Color mii impressed

Posted: October 17th, 2007 | Author: amake | Filed under: Games, Humor, Japan | 5 Comments »

I’ve been making the most of my youth, living in the moment, sipping of the heady dew that is existence… playing video games.

I picked up Zelda: Twilight Princess when I got my Wii in April and promptly logged 45 hours or so, but never bothered finishing it. Until two weeks ago, that is, when I decided to lay down an ultimatum: No more buying video games until I finish the ones I have.

So I returned to Zelda, in a complete daze as to what the hell I was doing. Where is this dungeon? Who am I killing now? I need to find the Legendary Sword of what? How do I attack again? Oh right you shake this… oh wait no, that makes you fall of the edge into a bottomless pit.

In fits and starts I picked up where I left off, only to discover… horror of horrors! Graphical glitches left and right ruining my immersive game experience. There were white flecks appearing randomly all over the screen, technically known as “polygon tearing”. Apparently my Wii was a lemon, as this is apparently indicative of a bad video card.

So off it went for repair, with shipping paid by Nintendo. I sent it on Monday, got a confirmation email on Wednesday, and had a brand-new Wii back on Friday. Excellent customer service, Nintendo Japan! The only annoying part was having to re-download one-by-one (for free, of course) all of the Virtual Console games I had purchased.

Wii remote condom

On top of that, Nintendo recently began offering free Wii remote condoms because apparently some idiots can’t manage to keep their remotes from flying into the TV or their siblings’ brains while playing. I got mine yesterday, and while I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to buy these things, I suppose they’re nice to have. Remember kids: Always use protection.

Edit: Whoa, whoa! Hold the presses! I’ve just discovered that Nintendo is part of the vast, liberal, pro-gay, anti-God, evil pinko tree-hugger conspiracy that is threatening to molest your children and damn your mortal soul to an eternity of torment. No more video games for me, ever.

5 Comments on “Color mii impressed”

1 Deas said at 10:21 on October 17th, 2007:
Sounds like Nintendo Japan’s got it together. Wish Apple Japan would get it in line and learn something. Sheesh. (I felt like Twilight Princess, while being a great game, was too short and too…well, Gamecube-ish. Did you like it, after all?)
2 amake said at 10:59 on October 17th, 2007:
Deas > I haven’t dealt with Apple Japan, but Apple US has always been on the ball for me. I don’t think I’ve ever had a run-in with Nintendo America.

I ended up clocking over 50 hours on Twilight Princess, and that’s without obsessive minigame completion or finding all the hearts, ghost spirits, etc. 50 hours is more than enough in my book, so I feel like I got my money’s worth. I don’t have a great TV or anything, so I felt the graphics were also plenty impressive.
3 Durf said at 11:48 on October 17th, 2007:
Apple Japan has generally been great for me, but recently this has been helped in particular by the fact that I can walk over to the Ginza store and grab a black-shirted human being to do my bidding in person.
4 Deas said at 11:12 on October 18th, 2007:
Maybe my issues have more to do with living in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea than with Apple itself. I blogged about the whole ordeal – but will refrain from linking. You can take a look if you like. But yeah.

I never do the obsessive finish everything, collect everything, complete all mini-games thing. I’ve never played a game over to get an alternate ending. 50 hours is good. I guess I just wish the nostalgia could linger a bit longer. I think I like the discovery process more than the checklist runs. You know?

And the U R MR GAY thing is…ha ha ha…what can you say about that, anyway? (And wasn’t Disney also part of the above mentioned conspiracy?)
5 Tina Anderson said at 1:01 on February 15th, 2008:
Nintendo America has always been a great company. I never had any problems with them. I can’t buy new games until I finish and master the ones I have though. It’s really a obsessive compulsive thing.