Got that game last week on launch, the special edition version, I've been playing it almost nonstop since then. It's awesome. Finally a good FPS for Wii that isn't a watered-down X360 port like World at War. I doubt any of you play this game, but if you see "AMO" online, that's me. Granted, I'm probably not the only person who has that name online, but yeah. The game's shotgun is the best thing ever. The game may be generic but at least it's not WW2 for the fucking billionth time. It may have some framerate problems, and the online graphics suck, but it doesn't mean crap when the game is fun as hell. I give it 9.5 out of 10 for that reason.

I'll try to get on that Falco and Katt story soon, I just haven't been inspired much recently, and/or my time was eaten up playing The Conduit (I beat the campaign like four times, on every difficuty except the easiest one).

Oh yeah, I had another SF-related idea, this time sort of a collaboration. It's a new mercenary team led by Krystal. Now, smart SF fans should already be vomiting with rage over that, but this one uses characters from the actual games, and is in fact the same team from one of Command's two good endings, when the four women defeated the invasion of Corneria. I'm calling them the Nova Sirens. The name is a combination of two ideas, one from Kit Airheart (Star Sirens) and one from Aldran (Nova Bombshells). The team consists of Krystal (flight leader), Katt (element leader), Amanda, and Lucy. I haven't figured out how their support will work, but I'm sure General Peppy can divert some support staff to them under the table. Right now, Kit Airheart is thinking of drawing the four Novas in uniforms I designed (I'm not a fashion designer, I'm a history major/untrained imagery analyst, so I don't know if they'll be any good), so look forward to that. For now, here is a preview sketch of just Lucy Hare, done by Kit: [link]

The Novas' backstory is my Star Fox fanfic idea number 548245623521362. It goes like this:

After the Anglar War, Fox and Krystal hold true to their promise to live peaceful lives and get married, and soon Marcus is born. However, a resurgent Venom gears up for war once again, with Andrew and Star Wolf forcing an increasingly reluctant Emperor Dash Bowman into remilitarization of the Venomian apes. Falco continued his loner ways, and Peppy is still serving as the commander-in-chief of the Cornerian military, leaving Slippy and ROB the only members of Star Fox left. Meaning, initially, Slippy is all that stands between Venom's forces and Corneria (the guy stopped the invasion of Aquas in Command with only Amanda for assistance, and in the same game he can single-handedly defeat Star Wolf, so yeah). Falco soon flies in to help him, but the two are forced to turn to hit and run attacks due to their team's tiny size, not having enough of an effect on Venom.

Meanwhile, Amanda (who had taken her and Slippy's children to Sauria for safety) feels that she can't remain idle, and she enters the fight as well. She is immediately swarmed by bad guys but they are driven off when the more experienced Katt shows up (this is the awesome gray one, by the way, not that pink piece of shit). The two of them barely have any time to recover when they get a distress signal from Lucy, who was attacked while returning to her teaching job on Fichina. Katt and Amanda save her and decide that Star Fox isn't enough, they need to fight the enemy as well. Remembering their victory at Corneria over the Anglars, the three of them start flying raids against Venom fleets, but soon they intercept a chilling message: Andrew has sent hundreds of Venom Commandos to Corneria with orders to assassinate the McClouds.

The three ladies get there with all haste and arrive in the midst of a huge fleet battle over Corneria. In the confusion, two fighters manage to escape a swarm of Venom fighters and flee in two different directions; their IFF codes match the designations of Fox's Arwing II and Krystal's Cloudrunner. Thinking that Krystal has Marcus with her, the ladies decide to help her out first; the Venom forces have the same idea and swarm after the Cloudrunner, following it through hyperspace; on the other side, a huge fighter battle ensues, with the four women emerging victorious. There, it is revealed that the split-up was a deception, as Marcus is with Fox; for their child's safety, Krystal demanded that Fox can not tell her where he will hide Marcus. From then on, the women give Krystal command of their re-formed team, and they combat the Venom forces directly, with frontal penetrating attacks (yes, I know what that sounds like), the kind Star Fox excelled at. Soon, General Hare sends Bill Grey to fly with Star Fox, and the three pilots become an unofficial support flight for the Novas, flying crippling raid missions ahead of the Novas' strikes. However, during the whole war, every pilot is haunted by the question: Where are Fox and Marcus?

...so yeah, what do you think of that idea? I like to think it's better than other fan-made Krystal-based teams because it doesn't include boring-ass original characters who solely exist so the 13 year old author can imagine himself having sex with her.

And so ends this journal. I hope Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles comes out before I get sent to USAF basic training.