I'd heard about this game -- or at least, variants of it -- and decided it was high time I actually give it a try. 800 MS points later and I was online, getting pwned by every one on Xbox Live. Seriously, I fucking suck at this game.

The animations are animated, the colors are colorful, and the high-def is high -- also, quite def. I'm not sure the sprites are quite up to par. Although they look good enough, they seem a bit "meh". I don't know, maybe it's just me?

There are things that happen in this game that completely befuddle me. For example, there's a tutorial -- as most games are wont to have these days -- except that it doesn't actually tutor you. Am I doing it wrong? It just seems like a lame practice mode. Where's the schooling? I need schooled! Do I have to learn all there is to know about Puzzle Fighter II Turbo on the streets? Some day, I'm going to be in real trouble when I come home pregnant because my parents, society, the system et al, did not tell me the vicious truths about Puzzle Fightering in this day and age! And I'm not even a girl! The hideous machinations -- not to mention the physical impossibilities -- of mothering a video game's child are such as this world should never know! You can't just push this stuff on people, Capcom! It ain't right... People need to be told!

So, as a result of complete ignorance, I walked into my first few online matches and quickly descended down a slippery slope of pain and humiliation. I believe that, out of about 20 matches, I actually won 2 rounds. Not matches; rounds. And the worst part is, I'm not even sure how I got away with that much.

This is a game that is very much WIN and I can tell just by the fact that it resembles other games I have come to love over the years that it is, indeed, a game conceived in awesome. I just wish I didn't suck so awfully much at it.

And if they ever do make an after-school special called "I'm Having Puzzle Fighter's Baby!", just remember, you saw the premise for it here, first.