Day 18

This is one of my favorite video games. The only thing that would make this game any better is if it was Super Princess Daisy, who is my favorite, and who I always play as during Mario Party.

I remember this game was highly criticized when it came out because you use Peach's emotions to achieve certain tasks, and the emotions are so sexist that it's easy to see how some women would be offended. When she's angry, she bursts into flames, and enemies that gets near her will also catch fire. When she's sad, she cries giant fountains of water and runs really fast. This game should be bundled in a box with a pint of full-fat ice cream and a pack of tampons.

I think they don't make this game anymore, since it's listed as $87 on Amazon. Which is understandable because of the whole "incredibly sexist" thing.

Video Games

Now for a post that proves just how much time I've been spending with my husband.

I recently upgraded from my crappy original Nintendo DS to the Nintendo DSi. I had a DS Lite in there somewhere, but it's broken so bad and Nintendo wanted $100 to repair it. $100! To repair a system that costs $130 or so! To which I showed them a close-up of my ass, and told them to pucker up.

Look, I know the DSi camera feature is super lame, and I secretly suspect that Nintendo is watching people play over the WiFi connect (for what nefarious purpose, I do not know). Yeah, it comes with $10 to spend at the DSi shop, but it's not like there are any good games in there except Dr. Mario. Sure, the DSi has some drawbacks; the biggest is that there is no slot for GBA games, so you can't play Guitar Hero on it.

Although what handheld game system is perfect? If you say the PSP, I'll cut you because even that has slow load times, a short battery life, a mediocre game library, and those little plastic cases on the disks are easy to break and next to impossible to repair.

I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I'm really into video games because everybody knows that's my husband's territory. When I met him, I had a lime green Gameboy color and a Super Nintendo, and maybe five or six games for each, half of which I didn't even play. He looked at them and declared me in desperate need of an upgrade. So he gave me an old DS and New Super Mario Bros. I've beat that game twice now, but I don't just mean I finished it, I mean I beat the shit out of that game like a lippy Alabama wife.

I've tried a lot of games, but the thing is, I'm just not that into consoles. I tried to get into the Xbox 360, but the only game I ever got any good at was Portal. And Gabe traded his 360 with his cousin for a PS3, so now there's a new collection of games in the room that I'll never be any good at.

So I just play the DSi. I only have four games for it. I finally got Professor Layton and the Curious Village, which is fantastic, and I can't wait for the sequel to come out this month. I also have that Mario game, MySims Party, and Boing! Docomodake.

I only have four games because I have absolutely no tolerance for shitty games. I don't play for the challenge. Honestly, my life sucks enough without having to deal with the frustration piled on by a bad, or extremely difficult video games. I recently got The Legendary Starfy, and it was so bad that I almost cried. I was so excited for Starfy, I spent months and months looking forward to its release. I only got halfway through the game before I threw my DS across the room. Which is why I now have a DSi.

(If you own a DS, did you buy Starfy? Did you hate it, or is it just me?)