So, having finished my playthroughs of both Earthbound and Portal--the cake may be a lie, but all in all that's a good thing, because Ness would probably try to eat it with ketchup--I'm gearing up to settle in with Persona 3 FES, while Boyfriend increases the household's Atlus quotient by playing Etrian Odyssey 2 on the DS. Funny story, there: apparently a handful of Gamestops across the country got and started selling their shipments of Etrian Odyssey 2 five days early, and one of those was ours. We bought our copy and then snuck out of there like we'd done something wrong, which, technically, we had.

We also did finally play Super Mario Galaxy two-player, which was a lot of fun. I really like playing things in two-player mode, and SMG's second-player mode is basically tailor-made for the less-talented gamer (in general, read: wife or girlfriend of the gamerdork).

We racked up a pretty huge backlog of games while we were moving, unfortunately. At this rate I may never get to Revenant Wings. And just to make things worse, we'll pounce on copies of Boom Blox and The World Ends With You whenever we can actually find them. The price of gaming is eternal vigilance.

Man, remember when a gamer could play every JRPG released in any given year and still have a few free weeks in which to replay things and locate old games she'd missed? Yeah, remember that? Remember when English voice acting was the kiss of death and translations didn't have to make any sense as long as all the words on the screen were in English? Remember that, when a gamer only got a scant handful of games a year and they'd all been painstakingly adapted to suck? Weren't those days great?! :D

(I can hear you out there right now, fellow gamerdorks. Many of you are preparing to post a comment to this entry taking sincere, serious exception to something mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Don't. I will mock you so hard. I realize that the subtle nuances of speech are lost when communicating via the internet, so allow me to translate: mock nostalgia, hyperbole in the service of overgeneralization, sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm-amplifying emoticon.)

(In fact, if you intend to mention the paragraph preceding the preceding paragraph, you are hereby required to write your comment IN ALL CAPS WHILE USING NO REAL PUNCTUATION AND AT LEAST FOUR EMOTICONS :D :D :P XP or I will delete and/or make fun of your comment and mock you even harder, at least partially because of your lack of reading comprehension.)