Milla’s side of Tales of Xillia has been cleared on Hard….that was about five days ago. After that I started working on grinding out titles for grade (don’t really care for that system of earning it) and now I’m ready to hit up Unknown with Jude, but I guess that’ll have to come later since Persona 2: Innocent Sin has arrived – something that completely slipped my mind. I’ll do a proper Xillia post later along with more GKH and why El Shaddai was kinda not worth it.

It’s here! And so is Imca!

Uh, I’ll add a bit more flair to this write-up later. Grand Knights History was neat, but I think it loses it’s charm during the second half. You get to a point where you realize that all you need to do for non-bosses is just press Triangle for auto-battle and maybe occasionally stop to heal for one turn every now and then, and that there is a total of three unique bosses repeatedly thrown at you with different colors and sometimes different abilities until you reach the fourth, final boss. Well, unless you count some of the human teams of pure archer or pure wizard they like to toss at you, which admittedly can be rough too.

TL;DR, it gets to be a repetitive game – something I didn’t mind in Muramasa but I do here.

Online mode is a different story though, and it pretty fun. It’s something I plan to keep playing occasionally throughout the year.

More on Grand Knights later.

P.S. WHOAWHOAAAAYEAAAAAAAAA~ (you’re obviously not a Xillia fan if that was lost on you)

This’ll be a short little post as I wait for El Shaddai to arrive.

Catherine was fun. Saw the True Freedom and True Catherine ending. I should go back and check out the True Katherine one later eventually. I felt like if I played it on anything short of the highest difficulty, the game would have been disappointingly short for me, so I aimed for Hard mode perfect chain Gold clears… I think I actually regret it a little bit. Not because of the difficulty, but more that it amplified things that I hated about the game like the camera angles changing constantly to show you that a boss is throwing some shit at you.

I saw the recent Falcom concert, Falcom jdk band 2011 Summer Live in Nicofarre. As usual, they’re the greatest, but I’m getting tired of their male vocalist. I can’t really name a song he did that wasn’t marred by his presence.

I’m not exactly sure when the next time I’ll post is going to be…other than the usual monthly that I’ll always try to get out, things are going to be extremely busy since the “endless stream of games” is going to hit starting today which consists of:

• El Shaddai – today!
  Xenoblade Chronicles – August 19th (played the import, but the game is just too awesome to not go for round 3)
  Grand Knights History – September 1st
  Tales of Xillia – September 8th
  Atelier Totori – September 27th (already played the import, but I’m sure this is on people’s lists)
  The Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki – September 29th (but I need to finish Zero)
  Dark Souls – October 4th
  Final Fantasy Type-0 – October 13th
  The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim November 11th
  Diablo 3 – 2011? (too hopeful?)

September 13th also has White Knight Chronicles 2, but I don’t have high hopes for it. I’ll mainly be aiming to see if I can have some decent multiplayer fun there.

Hopefully I’ll see you guys when El Shaddai is done.