I haven't made any progress in Fire Emblem: Awakening in a few days. I was playing both it and Sly Cooper Thieves in Time, but then I made it to the Wild West area in Sly and was hooked immediately. I didn't like the Feudal Japan area at all, but the Wild West is fantastic. Sly's ancestor in this area has a ridiculously fun, if simple, 3rd person shooter ability. It's a lot of fun popping off guards from a distance. I'll probably stick with Sly for now and get back to Fire Emblem in a few days.

Meh. I'm pretty happy with my PS3. I don't really need a PS4 for a few more years.

I've had two Risen challenges on the map and they were the same level as most of my units in one, significantly higher in the other. I was able to finish the harder challenge with no casualties, but I had to play more conservatively. Using my turns to heal and bolster my lines rather than attack, for example.

I just played the first DLC map. It was a lot of fun and I received a new character to boot! Won't say who it is in case of spoilers (though I imagine most probably know by now). I kind of find it doubtful that I'll use this character, at least in this playthrough, but I'll take it! Who who knows, I may find uses for he/she.

I'm to chapter 5 now. Sounds like it may have been a difficult map for some of you, and now I'm excited!

It made me laugh that she was laying down and her dress was still all poofy. I restarted the chapter. I need a healer after all. I'm also really liking the tag team system. For the first time in ever it seems like a Jeigan is useful because you get stat boosts and they might help you out a bit. And there doesn't seem to be any EXP loss for the non-Jeigs. Pretty cool.

There are advantages to living in NYC. I was able to get the bundle at Nintendo World after work today. I've made it to Chapter 2. It's been a while since I played an FE game. I was just going at it without a care when all of a sudden Lissa died. I was kind of okay with that since I don't like her already. I'm glad to get back into an FE game though.

Way excited for this one. I loved the Sly games and can't wait to get my hands on Sly 4 next week.

I've been trying to read The Passage by Justin Cronin. I'm going to try and keep at it with the hopes that it will actually get, ya know, interesting. But I have to say so far that the first 200 pages have been extremely boring and uninteresting. I'll give it 200 more pages because it's so freakin' long, but if it hasn't picked up by then I'll move onto the next book on my shelf.

That was ridiculously cute. Putting a bunch of kittens in a room full of cat toys = brilliant!

I'm willing to forgive the story considering the fact it is a remake of an NES era game. It reminds me a lot of the early Dragon Quest games storywise, and I'm okay with that. They could have fleshed out the characters through support conversations or something though. If they'd done that and fixed some of the other glaring problems it would have been a pretty good game.

I find all of the responses in this topic inadequate. Instead you should look at this picture,

 

And then say, "Hell Yeah!"

EDIT: Oh, and Yoda, I don't know if you just have awesome eyes or my perception is deeply flawed in some way. Maybe both. But I don't see much difference.

Seconded. Actually, I just want Metroid.

The only game in the series that stood above mediocrity (at best) in my mind is KH2. Don't get me wrong, when the first KH was released I was totally onboard. I really liked the idea of mashing up the Disney/Square characters as they seemed so disparate, but somehow worked really well together. The first game was charming, if flawed with its repetitive enemies and generic combat system. It sounds like the combat was revamped a la KH2, and I do give them props for that. KH2 fixed everything that was wrong with the first game, and even though you had to play Chain of Memories to really know what was happening, it was a pretty great game. Unfortunately Square Enix has a problem with taking good ideas, good game mechanics, and good characters and ruining them with overly complex, inane plots that only make sense if you play all of the games in the series. Some of which were meh, if not downright bad.

I think Square Enix has reached an impasse with the series. Side stories. Remakes and rereleases. No KH3. To me it seems this release is just their attempt at keeping the series on gamers' radars until they figure out where to take the series in the future. And honestly, it has been seven years since KH2, and each year that goes by without any news makes the possibility of KH3 seem more and more remote.

I concede I can't comment on Dream Drop Distance since I haven't played it...haven't even seen it really, but it seems to have received pretty positive reviews, so maybe I'm wrong. I'd be happy if I'm wrong because despite my dislike of the side stories I'd probably give KH3 a try.

That is surprising considering the textures and everything were actually very detailed and crisp on the Dolphin emulator. But HD emulation doesn't even compare to the Wii U remake. The new lighting looks really good, but the characters almost look like porcelain dolls in the screens. That's a petty complaint though. More Wind Waker is always good.

Yea, Path of Radiance is fantastic. The battle animations were a bit on the lackluster side, but story, characters, battle maps, art. Great place to dip your toes into the water, and probably cost effective if you can find it. Radiant Dawn is only okay, and really long. It does have some cool classes that we may not see again though. I personally think that Shadow Dragon for DS is the worst entry that has been released outside of Japan. Too easy, and it oddly rewards players for allowing their units to die as that is the only way to play all of the maps.

In other news, man I'm excited. Have I said that yet?

Meh, I'm not worried. I've long since stopped caring about whether or not I get a game on release date. And I was planning to buy in store anyway.