“I hated how she kept saying ‘Dondake~ dondake~’ like a stupid bimbo.”
[Note: Dondake is a current 'fad word' in Japanese. It kinda means "what the hell?" Apparently it started in the gay community and found its popularity when a crossdresser named IKKO used it...somewhere? I don't know. All I know is my kids say it all the damned time!]
So I’m playing NMH, get to a loading point, and the game gives me a screen similar to the “Wiimote connection lost” one except it’s asking me to remove the nunchuck. Eh?
So I do, and then I’m washed away to a vertical shooter. Unlimited continues, thankfully, as I suck at shooters. But that was pretty surreal. Not explained at all in the game! After finishing it, I’m whisked back into the standard gameplay.
I’ve been quickly climbing the ranks in NMH. Before I challenge the rank 5 assassin, I’m taking some time to clear out some of the sub missions for loads of cash. Well, actually I’ve been doing that because I’m not sure how to get to the fifth assassin. The map marker is off in the middle of some field. So, I guess I’ll do some exploring for now. See what I find.
So, this segment on TV has them playing Sheena Easton’s Morning Train while this guy stalks women walking down the street and then eventually stops them to tell them that they’re beautiful.
I haven’t been this creeped out by television since Blue’s Clues.
Fuck yes! Garbage collecting! You can talk smack if you so desire but hell, it brings in the monies. Right now I’m starting to enjoy riding around Santa Destroy as the amount of things I can do is slowly increasing. More missions, more shit to collect and buy. Good ‘tings. Problem is sometimes Travis’s bike gets stuck in tight corners. That and when you fail a mission that you signed up for, you have to return to the origin point to try again. A bit annoying at first, but now that auxiliary missions are popping up, I can take them on as I ride back to the mission sign up joint.
丙午 [へいご, heigo]
43rd year of the sexagenary cycle (year of the Fire Horse, renowned for disasters and the birth of women destined to kill their husbands)
Enforcing a personal media blackout on games makes for interesting results. I had no idea NMH had a GTA like feel to it. There are missions to accomplish besides the main story ones, and to access the story ones you have to get enough funds.
The missions are… odd. They range from ‘assassination’ missions, where you have to take out enemies, to odd-job missions. So far I’ve collected coconuts and I just mowed a lawn. Got a nice fat wad of cash for it too. The Wii-mote is being used in ways that some might call gimmicky, but so far I’ve fond them enjoyable.
The usage of the Wii-mote in NMH is solid. But right now I just got a phone call in game, and when Travis, the main character, answers the phone, the voice comes out of the Wii-mote’s speaker. So, obviously, to hear it proper, you have to hold it like a phone.
Inconceivable!
