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After starting a New Game+, I have to make an amendment to my previous assessment of Arkham City.

It still feels a little rushed to me, and some of the contrivances in place to get all the plot elements neatly walled up in this one section of Gotham almost get a little eye-rolling at times, but it is a very fun game.

Playing without the counter indicators turned on actually makes combat a lot more fun and engaging. Instead of feeling like random QTE events, countering now requires actually paying attention to things going on around you.

My main gripe is still the lack of an indicator for what enemy I'm actually targeting my next attack at. Some of the sections where there are three types of enemies you can't directly attack clustered in with twenty other guys are really frustrating. I have a 60+ combo going and I tilt my stick toward the one guy left near me I can actually hit normally, only to see Batman try to punch a shield guy to his right and break the streak. If they don't mind hazing Riddler's henchmen green in the HUD, why can't they give some sort of shimmer or outline to show where you are actually going to attack next!?

Also, not fond of the new HUD. It looks like a battery indicator.

Just finished playing through FFX (completely legit this time, unlike my 100+ hour file from 2004 that I just deleted as I couldn't even bring myself to look at it anymore), and damn that motherfuck Braska's Final Aeon... Seymour Omnis, too.

According to the strategy on FinalFantasyWikia, just summoning Anima and using her Overdrive once will kill Seymour Omnis. Apparently not with my stats, as the boss has exactly 80k HP and Oblivion dealt somewhere around 12k. Had it not been for the Magus Sisters, I would have surely lost against both Seymour and Braska's Final Aeon for a fourth time after getting extremely close the first time on the latter by double-casting Ultima with Yuna for about 11k damage per hit after using Auron's Mental Break and feeling like "Hey, I could easily kill him next time. :D"

Welp...

Not to mention, going back to my stats, getting Tidus' Caladbolg powered all the way (fuck Chocobos) did me absolutely no good as I was still doing piss poor damage and I wasn't prepared to grind for another 10+ hours or so to complete half the grid just to be able to hit over 9999 damage and 9999 HP. Auron's Masamune didn't do much either, so my only worthwhile Celestial Weapon was Yuna's Nirvana as it allowed me to cast anything for 1 MP.

Though I have to imagine that all this went towards feeling damn good about beating the game as maxing out my sphere grid to be able to do 99999 damage per hit would have killed any sense of satisfaction of watching the game's final threat fall.

So now I'm thinking about either going back to start a new, legit file on FFVIII as I've only ever reached disc 2 even with cheating, or make a FFVII file without using real world friend's names for the characters and come up with something I can feel proud of. Most likely the former as I've already beaten the other, but only when I feel that I'm done doing what I want to do on FFX, which is pretty much just capturing monsters for the Monster Arena in the Calm Lands.

SKYRIM, nuff said. Lets see how good it actually is.

Sonic Generations when modern Sonic isn't wigging out and constantly cartwheeling to the left. I beat the main game so I'm working on collectables and S ranks 'n shit which is still pretty fun. Music is great, levels look fantastic, camera can zoom in too much at times, final boss is a mess. All in all a good Sonic game (coming from somebody who enjoyed Sonic 2006).

Hoping for another patch soon to fix the cartwheel bug. It's a good PC port all things considered, although for some the game crashes when on online mode and I have some minor issues with graphics disappearing on the third boss fight. The shop menu used to run very poorly too but that got patched recently. Looks sharp, runs great, and it supports 90% of my gamepad (Hats don't). 360 or PS3 is probably better but I don't care.

Tried playing Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth on PS1, but I wasn't very successful, that game is too brain consuming for me to dedicate to playing. >_<;

King Arthur's Gold and nothing else

Trying to beat FF9 for the first time. No bull.

re-playing Breath of Fire IV.

Also just started playing Brain Lord for SNES.

Skyward Sword.

I'd be willing to bet it eats Skyrim for dinner.