Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for Wii
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I rented Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for the Nintendo Wii the other day and I must say it feels like a Final Fantasy game. The rendering and handling is among the best games I have played on the Nintendo Wii and the story and character interaction is fun and entertainment. It feels a little more like you are part of an interactive movie and story than an actual game as there are so many cut scenes where you play a minor action in them, but this is all the more engaging.
One thing I don’t like as much is the battle sequences however, I miss the traditional turn based combat as seen in Final Fantasy X, VII, and older FF series games. In this game you don’t swing a sword or even fight like you do with Final Fantasy XII (at least in the beginning you don’t) but you instead use your powers to toss your opponents by locking on to them and holding B and flinging them back, or by locking onto objects and throwing them into your opponents. So far I am only about an hour into the game and I miss the various weapon and attack combinations that you don’t appear to get with Crystal Chronicles.
That being said the story and artwork are incredible, the music is astounding and I am immensely enjoying the game as a nice “snack” before Final Fantasy XIII comes out for the PS3 and XBox360 in the next few weeks. If you are a fan of the Final Fantasy series and you own the Nintendo Wii, I highly recommend you take a look at Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
-Justin Germino
Advice For Cleaning Windows and Mirrors
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When I first moved to Arizona back in 1995 I was only eighteen and desperate for work at the time. I had a meager $4.25 an hour job at the local video store and supplemented my job with being a house cleaner on weekends. Now at eighteen years of age and before I had any internet access, I did the best I could at house cleaning but was not very efficient. It was when I first learned and was told by one of my employers that “newspaper” makes a better surface cleaner for Glass Windows and Mirrors than Paper Towels or Teri Cloths. You use Vinegar and/or Ammonia (I personally like the Windex Multi-Surface vinegar cleaner) and newspaper instead of the paper towels or other types of towel.
At first I was very skeptical I mean how could something containing a ton of black ink which rubs off on your fingers be efficient at cleaning glass and mirrors? I was amazed at how well the trick worked though, and none of the “lint” residue gets left behind on mirrors or glass when you use good old fashioned newspaper crunched up into a ball shape. I still use this tip and method to clean windows and mirrors in my own home 15 years later and it saves you money on Paper Towel products.
-Justin Germino
Giving Away Free Tonys Pizza Coupons
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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Tony’s Pizza. All opinions are 100% mine.
I enjoy frozen pizza’s sometimes as a late night snack with my wife or even with my kids on the weekend we will often pop in a frozen pizza in the oven as a quick meal that can feed the family. Tony’s Pizza makes very affordable and good tasting pizza’s for the fact that they are frozen. I can honestly say we have purchased and eaten eight Tony’s pizzas in the past month in the family and my favorite by far is the Supreme Pizza.
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My kids like the pepperoni and plain cheese the most, but prefer larger slices of pepperoni to having the little cubes. The cubes give pepperoni flavor, they just like peeling the pepperoni slices off to eat them separately and its messier to do that with the little cubes. The pizza’s also have a slightly faster baking time than most frozen pizza being done in about 15 minutes.
For those who are curious about what a frozen Tony’s Pizza tastes like you are in luck. I will be giving away 2 Tony’s Pizza coupons to one of my readers who comments on this blog. All you have to do is leave a comment and let me know which of the 3 flavors interests you the most (Cheese, Pepperoni or Supreme) and I will select one winner at random on Friday March 5th 2010.
I will need a valid email left because I will need to contact you to know where to mail the coupons to.
For now, go out and enjoy a Tony’s pizza they are inexpensive and taste almost as good as a delivery pizza for a fraction of the cost. Seriously, you can buy 8-10 Tony’s pizzas for the price of one delivery pizza and honestly, the fact that you can get 4-5 meals for the same price as one tastes better to me.
So leave me a comment and tell me why you want to try Tony’s Pizza for free.
Update: The Contest is closed and the winner has been notified. I will post the winner once they accept the prize.
-Justin Germino
Retired Two of My Blogs
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Last month I had to make the tough decision to discontinue two of my blogs (World of Prandria) and (Tried A Product) one was going to be my blog devoted to role playing games, Dungeons and Dragons and was meant to be a hobby blog with no real monetization at all except AdSense. The other was a product review site that was supposed to feature reviews and information about products that were actually tested and wouldn’t do any promo’s for untested products.
I had some interest and garnered about five to twenty visits per day average to my World of Prandria blog but under ten per day to tried a product which was a failed experiment in my opinion. So in order to keep my focus on my three primary blogs I decided to shut the blogs down cold turkey, this involved decommissioning the Domain Name, pulling the domain from my hosting provider and just letting the blogs vanish into obscurity with nothing but the occasional broken Google Link that hasn’t caught up yet.
5 blogs was just too much for me to keep track of and I have a lot of respect for these bloggers who run seven or more niche blogs and are able to keep up with each of them and grow them to where they reach a certain level of success. All my spare time (which is very little) is focused on DragonBlogger.com where I am still hoping to grow it and reach my 50,000 unique visits per month by the end of 2010.
-Justin Germino
Minor Head Injury this Weekend
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Like I do several times a week I took my two boys to the playground with about half a dozen Nerf foam weapons in tow. We have the Nerf Marauder longsword, two axes and three normal N-Force swords but two of them were highly damaged from my dog porky chewing all of the foam off of the handle and part of the blade. I just duct taped the chewed parts and figured why waste the money and throw the sword away, but I paid the price for doing this finally.
While at the playground and in the midst of intense sword battles, exuberant kids can sometimes launch their swords as spears or javelins. I discourage this but kids will be kids and sometimes they just don’t listen (since they aren’t my kids and no parent is around, I don’t have much influence). I was the target of one of these javelin attacks and the foam sword where the handle was damaged struck me in the back side of my head, the hard plastic tube inside the sword was jagged enough that it gauged a several millimeter hole into my scalp and curled up a chunk of my skin under my hair.
Blood flowed freely and I had to quickly collect the weapons and go home and assess the damage, my wife told me I should have gotten a stitch or two but I just kept telling her to unfold the curled up flap of skin and put pressure on it. I figured it will heal properly if the flap can lay back on top of the hole and scab over. Meanwhile, if it doesn’t heal properly I will probably have a flap of skin hanging off the back of my scalp that I may need to go to a doctor to cut off, so I am hoping it heals properly.
Let this be a lesson to anyone who thinks about jury rigging a repaired toy, if it becomes unsafe by losing its protective foam coating don’t assume taping over it will be good enough, throw the damn thing away and don’t try to be a cheapskate like me.
-Justin Germino
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