My 3 days off begin on Monday. Doesn't seem like much, but I'm looking forward to it. A little bit ruined by the fact I need to go and buy a new tyre for my car after realising it is completely bald. Never ends.

But! I did complete Chrono Trigger DS today! Hah! However, I distinctly remember finishing the game below level 50 on the SNES, but I had to level to 60 and do many sidequests before I could do it on the DS! I guess there is something wrong with me. Maybe I'm burned out, or just plain rubbish

I'm now at the Tower of Gears in Tales of Vesperia, took me about 14hrs to get there, don't know if that's slow or not, but I'm level 28, ad there is an achievement for getting a little further from here at level 15. I have some work ahead of me...

I might be late to the game, but Europe always gets the bum deal when it comes to release dates. At least I finally have! Tales of Vesperia that is! Just another week at work and then I have another three days off so that I can play it non stop like I did with Star Ocean 4

I've merely played 3.5hrs of the game and, of course, I like. Despite looking like Tales of the Abyss to me in some of the screenshots and videos, the game actually plays, sounds and feels much more like Tales of Symphonia. Probably something to do with Yuri being a lot more like Lloyd than Luke ever was... Can't wait to get stuck into it more, but I'm probably only going to get a few more hours of it done before my holiday.

I also went back to Chrono Trigger DS this week, just beaten Magus so I think I'll see this one through before playing Knights in the Nightmare or Devil Survivor (when it turns up). I had to put Valkyrie Profile down for a while. I'm halfway through Chapter 3 of it and lost a battle after being unable to save for an hour. Need a little break from it now But I will go back to it.

I also re-ordered Black Sigil on DS. I did cancel the order earlier in the month because I felt I had too much to play, but it's retro charms caught me again and now it is in the post.

Anything else? Fragile on Wii has finally been announced for PAL regions! This makes me very happy, as it looks as though it has the potential to be one of the greatest games on the Wii (from my point of view, obviously). I've only really got Opoona and Baroque on the RPG front for the console (not counting the VC downloads) and I need to have more! Anyway, I'm rambling...

Tata.

Woah. That was a long time. The final battle of the main storyline of Star Ocean: The Last Hope, that is. I think maybe lv72 was a bit low for the fight. I barely made it and had about 3 healing items left of the 100 or so I took into battle. 38 long minutes. End sequence time. Woo!

42hrs for the story, now for the secret dungeons and the rest of the Coliseum!