Google Chrome and Tomb Raider

It's been a while since I did one of these as such I'd like to go after somethings which don't require too much thought as to describe my opinion as that trilogy of Avatar: The Last Airbender did. That being the case I thought,what better than a video game you've practically beat and the browser you use everyday?

As such I will go for these important but low key parts of my life,starting with the quickest done

Google Chrome

Presentation: 10/20 (Honestly it just didn't impress me one bit,it seemed very complicated and ugly but at least it looked user-friendly)

Features: 20/20 (I praised Opera's speed-dial,well this one is even bigger and better)

Reliability: 20/20 (Firefox used seem like a cheetah,now when I use,I feel like I'm stuck with Netscape on dial-up,that's how fast Chrome is)

Searching: 20/20 (I've said it before,I'll say it again because that's just how to describe searching on this browser "Searching is a breeze")

Final: 18/20 (While intimidating at first,it's become my browser of choice quickly,but it didn't make a great first impression)

Next onto the video game that started a phenomenon,that started a movie,that made Angelina Jolie famous,that made a series,that fell into pit of mediocrity.It started out on the Sega Saturn [I reviewed that system earlier and that's the version I will be reviewing],but took off on the PlayStation to become the killer app of the system.

Tomb Raider (Sega Saturn)

Year: 1996

Developer: Core Designs

Publisher: Eidos

Concept: 20/20 (Basically you control a very hot chick named Lara Croft equipped nothing but pistols initially,exploring the world for treasure in nothing except booty shorts and a tank top. That's a whole new level of bad-ass really. What's more she can do all this crazy stuff and look cool [Mario not so much])

Plot: 20/20 (Lara Croft is a thrill-seeker/treasure hunter who plays just for the heck of it. So naturally when businesswoman Jacqueline Natla hires her to seek an age old artifact in an unfound tomb in Peru,she doesn't even need money to get off the duff and get going.But there's a twist,Natla has sinister intentions once she gets that artifact,and what's more that artifact is a part of a powerful weapon. I don't know about you but that sounds better than even an Indiana Jones film and it makes me wanna keep playing)

Graphics: 18/20 (Marvelously detailed worlds for a system that just wasn't that good at 3D graphics,the big T-Rex looks more frightening than anything now,the guns and rocks look fantastic as do most monsters. The two minor problems are the ground [where you can literally see a grid at times] and the untextured characters like Lara herself who look waaaay too pointy and lack detail and the facial expressions are unreadable)

Music:12/20 (The scores are genuinely spine-tingling and anti-climactic,I could listen to them all day,problem is except for the main theme,most of them aren't very long,get easily interrupted in the action and the game favors the noise of Lara jumping and grabbing ledges over anything else,making for a very queit game. That's fine,but sometimes you'll run into a part begging for some music only to be met with silence)

Challenge: 19/20 (It's got a great learning curve.The first few levels aren't too hard at all [and by that I mean the very firs 2 levels] and then they gradually get harder and harder and harder, until you get to the point you just wanna bang the controller at the screen,pout walk, take over THE WORLD MWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!!.Seriously though the last few levels become incredibly mind-boggling,but thankfully by that time you're well prepared.The controls are dodgy,but if you switch to the second option,,the levels themselves will be the one problem)

Levels: 20/20 (All them are fascinating from the very first level where you're in a cave with wolf footprints,to the waterfall laden Lost Valley,or the level with 4 rooms [one includes Thor's Hammer].Not only do they look great,but they play out great to with plenty of leaping,shooting and fascinating puzzles that you have to figure out with no help.If that bores you and you've gotten to level 7,just jump into King Midas's hand,die turning into gold,laugh and turn the system off. So even in that aspect the levels are fun)

Final:18/20 (One of the most incredible experiences ever,but Lara looks very dated and the music was too short,reptitive at times and almost never played. Also seeing all the grids from which the levels were designed made it hard to suspend disbelief.Core Designs really nailed the adventure genre)

Netscape Browser and Persepolis

It's been awhile since I've posted any reviews.For that I am sorry,but I have recently started posting on a certain video game forum run by another critic,another self proclaimed critic merely called "The VideoGameCritic" or the "VGC ".

