A Year in Review 2010

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Erica

New post! I got rather busy after testing this last year but with a new year and a new set of resolutions, I’m ready to try this again.

I accomplished a lot gaming-wise last year. For the first time, I kept track of every game I bought, how much I paid, as well as the date I obtained the game. I did this for my beaten and completed games too. So the stats rundown?

New games: 23 retail, 13 free/gift/borrowed
Beaten games: 29
Completed games: 11
Money spent: $410.60

Now this may not include EVERY game I came across this year. A lot of Steam games I left out until I actually played them. :x (For example, I bought a few indie packs of 5 games on Steam and only intended to play 2-3 of them. If I ever played the other ones, I added them to the list but otherwise they went unchecked.) I’m going to go into detail with lists after this so click more to see that if you’re interested.

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Now Playing – August 24

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Erica

Sup, huge gap between entries! I suppose after the initial “omg new blog to fill” novelty wore off, I was bound to slow down. Regardless, I still want to keep up with my Now Playing entries. Not that I’ve really been doing all that much, hence the general inactivity. :(

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Now Playing – August 18

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Erica

One of the main reasons I want a gaming blog isn’t just to talk about games I’ve finished. It just happens that I’ve cleared a few off my beaten list since starting this. XD; I mostly wanted a place to ramble about what I’m doing and since I could go on and on about this sort of thing (especially while separated from my gaming systems like I am right now while at work!), I figure I should keep a weekly log of what I’m doing. Let’s see how it goes!

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Dissidia: Final Fantasy

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Erica

I bought my PSP a few years ago. Originally I intended to wait until Birth by Sleep came out and get the Japanese bundle to get a Kingdom Hearts-branded console but when I had the extra money in 2008 and wanted to play Crisis Core, I broke down and bought one. I didn’t use it much at all until Birth by Sleep came out. I finished Crisis Core that summer and went right back to playing DS. But last year, Gamestop had a pretty good Boxing Day sale. Dissidia, a game I’d been eyeing (but wasn’t going to pay full price for) was only $20 so I went ahead and bought it.

I played it a bit at the beginning of the year and then set it down for quite a while but it’s still a really good game and a must-have for anyone with a PSP. I think it’ll be a game like Smash Bros. that I can pick up and play every so often for some no-strings-attached gaming and not feel bad to set it down again for months at a time.

So here goes my kind-of review, mostly rambling post!

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Wii Music

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Erica

Though I am rather embarassed to do so, my first entry in my gaming blog is going to be about Wii Music.

Now, back when the game was first announced at E3 2008, I thought it looked ridiculous. It was the lowest note in an otherwise awful keynote for Nintendo, so that’s saying something. I didn’t understand the point. It looked and seemed to play somewhat like Guitar Hero or Rock Band but apparently you didn’t need to hit the notes in proper time. So what’s the point of a game without any sort of challenge or goal? Then Miyamoto came along and clarified that Wii Music was a toy, not a game. So what was it doing on a video games console? The whole idea baffled me and had I not “given up” on the Wii long before, I probably would’ve regained those feelings of betrayal from Nintendo.

Sometime later, my brother and I happened upon a short video. I cannot for the life of me remember where I might have found it but the person speaking in it was praising Wii Music and made it sound appealing. They mentioned the sheer potential it had for teaching about music and for arranging your own songs and understanding the layers of music and whatnot. This piqued both our interests but Nintendo was still trying to sell the damn “game” at $50 which was well out of my price range. So the other week, when Gamestop.ca had the game on sale for a mere $10, I bit. Splitting the cost between my brother and I, it came out to just over $5 each with tax and I don’t mind paying $5 to test something out and maybe have a few laughs.

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Prologue

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Erica

Welcome to Gamer Cherrim, the gaming blog of @Cherrim/Lightning/Erica… or however you know me. ;)

I tend to ramble a lot when I start talking about the games I love and play (and love to play!) so I figured starting a gaming blog so my Livejournal friends don’t have to put up with daily gaming-related posts, my Backloggery friends don’t have to see my page notes update frequently with long-winded thoughts, and my poor twitter friends don’t get 5-tweet updates about my latest gaming escapades. Well, okay, that was a lie, my twitter friends will probably still have to put up with that. But basically, I want a place where I can go on about games, their plots, characters, my strategies, reviews… whatever I feel like. This is that place.

The name, “Gamer Cherrim” comes from the fact that my online handle, gamertag, PSN ID, and all that jazz is typically “Cherrim”. The gamer part obviously signifies the point of this blog and is a slight play on “gamer girl”. I’m female, which makes me a gamer girl but hopefully not a girl gamer. Yes, there’s a difference. If I ever act as obnoxious as a girl gamer does, you have full permission to punch me in the face. However, I am still a girl and as such, may have a more girl-friendly view on game fandom. In that yeah, I do sometimes have slash goggles and fangirling tendencies. Apologies in advance for that.

Anyway, a little background info! I’m 21-years-old and I’ve been gaming since roughly age 8. I wish I could say I grew up on games since before I can remember but the first console I owned was a Gameboy Colour (assuming handhelds count) and after that, an N64. My first game was Pokémon Red, which I had to share with my brother. (He used our Master Ball on a Snorlax.) My parents were very against gaming back then, which is a bit weird now since it was my mother who convinced me to spend my very first paycheque ever on an Xbox 360 and it was my dad who bought the family’s PS3 as a Blu-Ray player. But alas, no NES or SNES-era games for me.

As I said, I started gaming “late” but what I didn’t have back then I’ve tried to make up for now. I have every current-gen system and the only thing I lacked last gen was the Xbox. My favourite systems are probably DS and 360, the latter mostly because playing games with my friends is fun and my PS3 stays at my parents’ house when I’m away at school.

My favourite genre is technically still RPG, since my favourite series all hail from it, but lately I’ve been getting a little bored with it and my attention has been captured better by action or adventure games. (Or my guilty pleasure–puzzle games!) My favourite series are Kingdom Hearts, Pokémon, Assassin’s Creed, and Tales of. My favourite game is a toss up between Kingdom Hearts: Re:Chain of Memories, Tales of the Abyss, and Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix+ (though if I can count FM+ and Re:COM as the same game since they were packaged together, I will).

Hopefully I’ll put this blog to good use and it won’t be too boring to read. :)

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