Oh. My. God. Last night I when I returned from the airport (see next post), I decided finally that I would play Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga, for Gameboy Advance.
This game and I go way back.
It was winter break of my senior year of college, the border between 2003 and 2004, and everyone and his mom was raving about this game. Possibly it was only Joey Lutz, but I seem to recall at least two people saying it was great at the time. Not only that, but EB Games was selling it for 20 bucks, unheard of for a new release. So I took the plunge, and bought the game.
However, I didn't get a chance to play it that break; I was busy with what I then considered more important things, like applying to grad schools. Sigh. What's more, I didn't take the game back with me to college, because I thought it might be a good idea to take 8.5 units --or 34 units, for those of you on the academic metric system-- that winter, and (correctly) figured I wouldn't have time for a life, much less video games. Sigh.
And what happened when I returned home, a triumphant Northwestern graduate, the following summer? My room had been rearranged, and the game was gone. Gone. To add insult to injury, the next fall I went to UCSC, where I had Joey Lutz and Justin Nuger pounding me hard from both sides, telling me how great the game was. It was like a bukkake-fest, with praise for Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga as the main ingredient.
This past summer, I did a full cleaning of my room, and I found the game. And in a bizarre act of hedonism, I even took it and my Gameboy Advance with me to the Netherlands. And that brings us, two months later, to now.
Well, the game is fucking fantastic. OMG.
+j
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