It's been quite some time since my last book,then again I haven't done any Browsers in some time either.I figured I might as well combine them since browser reviews are quite short.

I remember for a long time [since I was 5] when Mom and Dad just got an email adrress and Asm used to always play Sesame Street online,of course we had a different computer [which we used for a good decade until we started too need online,for this computer got replaced in 2001 with the one I use now,both were updated to Windows 98 and we used that for quite some time to. However during all these computer changes,one browser stayed the same and was the main 90's browser. Fine I'll get to it already.

Netscape Browser (AOL)

Presentation: 20/20 (Overall Netscape has had a good presentation it looks just like a serious man's browser [unlike Chrome])

Features: 0/20 (If features were strands of hair on guys head,Netscape would be bald)

Reliability: 20/20 (It was quite reliable for sometime but once the computer switched from dial-up to DSL it always got really slow from the router)

Searching: 20/20 (Certainly a good browser for searching at the time,albeit out of date now [sort of like being 16 in this era and still using vinyl records to listen to music instead of iPods and iPhones)

Final:15/20 (Netscape was out of date but it was reliable and workable and quite easy to deal with,but it wasn't compatible with stuff as simple as conforums.Eventually I ended up upgrading to Opera just get things done)

Now onto a controversial,graphic novel that gives one reader an interesting view of the Iranian Revolution and an odd view of Communism/Socialism.Here we go

Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)

Year: 2003-2005
Publisher: Pantheon Books

Plot: 20/20 (I suppose it's not really fair to give autobiographies a score based on plot,but well the plot is good after all it's about the Iranian Revolution and living in Iran during the times of all those strict standards)

Author's Viewpoint: 10/20 (Rather than scoring by characters I'll score based on authors view because it is an autobiography.I don't completely agree with her view,I agree that it shouldn't be so strict and would probably have the same reaction to all the murders and sexism [It's not really fair when women can't even show any hair or wear sneakers when men can wear stuff so tight you can see everything],then again I don't think she has a lot of morals and she's a bigmouth and quite defiant but then again defiant bigmouths don't really like defiant bigmouths.I also learned quite a bit more aboput Communism and U.S. relations[Were jerks that set up puppets for our interests and we forget that capitalism has made Wal-Mart exist])

Writing: 20/20 (There isn't too much writing becuase it's a graphic novel,but what there is is excellent and i love the metaphors I see)

Pictures: 20/20 (The drawings aren't like traditional Japanese manga but rather in a league of their own,in fact I believe all books by this author look something like these,either way I wish I had her style of drawing)

Final:18/20 (If I wasn't morally baffled by her values I'd give this book a perfect score,oh well it's eye candy and easy reading,I remember reading this 10 times in my Freshman year and 20 times earler this school year)

Up Next:

Chronologically: Ever After or Time Bandits (Movies)*
Browsers: Chrome (Google)

* I think I did an Ever After movie review but if I didn't that's next rather than Time Bandits

The Parent Trap(1998)

I would've done The Godfather but I don't remember enough about it to do a review,so instead I've decided to replace that movie with a review of The Parent Trap and no not the 1966 Disney hit,rather the 1998 remake.

The Parent Trap(1998)

Presentation: 20/20(Impressive presentation and excellent beginning dialogue)

Plot: 5/20 (This plot has been done and it's so old practically every TV show or book has done some version of it it's like a sibling version of The Prince and The Pauper,but at least it's done in quite a nice style)

Characters:20/20 (Hilarious characters well developed and every character is lovable[except one who is easy to love to hate])

Lohan's Role: 20/20 (This was made back in the day when Lindsay Lohan was actually a good actress not someone known for being drunk,she was maybe 12 at the oldest,either way she totally pulled the dual roles of Haley Parker and Anne James)

Richardson's Role: 19/20 (Almost sound,still she potrayed Elizabeth James as albeit of a dull character at first)

Quaid's Role: 12/20 (Easily the weak one but hey he's always the weak one and somehow he always end up as a father in each movie[of course I've only seen him in The Day After Tomorrow and Your's Mine,and Our's] oh well he does an acceptable job at being the unsuspecting Dad)

