Tales of Xillia, about 18 hours in and nearing the end of Chapter 2. Basically, I got past the part where Elize was being a little moody bitch as if she was the angsty teen in a shounen manga.

During some random battles, I tried playing with Alvin since I thought he was the typical swordsman in a Tales game, but he's slow as fuck, so I quckly switched back over to Jude. I remember in Abyss I spent a lot of time switching between Luke and Guy, and in Vesperia I spent time switching between Yuri and Judith, but in Xillia, I haven't liked playing any other character than Jude.

The trailer was generic stuff that doesn't really tell me anything at all, but my god that 30 minute gameplay preview looks amazing.

Just finished Akiba's Trip 2.  Got Shizuka's ending.  I have mixed feelings about this game...it could be fun at times but it also felt kind of low budget in certain ways.  Dividing Akihabara into all these little zones instead of having a single open world just seems unnecessary on modern hardware.  I could understand it if this was on the PSP (as the first one was), but it's not.  It's for PS3 and Vita, both of which have far more memory.  There's a bunch of odd inconsistencies too, like some shops had 3D animated character models for the shopkeepr, others just had 2D portraits, and others had such bad 3D character models I swear they were just re-using assets from the original PSP game.

The combat itself got kind of repetitive, too.  I played it on hard and I regret that...there were some crazy difficulty spikes.  The weird thing is that it was always the big groups of trash mobs that were the hardest...the boss fights were kind of a joke.  But combat is a little stiff and you lack good crowd-control moves so when you get surrounded by trash mobs that deal 3 times as much damage as you do (as they do on hard...) there's not a lot you can do about it.  Chain-stripping (yes, that's a thing) is always fun, though.

On the more positive side the actual story was fun in a campy anime sort of way and running around a reasonably faithful reproduction of Akihabara is pretty cool.  Still, compared to something like the Yakuza games there just isn't that much to do in the city.  There are lots of shops but surprisingly few minigames and stuff.  A few of the side missions were pretty funny but most of them were quite same-y.  Are walking around very rarely prompted any sort of events, unless you want out of your way to make something happen.

I guess I enjoyed my time with the game, but I wouldn't really call it a great game.  More like an OK game.

Batmobile will be playable in the game apparently.

Writing is a very common complaint towards Zero Escape, and I don't get it.  I think it's fine, good even, but it really seems to be based on what writing style you prefer.  It's not like it's full of grammatical errors.