I’ll admit that I didn’t play as many new games as I wanted to in 2008, since I spent that year focusing heavily on fanfiction and anime. However, I was gracious enough to play through a handful of gems, and I’ll share them with you.
Man, am I so glad I took the time to polish off The World Ends With You earlier in the year. Now, I can go through the game and collect all of the bonus items I wasn’t meant to get on my first playthrough, including a sticker that removes the limit of that pesky 24-bytes-a-day limit on stat-boosting food items. Now, I should be able to push my characters’ stats to the upper limits without problem. With some effort, this should allow me to get the higher-level pins and complete my catalog. I now have all three pins in the Brainy Cat set, but I have no idea what they do, and many of the guides don’t seem all that helpful.
I picked the perfect time to start playing The World Ends with You again, and I managed to get through the end of the second week with little problem (clearing two days in less than two hours real-time) Silly Sho Minamimoto. You would have made a good reaper if you hadn’t tried to get around the rules of the game.
…what the hell is Kaworu Nagisa doing in my party? Seriously… I’m on the second chapter of The World Ends with You, and my new partner Joshua’s got a definite “creepy effeminate white-haired kid” vibe going around him. I half-expect him to start singing classical music to main character Neku, or at least taking creepy pictures of him with his battle-ready cameraphone. Sheesh…
Yeah, I’m ready for the weekend, and it looks like my Nintendo DS and Wii are going to get quite the workout. I’m working my way through Professor Layton and the Curious Village…I’ve only finished the second chapter, but these puzzles in the game don’t seem too hard. The only one I’ve had to cheat so far was with the “fox and chicks” puzzle. That one gets me every time. The “download-a-day” puzzles are a bit harder…I’ve only been able to solve four out of ten of those so far, and the hints you get for those are kinda sparse.
