Newest Aquisition of Dual Sets (DS. Get it? :P )

Yes that’s right, a NintendoDS. I bought this little blue blazer about a week ago. I would have had it sooner but UPS held it hostage on account of Hurricane Katrina.
Even after it came I had to wait the normal 4 hours so that it could charge. Unfortunately, my wishes did not come true since it had a dead pixel on the touch screen.But it did not bother me much until I noticed it when the screen would turn dark in the game. Then it started nagging at me like never before. I hear that I need to send it to Nintendo to get it fixed but it would take a week.I don’t even know if its gonna cost me money to send it or not. But if it does, then I’ll live with the dead pixel. Because, if I get another one with more dead pixels, then its another chunk out of my wallet.

GAMES!

Ok…um well, just one game. It was a hard decision to pick a game for the DS. So I looked for answers in the forums like usual, getting well thought opinions on different games. Eventually I set on buying Kirby: Canvas Curse with my DS.
I picked the game because I still had pleasant memories about Kirby: Superstar for the SNES. Let’s say that Canvas Curse has not let me down in this respect. I know that the “3D” Kirby games has NOT been too good. But that is the same with just about any 2D character/game that was force raped into 3D. The game is challenging, and fun with a few suprises like classic music and different styles of ink used to propel your character.

Hidden Extras?

One thing that suprised me is that the DS has some options that I didn’t read about in the inital reviews of the handheld. The DS has an option to “share” games wirelessly. Not only can you and someone else play the same game against eachother, but they usually only NEED ONE CART. I did notice that some games didn’t support it, but many of the multiplayer capable games have this option like Advance Wars DS.

All in all, I am glad that I chose to buy one. IT barely leaves my side now. The only thing now is to build up a library of new and usually “used” games. I think that my next purchase might either be Advance Wars DS or Meteos, depending on if Fire Emblem(DS) makes it out later on.