No, it's actually not.  For the same price, you could afford to buy all three of the Chaos Rings games when they're not on sale and have almost enough left over to buy Final Fantasy Tactics when it's not on sale.  Three originals that are pretty great plus a port that's pretty great, all of which add up to a metric crapton of hours of gameplay.

Versus one apparently mediocre rhythm game.

I'll pass, thanks.  Square Enix is crazy with their prices, but I'm still sometimes willing to pay them for awesome games.  But $55?  No way.  They'd seriously have to be selling a flawless port of a brand new game like Bioshock Infinite or something.

I have played a few stinkers writing for the site, but I must say that I've learned about a ton of really great games and soundtracks that I would have missed if I did not come here too.  More positives than negatives by a mile.

That moment always seemed so crazy to me.  So overly dramatic.

And on a completely different topic (Zelda):
http://magicalgametime.com/image/48470399171

Oooh - check this out.  Anyone remember the Lone Wolf choose-your-own-adventure/RPG hybrid books?  The author has made them available free to read/play at the following website in about a dozen different formats.

http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home

Hey, better to be clear with that kind of thing.  It'd stink to get interested in someone only to find out that they hate gaming.

That was awesome.  Totally worth breaking the double-post taboo for. :)

Did you know The Count actually has a name?  He's Count von Count.

Keeping with my post-apocalyptic reading mood, I just finished The Dog Stars. It's quite good. Had a feel that reminded me of The Road quite a bit, although it's much less bleak. Sad things still happen, but it's a super-flu end of the world rather than The Road's nukes. (Or at least I think that was nukes.)

Next up is a new fantasy that's getting a lot of good buzz, Promise of Blood. It's book 1 of "the powder mage trilogy" - guns and magic together.

Watching the latest One Piece, and it's pretty dark.  As part of the current story arc, they've rescued a whole herd of kidnapped children from a secret lab, and we just found out that

A whole channel of stuff.  Interesting, but sometimes hard to listen to.  This guy takes songs in a major key and changes them to minor, and vice versa:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MajorVsMinor

Edit: the Super Mario Bros theme song in a minor key:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GAGM9feOcI

A friend of mine said that movie made her kid no longer afraid of the dark.  And that's a pretty sound recommendation in my book. :)

I'm not sure that could be any more awesome.

That level's so legendary that if you said you had, I would have a hard time believing even you. :)