I’m finishing up my certification classes after this week, so hopefully I’ll have some time free (and not… dead) to get started on a couple things I’ve really wanted to do with the site lately. Still working up the nerve to try and play Star Fox Adventures for the feature, though. I considered taking the lazy halfwit (but still very handsome) coward’s way out and saying, “Well, it wasn’t INTENDED to be a Star Fox title, so I choose to ignore that game,” but no, you people read gaming sites like these to watch the writer squirm.

The thing is, when it was new I did skip that installment, so I have to actually play it some more before I go rambling about it. While I can dive right into Assault and Command (wait, didn’t I review that already), this is new, scary territory.

Meanwhile, how ’bout that Playstation Network shit, huh? I was aggravated with being unable to access (delete stuff from) my profile after the Great Hacking of 2011, but cripes. I heard from a handful of people planning to go to GameStop and trade their whole game collections in towards the Xbox 360 versions of everything. I picked the system for its exclusives and free networking, personally, though most of the games I play are offline anyway so the outage didn’t affect me too much, other than spoiling Hard Corps Uprising and not being able to get the next New Vegas expansion. I spent the time going back to conquer Armored Core 4 (vanilla) and found it a lot better done than I remembered.

That said, for crying out loud, fuck overly bright sunsets and bloom effects in a mission where you’re fighting almost nothing but aerial opponents.