This is supposed to be a game diary blog

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This is supposed to be a game diary blog... I've been playing games but not reporting it.

Let's start with Izuna: The Unemployed Ninja for the Nintendo DS. I found this game for cheep and in English. This is an easy Rogue-like that shackled me for a week or two. Rogue-like games generally penalize you hard if you die, but I really like the fact that I keep my experience points in this game. I often lost my phat lootz but I did not get mad because I felt that it was my greed taking me down. I beat all but the last dungeon, which is really hard because it's long. Also, experience points in this last dungeon start from scratch and it is not retained when I die. I got to floor 20-ish before my greed killed me, yet again. I think I know what to do but it's too much work and not enough fun to play this last part.

I personally like the cute girl ninja (kunoichi?) and the anime flavor, but the story is lackluster and unrewarding. The translation into English doesn't seem too bad, though it is helpful to know the Japanese. Some of it is left without translation, such as sticking a talisman onto your weapon/armor, it is shown as kanji with no contextual help in English after you have decided.

I am down for the sequel though.

I got Death Smiles, the regular version for Xbox 360. I'm just playing Arrange mode, rank 1, but the difficulty on the last stage is making me gasp in anger. I still don't understand the game system.

Also, for some reason I wanted to play Ikaruga, so I did some of that recently. Got an A rank on stage 1, which unlocked an Achievement. I hate the D-pad on this controller. Also I watched the replay data from fellow Xbox members, and the replay data from the top 2 player normal version is amazing. I'm pretty sure that it is not a doubleplay (one person, two controllers), but a real-deal 2 person play.

Oh yeah, I was playing Killzone 2 at the shop, which put me into a FPS mode. Consequently, I am picking up where I left off on Half-Life 2: Episode 1. Now I'm onto Episode 2, but it's barely keeping my attention.

I still not have finished with Chrono Trigger or Trusty Bell. I need to play those again arrgh.