Ungh! MUST... STOP... PLAYING...

On a break from destroying the in-game currency markets in my R4 copy of Animal Crossing (I'm hacking my game-saves and adding in all the cool shit I always wanted -- mansions, designer clothes, furniture sets, custom landscaping and a whole frikken orchard of fruiting money trees; then inviting in unsuspecting bods of the internet and watching as they shit themselves with glee when they see the place) I loaded Geometry Wars Galaxies DS just to see if it was any good.

So is it any good?

In a word: ohmyfuckinggoditslikecrack!

It's awesome! First play was fun, but I was doing it all wrong. Once I set it up correctly I was sucked so deep deep into it that it became a twitch-reflex game that I played until my thumb literally blistered on the d-pad.

I know, you tried it, and you found it to be good, but listen, play it again, but this time leave the stylus alone. Start a Retro Evolved game. Play it with movement on the dpad (and one of them finger cott things that postmasters use to count money quickly -- ow! ow! ow!) and your other thumb on the touch screen doing the shooting. Now plug in your biggest, loudest pair of headphones and crank the volume full blast. Finally go into the options and put the music volume up to ten.

Are ya with me? The sound is awesome, the theme music is superb and the bass when your ship asplodes makes you jump out of your seat.

Right, nuff talking, gwan n play.