The Nintendo Wii might be my favorite system of all time 
It is getting to be about damn time that finally something could surpass the Super Nintendo in terms of a console, to me 
I watched Chris play Red Steel - some of the story sequences are just dumb (they clearly were too lazy to animate… if the sequences had been done WELL it would look good but instead they look dumb, bad, and cheesy) but it does look like it actually might be fun to play. I haven’t played it myself, though 
But I do wish that female character (who apparently needs to be saved) would just get shot, because she is incredibly unsufferably annoying! It is a saving grace of the game itself that she is kidnapped because I wouldn’t be able to stand the game if I had to see very much of her.
Monkey Ball is fun! Some of the mini-games are just weird and I don’t like the controls (though to be fair, I don’t like them because I don’t understand them) but others are just genuinely really fun! I’ll be interested to try it out some more - we only played some of the 50 (!!!) 4-player games that came with it.
Zelda is… incredible! I played it for an hour before some people came over yesterday (I made it to the part where you get to try out your sword :D). I love Epona and it looks like she is going to be a big part of the game (unlike in Ocarina of Time where she doesn’t come in until halfway through). I don’t know what else to say about it but I love it.
The Rayman game is great as well. I’ve never played one before but ALL the mini-games so far are great fun 
(I was also happy to discover that I was quite good at some of the games that other people weren’t doing so hot on :P) The slamming bathroom doors on the bunnies though - that one was hard D: we played it (swapping the controller between 5 of us) for at least 30 minutes before giving up I think. We needed to do it for 50 seconds and I think 38.something was the best we had done.
Trauma Center… I actually didn’t realize at first that Trauma Center was mostly a 3D remake of the one for DS… but I’m still loving it. Some things were made much easier simply by the fact that you can switch tools MUCH easier (using the nunchuk part of the controller) and also some parts of there being 3D space is nice. Some motions felt odd to me, or I didn’t know what to do - that may be in part because I didn’t read the manual, but I figured them all out soon enough. There’s also new content (some new levels featuring a new doctor :D) which is really fun, and those levels seem especially fun and innovative. I’ve heard there is a new ending, but I am not far enough in the game to have seen it!
I haven’t played or seen Excite Truck yet. Shane played it last night and he said it was fun.
Wii sports also seems fun - I watched people play it but I don’t think I really played it myself. I can’t remember to be honest :D;
I’m trying to remember if there is anything else… I think that’s it for games I can report on The Wii is really, truly great. I’m glad the controller is as awesome as I’d hoped (perhaps better? :P) and so far it HAS been really intuitive. I did have to lower the sensitivity though to make things work a little easier for me. When I filled out the name for the system the first time, I typo’d a TON because my arm would shake a tiny bit and I’d hit the wrong letter -.- Anyway… yes. I love the system :DD
Corey, Natasha, and Tony all came over yesterday to play (fullll apartment. Wow. :X) so we hung out in the living room all playing Wii Shane and Chris were there of course too, and Tom as well toward the end it was really fun.
Lastly, I’m almost done with Kushiel’s Avatar. It is probably one of the best books (series!) I’ve ever read. I have a little less than 200 pages left (may seem a lot, but it is almost 800 pages long!) and I’ve been reading it a lot whenever I haven’t been playing the Wii or logging in WoW (which hasn’t been often :x).
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