Been making some progress in Tales of Vesperia. So far I've logged 30 hours into this game. I did a little research on my play history with it, and it looks like I've been playing this game for TWO YEARS and still haven't beaten it yet! I'm horrible with my commitment to games these days. Anyways, I'm guessing I'm two thirds done with it. I hope I'm close to the end, I just want to be able to finish something, ANYTHING this month.

Also, I went and ordered Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (Wii) and Katamari Forever (PS3) for shits and giggles!

More purchases!

I used the $50 Best Buy gift card James & Qiana got me for Xmas and spent it on copies of Heavenly Sword and Folklore for the PS3.

Then, I grabbed Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey on Amazon for cheap. Yay.

Made some new purchases based off of Cheapassgamer's new daily feed thingy. I went ahead and ordered copies of Alan Wake, Nier, and Contact.

I've gotten my Pokemon groove back! I managed to put in a decent amount of time into HeartGold. Currently, I have 7 gym badges and about 70 monsters in my Pokedex. My favorite part about these games is actually related to grinding, particularly when you get to see your Pokemon evolve into their next stage. It gives me warm, fuzzy feelings seeing my Rattata mutate into a Raticate or my Flaaffy morph into an Ampharos and get the nice stat bonuses that go along with the evolution. I guess I'm addicted to that aspect of it. Another thing I love about these games is that I feel it's an RPG series that's less about story and more about exploration. I don't really value story in video games (though I do appreciate them if they're done well), I value gameplay. Exploration is a part of that. Pokemon does a great job of giving the player a sense of exploring a vast world.

I picked up a copy of White Knight Chronicles Intl Edition on the cheap: $16. I've heard mediocre reviews of it, even underwhelming and sometimes bad reviews of it, but I'm not against giving it a chance.

Also, I got to try out Wii Party with Sid. Basically a Mario Party clone minus the Mario characters and substituted with your Miis. It's a lot of fun.