm really getting into the plot now, I hope they make a lot of episodes. I heard that the series will be based off of the first two Ace Attorney games, but hopefully if the anime is successful and popular they'll continue it onto the third game's plot and beyond? You can watch episode 3 here. Again, Japanese subtitles.

Thomas

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Confirmed? (#175)

According to multiple news sources, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 has been confirmed as a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! Although phase 3 of the MCU hasn't started yet (Captain America: Civil War will mark the start of it, and that comes out in less than two weeks), Guardians 3 will apparently be a phase 4 movie, meaning that we can be sure that we'll be seeing our favourite intergalactic idiots in another movie after 2019. While in an interview with io9, Kevin Feige (who is basically one of the main people working on MCU films) said: "We're only working on what's been announced through the end of 2019, and it is still a big chess board for 2020 and beyond, but certainly I would say Guardians 3 is one film that's up there. I don't know what exactly the order will be."

James Gunn is currently working on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which is due to release in the first half of 2017. In a past post, I believe I talked about how Marvel announced three untitled MCU films releasing in 2020; now, it would seem likely that Guardians 3 will be one of these films. A sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming may also be one of the films. Feige also said that it's possible the Inhumans film will be pushed back, though as of now it is set to come out in 2019, after Avengers: Infinity War Part 2.

This post marks seven-eighths of the way towards my two hundredth post.

Thomas

Ace Attorney Anime: Two Episodes Released! (#174)

I'm pretty certain I haven't actually talked about Ace Attorney at all since I resumed the blog, so I guess I should say some stuff about it here a little. I haven't really played it at all this year so far. It's not that I'm not interested in the series anymore, it's mainly because, well, the thing with the Ace Attorney games is that after you play them once you don't want to play them again for a long time, until you've forgotten most of the story details and it's more fun to replay because you can't remember what's going to happen next and which piece of evidence you need to present at this part of the trial. That's why I'm pretty excited for Ace Attorney 6; new story means it's gonna be really fun to play since I've not experienced the plot before and it'll be a lot more gripping. I should say that quite a few more things have been confirmed when it comes to AA6 since I first talked about it nearly a hundred posts ago. Obviously I can't remember all the tiny bits that have been spoken about in news for the game and such but some things that have been confirmed that I might not have spoken about here are I believe that Maya Fey, Apollo Justice and Ema Skye have been confirmed to return for appearances in the game.

Anyway, the main reason I made this post was to talk about the Ace Attorney anime! I think the anime was confirmed at the same time as AA6, and is scheduled to begin airing in April 2016. What's that, you say? It is April 2016? Why, correct. Yep, the first episode of the anime actually came out on Saturday April 2nd, and I watched it with my friend on that day. Episode 2 also was released a few days ago on Saturday April 9th (as you can tell, the episodes release on Saturdays, meaning episode 3 should be out tomorrow), and although I forgot to watch it when it came out, I watched it on Monday after school. Since the anime is in Japanese, the only way for us English folks to watch it right now is with subtitles, but that's okay. I'm hoping for an English dub soon. Maybe some fans will make their own dubbed version? I think that's what happened with dragon Ball Super (which I haven't watched, by the way).

The website I use for my anime, and therefore the Ace Attorney anime, is KissAnime. It's a really great website, and I think it has a cartoon equivalent called KissCartoon. You can find episode 1 on KissAnime here and episode 2 here.

Thomas

Doctor Strange: First Trailer! (#173)

Hey guys. The first trailer for this year's upcoming Doctor Strange MCU film was released just a few hours ago, and you can find it here. The film shows us Stephen Strange's journey from being an ordinary doctor who ends up in a car accident to one who is showed the truth about multiple realities and other forms of magic, and eventually wants to be taught. The trailer looks really awesome, and Doctor Strange (the titular character will be played by Benedict Cumberbatch) will be coming out (at least in the UK) on October 28th 2016.

In other news, and news that I am equally excited about since Spider-Man is one of my favourite superheroes ever, the title and logo were announced for the Spider-Man MCU film coming out next year! The film will be called Spider-Man: Homecoming and the logo can be seen below. I cvan't wait for Civil War, especially since I heard Spidey will appear in it for around half an hour.

Thomas

I'm Getting A Playstation 3! (#172)

Yeah, fo' reals! So basically, as you know, recently my Sonic the Hedgehog addiction has resurfaced after a year or two of not playing his games, and I've been celebrating by playing all the old Sonic games for Gamecube that I never got to play when I was younger due to lack of availability and the fact that I couldn't really buy stuff online. So, last night, I was thinking for a while, and I had a crazy yet brilliant spark of an idea. If you've been reading my blog for a while, or if you just know me at all, you should know that I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan, and their games/consoles are the main thing that I enjoy as a nerd apart from Marvel, Star Wars and the internet. So, it may probably come as a surprise to you (and even to myself) that for the first time in my life, I am going to buy my first non-Nintendo console, a Playstation 3.

Well, technically I already have a Playstation 2 as well as some games for the system. However, I didn't actually get it for myself, my cousin gave it to me about five or six years ago, and even though there are some games I've enjoyed playing for it, I don't use it very much. The games I have for it that I've actually played are Rayman: Raving Rabbids and Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2. I also got Shadow the Hedgehog for PS2, but the game froze after the opening cutscene, so I could never play it. But that's okay because now I have it for Gamecube, and will be playing it after Sonic Heroes :)

So, anyway, you might be wondering why I'm getting a PS3 instead of a PS4, since the system is kind of outdated compared to its newer model. Well, the main reason is because of Sonic. There are three main 3D Sonic games for PS3 that I can't play on any of the consoles I own. One of them is Sonic the Hedgehog for PS3 and Xbox 360 also known as Sonic 06. Yes, I know the game's infamous for being terribly glitchy and having a really bad plot. But I still want to get it so I can say I own the game, and so I can collect all the 3D Sonics. Actually, I played through the whole game once before in hospital because they had an Xbox 360 there, but it was a couple of years ago. I do like the music and level design in the game though, no matter how bad people say it is. The second is Sonic Unleashed. I own Unleashed for Wii, but the PS3 and 360 versions are a lot better than the Wii and PS2 versions because, let's face it, the Wii is a lot less powerful than those consoles. There are even a few levels in those versions that aren't in the Wii/PS2 versions. Finally, there's Sonic Generations for PS3. I actually got the 3DS version of that game on the day it came out in 2011 (wow, has it really been five years?) but the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions are a lot better (seeing a pattern here?). Also, I can get Sonic 4 Episodes 1 and 2 for PS3. I got Episode 1 on my laptop but it's not fun to play on there, the screen for the game is really small and awkward. Also, if you're wondering why I don't just get a 360, it's because I'm also interested in Kingdom Hearts 1.5 and 2.5 for PS3. I never actually finished the PS2 versions of those games, and these PS3 remakes are in HD. And I would get a PS4, but you apparently can't play PS3 games on PS4, and obviously PS3s are a lot cheaper, you can easily get them for under £100 these days.

Oh, and also, I ordered Sonic Heroes online on Monday! When I hopefully get Sonic 06, Sonic Generations and Sonic Unleashed for the PS3, I'll have all the 3D Sonic games.

Last thing: the day that I'm getting the PS3 may be May (no pun intended... 'may'be) 28th 2016, a Saturday. That's the plan for now anyway.

Thomas