Holy fuck, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty completed. No, not Heart of the Swarm. Motherfucking Wings of Liberty. I had this shit before the house burned down, and it still took me this long to beat it. Not that there was anything stopping me. I could've done it prior to the fire and I had ample opportunity after, but I just didn't. Today I just said "fuck it" and then played until the very end.

It's StarCraft and everyone knows what's up. The balance and graphics still has the excellence that I expect from Blizzard. So what I can critique is the plot. Very quickly on I realized that, whilst I can remember the plot of the first game, for some reason Brood War is completely slipping my mind. I can vaguely recall the zerg won in the end, but that was it. But until I replay it, on Wings of Liberty's own merits... yeah, I was okay with it. I think it expanded the universe with Zeratul's warning of an upcoming threat.

Of course, I have to nitpick. 1. Why the fuck is Raynor so fucking huge? The muscles in his arm is larger than my waist and I'm fat. Admittedly you could only see his profile pic back in the first game, but it didn't give the impression he consuming about a gallon of steroids a day. 2. Matt, darling, you look great in your military outfit, but you're ruining it with your turtle-neck underneath.

Probably the most glaring problem of the plot is Tychus Findlay. Okay, I'm about to ruin the ending so don't read further if you haven't played it (Moham). Findlay was released under the orders of Mengsk to join up with Raynor and use his position to come into proximity to Kerrigan and kill her. He decides to go through with this at the stupidest time ever. At the end of the game Raynor, a bunch of his troops, and Findlay are all surrounding her. Findlay points his gun at her and says aloud to Mengsk whether he should shoot and everyone can hear Mengsk saying to go ahead. Then Raynor slowly takes out a pistol and shoots Findlay in the head. That was quite possibly the stupidest plan ever. Why kill her then and reveal you're a double agent? Just fucking wait until you can get her alone and shoot her in the head. If you do it now, then you have to fight through Raynor and his other men. If you play along for fucking three hours, not only do you complete your mission, you can remain cool with Raynor. And you didn't even bother defending yourself from the fucking bullet! Raynor didn't even pull a fast one on you! He slowly pulled that pistol from its holster. God, that scene literally ruined the ending for me because I was so pissed.

Really, what's upsetting me is that this was the whole game. I can't believe I've shelled out more money for the next campaign and I'm going to do it again for the final part. I know that expenses for creating games have become astronomical, but really I'm just paying for the movies. You've already made the whole fucking game already with the first installment. The second installment adds... what? Some tweaking of the balance, add a few new units, and movies? Is that really another $40?