Best Motion Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best Multi-Player: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best Original Score: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best Wii Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best XBOX 360 Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best PS3 Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best PC Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best Action/Adventure Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best Shooter: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best RPG: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land V: Skyrim
Best Individual Sports Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best Team Sports Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best Driving Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best Fighting Game: Super Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best Independant Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land 1.0 (Finally!)
Best Adapted Vacuum Cleaner: Kirby Vacuum
Best Song in a Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Continue Theme
Best Graphics: Kirby’s Return to Crysis
Best Performance by a Pink Puffball: Kirby
Best Downloadable Game: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Best DLC: N/A. There’s no such thing as good DLC.
And the winner of the prestigious title of SpaghettiWeegee’s Game of the Year, as you may have already guessed…
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
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I think I’m starting to hate the buildup to the releases of new Zelda games. Not because the wait is killing me, but because of how darn seriously everyone is taking it. Namely, how strictly everyone’s trying to avoid spoilers, to the extent of not even visiting Zelda websites like, well, this one. Discussion on Skyward Sword is stifled, speculation is near-impossible without the groundwork that mild spoilers put down for players, and every time Skyward Sword is mentioned, there’s always that one guy who makes a point of leaving as to “not spoil the game”. Put simply, these people are taking spoiling Skyward Sword as a puritan takes his daughter’s virginity, and you know what? It’s kind of making this wait even less fun than normal. We’re all missing a beautiful opportunity! Only now can we speculate wildly at what’s going to be in the game with nobody to tell us our theories are wrong. Only now can we voice our wants and desires for the game’s features freely and whimsically. Only now can we have a strange brand of fun talking about this game, and certain, if not many people are destroying that fun for the rest of us. They’re obsessed with keeping themselves pristine from game information to the extent of not even reading something as mild as an Iwata Asks interview, or having someone discuss the epic pun in Skyward Sword’s title around them. This behavior is just making the wait more boring, and honestly, I must demand it stops!
As I mentioned in the paragraph above, we’re wasting a glorious opportunity. Letting this period of free-for-all discussion with no bounds to keep us in, especially since this period of time doesn’t come around very often, and even moreso, not with a game this big, is a huge waste. Letting it slip through your fingers before your very eyes is denying yourself some pretty stellar conversation, and worse than that, is denying me some pretty stellar conversation. :< If anything, don't waste this opportunity for the sake of your fellow Zelda-enthusiast. Who knows? Maybe actually discussing the game at length with no boundaries will prove to be just as fun as actually playing it. All for the price of spoiling a few minor details, too. Knowing the mechanics at play here and perhaps one or two story elements isn't going to render the game unplayable, and even if you spoil the whole thing, it's doubtful that playing it won't be fun. It's still a game you haven't played before, and honestly, don't we play games for the gameplay, not the story, anyway?
In addition to this, it’s a proven video-game-science fact that a small amount of spoilers are healthy for fans of the series. If you’re running on no prior information, the hype for the game isn’t there, which inevitably will make the game a bit, believe it or not, less enjoyable. I found that when I began reading mildly spoileriffic material about the game, simple stuff such as information about where the Beetle item came from, and what the development team focused on when creating this game, only made me want to play it even more. And if arousal appetite is any indication, the more badly you want something, the more you’ll enjoy it. I’m not saying go out and spoil the entire game, but I do suggest reading a few things here and there about it, just enough to get your, er, “appetite” worked up.
Well, those are my thoughts on the matter. If you wish to change your spoiler-Nazi ways, I’m afraid I can’t help you. You’ve dug yourself into a rut, and the only way to get out is– oh who am I kidding, I’d be more than happy to help!
~RECOMMENDED READING~
Where better than to hype yourself up without spoiling yourself rotten than the official Skyward Sword website? Almost tailor-made to not include too many details, but has just enough to excite even a very jaded fan.
Iwata Asks: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
A charming series of interviews with Mr. Satoru Iwata and the development team of Skyward Sword. Says the team, it doesn’t matter how much they spoil here because there’s so much packed into the game, they’d have a hard time even spoiling a portion. Also, that Fujibayashi guy is a hunk on wheels.
The Zelda Eternity Forums – Skyward Sword
Hey, I like our forums to be active. Why not use the information you’ve garnered from the above links and put them to use here, and put the second bit of my advice to use: to discuss this game like no tomorrow! It’s not too late.
And if you’re really gung-ho into this…
The Entire Flipping Skyward Sword Plot
Thanks to Zelda Informer, the plot has been revealed on the internets for all the world to see. Read at your own risk.
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on which we like to gnaw?
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and it comes with a drink,
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And it’s gotta cook fast,
and it’s gotta have cheese,
and it shouldn’t be covered in slime!
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I’m holding out for a burger past breakfast time!
And it’s gotta be cheap,
and it comes with a drink,
and it’s gotta be super-sized!
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So today I was practicing a rare and almost unheard of ritual: showering. While participating in the bizarre, otherworldly proceedings, which included standing naked alone in a chamber of running water, a thought hit me. “Man, I’m hungry”. My thoughts drifted from scrubbing under my arms with the sacred “Cloth of Next-to-Godliness”, and turned to a favorite food of mine: doughnuts. I imagined the glaze, the flavor, the hole, and through some epiphany caused via sleep deprivation and exposure to bleach fumes, I began to think how similar humans are to doughnuts. Like any sophisticated internet-goer would, the first thing I did after I had this thought was sit at my desk and begin writing a blog post…
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If there’s one thing that gets me hot under the collar, it’s got to be my air conditioning unit going on the fritz, however, we’re not here to talk about my sweaty neck, we’re here to talk about, as the title suggests, the select few individuals who make their living by constantly going against the grain and liking things because they’re either “too cool for school”, or “totally indie”. That’s right, we’re going to talk about possibly the most important group of people to walk the face of the planet since the disciples of Jesus, or the Marx Brothers. We’re going to talk about a group of people who affect us all: Pokémon Hipsters.
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