“Long,” of course, is a highly relative term here

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I did my first official Long Run™ today. Please don’t ask me how long, let’s just say “long” and leave it at that.

So yesterday I went bopping into Gamestop with the intent of buying a wireless Nunchuk and nothing else. I mean, because I’ve already said I don’t need to be getting any more games until I finish Okami (I’m kind of stuck on the stupid digging thing in Sei-An City, God I hate those) and if I did, I really wanted to get either Ghostbusters or The Conduit first…

…so naturally, I left with a wireless Nunchuk and Wii Sports Resort.

Oh God it is so good.

I love the swordplay. Particularly the Quick Slice contest, in which you and an opponent have huge things thrown at you that must be sliced at a certain angle, and whoever slices their huge thing at the right angle first gets a point. So you’ve got this judge heaving logs and bamboo poles and giant pencils and gigantic sushi rolls and monstrous mutant fruit and the occasional giant diamond at you, and you have to look at the little arrow on it and chop accordingly before the other Mii dude does.

There are a couple of carryovers from the original Wii Sports–bowling and golf, and there’s table tennis instead of regular tennis. Golf with the Motion Plus is so much better than golf without. Bowling is about the same.

This is another game I really wish had the screenshot-to-SD-card joy that Animal Crossing has, mostly because of all the Miis involved. You still have the random assortment of Miis, yours and otherwise, as spectators, teammates, and opponents. But now the game will also grab random popular Miis from the Check Mii Out channel. This means that sooner or later, I’m going to have Peter Griffin, Michael Jackson, and Jesus hanging out and watching me play ping-pong. I can’t wait, really. …of course I turned it on, are you kidding

And I love the archery. So much. And Frisbee Dog is about the cutest thing ever.

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