Last week N gave me some lovely gifts for my birthday. Books are always popular gifts at our house: N gave me a paperback set of the Sookie Stackhouse books which I’ve been meaning to read and also a couple of graphic novels that look really great. I’ll post about them as I read them.
But the big surprise was this:
My very own lime green Nintendo DS!(Complete with a stylish carrying case!)
Before we had E I played video games fairly often. I liked the Final Fantasy games in particular. But post-E my free time is too precious to devote big chunks of it to playing games (but oddly enough not to watching movies and tv).
But while I seem to have lost the patience to tackle any 100-hour epic quests I’m become more interested in puzzle games (for you know, exercising the old noggin). They can be played for just 10 or 20 minutes at a time which is handy. N gave me a few of these puzzle games, Scribblenauts and Professor Layton and the Curious Village and both are really fun.
It was a very thoughtful gift because while it’s something I’ve been hankering after for a while, it’s also something that I could never justify buying for myself.
Yay for N!
I love your DS case!! Thanks for the game ideas–I might just go get some of them and steal my kids' DS. 🙂
Aw! That is so sweet! I, too, used to like those epic quest type games… like zelda (I know, old school, right?). What's Curious Village about…? Something about the title makes me curious…
A DS! That's great! I hear The Curious Village is fun. I love how the case looks like a sophisticated pocketbook – now you can look like you are industriously balancing your checkbook while really playing video games!
Both games are pretty fun. Curious Village has an over-arching plot: you're the assistant to a detective trying to solve a mystery and you have to solve puzzles along the way. The animation is very cute; it reminds me of the French animated movie "The Triplets of Belleville."
Scribblenauts doesn't have a plot; it's just puzzles. To solve the puzzles you write in the names of objects and then they're dropped into the game and you manipulate them to solve the puzzle. The fun part is that the games knows what thousands and thousands of objects are so you can be quite creative in your solutions.