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Brother N

*Pic from Notcot

Nostalgia Get!

Anyone remember this game? I remember REALLY enjoying it when I first got my Gamecube. Recently I've had a MAD hankering to replay it lately, so I tracked myself down a copy. It wasn't as easy as you think either. I deliberately took the photo of the game with the package so you can see that I didn't just head down to my local EB and leisurely scoop up a copy.

I did the hard yards. I spent the big dollars. I jumped on Google and found Gametraders.

Enter the Rant Theory Podcast review segment titled: "I REMEMBER THIS BEING FUN!" where we take an old game previously played and loved (or hated) by ourselves, in this case Smugglers Run: Warzones, and re-review it in today's standards. This will be the first game that we will tackle so keep an ear out for the podcast real soon. Hell, even I'M keen to know what i think of it now!

Thanks again to the crew at Gametraders Woodcroft for being awesome to deal with and not laughing at me for buying this game. They even sent me a little swag of purple Gametraders goodies. WOOT! Very happy, and i'll shop with them again. Hit 'em up at gametraders.com.au (Sorry in advance to my local EB peeps. I still have yo' back)

Now, if they could only track me down a copy of Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes......

Mr Metal

SUUUUUUUPER MARIOOOO MY GOD MY EARS!

I picked up (gotta think of a better way to say this every time...how bout...scooped?)....Scooped up Mario Galaxy last week and it really is a lovely package. Apart from my big ol 46 inch lcd tv stretching the meager number of pixels the Wii pumps out to the point of snapping, its the best looking thing I have seen on the platform.

Everything has this weird back-lit look that makes all the edges glow and seems to give everything a real visual pop.

Apart from the giddying toy-like graphics, I believe I will love this game...until I don't anymore. I reached the Sweet Sweet Galaxy last night and i came to the realisation, I like Mario, until it gets hard. Every ramp up in difficulty, strips another layer of my enjoyment away.

Sweet FUCKING FUCK galaxy was a situation where I would die, get a 1up straight away, die, 1up, die, 1up, times by about 30 times.

It was like a Mario branded purgatory.

Can't wait to get to Mario hell.


-Brother N-