Three more weeks until Dragon Quest VI's Irish release

Still looking forward to this! It'll be here very soon and then I'll swoop in and buy up a copy. No major things happened in the run up to this so far. The German box art came out alright and if you saw it you'd pity them. That USK rating really destroys the cover and in this case it squashes everything else to one side. What a hog!

What I would like from Nintendo for the Wii's successor (Part 3)

NO LOAD TIMES!

Make this a priority! Make starting a game as hassle free as it used to be (there's more than load times that get in the way but let's talk about one thing at a time). We didn't have loading delays as a plaguing nuisance when we played games on cartridges and even the disc based Gamecube loaded games very quickly. Wii was great too but there are many many examples of games on the Wii that have stupid loading delays. The 3DS is horrible for loading delays.

Thing is people don't complain about loading delays enough. At this stage games that load very quickly ought to be praised a lot more.

How will Wii's Successor store data?

Just wondering about this. If it's going to be more powerful than the current competition then how will it store data? Will games unfortunately have to be installed from disc? Will there be a hard drive? How much data can it store?

Come to think of it what kind of media will the games come on? I mean what kind of DVD/whatever will it be stored on and what capacity will it be? Will it allow games to load quickly? For that last part I hope so!

This post is all questions but I am starting to genuinely think about this successor console that's being shown soon.

Thinking about the rumour of a controller with its own screen.

As long as the price is right for the controller this sounds like an ok idea. But hey I'm saying if and ONLY if the price is right. The screen itself better be well lit too! I don't want it to be like another Game Boy Advance screen! Every single one of those screens be it nonlit or frontlit were terrible! It might work though, who knows? But I'm not too psyched about it.

Project Café, or whatever Nintendo is calling the Wii successor is real and playable at E3 2011

Alright alright I'm a believer now.

Nintendo had an investor's meeting lately where they talked about the successor to the Wii and they have a pdf on their Japanese website that said it'll be playable at this year's E3 and that it'll be released next year.

I guess I should start getting excited now? Well, ok I might as well but I'm not going to leave the Wii behind right now(just like the way I'm not leaving the DS behind right now). I honestly hope that this new system will be everything the Wii was and more.

And yes some of the rumours are still awful!

I got Mystical Ninja Starring 2 Starring Goemon!

I finally decided to get this game after such a long time of humming and hawing about it. Well I'm glad I did now. I loved the first one and I like the other Goemon games too so I'm thrilled I finally have this. Now I can tick off its box in the Retro Gamer issue about collecting PAL N64 games a couple of months ago!

I discover Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal

I didn't get the Nintendo DS for about a year or so after it came out. This was one of the games that I never noticed, an RPG by Konami called Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal.

Now I didn't buy it or play it at all but I did come across it and was curious enough to do some research on it. It wasn't very well received due to controls or something. Anyway the important thing is that it was an interesting find. Check out some youtube videos or something if you're interested. For all I know it could be an underrated gem.