I guess I gave up on this site when I realised I would never play the games I had on my list. If I give up on a game, it's gone. Too much new stuff to enjoy!

It's so long since I updated anything here, and so long since I joined, prompted to do so by Psycho Penguin, who died two years ago this month. Gaming hasn't been the same since...

*smug* I love being right. And eventually you'll get used to the gameplay, it really has improved over prior installments. It took me almost a full playthrough to get all the nuances.

Cross Edge? Brave. It seems like one of those titles that was interesting to read about but not for me to play. If, you know, I had a PS3 in the first place.

Glad you like my banner/picture! I'm quite taken with them for the time being.

Loved the Sly Cooper trilogy overall though I felt it only got better with each game. Surprisingly, I didn't miss the bottle collecting in Honor Among Thieves as much as I thought I would. Probably because they ramped up the actual difficulty of the game and provided for solid challenges for completion in place of the bottle collecting.

Could be because I'd had enough of the bottle collecting after playing the first two games back-to-back and by the third game was willing to let it go-- who knows. In any event, I'm quite excited for Thieves in Time to come out later this year!

I actually played a lot of Theresia but just couldn't get into it...I'm surprised you say you think the story is better than 999. I thought Theresia had a nice foreboding atmosphere, since solving puzzles could actually hurt you, but I didn't like the corridor-crawling aspect of it.

Thank you! It was quite a ride. Persona 4 was brought up by the fortune cookie, I wouldn't have gone for it myself. Probably another huge game. It's going well so far, enjoying it a lot. The boss I'm on now is the third, though the first if you don't count the part of the game that is still semi-tutorial or at least halfway automatic. More to the point, it's the battle where the kiddy gloves come off. I've been trounced three times and am finding myself forced to level up further despite having pretty much figured out the strategy. :P

People have private Backloggery pages now? :O Went to comment on a game for someone on my Multitap and found I couldn't. That's a bit sad.

Sure am Hopefully clearing it by the weekend, have to be close to the endgame now. Took long enough.

8bitninja is fun. I gave it a try last night and it was strangely addicting.