Seeing the video below makes me wish I could have ever really enjoyed Resident Evil 2. I tried back in the day, but even after reading multiple FAQs I could never play the game worth crap.

I found the action itself hellaciously difficult; I'd die 1/5 of the time I ever entered the same room as the Licker. But the big caveat was that the saves were limited and the PS1's puny resolution made it impossible to see the items that I was supposed to pick up. I'd play for hours vainly searching for ink ribbons and trying to earn enough progress to justify using one of them before either dying or turning the game off in frustration.

Its too bad though- whenever I watched friends play I always respected the game's depth, and would've liked to have played through as a giant piece of tofu:

Apologies on the late notice- an increasing lack of interest / familiarity with Border-Town and it's processes got in the way of me breaking this epic news to my one or maybe even zero readers who don't follow me on Twitter:

That's right- the Andrew and Matt Show has finally premiered on the homepage of the same name!

While I've only seen the first two episodes (which average six or so minutes in length) I have to say it's pretty good! Matt Ryan and Andrew Rosas have always been extremely funny guys and it looks like they may have finally found a way to transfer their comedic talent into one of their main projects.

In case you're the kind of lazy ass who can't be bothered to click things, I've also embedded the videos below since triggering embedded YouTube videos is far easier than the odious task of having to go to a different site to watch the same program on YouTube. By embedding this in what has essentially become my blog I'm doing my part to fulfill this e-program's meta wishes of gaining popularity by harnessing the powers of Web 2.0!

New episodes will be shown each Monday until the end of season one. Remember: because this site's trickle of updates would make posting each successive installment of this series seem sad and vaguely pitiful, you'll need to eventually book mark theandrewandmattshow.com if you want to continue watching them.

Strange, but true.

You see, since I was but a boy, 25% my diet has consisted of milk (20% is cereal). I knew this to be unhealthy yet I fretted not.

Well in recent years I found that I would often be the one procuring milk. In light of this, I made a decision to avoid the whole milk my father had always demanded and go instead with skin milk. I found I could taste no difference, as indeed I mainly used milk as a refreshing beverage or as a dampener for other foods, such as cereal or peanut butter sandwiches. Even chocolate cake would often find itself drowned in large chunks in a delicious glass of milk. Due to my casual milk-drinking, I found I preferred the lighter, zestier taste of skin milk.

After being wed, my wife and I decided to try organic milk as part of our quest to live like yuppies while being dirt poor. I found it was possibly 200% better than mechanical milk, mostly because the stuff expired months after normal milk and was therefore noticeably fresher and tastier.

Well, a few weeks back I was, with some consternation, looking upon a delicious half gallon of delicious organic milk and pondering a purchase, when I noticed that soy milk was over a dollar cheaper while still being labeled as "organic" as well as having an expiration date on par with the traditional organic milk. Somewhere in my brain, I heard the word's of Amber: "I think drinking too much milk is bad for you and gives you mucus and flim!" I was sold.

The thing is, soy milk does taste different than normal cow teat milk. Yet in some ways the taste is an improvement. Very strange I know, but it is true.

Apparently, soy milk is healthier than normal milk. At least that's a factoid that's just been floating around in my brain for awhile, its absolute source long since obscured by the fog of memories long passed. For all I know, the view could be an errant piece of hippie propaganda which found its ways to my ears and manifested itself as subconscious reasoning. Now that I'm consuming so much of the stuff, I may have to do some research to see if it isn't actually less healthy. I'll try to avoid any hateful conservative reactionary propaganda when I do.

For whatever reason, Nintendo skipped out on E3 and choose October 2nd to unleash their most exciting news of the year.

The orgy of new info began with the announcement of a new version of the Nintendo DS, called the Nintendo DSI.

Though in some pictures it highly resembles the DS Lite, the new product is not so much a purely asthetic change as it is an upgrade to the core functionality of the product - perhaps similar to Gameboy Color compared to the original. It includes internal storage, so you can play AAC music files and Virtual Console and other games downloaded from Wii Ware. The screens are also larger and both can are touch compatable, plus the device includes a crappy camera - it seems like any software that uses the DSI is going to not be fully backwards compatble with the original DS or DS Lite.

The only downside is there's no GBA slot, but the seeing that I already have four GBA compatable devices that doesn't phase me much.

Here's a pretty good article that answers some questions about the new device.

The DSi (or DSI, or iDS, or whatever) is neat, but seeing as how I almost never turn on my DS I'm a lot more excited about the games Nintendo recently announced, almost all of which sound more interesting than anything mentioned during E3.

Allow me to enumerate them:

That's right, after over a decade of waiting before I began to give up and not really care anymore Nintendo has unexpectedly revived one of its greatest franchises ever!

If there's something I think Nintendo hasn't quite done right for the past five years or more, it's the styles and personalities of their games - nothing seems quite as endearing as it did back when I was in Middle School (I admit this may simply be a function of my age). That said, they seemed to have hit the nail on the head when it comes to the visuals for this new Punch-Out!!- which is probably because they farming it out to an external developer who knew one of the easiest wins they could obtain was to mimic the look of the original. What I like are the new touches they've added, which are in keeping with the spirit of the original games despite being something we've not seen before. For example, when Glass Joe goes down, for whatever reason a sea of bagets and other French pastries rain down on him. Take that Frenchie!

It seems like there are often franchise revivals that contain characters, plots, events and gameplay that look nothing like the original (the new Bionic Commando protaganist, for instance, looks nothing remotely like the old one), so I'm glad that if nothing else, we can at least speculate that the endearing personality of Punch-Out!! has survived.

Like every other idiot, I'm really hoping this one uses the Wii Motion Plus controller add-on.

Second up...

It's the sequel to the classic game I realized I liked only half a week ago!

The first thing I thought when I played Sin & Punishment was that A. the controls kind of sucked on the Wii (see last post) and B. the game would be incredible if it were remade to actually use the Wii's pointing functionality for the gun. It looks like the sequel can fulfill that promise!

Potential pitfalls- Treasure's recent output hasn't quite been at the same level it was during the 32 / 64-bit era, so I'm bracing for slight dissapointment that this game might be mediocre and have reached the foregone conclusion that it won't be as great as the original. I also have the feeling it'll use just enough buttons on the Wii Remote to be incompatable with the my sacred Nyko Perfect Shot.

Finally...

That's right, the best freeware game of all time, the one that raised the status of indie gaming itself from "always crap" to "thereotically possible to be good" is coming to the Wii!

The only possible downside would be if Pixel, the game's enigmatic author (he's kind of like "L" from Death Note, I'd imagine) did not get reimbursed from this, in which case I wouldn't support buying it.

Otherwise, I may be more excited about this announcement than anything else that occured during Nintendo's recent explosion of awesomeness. The Border-Town 2005 game of year is finally available via legit means on a mainstream videogame system!

This news is so exciting it made me write a post that was the polar opposite in tone from the last one. Hurray for epic hypocrisy! NINTENDO RULES!