How Much Wii Can You Take?

Hey everybody, this is Chadd Derkins.

This blog will serve as a log of my progress in the video games I am playing. Doesn't that sound exciting? Here's some information about me that will make it even more so: I suck at video games. Seriously. I love them, and I spend ungodly amounts of money and time on them, but I really, really suck at them. This blog will consist of little else besides the endless repetition of the phrase "And then I died" and a record of the circumstances leading up to these terrible deaths. Perhaps once in a while, my avatar will experience some sort of minor victory, and we can all be excited together! It should also be noted that pretty much all of the adventures within will be taking place on the Nintendo Wii, the finest video game console ever made.

As I begin this blog, I am already deep into a video game, that game being the Wii edition of Resident Evil 4. I wish I had thought of creating this blog when I had started the game, but it's too late for that now, I suppose. I believe I am in the middle of the first stage of Chapter 5, having just arrived on the island. There are lots of military looking bastards here, including some with machine guns that kill me with one shot. I am running low on ammunition and health items, and that is beginning to seriously worry me. The fact that I've survived to this point is not so much a testament to my skills, but rather is a result of a million tiny miracles: Finding a herb at just the right time, being beaten to within an inch of my life by an enemy but surviving, etc, etc. At some point, I figure my luck has to run out, and the results will not be pretty. Will I become frustrated and abandon the game before I finish it, like I've done so many times in the past? Or will I forge onward until I save the president's daughter and destroy the weird Spanish insect cult, or whatever the fuck I'm supposed to be doing in this game? Stay tuned...