So apparently Heavy Rain, of which I'm sure you know my obsession with, was shown at E3 2008, but behind closed doors. Meaning journalists who got into see it had to sign a waver to keep their mouths shut about what they saw. But, N'Gai Croal, General Editor of Technology for Newsweek, in case you're not familiar, gave a little blurb that he saw HR at E3 and that it will be shown at the Leipzig GDC. Yay!! (I think Zoe's (from Wraith) use of language is starting to rub off on me.)

Alright, Silent Hill 4: The Room is driving me insane, and not in the way Silent Hill usually does. So I'm at my 2nd visit to the Forest World, so for the 2nd half of the game, including this part, I have to protect Eileen Galvin (because I want the best ending!), while running away from the unkillable Walter Sullivan (who's got a pistol and a steel pipe, subsequently replaced by a motherf**kin' chainsaw!!), and run away from the unkillable Victim 17, Jasper, while avoiding attracting all the Twin Victims (Two huge arms, wearing a poncho of sorts, with two baby heads on top), Hummers (annoying bats), and Sniffer Dogs (I'm convinced that their charge attack is glitched because they'll zoom across whatever area I'm in. Completely missing me, and just looking really odd.) MEANWHILE, while all this is happening I have to find the parts of a doll scattered in the wells in the forest. To find these, I need the torch out and lit. I can't fight with the torch. If I put it away, it gets doused, meaning I probably have to pass by Walter (Remember: CHAINSAW!!) to light it. I can't take it anymore!!!! *tears out hair*

I like how the game is tied to Silent Hill 2, even if I didn't like 2. Meh, back to Valkyrie Profile 2.

It's funny that at around the same time one of their greatest sequels is coming out (Soulcalibur IV), Namco Bandai also completely f**ks with the sequel to what I consider the greatest JRPG out there. Tales of Symphonia.

Tales of Symphonia 2: Dawn of the New World (Knight of Ratatosk sounded cooler if you ask me) has completely failed in my eyes. 'Why is that, Tyler?' you ask me. Well, to start off it looks like they hired whole new artist, because the new characters definitely do not looke like they were created by Kosuke Fujishima. They look more like they belong in the .hack series. But that is a small gripe compared to what else annoys me. Apparently your band of characters from the first game are now the bad guys... Why, I don't care to find out, because I'm sure the lazy plot twist is that they're not bad guys after all. Keep in mind that ToS was a 60-80 hour game and I completed it a total of 18 times (yes, I kept track). The game not being about them drives me up a f**king wall, after spending that much time with them. Oh, but wait, the best is yet to come. So in case you didn't play ToS or just didn't know, near the end there was a point that decided which ending you got. One ending path was about Zelos, the other about Kratos. Zelos is pink-wearing, chatty, perverted little b1tch. There are no good things to say about him, other than that he exactly copies Kratos's fighting sty1e (meaning he's a pathetic filler character) only with a stupid Maxi-esque dance to it. Kratos, on the other hand, Kratos is GOD (no, not the God of War...). For one thing, he's much more important to the story (*SPOILER* being the main character's father). He's voiced by Cam Clarke, making him badass by default. Suffice to say, Kratos is a helluva lot cooler and important than Zelos is. Which ending you get affects who lives and who dies. Zelos ending, Kratos dies. Kratos ending, Zelos dies (my favorite part ) But wait, what is this, according to ToS2 MOTHERF**KING ZELOS'S ENDING IS CANON. It's not Kratos I see in the trailers, but that little s**t-for-brains Zelos. F**k you, Namco Bandai. Next boardroom meeting, don't get stoned out of your minds. As far as I'm concerned, ToS2 has not been made, and never will be. I'm more content with that than a bulls**t "sequel" like this. Seriously, is it really a sequel if it's not about the SAME GODDAMNED CHARACTERS!!! But you might say, well yeah, it takes place in the same world. NO, NO, and NO! This is more goddamn disappointing than KotOR 2's lack of an ending.

/end rant