Admin: Finals

So it has been, what...two weeks since I posted anything here?  Which is bad, because I do really want to keep this alive and stuff!  But, as people know, this time of year is finals time for most U.S. college/grad students, so I've been struggling to even keep my head above water, so to say.

I did get my controller adapter, so my plan is to start Super Metroid (and others perhaps too!) as soon as I get the chance.  I know I spend some free time doing other things, but I'm afraid to get too invested in something outside of school at the moment.  It is hard enough for me to try and muster up the motivation to finish things.  Adding in something else that would be super fun to do is just me asking to fail.

In my continued absence, I will say this to anyone who is interested: if you have yet to watch The Room, please do it.  You will not regret it at all, I promise.

Also The Winter Soldier?  Awesome.  In my opinion.

Alright.  Sorry, and good luck to those of you with finals!  I am rooting for all of you!

Let's Play Super Metroid (Blind): Bloopers

Since I really do not want this blog to die before it gets the chance to start, here is a video of my attempting to navigate through ZSNES as well as me trying to figure out the keyboard commands through the first level and stuff (so I guess that level won't be completely blind...kind of).  Fact: I have since bought a SNES controller adapter for my laptop and hope that I'll be at least a little bit better after that.  Can't make any promises though.

Also, I do hope to be a bit more entertaining when playing for real.  And you know...more competent.  I really am terrible with my keyboard.

So yes, because I want to make sure I remain committed to doing this (because even this was a lot of fun) and keep this blog as active as possible for the time being, here is my first set of bloopers (which is really just code for 'Allie was so bad that she could not justify making this the real deal.')

(Also yeah I had to switch to ZSNES because Snes9x was being wonky with the directional keys.  This one seems better anyway.)

Let’s Play Super Metroid (Blind): Intro

(Cropping things out takes so much effort.  Fact: I am lazy.)

Originally, the first game after redownloading Snes9X that I was planning on going through was Super Mario RPG.  Buuuut after seeing a shit ton of reviews for the ROM saying that it was really buggy, I went onto a different game.  Yeah, I could have just tried to search for a different one to download, but that takes like…3 seconds to type in and search on google and hell…that is just too much effort.  (In other words: I didn’t feel like it.)

Of course this game would be on the top downloads list, and after staring at the title just for a minute, I figured that this should be the startup game.  To be completely honest, I have never played any of the Metroid games.  I know of Samus mostly through the Super Smash Brothers games and the internet, I suppose.  But despite that, I admire her as a character (prior to Other M, because I did read synopses of that and I wanted to smash faces…but it appeared I would need to get in a line so at least I found comfort in solidarity).  And, after hearing so much about how boss this game is in terms of storyline and difficulty, it became the one I wanted to get on, essentially.  

Now, from my understanding, first LPs should not be blind, but I said fuck that because…I don’t know.  I guess I don’t care about following the conventional guidelines.  And I just really want to play this game.  Again, just for…reasons, I suppose, I want to reiterate what this blog’s description highlights: I’m not necessarily good, especially since I usually am a console gamer and right now I am sans controller.  Sadface.  But I will try my best!  So please do not take any of this as a guide.  Really I just want to have fun and everything.  I hope it will be entertaining at the very least?  Hopefully.  (Honestly, I really need some sort of hobby or something to focus my energy on that isn’t graduate school because that shit is sucking the life out of me and wahhhh.)

Alright, enough of that.

As of now I’m unsure if I want to post screens or vids, and while I’m aware vids are usually the way to go with non-text based games, I wonder if vids will get boring and shiz because I most likely will get lost and die a lot.  That would mean editing.  Which I am terrible at.  We will see.

So yeah, Super Metroid blind it is!

I might regret this terribly.

Admin: Introduction

This blog will consist of game plays for the most part, as I just redownloaded an emulator for the first time in a while, and I know I'm not going to be able to resist going through things and wanting to write down reactions and capturing photos and all that.  Be warned: I'm not very good, honestly, but I do try, and I will need to adapt to life without a controller for the time being.

I may not be able to resist delving into other areas, such as tv series, movies, and the like.  Most likely, those will be around as well.

Also, just to be super transparent, this is my face.  I'm not going to lie and say I'm above selfies, because I'm not.

(I don't really plan on this getting followers anyway, honestly.  I just didn't want my personal blog to become overwhelmed with these playthroughs and such!)

Also, for reference, this is my trusty sidekick, who will often help me play by putting her face all over my laptop.  Her name is Callie!

Hopefully this will be fun!  And if anyone comes along for the ride, hopefully we'll all have fun together!