The Wii is Here.

[Squeek]

Rockin'.

Thanks for telling me about XS rank. The FAQ on it made it seem like XS was possible on all levels of difficulty =/

I just went and checked it now. Yeah. He pretty much just outlines how to get the best out of each stage in terms of bonus points. Never mentions the point cutoff or difficulty setting for them.

I'm gonna start Hard mode some time soon. I want to watch the story again, and since I blew through Medium before I realized I wanted to watch the story from the beginning, I just didn't bother.

I think it's cool having games people consider difficult, like Trauma Center and Ikaruga. Because when I'm really good at them, people are like 'wtf hax'. Apparently, beating X-missions without Healing Touch is good, and apparently, I can do it pretty easily. I only used Healing Touch on Triti and Savato in the X-missions (averaging out the fact that I didn't need it when I played again as Kimishima so playing it again as Derek wouldn't necessitate its use either)

So anyway, after I finished Trauma Center for the evening, I went back to Elebits. On stage 22 working toward Pink Elebits. After I get the Pink Elebits in a stage, I do the stage's challenge mission. But stage 21 in Elebits is special. It's the best stage in the game, really. The entire stage is filled with puzzles. There are ring toss games, slide puzzles, 3-D cube puzzles, chess games, othello games, slot machines, and even bowling. Of course, none of this takes you outside of the general mechanics of the game. You pick up and place the pins in their 10-pin arrangement. You find and hurl the rings from all across the stage. All while finding Elebits under shrubs and boxes and such, and all while turning on electronic devices to find more.

Kinda sucks that Challenge mission 21 is among the hardest... right next to 27 (which I happened to unlock my first time around... what's up with that?)

SO THEN I was like k challenge level 21 angers me let's play sports. And I FINALLY beat Spin Control on bowling. Somehow during my new year's party at a friend's house, I figured out how to make the ball take a huuuge spin curve. I finally beat the 19th lane only to miss the 20th (It's just 10 pins... no walls at all -.-). Then I did it again with success. Whoo!

That makes three platinum medals: Returning Balls, Spin Control, and Working the Bag. Really need to play this more before WarioWare comes out, since that's going to be all I play and, from the looks of it, will really wear me out more than boxing could.

tl;dr: Trauma Center is coo~, Elebits is still fun, and I platinumed another Training mode.