I haven’t updated in a long time due to school keeping me pretty damn busy. As far as games go, I’ve just finished replaying Final Fantasy X for probably the sixth or seventh time. I maxed out my stats for the first time, but I haven’t bothered unlocking a few of the Original Creation bosses yet — I’m a little burnt out of collecting monsters and don’t want to collect 10 of every monster in the game just to kick a giant monster’s ass.
I’ve been playing Monster Hunter Freedom Unite for PSP every so often for the last month or so, but not for very long periods of time. I’ve never been one to play any kind of game with rare drops and creatable weapons and armor and whatnot without some kind of guide, and I mostly play the game when I’m away from a computer, so whenever I get stuck somewhere I’ll stop playing for a while. It’s a really cool game, though, and I think there should be more offline MMORPG-style games, especially when you can control the action like in Monster Hunter.
Speaking of which, I just started to check out Phantasy Star Zero for DS. I didn’t play the original Phantasy Star Online (well, the Gamecube remake) until summer 2008, but overall I can tell that Zero plays just about the same way. I really need to play with some other people, but like with Monster Hunter, I usually only play my portable games when I have no means of communicating with anyone online.