No editing and a 20 minute + music Monday means this is the longest podcast you’ll never listen to! We’ve been away for a while and this show is sure to make you wonder why you ever listened in the first place…

We yell about Square Enix, Left For Dead 2 and Nintendo. We also wrap up our thoughts on E3, which of course involves discussing Peter Molyneux’s obsession with young boys.

With another year comes the renewed fervor caused by the Electronic Entertainment Expo. With surprises and disappointments often associated with the industry show, the Check Your Hud staff decided to make a few predictions about what they want, think, wish for the show to feature, as well as a longshot just for kicks.

We’ve already heard about devastated teens and tweens being told they’re overweight by the Wii Fit, and seen Nintendo’s solution with a strip of carboard saying these results are ineffective for people under 20. But what about the impact it can have on adults? As this issue has been brought up time and time again acknowledging the fragile self esteem of children, we’ve neglected its affect on everyone else. In a time when more people are swallowing anti-depressants and climbing into the obese bracket, one must consider the relationship between positive self image, happiness, and physical health. The Wii Fit has presented us with a useful tool to aid our journey to physical fitness, at the cost of our mental health.

All of the children of the 80’s remember the endlessly frustrating experience of blowing into their NES cartridges… you kids today don’t know just how easy you have it with your discs and DLC…

Scott Hallett has an interesting take on the…

While I set about a looking at the list of newly announced/release schedule for Nintendo’s pair of jugernaut consoles consisting of the first half of the year, a few titles stand out while the rest seem quite underwhelming. I appreciate Nintendo for making a leaps of faith with a certain title, however I feel as if this shows just how much internal dev at Nintendo is on autopilot and/or saving their big releases for the fall.

You may have missed the most recent tiff between Microsoft and Sony. It was relatively low-key as far as these corporate slap-fights go. To quickly summarize the silliness, Sony came out and said that Microsoft and Nintendo’s consoles aren’t as cool as the PS3 because the PS3 comes with everything you need out of the box. Microsoft took offense to this and told Sony to shove it, not everyone needs Wi-Fi and having a variety of SKUs makes them cooler than Sony could ever hope to be.

A word to the reader: This is not an attempt to bait anyone. I am not judging Nintendo against Microsoft or Sony since Nintendo is clearly doing their own thing at this point. The opinions contained within are mine, feel free to disagree with them, I merely ask that you do so in a civilized manner.

When Chrono Trigger was released for the Super Nintendo 13 years ago it was truly a revolutionary game. It combined the talents of the then sovereign Developers Square and Enix to create one of the most memorable RPGs of the time. For those not yet initiated into the “Cult of Chrono,” it may seem odd to have such deep reverence, which could easily be mistaken for the blatant rants of a fanboy, for a game that seems generic at first glance; However even after a decade, Chrono still remains the benchmark for RPGs and games as a whole.

I had such high hopes for Sonic Unleashed when I first heard about it. The first videos and screenshots reminded me of Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast. Now THAT was a Sonic game. Fast paced action and platforming made it an excellent addition to the franchise. That’s the next gen Sonic game everyone’s been looking for. Something that takes all of the things that were great about the older games in the franchise, and brings them into this generation of gaming. Unfortunately, Sonic Unleashed isn’t it.

The Valkrie Profile series has always been a second tier franchise for Square-Enix, however it retains a cult following which lead to a sequel on the PS2 and a remake of the very hard to find original PS1 game on…