Set: 20/20 (Good set work,theleaky cabin was filmed well and the rest was about as good as it gets for 1998)

Execution:20/20 (The plot is a loss but thankfully it's done in a good style,with badass dialogue,and an ending you wouldn't expect)

Final:16/20(It's hard to not like this movie,but it's not without flaws I mean the plot sucks but the movie wouldn't work without it they coulda' found someone better than Dennis Quaid to play Nick Parker)

Up Next

Chronologically:Genesis and Nintendo 64(Consoles)
Movies: Ever After(1998)

Firefox and Wave Race 64

I've procrastinated one thing for too long,that being a review of the Firefox browser. I'm actually using such to blog so why not. On the other hand I've also got a video game to do

so once again I must do a dual-purpose. I'll star with the procrastinated

Mozilla Firefox

Presentation:20/20(Awesome presentation,it says " I'm amazing" all over it)

Features: 20/20 (I can't explain but one it in one word:AWESOME)

Reliability:20/20 (Even more reliable than Opera,this browser is fast and has never frozen)

Searching:20/20 (Searching is a breeze)

Final:20/20(Easily one the best browsers to work with,and one of the reasons I have not re-installed Opera)

Now for N64's first games,one of the best racing games and the only way I've experienced a jet-ski and for the record anything Mario that I've reviewed is developed by Nintendo EAD(Galaxy by Nintendo EAD Tokyo) and published by Nintendo. I do not review for lasting appeal as such that should be formed on your own and this game has no need for plot as it is merely racing.Mario Kart is always developed by Nintendo EAD except Super Circuit which was developed by Intelligent Systems.

Wave Race 64 (Nintendo 64)

Year:1996
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Publisher:Nintendo

Concept:20/20 (Jet-ski racing what better can you get)

Graphics: 16/20 (The racers and water look great as do the background,but the jet-ski's look a bit grainy and everything can look albeit blurry which is what most early N64 games looked like)

Average Track Score:10/20 (A bit bland but you can't do too much with water-based tracks,still I think more could have been done,why look at Wave Race:Blue Storm)

Multiplayer: 20/20 (The multi-player was more addictive than chocolate and certainly comparable to Mario Kart 64,I found that multi-player is the games main selling point)

Final:17/20 (For a jet ski racing game it doesn't get much better than this,Wave Race as a series is one of the better games on Nintendo systems,but also overlooked)

Up Next

Chronologically: Chronicles of Narnia (Books)
Video Games: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) and Legend of Zelda:The Phantom Hourglass (DS)
Browsers: Netscape(AOL)

Opera Browser and the Game Boy Marios

I haven't graded a browser in ages,I said I would and now I might as well I think I'll grade the browser I use at home then the one I use at school aka FireFox

Opera

Presentation:20/20(Good presentation,unlike M.I.E> or Safari things are easy to find on Opera)

Features:20/20 (It has a helpful home page,the speed dial really helps so you don't have to go the tp or right you can just click on one of 9 panels and there you go)

Reliability:20/20(Very reliable,I 've had no problems with it whatsoever)

Searching:20/20 (Speed dial hepls for finding the conviernience,but it also has it's own  search of course you'd have to go to the company's page but still,not to mention regualr search engines run quite well,it's not quite as fast at loading as FireFox though)

Final:20/20

Now before I move on I'll record my Scores for the Sonic Racers and Mario Karts

Super Mario Kart:19.5/20
Mario Kart 64:20/20
Mario Kart Super Circuit: 18/20
Mario Kart Double Dash:17/20
Mario Kart DS:17/20
Mario Kart Wii:17/20

Sonic Drifts:5/20
Sonic R:8/20
Sonic Riders: 8/20

Onto at last the first portable adventures of Mario aka Mario Lands 1&2

Super Mario Land

Plot:10/20(Practically the same plot as Super Mario Bros. merely with an alien,a different damsel,in a different kingdom unoriginal bu workable)

