Final Fantasy XIII: 25 hours in

Yea, I like this game. There's frustrating bits about it, but good elements can usually balance out annoying bits for me. In Resonance of Fate, the story eventually became bizarre and confusing, and I still don't understand all of it. But the characters were fun and the battle system was so enjoyable that I didn't really mind. In XIII it's a little of the reverse. The battle system and the level-up system are a little frustrating, but I'm enjoying the story. And god, the music in this game is great.

I figure one more post once I beat it, just to throw out my final thoughts.

Feh, I'm playing Valkyria Chronicles, what is your excuse?

Not that anyone cares, but I have not exactly been on top of the Hot Shit posts lately. It isn't that I don't  have stuff lined up, I'm just not sure how worth the effort it is. I might start posting HS in onesies as I find them/have time.

I guess I'm just getting old. Of course ever single game blog had their own "Best/Worst/Most Overlooked of 2009" posts but frankly I'm still trying to catch up with 2008. Right now I'm playing Valkyria Chronicles, and when I'm done with that I still have an unopened Muramasa to whip out. I just barely had time this holiday season to play through the Water + Pirates of the Caribbean Little Big Planet expansion.

I'm pretty happy with Valkyria Chronicles. When I first downloaded the demo I had a bit of failure in imagination to see the potential of the game. It is fairly low-key production wise. The production wasn't  flamboyantly budgeted title like FFXIII by any stretch if the imagination, and it shows. There are dialog scenes where a lot is left to the imagination. The difficulty is also a little erratic (so far) from mission to mission and it can be pretty harsh/cheap at times. Over all I'm hooked and hope that the sequel for PSP and the Anime find their way to this region.

Maybe I need to bite the bullet and get Braid. Maybe that'll unlock some dormant ability for me to manipulate time.