I love fetch quests, and I'm not afraid to admit it.

Okay, I'm a little afraid to admit it. I read a lot of game reviews that complain about games being tedious and boring. Well, what most people would define as boring in a game, I define as bitchin'.

One of my favorite things to do when I'm playing something is just walk around. This has a tendency to bore anyone that's in the room with me when I play, but I would say that at least six hours of my total time playing Twilight Princess was devoted to wandering aimlessly, and far more than that much time is spent doing essentially nothing in most RPGs I play (I shudder to think how many countless hours I spent making sure I had seen every speck of land in Dragon Warrior III for my GBC).

Fetch quests essentially give me an excuse to backtrack and look around. I read a review on Gamespot.com of the latest Harry Potter game (which, fyi, I was totally already planning on buying because I am a GIGANTIC tool and words cannot express the sheer joy I feel when I think about using my Wii controller as a wand), and as soon as I saw "the game is little more than a chore simulator," I knew I had found a game I would love. Once "endless backtracking" and "nearly everything about the game is tedious" were thrown in, I practically ran to Slacker's.

And you know what? I was right. I think it's great. I am proof that the saying "one man's trash is another man's treasure" applies to video games. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go do some pointless backtracking through Hogwarts. Bitchin'.