Concept:20/20(A concept that runs through the whole of 2D Mario jump,jump and more jumping so far pretty dang flawless)

Graphics:12/20 (Game Boy never was knowbn for good graphics and  this game looked worse than NES on the original GameBoy)

Levels:20/20(Spectacular levels nuff said)

Challenge:20/20(Never heard of an easy Mario the early games were hard this being no exception)

Music:12/20(I liked World 1 the rest seemed a bit mediocre)

Final:16/20(If graphics didn't matter tghis game would fare better but the graphics don't look right)

Now for the final real Super Mario Land(the 3rd was really the first Wario game)

Super Mario Land 2:6 Golden Coins

Plot:20/20(Unlike most Mario games,the goal is regain your castle stolen by Wario,rather than save a princess)

Concept:20/20(See Super Mario Land review for reason)

Graphics:18/20(Not perfect,but a least exceptable unlike the original Mario Land)

Levels:20/20 (Even better than the first,these levels were da' bomb)

Challenge:20/20(It's 2D Mario nuff said)

Music: 19/20 (Good music,pretty good but not perfect)

Final: 19.5/20(Nearly-perfect,my favorite game on the Game Boy because it's fun,good repay value and the plot is complertely different,Super Mario Land was Super Mario Bros. gone handheld,this was it's own game).

Ender's Books and Finding Neverland

Ok recently in the past few days I read and completed Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow and yet I haven't done a movie in ages and I've been waiting to give Finding Neverland a score.

I'll get the movie over with first

Finding Neverland

It's basically a loose biography on James M. Barrie during the years when he got the idea to write out Peter Pan.

Presentation:19/20(It's not quite as perfect as I hoped,but the flaws are almost unnoticeable,the beginning was kind of boring though)

Plot: 15/20(The plot was a bit old and unexciting,but kind of original basically it starts off with J.M. Barrie creating a play that completely fails so he is stuck on hard times,but then he meets 4 boys and a mother and quickly befriends them.However his wife and the boys grandmotherr aren't too happy with the arrangement, and basically his adventures with these boys trigger Peter Pan)

Depp's Role: 20/20(Now unlike cousin Sahara who will never find fault with Johnny Depp's acting,I will but this time I quite agree with her.He was good at being a curious,imaginative,slightly childish,unorthodox J.M. Barrie now I don't know if Barrie was like that in real life but for the movie potrayal I like it)

Winslet's Role:20/20(I haven't seen her in other movies, but for playing as Sylvia Lewellyn Davies who is a caring,hard-working,stressed mom who is always over-shadowed by her mother she passes in my book)

Set:20/20(one word:Perfect,Kensington Gardens was a nice touch)

Execution:20/20(It was a perfect execution,the dialogue,the accents,just everything)

Final:19/20(Not quite perfect,but almost there I couldn't give it 19.5 either because the plot was a bit unoriginal)

Now onto Orson Scott Card's #1 hit

Ender's Game

Year:1985
Publisher:Tor Books

Plot:20/20(Perfect plot,basically a Third[a usually illegal 3rd child much like the Shadow Children series] named Andrew"Ender" Wiggin who is taunted by his older brother Peter,ignored by his parents,but trusted by his sister Valentine gets into a fight with a bully named Stilson,thinking fast he beats him up and finishes the job hoping he'll never be bothered again,naturally the creepy I.F. decide he is perfect for Battle School which is a school meant for training to one day deal with Buggers[Aliens that have taken over Earth] along the way he advances up quick;ly and gets extremely smart to the point where he is the perfect commander,the rest is hard to explain)

Characters:20/20(The most important characters are Bean[main character in Ender's Shadow],Peter,Valentine,Bonzo,Alai,and Petra other than of course Ender himself.Bonzo is the antagonist,Peter is like the Longtail/good-natured Tigerclaw of the book[read Warrior to find out those characters],Valentine is the one Ender loves and trusts the most,Alai is his best friend at school,Petra is the one who helps him advance technically he woulda' never gotten the respect he has now without Petra,and Bean is like his apprentice who is also very intelligent.Ender seems to be a violent,troubled kid who is though extremely clever and startegic also has deep emotional gulit wever since beating up Stilson,he has an ok point of view)

Setting:20/20 (Now I don't know what city in America but I think it was Boston which was well described as was North Carolina when it was from Valentine's point of view,but Battle School is excellently described has zero-gravity and high-gravity tha school would be excellent had the creepy teachers not be running it)

Writing:20/20(Some of the best writing I have ever seen,I can't find many better)

Final:20/20(I can't say I have a top 10 like I do for video games or movies but this is one of my tops,personally I prefer the plot better in this book over Shadow but Bean is a better character)

Now at last,but naturally not least........

