Well, I tried Demon’s Souls, and it really wasn’t my cup of tea. I’m really not surprised, but I’m glad I gave it a shot, even though it didn’t “click” with me at all.
My save file in Bowser’s Inside Story seems to be corrupted and won’t load. That sucks. I’m sure that I’ll wait a while and go back to it one day. Who knows, it might be one day soon.
Yesterday I suddenly got an itch to start over in the first Etrian Odyssey. I enjoyed playing it the first time, even though it was very difficult, but I got stuck somewhere in the Fourth Stratum. There’s a part where you have to fight several very tough enemies without resting, and I just could not do it. When I went to a forum asking for help, the only advice I got was to create all-new characters from level 1 or to re-spec my current characters, which still meant losing a lot of levels. I tried both these methods anyway, but I couldn’t find a quick (or even not-horribly-slow) way to level them up, so I gave up on the game entirely. So, yesterday I looked up some optimal builds for the game and learned which skills were worth getting for each character and which to avoid.
Occasionally, usually while trying to fall asleep at night, I’ll play a little Nostalgia – a fairly new RPG for the DS. As the name implies, it tries to invoke the feel of an old-school RPG and it does a pretty good job of that while including some newer RPG features to keep it interesting. The only reason why I kept playing it after the first dungeon was because I heard that it gets better about 3-4 hours in, and it did — except that it was around 6 hours in. At that point, optional quests open up, your party is filled out, the characters finally learn more skills (which require points to be built up in strength, so you have to use the points wisely), and the story picks up… for what that’s worth.
Oh, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii is good, but for some reason I can’t play more than several levels at a time. I guess I can’t spend the entire day playing Mario like I did when I was a kid.