For my Next Trick!

I am hoping to get a review done every two weeks, but I guess that's being a bit ambitious. But I can give myself a break, because I posted a commercial for a local radio contest instead. If you want to see my first foray into animation, check out my Volvo commercial on YouTube. Sadly, I'm not quite sure it was accepted into the competition because I may not have emailed it to the right person at their station. Oh well - it's still the best one out there (in my humble opinion) and I should by rights be driving the new Volvo C30 for two years. But the point is I did the commercial, right? Tell that to my check engine light.

And for my next review, I'm vascillating between the Katamari Damacy release for the 360, and the oh-so-obvious Halo 3. There's no point in reviewing Halo 3, really, but I could post a honest response type of video where I confront the reality of coming into the Halo scene with no skills - it's humbling at the very least. It's probably like playing golf against the real Tiger Woods - since I've never done any golfing aside from putt-putt. As I continue to attempt these reviews, along with the bigger picture of producing myself, I am having an urge to approach this more from a chick-to-chick perspective - and leave the know-it-all guys out. Boys are what brought me to video games, and still their true hearts elude me - what do they really want? I'm like that girl who thought if she played soccer as well as the boys, they would like her. But she just ended up having really thick legs.

So Katamari is my best bet, you think?

In the beginning there was Bioshock

Our first video will be posted within the hour, and I am nervous as hell. First of all, how dare I? How dare anyone, really? Seriously? HOW?

Who do I think I am to tell you what I think about video games? It's a good question. I'm stuck. Couldn't tell you what gives me the right, but I can tell you that I have always been overwhelmed by the quantities of reviews out there, and how few of them are interesting or intelligible to the average gamer. Especially girls. We game, PS.

Years ago, when I was a wee chicken, I realized that the boys were all talking about one thing - Nintendo. And if I could also talk about Nintendo, perhaps even educate them on how to get a hundred lives on Level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros, then perhaps they would pay me a little attention. This was pre-boobs, by the way. So I did what I could. I played games. Sure I played the hell out of Zelda (who was the jerk that told me after you beat it nine times something cool would happen??). But I also played Metroid and Megaman, TecmoBowl and Ice Hockey. I taught myself Basic and programmed a little man of letters to run across the screen of my TI. And I spent HOURS looking under rocks and kissing trees in the King's Quest series.

So here I am, years later, and I want you to know what I'm playing. Because I want to know what you're playing. Because there is so much out there now, and if I miss another good one like Resident Evil 4, I might just cry. And also because boys are still gaming, and they are still cute. Very cute. Sigh...

Welcome to my video game reviewing club. Hopefully I'll review every two weeks. We'll see. I've got my sights set on Eternal Sonata next - SO GIRLY!!! But if I start getting into RPGs like I'm wont to do, you may not see me for awhile. In the meantime, please post comments (don't be scared to sign up for an account, Google doesn't bite) and give me your gamertag so I can add you to my Xbox Live friends list. (If you don't have XBox Live, diseregard that last part about the gamertag.)