Ender's Shadow(Orson Scott Card)

Year:1999
Publisher:Tor Books


Plot:20/20(Ender's Game's Plot is slightly better but this plot works,anyway it is about a guy named Bean who escaped some mad scientist's lab by hidng in a toilet tank,but he was gentically altered making him so smart he could compared to planet-brain-sized Marvin from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy anyway he grew up on the streets of Rotterdam,Netherlands when he met a nice but not-so-bright girl named Poke who lets him into her gang.Eventually Poke is murdered and he trying to get away asks Sister Carlotta to enroll him at Battle School where he meets the notorious Ender Wiggin)

Characters:20/20(Character's of importance are Ender[main character in Ender's Game],Nikolai,Achilles,Poke, Petra, and le gasp Bonzo.Bonzo does not play quite an antagonistic role this time more like the crazy insane guy.Ender is like Bean's mentor who he trusts highly,Nikolai is his best friend,Poke is the stupid girl who helped him survive the streets of Rotterdam who was murdered by Achilles who is the real antagonist who murders anyone who gets in his way)

Setting:20/20(I already described Battle School,but Rotterdam was well described with it's mean streets and the Rhine River,...wow)

Writing:20/20(Some of the best writing out there,just like Ender's Game)

Final:20/20(Once again makes my tops, and sci-fi isn't exactly my favorite genre either)

Sonic Adventure 2 and Safari Browser

Aw yes a Sonic game and a browser by Apple

This was one of the last good Sonic Games,Shadow was the ultimate.Anyway this also SEGA's last game that was on a SEGA system(Dreamcast,to be precise).In this game you played 2 sides of one story.You also played as Sonic,Tails,or Knuckles(if Good) or Shadow,Dr.Eggman, or Rouge the Bat(if bad) depending on what level and side.

Alright onto the scores and I'll grade the original version because I don't grade ports

Sonic Adventure 2(Dreamcast)

Year:2001
Developer:Sonic Team USA
Publisher:SEGA

Plot:10/20(Quite an unoriginal plot,I mean bad guy gets his hands on something powerful,powered by Chaos Emeralds,intends to conquer Earth come on come up with something original)

Concept: 20/20(You play as 6 characters,3 per side and 1 characters on each side mirrors the other[ex Shadow and SOnic are both speedy linear courses or Tails and Eggman are both 3rd person shooter and linear] but challenges are added)

Graphics:20/20(One of Dreamcast's last games and of course that means,it harnessed some of the best graphical power for 2001,not even Ps2 could match it,Sonic looks great)

Levels:13/20(Impressive level design,but gets a little repetitive and old but lotsa obstacles and challenges to keep it good)

Challenge:20/20(This is one of the most challenging games I've played,not quite like CD or the 2nd but pretty good)

Music:8/20(Terrible music but I can stand it,unlike R or Shuffle,some of the music is ok but it's mostly bad rap or bad pop)

Final:15/20(Good game indeed,but the plot really sucked and the music was horrible and levels seemed unfinshed but it's a solid game)

Up next Super Princess Peach in Video Games

Now for Browsers,2nd time but the type needs catching up

Apple has made some reliable popular products like Apple II or the Mac franchise or iPod,some not so solid like Pippin console or Safari,Safari is one of the worst browsers ever,in fact Microsft actually beats Apple here and Microsoft sucks

Presentation:2/20(Terrible Persentation,it's so screwy, and i looks terrible,not a good impression)

Features:8/20(Lotsa features but not good ones,except keychain password when you own the computer)

Reliability:9/20(A bit less likely to crash than Microsoft's counterpart but,but I still don't trust it)

Searching:6/20(Searching sucks no worse than Microsoft's offering)

Final:6/20(Terrible,terrible browser one of the worst ever,I'll use it only if I have to)

My signature is Opera but I like Firefox and Netscape ain't to bad neitha'

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unforunate Events and Internet Explorer Web Browser Review

Well I said I do a web browser review andI need to get 3 book reviews. I'll make this dual purpose.

