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I got my bundle on launch day and my first impressions was how small everything is! I knew the stuff was small from the pics, but it's even smaller in person. The discs are tiny!
Luigi is very nice. The level of detail is amazing, from the physics, the lighting, shadows, the door sequences, animation, I could go on and on. The control really does take some getting use to though.
Super Monkey Ball is a great action puzzle game. Of course, since you only use the analog stick in the main game, it's incredibly easy to pick up and play. I finished the Beginner levels and I'm working on the Expert. Some of the later Expert levels are really hard. Then I still have the 50 Advance levels. I also unlocked Monkey Billiards, which is a very nice game of nine-ball.
At first, I wasn't exactly thrilled about Wave Race. The water looks incredible, but it didn't seem like the control was as well implemented as in the original. But after I did the tutorial, practicing stunts, etc and playing for a good hour, the fun of the original came back and the game became worth the purchase. Out of the 3 games I have, this is really the only one with load times.
And I got a free copy of the book 'Game Over' which I always wanted to read. Just getting that was worth the extra 2 day wait. It was also good to see that interest in the GC is high. I got to the store 10 minutes before it opened and there was 5 people in front of me already. I asked the clerk how well the GC was selling and he said they got a lot of pre-orders. I asked the same thing about the x-box. He said it wasn't bad, but not as much. He said the launch day for the x-box was nothing like this (referring to the line).
And now from news reports this week, seems like the initial GC shipment has sold out. Nintendo is even increasing the amount of units out by the end of the year by 200,000.
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