Super Smash Bros. Brawl is finely crafted video game. With the exception of some longish loading times, it's technically proficient: the graphics and sounds are well done and, for one, you can play online multiplayer. It provides the player with lots of options in character selection and in character and level customization. And, as it's really two games in one, it's a solid value. But I still hate it. Just like I hate beets.

It doesn't matter if the beets in question were watered with tears of gods and lovingly tilled by the hands of beautiful virgin maidens, I still think that they're disgusting. And so it goes with Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

No More Heroes is a Wii exclusive action game from the maker of Killer 7, a fact which is obviously only important if you're aware of just how strange Killer 7 was. In No More Heroes you play Travis Touchdown, a porn obsessed, card collecting, Mexican wrestling watching eBay sniper. Having won an auction for some sort of plasma sword, he decides to go after the "11th Ranked Assassin" because, you know, someone's keeping track. After beating killing the guy, he's contacted by the UAA (United Assassin's Association?) and told to go for number one.

The core mechanics of running around and slicing people up with a plasma sword are pretty cool. And the presentation, which is obviously inspired by too much caffeine, manga and space invaders, is fresh and entertaining. Unfortunately, all the other crap you have to do when you're not killing is kind of lame.

Endless Ocean is an under sea (at least, mostly) exploration game. The thing about it, though, is that Endless Ocean isn't a game in the classical sense so much as it's an electronic diversion. Games have rules and you can win and lose at them. Even the most sandboxy of games will have some sort of failure conditions, and near as I can tell, you can't fail at Endless Ocean. It can't be called a simulator either because, well, for one nobody on Earth has, to my knowledge, ever pet a giant squid before, and whilst playing earlier today, I did just that.

Whatever you call it, Endless Ocean does one thing really well: it effectively imparts in whomever is playing it a fantastic sense of wonder and respect for the ocean. Unless, of course, they've got no heart, or they're playing it on a crappy little 13" TV.

Geometry Wars: Galaxies is the fourth iteration of the popular Geometry Wars shooter that first appeared as an Easter Egg in the game Project Gotham Racing 2. Since then one version or another of Geometry Wars has appeared on just about every modern gaming platform not produced by Sony.

Obviously inspired by the arcade classic Robotron, the concept of Geometry Wars is simple: you fly around and shoot things. Your ship is vector drawn and roughly claw shaped. Your enemies: various types of vector drawn polygons. Circles. Squares. Parallelograms. Stars. And so on. While fun, every other version to date has been little more than a quick arcadey diversion. Galaxies, though, brings a pile of new features and a level of depth that will have you coming back for more.

After you rest your hands, that is.

Pokemon Battle Revolution isn't really a game. It's more of a 3D showcase for Pokemon fights. If you have a DS and Pokemon Pearl(or Diamond) and you've always wanted to see what it would look like if your Pokemons could fight in 3D on a giant screen, then Battle Revolution might interest you.

In most Pokemon games, Pokemon battles are a means to an end. You're fighting for something. In Battle Revolution, the fighting is both the means and the end. That's really all there is to it. And for most, I expect it won't be enough.

Just a note to let you know that SecretLemur.com is not dead. It's merely hibernating.

Between work kicking my ass, my main PC giving up the ghost due to a power outage, holidays and their concomitant family get togethers and the lack of new games coming out, I'm getting crap-all done in the review department.

You can expect reviews to start ramping back up to their regular volume as the new year begins.

Oh my god. Listening to(or reading) the press on this game is like watching a bunch of dorks compete for the attention of some hot girl. Seriously, it's pathetic. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a pretty good game, and it's probably not the best shooter we're going to see on the Wii for a long time. Seriously, it's good. It's ok, but it's pissed me off, and But it's not the freaking second coming of Christ, as some reviewers might have you believe. It's just not as good as everyone is saying it is. Not by a lorry-load. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't get it.

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz is a super neat game. Unfortunately, for those of us getting on in years, it's also a source of vertigo and headaches. Furthermore, I pray that someday, someone will figure out how to do a control scheme for a Super Monkey Ball game that won't give me carpal tunnel.

Elebits is a strange game where you're tasked with finding bits of electricity called Elebits. They hide all over the place. In the sink, in the toilet, in your piggy bank, in the vacuum and under your toys.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it.

Based on the back of the box, I was expecting a standard fighter with lots of characters and some Wii specific controls. What I got instead was a lame pseudo-RPG with awful controls and an incomprehensible plot.

Unless you have some sort of Dragonball Z fetish or....I can't actually think of another reason, leave this game alone. Seriously.