My Wish ListIt's that time of year again: Time for you to buy things for me for Christmas! BUY THINGS FOR ME! Don't forget to sort the wish list by PRIORITY. Thanks in advance!
Game of the Month:
Mega Man 9The original Mega Man series is tied with the Mario Kart series as my all-time favorite series of video games. Imagine my surprise and delight when suddenly out of nowhere Capcom released Mega Man 9 this year... with Mega Man II era graphics and sound effects! So far it's only available as a WiiWare download (and it only costs ten bucks). Easily the best Mega Man game since Mega Man IV, Mega Man 9 is like a distillation of everything that made those original games so great 20 years ago. It proves you need not have 10,000 polygons per character and photo-realistic lighting effects to have a good game. All you need to have is A GOOD GAME. And it's frikkin' difficult, which I appreciated quite a bit. It actually took me several days to beat it! And with downloadable content, there are tonnes of reasons to go back and keep on playing it!
Album of the Month:
Sixpence None the Richer: The Dawn of GraceI'm kind of a sucker for a good girl-pop/rock band, so I've always kinda liked Sixpence None the Richer. Even back when they were much more overtly a Christian band I didn't find them terribly offensive; it was surprisingly catchy stuff. Leigh Nash has an endearingly quirky voice. Well, now they've released a Christmas album, so it's okay that there are Christian songs on it. Surprisingly, there are only a few standards: Angels We Have Heard on High; O Come, O Come Emmanuel; Silent Night; and Carol of the Bells. The rest of the album is made up of very unusual choices like the old Spanish carol Riu Riu Chiu (in Spanish), the delightfully laconic Christmas Island, and the thoroughly bizarre Some Children See Him, which tells how children of different ethnicities all see Jesus looking like them.
Labels: Christmas, Mega Man, Of the Month
