Kalypso The Odyssey

It’s summer, and summer tends to be a time when people seem to often be left with little or nothing to do. So, they start falling into a vast and unwanted abyss that I have come to call boredom. In order to pull yourself out of that abyss, you have to find a good source of entertainment. For some people it could be reading. For others it could be drawing. I enjoy doing both of the above but something that gives me even more pleasure is playing video games. So, I have been playing on our Wii alot lately. We just got some new games for the system and they are Super Mario Cart and Mario Galaxy. Both are fantastic games. The Mario Cart is really fun because you can buy this wheel and put your wiimote in it and then drive using the wheel. Within the races of the game there are various traps and other things which you have to avoid, so the whole thing is really fun. And Mario Galaxy is also a really grate game. I have always loved adventure games that go on for just about ever. Like Zelda. The game is played in outer-space, and you travel around all of these mini planets, attempting to save princess peach. She has been captured by Bowser, and if you have previously played any of the mario games, this information isn’t going to surprise you. The company always finds a way to bring in stars, coins, mushrooms, toads, peaches, and giant fiery turtle dinosaurs. And the plot is always the same. This tends to happen alot in Zelda, and now that I think about it, every other adventure game that has a sequal. Hmmm… Ah, well, I guess if the first game works, it’ll all be OK in the end.

If you read my last post you will know that I won a Wii in a video game contest, but something happened that might just tick me off. I still don’t have a wii. A couple of people thought that the grand prize winner, me, might not want a wii, so they gave the option that I could have the money that it would cost to buy one instead of the actual wii. By the time the tournament was over, and I had “won” the wii, the place that the school was going to get the wii from ran out of wiis and now they can’t get one. At the rate that the wiis are being made, shipped, and sold, it might be a few months before I get my prize. Isn’t it wonderful? Not!