I'm the one Watching those Darn Watchmen.

In true nerd fashion, me and a friend went to the midnight screening of Watchmen. I fell in love with the Watchmen shortly after this movie was announced. I saw the trailer and thought it was some weird super hero movie with a blue dude. I purchased and read the graphic novel, after being recommended by my brother to do so. I was absolutely astonished with what I discovered on the inside of those crazy yellow covers: a super hero world populated with heroes that were also human beings.

With expectations set high and geek meter maxing out at 11, I sat my theater, anxious as all hell. I bobbed back in forth in anticipation for anything other then movie trivia and the gales of dumb laughter from the row in front of me. Finally the movie started and all my worries went away, I was geeking. Overall I'd say the movie was a pretty faithful reinterpretation of the graphic novel. All the changes that I noticed were made for necessary reasons I could understand.  I was so jazzed about the movie when I left that I needed me some more Rorschach.

My overly eager need for more Watchmen cost me twenty bucks I can never again have. The game is ridiculously priced for what actual gameplay you get out of it. It astounds me that Rorschach apparently only put roughly fifty guys in prison; the game throws more then fifty guys at you per level, easy. The combat would be a lot more bearable if you did more then just punch dudes. A team attack would be a god-send, and seemingly a no-brainer. The combat is only split up by "Puzzles" and I am using those are quotes loosely. The puzzles consist of one character somehow allowing the other character to take a very short alternate path to let the original player follow. It really didn't satisfy the teamwork aspect that I had hoped for in this game.

From a drought to a flood.

I've been craving fresh games to play for a while. It feels as if I've only been playing re-releases or re-playing games recently, which is fine, but I need variety. I borrowed two PS3 games from my friend and bought Persona 4 this week. Now I have more games then I know what to do with.

Persona 4 is great. I started my romp through this series (of which I am a fan) with Persona 3.  The lack of psudo-suicides came as a slight shock, and relief. I really like all of the additions made to the game, it really makes a solid game structure shine brightly. The audio has gotten a huge upgrade, there are more voice samples from the characters and you are no longer haunted by the constantly repeated music. I don't know if these additions will prove to be enough to hold my interest throughout the whole game.