Sackboy PaintbrushHi again. I've been busy of late. Nothing new to you guys.

Anyways, last week I finally beat Okami for the Wii. One of the best games i have ever played. I enjoy lots of games, but calling a game one of the best games i have ever played is not an understatement. The story is amazing, the art style is perfect for the game, the world is awesome, the music fits perfectly with the setting... and I could go on.

Ready At Dawn studios, the people who ported the game from the PS2 to the Wii, did a great job with the controls. Took a little bit of time to get used to, but it didn't take long to get used to. If you own a Wii (or PS2) you owe it to yourself to pick up this game.

In the game, you play as Amaterasu, a white wolf, who is actually the god of the earth. Seems an evil dragon that you killed a hundred years ago, comes back to life and wants to continue accepting human sacrifices from this one villege. In doing so, he corrupts the world. Boo! The thing is, you were killed in that battle 100 years earlier, so you're a little weak after coming back yourself.

You have to ability to paint, which works great with the Wii remote. But, you've lost all 13 of your brushes. The brushes allow you to do various things, like if you draw a slash on the screen, it slashes the enemies, or if you draw a lightning bolt, lightling shocks enemies. Stuff like that.

You also have regular attacks, which you just need to swing the remote to attack. You can string together combos, use brush techniques, equip various weapons, and a ton of other things for combat.

Your brushes also allow you to solve puzzles. Yeah. Its a lot more fun than I make it sound.

The graphics for this game are interesting. Perfect for the game, but different. I don't know how to explain them. Kinda like watercolor. It's unique. No other game uses this style. The new Prince of Persia game kinda uses it, but still not quite like Okami's. The sounds and music sound great.

The world is fun to explore, and it is very large. I finished the game in just under 50 hours. So yeah. You meet a lot of interesting people, and the story actually gets a little emotional towards the end, which you don't see very often in games. It also has a lot of comical moments, some of them cheesey, but fun. The character Isuun, that rides on your head (he's about the size of an insect), is the source of most of these moments.

The story unravels, and you think the game ends at about 15 hours into it, but surprise, it's not. The story didn't feel drawn out at all. I'm gonna stop babbling and say you need to buy this if you own a Wii or a PS2.

The only thing is the original studio, Clover Studio, set it up for a sequal, kinda. But they don't exist anymore, and Capcom owns the rights to the game, but most of the members of the old studio moved on to other things and work for different publishers (the main guy is part of Platinum Games, who has Sega as their publisher). So yeah.

There's too many games that came out recently that I want. I decided to pass on Fallout 3 for the time being. I'll probably get it later though. My friends have gotten it and they really like it.

Right now I'm focusing on Little Big Planet.

This is an awesome game. It's one of the best Platformers out there. Takes a little bit to get used to, because the physics are different from other platformers, like Mario. But it's fun.

I got it. Played through the tutorial stages, and when I got to the "real" stages, I was filled with glee. Then one of my friends, we'll call him "Matt," came over and was like, "I kinda want to see this game." I was in a middle of a stage, but I tossed him a controler, he signed in, and the next checkpoint, his sackboy popped out to join me. Cool. Anyways, he likes a lot.

Later on, we playing, and another one of my friends, we'll call him "Kyle," comes over and Matt is like, "Dude you gotta play this game." Kyles like "Oh I don't know. Maybe I should watch a little bit." I tossed him a controller right away and he signed in, and he joined us. He became addicted on sight.

Anyways, this trend continued down my friends. We had some pretty good four player action going on. I'm glad I bought three extra controlers. We basically played that all week.

The story mode is fun. I just beat it today. I'm missing a few items in the later levels, and need to beat a few levels without dying to get the Ace medals for them, but I have completed all the story mode levels. Kinda dreading getting those few things that I'm missing. Some of them I need 4 four people to get. I spose I could go online, but I don't like playing with strangers :P. Plus I have friends.

The story isn't that great, but that's not suppose to shine. What makes this game shine is the creation mode, where you can create your own levels. You can also upload it to the servers and other people can play them. You can play other people's.

I've tinkered with the creation mode, but haven't done much. I create a rocket ship that flew me straight into the left wall and killed me. Then I created a truck that went really fast. In fact, it went so fast, the back wheel broke off. It was still very fast with just one wheel... until that broke too. Good times.

I've played a few of other people's stages. Mario ones suck. They do a good job replicating the stage, but the physics of Little Big Planet do not work well with Mario stages. They're just boring. Someone made a God of War stage, and that was fun. They did a good job of making it like God of War, but made it so it'd be fun with Little Big Planet style. There was a Batman one that was fun, but I died before I could finish it. I need to go back and beat it this time. Pac Man stage that looked perfect, but again not fun because it's pacman in LBP. There was a tower one that you had to make your way up one tower, and then cross over to another tower and make your way down. That was fun.

The only thing is, there's a lot of trophy stages. Basically you get free LBP trophies, like get a 20x multiplyer, and what not. People don't like the challenge. I haven't done them yet, and probably won't, unless I'm getting really close to having all the trophies for the game.

So Tuesday Resistance 2 hits stores. I'm excited. I actually preordered this game. It's so close I can smell it.

Then last Friday, the Mirror's Edge demo hit the playstation store. I downloaded that. It's freaking amazing. It's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, except in first person view. Challenging, but fun. I'm excited for that as well.

I'll stop talking about video games now. For real life, I had a good Halloween. I went as Dr. House from the TV show House. I went out to "Matt's" girlfriend's house, we'll call her "Emily," and we had a bon fire. Most of the people there were Zombies. Luckily I fit in because House walks with a limp also :). Anyways, it was a good time. Little chilly, but the fire kept us warm.

Well. I'm gonna go now. You've exausted me of my knowledge.