January 31, 2008

affray, altercation, argument, battle, clash, disorder, dispute, feud, fight, fray...

Brawl has been released in Japan!

Though I somewhat doubt that anyone in Japan has actually beaten the entire game yet, as it seems as though unlocking everything would take a very very long time, they have told those of us in North America who still have to wait more than a month a few things. Firstly, they have released most, if not all, of the playable characters in the game. They are

Bowser
Captain Falcon
Diddy Kong
Donkey Kong
Falco
Fox
Ganondorf
Ice Climbers
Ike
Jigglypuff
King Dedede
Kirby
Link
Lucario
Lucas
Luigi
Mario
Marth
Meta Knight
Mr. Game & Watch
Ness
Peach
Pikachu
Pikmin & Olimar1
Pit
R.O.B.
Pokémon Trainer2
Samus
Sheik3
Snake
Sonic
Toon Link
Wario
Wolf
Yoshi
Zelda
Zero Suit Samus5

You can click on their names to go to the Wikipeida pages on them, in case you happen not to know who they are. Basically, the most unknown are:

Toon Link, who may not actually be called Toon Link in English, but is Link from Legend of Zelda, animated in Wind Waker style. Some have said that he's actually animated in Four Swords/Minish Cap style, so I can't be sure, and I haven't been able to find any videos with him in them, so I guess we will just have to wait. I also wonder what Nintendo will call him.

Wolf O'Donnell, is the head of Star Wolf (what an inventive name), in Star Fox. The only Star Fox game that I've really played is Star Fox Adventures for Gamecube, and he wasn't in that to the best of my knowledge, but Wikipedia says that he exists, so I assume that he does.

R.O.B. was a random accessory for the NES. It was very funny, but also fairly useless, as I believe only 2 games were made that were compatible with it, and both were pretty bad. I remember that it came out as an enemy in the Subspace Emissary, and I was wondering what it would do, but as a playable character, I am hoping that Nintendo didn't make a big stupid mistake.

Lucario, for those of you who, like me, haven't played Pokémon since the times of Pokémon Blue, Red, and Yellow, is a fighting/steel Pokémon. I know that there were Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee that were fighting Pokémon, but what kind of type is steel?

The rest, you should know. If not, you should go play more video games. On that note, today is the last day of WEMass. I hope you all had a great holiday. Despite all the homework I had, I know I did. You can read Tim Buckley's WEMass story that starts here, but it's not extremely interesting. I did notice, however, that it's funny how the god of RTS games looks like this, as in my experience, big RTS gamers look more like this. That's BoxeR, by the way.

As it has been a while, I decided to come up with a fifth logic puzzle! Good luck!

The five Saddening Goat writers (obviously, I am not including Jaysen, though I wonder if I should have even kept Amir) decided to stand in a line and make random statements for fun. They started in the following order, and labeled their positions:

A - Josh, B - Jon, C - Aaron, D - Cindy, E - Amir

It just so happens that in the world of Saddening Goat, telling the truth is strictly prohibited. Therefore, every time someone told the truth, they got eliminated, and everyone to the right of them moved one position to their left. Also, prior to making their first statements, they all decided to cover themselves in big black bags for fun, so that it was not clear who was who. The writers then made the following statement, by position:

A - I am telling the truth.
B - Aaron is not telling the truth.
C - Cindy is telling the truth.
D - Josh is telling the truth.
E - Jon lies.

One was then eliminated, and the people to the right of them moved one position to the left, then everyone made more statements:

A - Cindy was telling the truth in the last statement that she made.
B - I have not yet moved from position B.
C - The person at position A is telling the truth.
D - I am not Cindy.

One was eliminated again, the necessary people moved, then more statements were made:

A - The person in position B is about to lie!
B - I just moved from position C to here.
C - The person in position A is lying.

Again, one was eliminated, then the final two made statements:

A - The person next to me is about to lie.
B - I am Cindy.

One of the two was then eliminated. Who remained?

Cela, c'est tout ce que j'ai a dire pour le moment, alors à la prochaine!

EDIT: I have thought of two more things to say that aren't really enough for a post, so I'll just add them here.

Firstly, the sonic stage in Brawl is Green Hill Zone. I thought that that was funny, considering the music they have released for it is the Angel Island Zone music. Nevertheless, it looks pretty cool. Secondly, I searched "Saddening Goat" on Google to see what would come up, and the sixth result was this... I have no clue what this is... or why it exists... but I thought I would open it up to interpretation, for fun. Anyway, ttyl!

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