I'll start with the Browser since other wise I couldn't blog without using one

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Presentation:9/20(The presentation is terible but I can work with it)

Features:12/20(It's gets better and better but still nothing special)

Reliablity:4/20(Microsoft isn't known for making anything reliable,but the current one works,it's fairly good but the average brings it down)

Searching:6/20(I don't like searching on this browser)

Final:8/20(While not the worst,it's pretty terrible,I don't grade browsers on technology)

Now for the better

A Series of Unfortunate Events(Lemony Snicket)

Year(s):(1999-2006)
Publisher:HarperCollins

Plot:20/20(Perfect plot in every way plus the author is a character and i's about 3 orphans who go through thousands of odd and unlucky circumstances such as burning a carnival,stuck in a house on a cliff and so on)

Characters: 18/20(There are alot of characters,but for characters that actually matter,they are great,Count Olaf is a fantastic villain,Esme is a master of deception, and the Baudelaires are quite original,but not perfect and they seem a bit like what Count Olaf said"You guys are just like you were when I set my eyes on you,you think books,inventing things,and biting will do everything" t some extent that is true which is why the score is not perfect")

Setting:20/20(Excellent setting for each book first it is in Count Olaf's house,then Uncle Monty's house,then Lake Lachrymose,then Paltryville,followed by Prufrock Preperatory School and so on)

Writing:20/20(This is one of the best written books ever,it is neither first person nor third,rather both as the author character records the Baudelaire lives in rd person and compares it to his own in 1st person)

Final:20/20 (Most people fins fault with the darkness and mystery I however wish there were more books like that in existence)

Super Mario 3D reviews

A month ago I compared them,but I didn't give a score.On the other hand I intended to do a movie review of"The Pacifier". I think I'll make this dual purpose

First of all the Mario Kart 64 is a perfect 20/20 not 19/20 and Super Mario Kart is actually 19/20 not 17/20.


Anyway I'll start of with the 3D Mario's


Super Mario 64

Platform: Nintendo 64(For less confusion I'll do 64 but I give DS the same because it's almost the same plus more stars and levels,but odd controls)

Year:1996

Innovativeness:20/20(The idea of turning a 2D-linear platform series to a 3D-exploration series is superb nd few other series have pulled it off[Sonic anyone])

Graphics: 18/20(I love the graphics but you can tell alot of tricks are pulled to make it look smooth like Gourad shading for Mario and the trees are 2D,but still  for 1996 that was almost top of the line[NiGHTs sometimes looked better though])

Concept: 20/20(Basically Peach has been taken prisoner in her own castle and you must rescue her and foil Bowser's plan[this is like the original plot turned 3D,but at least the rewad is better] and you must traverse through many,many worlds collecting power stars and gaining power-ups[Metal is my favorrite])

Levels:20/20 (I love the world line up,you start off in a grass land where litttle Bomb-Ombs are at war with each other and you go throught ons of others[like Lethal Lava Land and Snowman's which is my favorite course])

Challenge:20/20 (This game kept me busy for years,DS only took me 6 months though at first,stars like Red Hot Log Rolling and Tricky Trinagles kept me at it)

Music: 20/20 (This is either the best video game music or among the best I've heard,if Koiji Kondo's work hasn't becomea symphony in some part of the world,there is no justice; if you're gonna play a challenging video game,it might as well be easy listening)

Final: 20/20

Now onto GameCube hit............

