Yeah, a new layout for my blog seemed to be in order. I didn't like the old look, as it just felt, well, old. I needed something easier to use, for the most part, so here it is! What, it's not too special? Well, I'm sorry if I'm not a perfect artist with this stuff, it took me a whole 10 minutes to make the images, so quiet you.

Hm. 2 blog posts in less then a month, that hasn't happened in a while now, has it? Yeah, I know, I've not been paying full attention to my blog in the latest months, again, due to writers block... or not. It's just an easy excuse.

Anywho, I've been playing one series of games so often lately, it's (almost) the only thing on my mind lately. Granted, I bought Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour and Mario Power Tennis in the past week (the latter just today), but my brother plays those. Me? I play Tales of... games on just about any system I can get ahold of. Tales of Eternia (or Destiny II in US) for PSX on either PC or PSP, as I don't have the real thing... yet, Tales of the Abyss again for the PS2, Tales of Legendia I bought just about 3 weeks ago for PS2, Tales of Symphonia for the Cube was beaten for the 4th time, Tales of Destiny has had some play time, Tales of the Tempest is being played again for the Nintendo DS, and that's about it.

That's a whole, say, 200 hours or so of gameplay in just Tales RPG series as of late. Yeah, I could get other games, and I have, but I just don't feel like playing them. What was the point of me telling you this? Does it matter? It's a game site, right? Good, that's what I thought.

I know, I've already talked about games, but I need to talk to you about the games I just bought in the past, oh, 2 weeks. Of course, I haven't passed these, so I'll give you what I think of the games so far.

Obtained: April 14th, 2007

First is, well, you know, Tales of Legendia, as I've already mentioned it earlier. So far, it feels like a step back in the series, as I've heard already. The 3D battles in the previous Tales of Symphonia was turned back into a 2D sidescrolling button mashing feature, but without the intensity of Tales of Eternia. Other then the disappointing battles, the game is better then I expected overall. The graphics are better then Abyss, the world map in particular looks great in comparison despite being released 6 months earlier, and the characters are fun and lively as well, living up to the Tales name, so I can't possibly hate it.

Obtained: April 20th, 2007

In my never-ending, on-going quest to get just about every good game obtainable for all the systems I own, I decided to finally get Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour on my last paycheck along with a 2 gig memory card for my Sony PSP. The memory card was a whopping $69.99, but at least this was a more reasonable $17.99. I wasn't exactly going to be hit with many surprises, as I played it already, and it was just as fun as I remembered it. Easy to pick up and play, and very... uh... Mario-esque, almost to a fault. Glad I finally got it, though, even if I got it for my little brother, not me.

Obtained: April 25th, 2007

$44.99 at Gamestop, used. Yeah, rediculous, I know, but dagnabit, I needed it. I loved Mario Tennis for Nintendo 64, and the price didn't go down at all since release. I got a quick refund for Gunstar Heroes and Comix Zone when they didn't come from Ebay, and it was enough for me to go ahead and finally get this game. Outside of the price, I don't know much else. I've been writing this blog instead.

Well, there's my new blog layout. Why I never bothered with "recent games" before just doesn't make sense to me, as I like to keep track of when I get my games, but oh well, it's here now, and it makes this blog post extra long.

Blog posts after this in this layout won't be near this long, as I won't have so many games to post about, unless I get a review up, or something. Comment, please, I want to know if you like this layout, or if it's just too darn long for your tastes. Thanks.