I've decided to only rate games I've "finished". I'm not talking like 100% complete, but at least having seen the credits roll, and in the case of music games and such, I'll rate em if I think I've played enough. I have a bunch of games I haven't beat, and some I've barely touched, so I want to start finishing more of them and give a full rating. How's that for excitement!?

I've been playing a bunch of rogue galaxy lately,since I kinda lost interest in devil may cry 2 at a point, though I'll probably finish it after rogue galaxy(who knows when, it's rather long.) For my ds I've kinda been switching between layton and hatsworth, and I'll say that henry hatsworth seems pretty damn long. Can be rather hard as well, I can see myself getting very frustrated further on...so we'll see how long that lasts. It can be pretty fun to sit down with layton and crank out a few puzzles, which can also be rather hard. I kinda want a new ds rpg to grind threw though... No idea how I'm going to beat all these games with my short attention span. AAAAAAAH!

edit: bleh, screw it.

Pretty bored, so I'll write up a delightful blog post about what I've been playing!

Well first off, I pretty much finished dragon quest monster joker. (saw the credits at least) It was pretty fun and addicting to explore the lands and try to make the biggest, coolest looking monsters. There's only a light story element to give you a path to proceed on when you so choose, so I finished that, and just started grinding levels in hope of raising my rank in the online leader boards. I realized that it was basically a lost cause when I found out my big scary monsters could get easily abused by low rank, tiny monsters. Them leader boards are all about the stats, which I don't find very exciting. So yeah, fun game if you like grinding and fusing monsters.

I've got quite a lot of ds games I haven't beat, so I'm trying to finish some of those up, starting with professor layton! Couldn't hurt to puzzle my brain a bit, and finish it off since there's a sequel coming up. Enough of the exciting portable game talk, time for extra-exciting console stuff!

So...I'm pretty broke and lazy, (though I'm trying to get a 360) so my ps2 tends to get a lot of love still. I picked up that devil may cry bundle thing that comes with the 3 games, since I only had the first one. I never actually finished it, and it was in an ugly blank case, so I felt it was worth picking up. Almost finished the first one now, and boy I suck at it. I tried playing it on normal at first. I found myself dying a whole lot, and bosses took lots of patience to take down, which I don't have much of. I like to hit the devil trigger and hit them in the face a bunch till they die, so easy automatic has done me good! I'm a big nub, but I want to blast through the 3 games and have fun doing it. GOOD STUFF!

Now... my pc is pretty old, and can't run today's game too well, but I decided to give battleforge a shot, with the whole "free version". Been running it on low quality, since any higher and it lagged like a beast. I'm a bit of an rts fan, went through a big wc3 phase, and this is very similar. The big difference is the whole card aspect, which works pretty well. I went through all the beginner story missions, and it was pretty fun. The only thing is that if you want better cards, you have to buy "battleforge points" which I don't really want to do. Cool game, though I'm probably done with it now since the multiplayer doesn't interest me much.

So there ya have it.

(ps. I wrote this while listening to ice cube, so GANGSTA RAP MADE ME DO IT!)

Being a fan of the gba fire emblems, I went and got FE:SD. Haven't beat it yet, but I can say..It's pretty much the same as the other ones, but with minor improvements/bigger disappointments. There are improvements like the re-class option, which lets you switch units to the class of your liking before battle,(with some restrictions) then there are disappointments like a fairly weak story, no support convos, and a flood of semi-useless characters dumped on you.

The animations are new, making them look kind of like animated and faceless chess pieces, which is kind of cool, but most of them are fairly lame. You've got marth, but he is not as cool as his SSB counterpart. He's the typical self righteous prince that has to run from his kingdom under fire, while the story attempts to make you care why you are fighting with short text boxes. I'm only on chapter 8 so far, but get ready for epic spoilers. There's an evil shadow dragon! that's all I know at the moment in terms of story.

Don't want to bash it too much, but it just seems disappointing compared to the previous games. Not to say it's not fun, since the gameplay is unchanged and still quite enjoyable(and frustrating at times). Soooo in the end I'll say that it's good as a strategy game, not so good as a fire emblem game. Though hopefully I start enjoying it more as I get deeper in!

*edit* well...on the file I was playing, there was a level where there are these ballista type dudes. there is one you can recruit by talking to them with the princess chick who was a pegasus knight by default and i kept her that way. lets just say giant balista bolts are very effective against peg knights. I couldn't get to the guy in one turn, and I though she could survive a hit.....it was 53% chance to do 33 damage. she got smoked, and I had been arena farming that level, and got my merc up to level 20 then promoted to a hero. I did not want to do that again. In rage, I sent my hero over to Mr.Jake the balista man, and killed him. from there on...I was just killing all characters until I finally wanted to start a new game.

That made me not play for a few days, but I pushed that aside and started a new game, and this time I wasn't just going to recruite every useless character. So that's been going pretty well, and when you have 15 characters or less, you get all the bonus chapters so I think it was a good choice. When you have a set group of dudes you like, it makes the game fairly more enjoyable. Plus I'm being far more careful in not rushing my dudes into certain death.