HIIIII GUYSSSSSS. I haven't written an ACTUAL JOURNAL since MARCH so read below to find updates with my life that you don't care about, the monthly would you rather and some other fun goodies.
So. I bought Ocarina of Time 3D a week ago today, and just last night I finished it 100%, excluding the 100 Gold Skulltulas because that's tedious and boring as hell. I got 50 of them so I could get a piece of heart, but no more :/
But yeah. What's to say? It's an incredible game, though it's exactly what I expected: a simple port of Ocarina that doesn't do anything drastically new, but is still a blast to play. One added feature that I like is the ability to replay past bosses in Link's dreams. After you've beaten them all a second time you unlock a "boss gauntlet" mode that I still haven't completed because it requires you to pass ALL THE BOSSES IN A ROW with only FIVE FREAKING HEARTS. It's brutal, really brutal. There's nothing more devastating than getting all the way to Bongo-Bongo and being strangled to death by one of his stupid hand attacks because the hookshot won't work for whatever reason. That happened to me. I don't like Bongo-Bongo much anymore. Or the hookshot.
And when I say 100%, I mean REALLY. Not just pieces of heart, but every single equipment upgrade, fairy fountain, empty bottle and the Biggoron Sword. Everything except all the skulltulas, basically. And I made it my goal to use a guide for nothing but the Water temple, so for me finding all the secrets was tough. When I first played OoT on the Wii Virtual Console I did a normal straight-forward run without going out of my way to get bottles or pieces of heart or anything, so all of that was new to me in the 3DS port. Especially annoying were the maximum deku stick and deku nut upgrades, because to get them you FIRST have to take an alternate route in the Lost Woods, then fall down this hole that's basically impossible to see because it's covered by flowers, and finally you realize that it's useless because you have to have a mask with you from the mask shop. So after you get a mask and repeat the above, you go back and a bunch of Deku scrubs maul you because apparently you need a SPECIFIC mask. So through much trial and error, I figured out that the two masks needed for the deku stick and nut upgrades were the Skull Mask and Mask of Truth. If you go in with anything else, the scrubs usually attack you. Sometimes they give you rupees, but mostly they're set on killing you. So yeah. BOTTOM LINE IS, finding all the secrets is hard.
Personal opinion here, but I think Nabooru is hot. Yeah, sorry, I'm an idiot.
Enough about Ocarina now. A lot of you have asked how I've been doing since the tonsilectomy, and I've actually healed up pretty quickly. Not completely better, my throat's still a little sore, but everything went fine. When I was confined to doing nothing but watching TV (in no way a bad thing), I managed to watch every single episode of Death Note on Netflix for the Wii. It's a good anime. As in, one of the best I've seen. Ryuk is awesome, and L is awesomer. Light is kind of an ass. So there.
For months I've been rather weirdly hyped up over THIS MOVIE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbFz--… It's like... wow. All of my childhood put into a single trailer. I get teary eyed every time I see it XD When school was still going on my English teacher asked us if we were looking forward to any movies. When I said Winnie the Pooh, everybody in the class stared at me like I had grasshoppers crawling out of my hair. I HAVE NO SHAME.
So when it comes out on July 15th I'm rounding up a ton of my friends and we will sit in the theater among a bunch of 3-year-olds and nerd out. It shall be amazing.
Side note: Eric Goldberg is animating Rabbit. Eric Goldberg is one of the best animators of our time. I'm happy, very happy.
OKAY... UM... I'VE BEEN PLAYING SO MUCH OCARINA THAT I CAN THINK ABOUT NOTHING ELSE SO... FOR THE MONTHLY WOULD YOU RATHER: would you rather have the Goron (fire-resistant) tunic or the Zora (lets you breathe underwater) tunic?
One last thing before I conclude this embarassingly long journal is that VERY VERY SOON I AM MOVING ACCOUNTS. Before I do I need to decide on a username, plus I want to have a couple comic or cartoon ideas so I can upload them as soon as I get my new account and start things off with a bang. So stay tuned, I'll obviously let you guys know when this is happening.
THIS TOOK 45 MINUTES TO WRITE SO YOU BETTER HAVE READ THE WHOLE THING.
kthxbye.