Books: Whoops, didn’t actually finish any books this month. Tried to get into a couple, but… Games: 36: Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward (PSVita) 11/1 Platinum! 37: Rayman Origins (PSVita) 11/8 38: Picross 3D (DS) 11/9 39: Arc the Lad (PS1/PSVita) 11/13 40: Ratchet and Clank: Up your arsenal HD (PS3) 11/16 41: Suikoden 1 (PS1/PSVita) 11/20 Videos: Actually, a pretty slow video month. Mostly just grinding down the last of old Doctor Who now that they’re reliably available on Netflix.

Books 9. Mistborn. Excellent book, I really want to go find the sequel now. Games 33. Assassin’s Creed. A bit draggy and touchy at times, but it was enjoyable enough. I’ll get to the second one sometime here. 34. Disgaea 3. Still one of the better tactical rpgs. I like 4 better though. 35. Folklore. I marathoned this for Extralife this year. Great game, better than I thought it would be.

Forgot to post about it here, but I’m streaming my extralife game, Folklore, at http://twitch.tv/kazriko Drop by and comment on it. :)

As I noted in my multimedia post, I’ve finally finished Persona 3 Portable. Here’s the final stats. I’m going to redo this now that I know I can’t finish Empress, and max out one of the others. Automatic Links: Death Max Fool Max Judgement Max Date Links: Strength Rank Max Justice Rank Max Empress Rank 9 Lovers Rank 3 Priestess Rank 3 Misc links: Magician Rank Max Emperor Rank Max Chariot Rank Max Fortune Rank Max Hanged Rank Max Temperence Max Moon Max Devil Max Sun Max Tower Max Aeon Max Hermit Rank Max Hierophant Rank 9 Not Started:

Books: 7. Redshirts. An excellent book, picks at the old Star Trek style of disposable characters. 8. Fight club. I’m not a fan of nihilism, and this book is a story of the descent into insanity and nihilism for an insomniac with multiple personalities. I think the movie was a bit better. Games: 28. Trainyard (Full version) Fun, but after finishing it I had little motivation to do the bonus puzzles.

I may be looking at finishing my very first Shin Megami Tensei games. I’ve always appreciated them, but found it hard to play them all the way to the end. I’m now about 40 in-game days away from the ending, and feeling pretty good about it. I’m surprised at how many social links I was able to finish, given that I didn’t have any grasp on the optimal way to get them all.

With the imminent release of Steam for Linux on the horizon, I’m thinking about how to reshuffle my systems for this eventuality. I’ve already pushed my i7 out to being a linux server, but that means it’s unavailable for gaming. I’ve been using an Athlon x3 as my gaming PC as of late, and have my always-on windows system running on a E350 system for its low-power capabilities. The other thing that is imminent is the release of Piledriver processors from AMD.

Books: None. Still working on Mistborn on paperback. Games: 19: Uncharted: Golden Abyss 8/1 (Platinum 8/12) Probably the 3rd best Uncharted game yet. 20: Trainyard Express (Android) 8/2 (Including all bonus puzzles, 8/4) Not bad. A puzzle game that borders on programming a bit. 21: PA:OTRSPOD3 (PC) 8/3 Not terrible. Not quite as much fun as the first two. 22: Commander Keen 1(PC) 8/10 Old, hard, and short. 23: Bastion (PC) 8/11 I lost interest several times during this game, but I still recommend it overall.

Books: I started on a paper book, so I didn’t end up getting it finished before the end of the month. Games: 16. Rochard. Interesting puzzle platformer, held back by its insistence on shooting areas. 17. Ys Seven. Great action RPG. Reminds me a lot of Amalur. 18. Breath of Death 7. This is the sort of RPG I would probably make if I made one. It’s not really BAD, but it’s also not really good.

Books. 6. Moon Flower. Just like the other Hogan book I’ve read recently, he takes the US society and makes it into a straw-man dystopia so that he can show how much better his other society he’s showing is. Not a whole lot of action in the book, but it is decent. Games. 12. Resistance: Burning Skies. Mercifully short. Got the platinum and traded it in. 13. Asura’s Wrath. Also pretty short, but decent.