Super Mario Sunshine

Platform:Nintendo GameCube

Year:2002

Innovativeness:17/20(Though not as innovative as its buddies,it has FLUDD who can do many tricks and the idea of Yoshi and Squid-surfing could be better but,it's still very innovative)

Graphics: 20/20(I love the lighting and smoothness with no easily seen tricks,it looks like an early Wii game,certainly Xbox quality. The hotel looks a little bit too much like a Hotel)

Concept: 20/20 (Basically you're Mario and you've been frammed for vandalism,while the clone perpetrator has kidnapped Princess Peach,you must travesre throughout the island in search of the perpetrator(Shadow Mario) and Peach with the help of your handy water robot FLUDD)

Levels: 18/20 (You start off in at  a little windmill village where a huge monster has polluted the lake and the roads from the Biggest widmill, and from there on you face many levels[I liked Noki Bay the cliff level and Pinna Park the Theme Park level,but I miss the Ice lvels and the Sand levels)

Challenge: 20/20( This is certainly challeging,I got through half the game hands down and thought WHAT???? But then I got stuck at all sorts of difficult ones,it only looks easy,the boss was too-easy though)

Music: 19/20( It doesn't uite have 64's charm but I love em' none the less,the Sand Bird theme and Nokis Bay's Underwater Kingdom theme especially.They're all excellent and fun to listen to.If I had them on my iPod I'd listen to them all the time[same with 64])

Final:19/20

Now onto handheld......

New Super Mario Bros.

Platform:Nintendo DS

Year:2006

Innovativeness: 19/20(The idea of a 2.5D game of from 3D/2D games was an excellent idea,not as well pulled off as Galaxy's idea though)

Graphics: 20/20 (It looks a bit like Super Mario 64,without  the tricks but considering it's handheld that's top-notch)

Concept: 20/20 (Basically Bowser and Bowser Jr. have kidnapped Peach and Mario must rescue her,this ime he goes through 2.5D worlds)

Levels:16/20(I'm sorry but they seem to linear without much exploration and plus I'm biased about the whole 3D,2D thing. I do like World 1  and World 6 though)

Challenge:20/20(Most challenging Mario game ever)

Music: 15/20 (The music took the lowest nose-dive,it's still good but honestly something's fishy about it)

Final: 17/20


Finally onto space exploring,motion sensing........

Super Mario Galaxy

Platform:Wii

Year:2007

Innovativeness:20/20(The idea of not just turning 3D graphics into 2D platforming like the DS game,but blending 2D gameplay onto a 3D plane with 3D graphics)

Graphics: 17/20 ( The graphics dissappointed me too much,Mario looks whiter than sour cream and it looks like Sunshine with better lighting,no glitches though)

Concept:20/20 (Peach has been kidnapped by Bowser and Bowser Jr., and Mario or LUIGI????? ,must go into the depths of space to rescue her you land inside a Comet observatory where you go into looking ares andfloat o many Galaxies)

Levels: 20/20 (I loved the levels,they were like 64 totally original with even new ideas like Sweet Sweet Galaxy,too bad you start off in a Galaxy of just grass)

Challenge: 15/20(It was too easy for a Mario game,but still hard.I beat in about 3 days)

Music:17/20 (It fared better than New Mario Bros. but it's still overrated.The music is nice,but it's not Mario style. It's orchestrated and would make fantastic orchestra pieces but let's face it. It's like the President holding a gala because his kid just gt toilet trained or having feast because your ex just died(King Henry actually did that))

Final:17/20

and now for the movie

The Pacifier

Presentation:15/20 (I didn't like the presentation,it seemed too kiddie)

Plot:20/20 (Know-all,Handle-all,Hardcore NAVY-SEAL Shane Wolf is sent to watch over a family for a month while the Admiral works on cracking GHOST's code.GHOST's is a microchip that could stop nuclear missiles from working,if rendered into North Korea's hands could do major damage,could this be Wolf's hardest task???)

Diesel's Role: 20/20 (Vin Diesel is always in action movies this is nothing short,he plays Lieutenant Shane Wolf the hard-core"My Way or the High Way" character)

Set:16/20 (A little off,at least it didn't look to much like a studio)

Execution: 18/20(It was fairly well executed,a little corny though but oh well,it was alright)

Final:18/20