The WoW Of It All

Yesterday, my first full day of freedom for this summer, was a trip down memory lane. Awaking around 9:30am, I set out to Meijer immediately, where I purchased two games: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GameCube build) and World of Warcraft. I'm assuming that all of my planned productivity for my summer is, for a lack of a better word, fucked.

In my first day of playing WoW, I advanced to the same place that took me a full 14 day trial to do nearly two years ago. Awesome or scary?

I've been worried about Twilight Princess. From what I've heard, it was a Zelda game that is strong but unoriginal, especially following in the wake of the genre-defining Ocarina of Time. After spending a solid seven hours with it thus far, however, I can see that it certainly challenges Ocarina of Time for the title of "best Zelda design." In short, my fears were unfounded, as Twilight Princess brings together the best aspects of the Wind Waker and Ocarina of Time, polishes the controls and gameplay to absolute perfection, all while presenting an unexpectedly dark and humorous story that is very un-Nintendo like.

Now the real challenge begins. I must balance a six-week summer course (starting next week), two massive games, and two pieces of fiction, one of which I plan to finish by the end of this summer.

School may be over, but I supposed the workload never really changes.

Out.