Oh, wow!

The Red Green Book is back in print! It's my favorite of the three Red Green books and it's back! Yay! It's been rereleased in a pack with Red Green Talks Cars: A Love Story and two rolls of 3M duct tape, which sells for $29.99 Canadian.

Our Coles has two packs out in the store. The reprint isn't exactly like my older edition - my older version has a heavier, matte cover while the newer one has a ULTRA SHINEY cover and the binding is different. I *think* the new book may be a smaller size physically, but I didn't have my 1995 copy to compare it to at the bookstore.

I'm temped to pick up the pack and mail the copy of Red Green Talks Cars: A Love Story to Steff, but I'm scared she'll hurt me and stuff.

I'm so bad after something really depressing happens to me because then I get very materialisic. This week alone I've bought the LucasArts games Full Throttle and Outlaws, a sketchbook, an eraser, a set of pencils, a pen, a make-your-own keychain thing, a Care Bear Cousins keychain, a Rush CD, blank VHS tape and a ton of stuff for Jen that she owes me for. I also rented Sonic Adventure DX. That might not seem like much, but for me that's a ton.

Since Lisa is taking me on a studio tour of the CBC before I leave for college, I've warned mom that I will be spending at least $125 there. They have Red Green stuff! Whoo! Lisa said most of the stuff online can be bought at the CBC... so... pray for me.

Yahoo!

I finally beat Sonic Adventure ("Directors Cut" version for the Game Cube) on my own!

You see, the last time we rented it, James beat most of it. The problem with him beating almost all of the game is that I missed out on huge chunks of the plot. The only storyline I saw in full was Amy's because James refused to play her.

I kinda stopped following Sonic back in grade seven, which was about the point in time when the dry period of Sonic games happened. After Sonic 3/ and Knuckles, there were no real, solid, new platformer games in the series for years. The Saturn console lacked a major Sonic game. Instead, we got Sonic R, a racing game, and Sonic Jam, which was collection of all the major Genesis games. And then Sonic Adventure came to save us all... or something. Sonic Adventure 2 ("Battle" version) was my first modern Sonic game, since I never owned a Dreamcast. I still remember renting the Game Cube and SA2:B. I was interested in seeing what became of the series and it was quite different from how I remembered it... but I liked it. However, I never did like Shadow. To this day he still annoys me.

BUT ANYWAY, I missed out on Sonic Adventure and wondered what all the fuss was about. Now that I played the game, I think I understand. At least in part. It's not the greatest plot ever told and I felt that other sides of Sonic canon, namely the Archie comics, have done better plots. E-102 and Tails' stories are probably the better of the bunch, but some like Knuckles' don't really go anywhere.

Still a fun game worth playing once, even if it's 6 years old.