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New strategy guides: Castlevania SOTN and Transformers War for Cybertron

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Transformers War for Cybertron strategy guidesI picked up one of these guides at the store and the other one arrived in the mail from an eBay seller. Can you guess which is which?

I’m actually quite pleased with the condition of the Castlevania guide. The only damage it has is what you see on the front cover. The first thing I did after examining the damage (and leaving positive feedback on eBay) was check and see everything I missed in the very beginning. I missed so much, I’m seriously thinking of starting over from scratch. I missed a major weapon, I now know how to reach certain areas I couldn’t figure out earlier, and I missed equipment and what I’m sure are important items. No wonder I had such a hard time with the first boss.

Okay, thinking over. I’m going to start over. Then I can hear about man being “a miserable pile of secrets” again.

The second guide was totally a spur of the moment purchase. I received $35 in gift certificates from Best Buy, and since I had errands to do in a Best Buy vicinity, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to stop on in and pick up something that ISN’T on my Amazon wishlist. My birthday is Saturday, so I don’t want to accidentally spoil a possible gift. It hit me that Transformers War for Cybertron released last month, and the trailer had me laughing so hard I knew I would own it eventually. I took the very last copy Best Buy had of both the game and the guide, the latter of which I had to dig for in their shoddy organization for guides. I found it tucked between a NIER guide and a guide for Spirit Tracks, so I assume someone tucked it back there for later. Too bad, sucker! MINE MINE MINE!!

I have no idea when I’m going to get to this game, but I’m just so happy to have it. And the guide. I’ve got the touch…I’ve got the powwwwwwer!

New Guide Purchase – Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night screenshotMattG and Hembree will probably hate me for this as this game was a challenge to me, but I found and bought the original strategy guide to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. They may think this takes away from their gaming challenge, but I don’t think so. If anything else, it will make me work harder, and my beloved strategy guide site can get a piece of the gaming challenge action outside of my brief stint with Portal.

I’m about to start (tonight, hopefully!) Paper Mario RPG: The Thousand Year Door and work on that guide in between sessions of spell casting with LEGO characters. Castlevania is on my PSP, so when I travel, that will be the game of choice. I have quite a bit of travel scheduled for the next couple of months so both the challenge and the guide review will come along…eventually.

At least I can enjoy this time before September, when Birth by Sleep releases. I may disappear for quite some time then. Ah, who am I kidding. I’ll always be online to yap my trap about my gaming opinions.

That’s one reason why you all love me, right?

In My Mailbox

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Paper Mario RPG Strategy GuideLook at what arrived in my mailbox today? An incredibly beat up and very used copy of The Official Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door Strategy Guide.  Now that I have the proper guide, I can get cracking on the second gaming challenge from MattG. This couldn’t come soon enough, as Mass Effect has really not been able to capture my attention as of yet. I’m 5 hours in, so I expect to be a little intrigued by this point, but apparently it takes awhile for the story to warm up. At least, that’s what everyone keeps telling me. But that’s a story for a different day.

Since MattG loaned me his personal copy of this game, I really feel the need to start on that before I finish up anything else. Or I can switch back and forth. Platforming RPG one day, and sci-fi RPG the next. Sounds like a good week of gaming, if you ask me.

However, my excitement of receiving this guide quickly dissipated when I turned my back on it for a minute, and turned around to see my son ripping one page out.

At least the page tore cleanly.

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