The Joys of Terror

I will openly admit right now, to the vast audience of the internet, there is nothing in this world I find funnier than scaring my flatmate.

Keep your Sitcoms or Rom-coms or even Zom-Rom-Coms, the hilarity brought on by his terrified exclamations is greater than I can describe. Therefore if you know him, scare him!


On a slightly less cruel note, Pokémon X & Y

Announced several days ago, the trailer has caused no small deal of madness amongst Nintendo's sizable fanbase. With speculation causing hope, conflict and yet more speculation.

Personally, I'd like to stick to the one thing we all know:

There's no going back this time.


Sure, we all thought this before. With the release of Colosseum in late 2003 critics and fans alike were heralding this as "The new dawn of Pokémon!" "The new direction for the series!" "The end of the top-down adventure games!"

Hindsight's a bitch isn't it?

But this time there's more of a solid foundation beneath the expansion into 3D. For starters, they're keeping the winning formula. In my opinion, the reason the GameCube versions never got the same recognition as the classics was that they changed too much at once. No gyms, no wild pokémon, no catching except "shadow" pokémon.... It was too much all at once.
Then there was the issue with the new map, rather than exploring and training on your way from town to town, you just hop in your bike and you're there. Personally I found this the biggest letdown. The areas themselves weren't that bad, just far more barren than anything seen before.
On the topic of shadow pokémon.... just no.

But this new journey into a 3D world of Pokémon has one major advantage. It's a new generation.

This isn't some side point that could be quite happily ignored without missing much (worth mentioning that Colosseum held the record for highest selling rpg on GameCube, so it's not all bad)

This is where the series is going now. This isn't a tangent they can drop to go back to the original line of games. They've evolved the series, you can't undo that.

This isn't F**king digimon